The opposite side of the world from Beijing (PEK)
Beijing Capital International Airport — 40.08°N, 116.60°E
Exact antipodal point
40.08°S, 63.40°W
Nearest airport to that point
Viedma / Carmen de Patagones, Argentina VDM
Gobernador Castello Airport
This is a genuinely close pairing — the airport sits just 94 km from the exact antipodal point.
Advertisement
Of the maximum possible
99.5%
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.