The opposite side of the world from Macas (XMS)
Coronel E Carvajal Airport — 2.30°S, 78.12°W
Exact antipodal point
2.30°N, 101.88°E
Nearest airport to that point
Malacca, Malaysia MKZ
Malacca International Airport
This is a genuinely close pairing — the airport sits just 42 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.