Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Auckland
Antipode finder · New Zealand
The antipode of
Auckland.
Draw a straight line from Auckland (36.85° S, 174.76° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 36.85° N, 5.24° W, on dry land in Spain, 5 km from Setenil de las Bodegas. An exact Earth sandwich is possible.
- Auckland
- 36.85° S, 174.76° E · about 40 m above sea level · 1,547,200 people
- Antipode
- 36.85° N, 5.24° W
- What is there
- Dry land in Spain
- Nearest town
- Setenil de las Bodegas, Spain · 5 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Tangier · 130 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- EXACT land lies opposite land
- Elevation bonus
- +560 m (40 m here, 520 m there)
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Auckland?
Yes: an exact Earth sandwich. Auckland is one of the few large cities with dry land directly opposite it. The grid that verifies submissions rates the spot exact: put a slice down in Auckland and have a friend put one down 5 km from Setenil de las Bodegas, Spain at the same UTC minute, and the whole planet is the filling. The elevation bonus would be about 560 m: Auckland sits about 40 m above sea level and the other slice about 520 m above sea level.
Auckland is on the Spain & Portugal ↔ New Zealand corridor. Its guide lists where every city on both sides lands and how to make an Earth sandwich there.
How this was worked out: the antipode flips the latitude and moves the longitude by 180°. Land or sea comes from the OpenStreetMap coastline the map uses; the sandwich verdict and elevations come from the verifier's 0.2° grid (Natural Earth land, ETOPO 2022 relief); water names from Natural Earth; towns and populations from GeoNames. The city's position is GeoNames' point for it; a big city's suburbs spread tens of kilometres around that point, and the figures move with them. Generated 2026-09-29.