The opposite side of the world from Vancouver (YVR)
Vancouver International Airport — 49.19°N, 123.18°W
Exact antipodal point
49.19°S, 56.82°E
Nearest airport to that point
Tôlanaro, Madagascar FTU
Tôlanaro Airport
The exact point falls in open water or empty terrain: the nearest airport is 2,819 km away from it. Roughly 71% of the Earth is ocean, so most antipodes land at sea.
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Of the maximum possible
85.9%
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.