The opposite side of the world from Manchester, Greater Manchester (MAN)
Manchester Airport — 53.35°N, 2.28°W
Exact antipodal point
53.35°S, 177.72°E
Nearest airport to that point
Dunedin, New Zealand DUD
Dunedin International Airport
The exact point falls in open water or empty terrain: the nearest airport is 986 km away from it. Roughly 71% of the Earth is ocean, so most antipodes land at sea.
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Of the maximum possible
95.1%
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.