The opposite side of the world from Nice, Alpes-Maritimes (NCE)
Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport — 43.66°N, 7.22°E
Exact antipodal point
43.66°S, 172.78°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 296 km from the exact antipodal point.
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Of the maximum possible
98.5%
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.