The opposite side of the world from Valencia (VLC)
Valencia Airport — 39.49°N, 0.48°W
Exact antipodal point
39.49°S, 179.52°E
Nearest airport to that point
Gisborne, New Zealand GIS
Gisborne Airport
This is a genuinely close pairing — the airport sits just 162 km from the exact antipodal point.
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Of the maximum possible
99.2%
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.