The opposite side of the world from Punta Cana (PUJ)
Punta Cana International Airport — 18.57°N, 68.36°W
Exact antipodal point
18.57°S, 111.64°E
Nearest airport to that point
Exmouth, Australia LEA
Learmonth Airport
This is a genuinely close pairing — the airport sits just 481 km from the exact antipodal point.
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Of the maximum possible
97.6%
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.