The opposite side of the world from Jeddah (JED)
King Abdulaziz International Airport — 21.68°N, 39.16°E
Exact antipodal point
21.68°S, 140.84°W
Nearest airport to that point
Otepa, French Polynesia HOI
Hao Airport
This is a genuinely close pairing — the airport sits just 401 km from the exact antipodal point.
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Of the maximum possible
98%
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.