The opposite side of the world from Fukuoka (FUK)
Fukuoka Airport — 33.59°N, 130.45°E
Exact antipodal point
33.59°S, 49.55°W
Nearest airport to that point
Pelotas, Brazil PET
João Simões Lopes Neto International Airport
This is a genuinely close pairing — the airport sits just 333 km from the exact antipodal point.
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Of the maximum possible
98.3%
No two points on Earth can be more than about 20,015 km apart.
The antipode is found by negating the latitude and shifting the longitude by 180°. Distances use the haversine formula on a sphere of mean radius 6,371.0088 km. Airport coordinates come from the public-domain OurAirports dataset.