Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Mexicali
Antipode finder · Mexico
The antipode of
Mexicali.
Draw a straight line from Mexicali (32.63° N, 115.45° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 32.63° S, 64.55° E, in the Indian Ocean, 1,311 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of the French Southern Territories. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Mexicali
- 32.63° N, 115.45° W · at about sea level · 1,032,686 people
- Antipode
- 32.63° S, 64.55° E
- What is there
- The Indian Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 4,920 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 1,311 km from the antipode, on the coast of the French Southern Territories
- Nearest town
- Baie aux Huîtres, Mauritius · 1,443 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Antananarivo · 2,280 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 1,311 km away, 30 km from Lamar, United States ⇄ 1,407 km from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Mexicali?
No, not from Mexicali itself. The other slice would land in the Indian Ocean, 1,311 km from the nearest dry land (the French Southern Territories), where the sea floor lies about 4,920 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 1,311 km from Mexicali, 30 km from Lamar, United States. Its other slice would go down 1,407 km from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories.
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.