The opposite side of the world from Melbourne (MEL)
Melbourne Airport — 37.67°S, 144.84°E
Exact antipodal point
37.67°N, 35.16°W
Nearest airport to that point
Santa Cruz das Flores, Portugal FLW
Flores Airport
This is a genuinely close pairing — the airport sits just 403 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.