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The opposite side of the world from Hamburg (HAM)

Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport53.63°N, 9.99°E

Exact antipodal point

53.63°S, 170.01°W

Nearest airport to that point

Te One, New Zealand CHT

Inia William Tuuta Memorial Airport

The exact point falls in open water or empty terrain: the nearest airport is 1,189 km away from it. Roughly 71% of the Earth is ocean, so most antipodes land at sea.

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Distance to that airport

18,826 km

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Of the maximum possible

94.1%

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.