Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / São Paulo
Antipode finder · Brazil
The antipode of
São Paulo.
Draw a straight line from São Paulo (23.55° S, 46.64° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 23.55° N, 133.36° E, in the Philippine Sea, 243 km from the nearest dry land. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- São Paulo
- 23.55° S, 46.64° W · about 760 m above sea level · 12,400,232 people
- Antipode
- 23.55° N, 133.36° E
- What is there
- The Philippine Sea; the sea floor there lies about 3,800 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 243 km from the antipode
- Nearest town
- Minamidaito, Japan · 333 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Fukuoka · 1,154 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 331 km away, near Guaratuba, Brazil ⇄ near Minamidaito, Japan
Can you make an Earth sandwich from São Paulo?
No, not from São Paulo itself. The other slice would land in the Philippine Sea, 243 km from the nearest dry land, where the sea floor lies about 3,800 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 331 km from São Paulo, 20 km from Guaratuba, Brazil. Its other slice would go down 2 km from Minamidaito, Japan.
São Paulo is on the Okinawa & Jeju ↔ southern Brazil 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.