Antipodes: the other side of the world
Dig straight down through the centre of the Earth and come out the other side — where would you be? Pick any airport and we compute its exact antipodal point, then find the nearest airport to it.
Find your antipode
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The tightest antipodal pairs
Major airports that genuinely sit near each other's opposite point — rather than across empty ocean.
- SepangKUL
Malaysia
MacasXMSEcuador
53km off - LimaLIM
Peru
Laem NgopTDXThailand
68km off - MadridMAD
Spain
Palmerston NorthPMRNew Zealand
71km off - AucklandAKL
New Zealand
MálagaAGPSpain
74km off - BeijingPEK
China
Viedma / Carmen de PatagonesVDMArgentina
94km off - BogotaBOG
Colombia
Bandar LampungTKGIndonesia
96km off - JakartaCGK
Indonesia
BarrancabermejaEJAColombia
112km off - SantiagoSCL
Chile
Xi'anXIYChina
124km off
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.