The opposite side of the world from Makassar (UPG)
Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport — 5.08°S, 119.55°E
Exact antipodal point
5.08°N, 60.45°W
Nearest airport to that point
Santa Elena de Uairén, Venezuela SNV
Santa Elena de Uairén Airport
This is a genuinely close pairing — the airport sits just 97 km from the exact antipodal point.
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Of the maximum possible
99.5%
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.