The opposite side of the world from Paris (Orly, Val-de-Marne) (ORY)
Paris-Orly Airport — 48.73°N, 2.36°E
Exact antipodal point
48.73°S, 177.64°W
Nearest airport to that point
Te One, New Zealand CHT
Inia William Tuuta Memorial Airport
The exact point falls in open water or empty terrain: the nearest airport is 554 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
97.2%
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.