Top 20 tallest skyscrapers
Completed towers, world and by country
Updated · height (metres)
Top 20 in (47):
Why these 20
Height of skyscrapers that are open (they have an opening or start date in the past) as recorded in Wikidata.
Built from the regions below: the best 20 of all of them.
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Empire State Building
skyscraper located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, USA
1,500 m · 🇺🇸 United States
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Four Seasons Hotel & Private Residences, One Dalton Street
a skyscraper containing residences and a hotel in Boston, MA
742 m · 🇺🇸 United States
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Georgia-Pacific Tower
skyscraper in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States
697 m · 🇺🇸 United States
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345 Park Avenue
44-story office skyscraper on Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, developed and owned by Rudin
634 m · 🇺🇸 United States
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Shanghai Tower
上海中心大厦
megatall skyscraper in Lujiazui, Shanghai, China
632 m · 🇨🇳 People's Republic of China
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Makkah Clock Royal Tower Hotel
skyscraper hotel which is part of Abraj Al-Bait Towers in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
601 m · 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
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Ping An Finance Centre
平安金融中心
skyscraper in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China
599 m · 🇨🇳 People's Republic of China
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300 Madison Avenue
575 m · 🇺🇸 United States
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How it is measured
Wikidata: skyscrapers 150 m or taller with an opening or inception date before today.
References
- Wikidata query: skyscrapers by height, Wikidata (CC0). Checked 2026-10-19 20:22 UTC.
Also in
Photo: 35 Skyscrapers looking up - city view in Raffles Place square in Singapore by Marek Ślusarczyk (Tupungato) Photo portfolio, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Pictures in rows: Wikimedia Commons, GitHub and the linked pages.