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A city forecast tells you if it's cloudy. We compare the deck's altitude with visibility and available cloud measurements to help you choose a view worth paying for.

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Every deck, to scale

Height above sea level is not the same as how tall the building is.

Drawn from sea level, not from each tower's own doorstep, with a gold line at every ticketed level. It is why N Seoul Tower's observatory — barely 190 m up its own tower — looks down on One World Observatory, 391 m above Manhattan: Namsan has already lifted it 270 m before the structure starts, and cloud does not care which of the two got you there.

  • Architectural profile
  • Ticketed viewing level
  • Ground above sea level
Observation decks ranked by ticketed viewing altitude above sea levelArchitectural profiles begin at each structure's actual ground elevation. Gold rules mark ticketed viewing levels. Layered front, side and roof planes give each code-native profile depth without changing its measured vertical geometry. The chart is ordered by the highest ticketed level, not by total building height.2004006008000m ASLBurj Khalifa: highest ticketed level 565 metres above sea level565 mBurj KhalifaLotte World Tower — Seoul Sky: highest ticketed level 556 metres above sea level556 mLotte World TowerCN Tower: highest ticketed level 523 metres above sea level523 mCN TowerN Seoul Tower: highest ticketed level 460 metres above sea level460 mN Seoul TowerTokyo Skytree: highest ticketed level 453 metres above sea level453 mTokyo SkytreeVictoria Peak: highest ticketed level 428 metres above sea level428 mVictoria PeakTaipei 101: highest ticketed level 402 metres above sea level402 mTaipei 101Empire State Building: highest ticketed level 396 metres above sea level396 mEmpire Statesky100 Hong Kong: highest ticketed level 393 metres above sea level393 msky100 Hong KongOne World Observatory: highest ticketed level 391 metres above sea level391 mOne WorldSUMMIT One Vanderbilt: highest ticketed level 385 metres above sea level385 mSUMMITEdge NYC: highest ticketed level 343 metres above sea level343 mEdge NYCMelbourne Skydeck: highest ticketed level 293 metres above sea level293 mMelbourne SkydeckTop of the Rock: highest ticketed level 279 metres above sea level279 mTop of the RockThe Shard: highest ticketed level 251 metres above sea level251 mThe ShardMarina Bay Sands SkyPark: highest ticketed level 205 metres above sea level205 mMarina Bay Sands

Heights above sea level and every gold deck line are measured values — ground elevation from terrain data, structural heights from CTBUH or the operator, ticketed levels from the operator. Tower widths are schematic: real footprints differ by an order of magnitude, and drawing those to scale as well would reduce Burj Khalifa to a hairline. Select any tower to open its current verdict.


The method

How it works

  1. 01

    Altitude, not elevation

    Ground elevation plus how high the ticketed level physically sits, added together, is a deck's real viewing altitude — then we set that against where the cloud base or haze layer sits today.

  2. 02

    One word, not a percentage

    That comparison, plus operations, wind, rain and visibility, resolves to one of three verdicts — VIEW, MAYBE or SKIP — not a cloud-cover number you'd have to interpret yourself.

  3. 03

    The hours that matter

    A day is rarely uniform. When it isn't, we name the window worth going up in, instead of averaging morning, noon and evening into one number that describes none of them.