Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Barcelona
Antipode finder · Spain
The antipode of
Barcelona.
Draw a straight line from Barcelona (41.39° N, 2.16° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 41.39° S, 177.84° W, in the South Pacific Ocean, 256 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of New Zealand. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Barcelona
- 41.39° N, 2.16° E · at about sea level · 1,686,208 people
- Antipode
- 41.39° S, 177.84° W
- What is there
- The South Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 3,000 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 256 km from the antipode, on the coast of New Zealand
- Nearest town
- Waitangi, New Zealand · 304 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Auckland · 813 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 287 km away, near Saint-Jean-de-Fos, France ⇄ near Waitangi, New Zealand
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Barcelona?
No, not from Barcelona itself. The other slice would land in the South Pacific Ocean, 256 km from the nearest dry land (New Zealand), where the sea floor lies about 3,000 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 287 km from Barcelona, 6 km from Saint-Jean-de-Fos, France. Its other slice would go down 25 km from Waitangi, New Zealand.
Barcelona 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.