Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Fes
Antipode finder · Morocco
The antipode of
Fes.
Draw a straight line from Fes (34.03° N, 5.00° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 34.03° S, 175.00° E, in the South Pacific Ocean, 140 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of New Zealand. A sloppy Earth sandwich is possible.
- Fes
- 34.03° N, 5.00° W · about 440 m above sea level · 1,191,905 people
- Antipode
- 34.03° S, 175.00° E
- What is there
- The South Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 1,480 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 140 km from the antipode, on the coast of New Zealand
- Nearest town
- Paihia, New Zealand · 162 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Auckland · 314 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SLOPPY dry land within 200 km of the antipode
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Fes?
Nearly: a sloppy-grade Earth sandwich. The antipode of Fes lies in the South Pacific Ocean, 140 km from the nearest dry land in New Zealand. Sandwich Law allows a slice within 200 km of the true antipode, and the verifying grid rates Fes sloppy, so bread in Fes and bread near Paihia, New Zealand still count as one sandwich. The elevation bonus depends on the spot chosen for the dry slice.
Fes 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.