digthru.to
digthru.to

🎯 Pick your destination: click anywhere on the map, or search for a place, to dig a straight tunnel there.

Hi, I’m Digby! Where should we dig?

Where would you pop out if you dug straight through the Earth?

Click your house on the map, or fill in Dig from above. Leave Dig to on “Straight through” to come out on the exact opposite side, or pick anywhere else, like Brazil to Niger.

Or try a city:

🎉 You’d pop out in

straight through ()

⛏️ Digging from

🚶 Walk there instead
🪂 Fall through the tunnel
≈ 38 min
🚇 Your custom tunnel

From

To

🚇 Tunnel
walk:
⬇️ Deepest
🪂 Fall time
no air or friction

Layers you’d dig through

    Straight down is the only way to reach the core. Try a nearby city to see how shallow a tunnel can be!

    🔄 Flipped to the other side

    🇵🇹 Portugal

    Flip Portugal through the center of the Earth and about 17% of it lands on land.

    • 🌊 Tasman Sea82%
    • New Zealand17%
    • 🌊 South Pacific Ocean0.7%

    Yes, but only if you start in New Zealand. About 17% of Portugal’s exact opposite side is land; the rest is the Tasman Sea.

    12,739 km straight through from the middle of Portugal