The opposite side of the world from Colombier-Saugnieu, Rhône (LYS)
Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport — 45.73°N, 5.09°E
Exact antipodal point
45.73°S, 174.91°W
Nearest airport to that point
Te One, New Zealand CHT
Inia William Tuuta Memorial Airport
This is a genuinely close pairing — the airport sits just 246 km from the exact antipodal point.
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Of the maximum possible
98.8%
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.