The opposite side of the world from Phuket (HKT)
Phuket International Airport — 8.11°N, 98.32°E
Exact antipodal point
8.11°S, 81.68°W
Nearest airport to that point
Chiclayo, Peru CIX
Capitán FAP José A. Quiñones González International Airport
This is a genuinely close pairing — the airport sits just 252 km from the exact antipodal point.
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Of the maximum possible
98.7%
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.