The opposite side of the world from Riyadh (RUH)
King Khalid International Airport — 24.96°N, 46.70°E
Exact antipodal point
24.96°S, 133.30°W
Nearest airport to that point
Totegegie Airport, French Polynesia GMR
Totegegie Airport
This is a genuinely close pairing — the airport sits just 264 km from the exact antipodal point.
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Of the maximum possible
98.7%
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.