The opposite side of the world from Quito (UIO)
Mariscal Sucre International Airport — 0.13°S, 78.35°W
Exact antipodal point
0.13°N, 101.65°E
Nearest airport to that point
Pekanbaru, Indonesia PKU
Sultan Syarif Kasim II International Airport / Roesmin Nurjadin AFB
This is a genuinely close pairing — the airport sits just 43 km from the exact antipodal point.
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Of the maximum possible
99.8%
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.