Antipode finder

Find the exact opposite side of the Earth from a city preset, a coordinate pair, or a map pin. The page mirrors the point, then explains the 180-degree longitude flip, the 12-hour solar-time shift, and why June and December swap roles there.

Choose a starting point

Results update instantly. Use the button only if you want a shareable URL.

Input mode Use a preset city Type coordinates Drop a pin on the map

Preset location

A quick list of recognizable cities for common “what’s on the opposite side of the world from here?” searches.

Latitude

Longitude

Useful when you already know the coordinates or want a precise island, ship, or ocean point.

Map pin

Selected point -41.2866°, 174.7756°

Latitude

Longitude

The blue pin is your chosen point. The orange pin is its antipode. Click anywhere to move both.

Map base: World map configurable.svg on Wikimedia Commons, a CC0 Robinson projection centered at 10°E.

What this page answers

A lot of antipode pages stop after flipping the coordinates. This one is built for the follow-up questions too: what happens to the seasons, how far apart the two points really are, and why the longitude always shifts by exactly 180 degrees.

That makes it useful for curiosity queries, geography teaching, and the classic “if I drilled through the Earth from here, where would I come out?” version of the same problem.

Useful search intents: antipode finder, opposite side of the world map, and what is on the other side of the Earth from here.

Source point

Wellington, New Zealand

41.29° S, 174.78° E

Southern Hemisphere

Antipode

41.29° N, 5.22° W

Northern Hemisphere, 180° of longitude away and 12 hours apart in local solar time.

What flips and what stays the same

Measure	Source	Antipode
Hemisphere	Southern	Northern
June daylight	9.02 h	14.98 h
December daylight	14.98 h	9.02 h
Equinox noon Sun	48.71°	48.71°
June noon Sun	25.27°	72.15°
December noon Sun	72.15°	25.27°

The equinox noon Sun matches because the absolute latitude is the same. June and December swap because the sign of latitude reverses.

Distance facts

Along the surface, any point and its antipode are 20015.1 km / 12436.8 miles apart, which is half the Earth’s circumference.

Straight through the Earth, the path would be about 12742.0 km / 7917.5 miles, the planet’s diameter.

Why the longitude changes by 180°

An antipode sits on the opposite meridian. Add 180° of longitude, wrap back into the -180° to 180° range, and negate the latitude.

That is why the page can mirror arbitrary coordinates instantly without any server round trip.

Good for

Checking the opposite-side coordinates of a city, island, or arbitrary map point
Teaching why antipodes reverse hemisphere and swap June-versus-December daylight behavior
Comparing the half-circumference surface route with the shorter straight-through-Earth diameter

Important limitation

This page mirrors points geometrically. It does not try to geocode every possible place name or identify the nearest settlement on the opposite side. For precise work, use the map pin or typed coordinates directly.

Read the launch note for this finder.