Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Dubai
Antipode finder · United Arab Emirates
The antipode of
Dubai.
Draw a straight line from Dubai (25.08° N, 55.31° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 25.08° S, 124.69° W, in the South Pacific Ocean, 44 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Pitcairn. A deli-grade Earth sandwich is possible.
- Dubai
- 25.08° N, 55.31° E · about 40 m above sea level · 3,790,000 people
- Antipode
- 25.08° S, 124.69° W
- What is there
- The South Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 3,480 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 44 km from the antipode, on the coast of Pitcairn
- Nearest town
- Adamstown, Pitcairn · 545 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Trujillo · 5,187 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- DELI dry land within 50 km of the antipode
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Dubai?
Nearly: a deli-grade Earth sandwich. The antipode of Dubai lies in the South Pacific Ocean, 44 km from the nearest dry land in Pitcairn. Sandwich Law allows a slice within 50 km of the true antipode, and the verifying grid rates Dubai deli, so bread in Dubai and bread near Adamstown, Pitcairn still count as one sandwich. The elevation bonus depends on the spot chosen for the dry slice.
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.