The opposite side of the world from Shanghai (Minhang) (SHA)

Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport — 31.20°N, 121.33°E

Exact antipodal point

31.20°S, 58.67°W

Nearest airport to that point

Parana, Argentina PRA

General Urquiza Airport

This is a genuinely close pairing — the airport sits just 184 km from the exact antipodal point.

Distance to that airport

19,831 km

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Of the maximum possible

99.1%

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.