Wellington

New Zealand

Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the third-largest city in New Zealand, and is the administrative centre of the Wellington Region. It is the world's southernmost capital of a sovereign state. Wellington features a temperate maritime climate, and is the world's windiest city by average wind speed.

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Country: New Zealand
Population: 393,400
Latitude: 41.3° S
Longitude: 174.78° E

Which way is Wellington from…

From Paris, Wellington lies at 38° to the north-east, 18,987 km as the crow flies.

Paris	38° north-east	18,987 km
London	21° north	18,816 km
New York	245° south-west	14,403 km
Madrid	128° south-east	19,854 km
Rome	93° east	18,543 km
Montreal	249° west	14,643 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	139° south-east	10,701 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

Wellington is almost the antipode of Madrid: 19,854 km apart, barely less than half the way around the Earth. This close to the far side of the world, the bearing swings wildly from one European city to the next: from Madrid you aim south-east (128°), from Paris north-east (38°), and from London north (21°), over Siberia and then the whole Pacific. On a flat map, all of Europe would aim south-east.