The opposite side of the world from Palmerston North (PMR)
Palmerston North Airport — 40.32°S, 175.62°E
Exact antipodal point
40.32°N, 4.38°W
Nearest airport to that point
Madrid, Spain MAD
Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport
This is a genuinely close pairing — the airport sits just 71 km from the exact antipodal point.
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Of the maximum possible
99.6%
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.