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View of Shanghai World Financial Center as viewed from the Shanghai Tower, at the 118th floor observatory 548m above ground

Visitors on the observation deck of the Skylon Tower overlooking Niagara Falls

Midtown Manhattan in the distance. Photo taken at Two World Trade Center's observation deck, in the 1980s

Glass balconies St Eusebius Church, Arnhem, The Netherlands.jpg

An observation deck, observation platform or viewing platform is an elevated sightseeing platform usually situated upon a tall architectural structure such as a skyscraper or observation tower. Observation decks are sometimes enclosed from weather, and a few may include coin-operated telescopes for viewing distant features.

List of public observation decks

List of public observation decks
Rank	Name	Completion Date	Type	Location	Deck height (m)	Total height (m)	Notes
1	Shanghai Tower	2015	Skyscraper	Shanghai	7002562000000000000♠562^[1]	7002632000000000000♠632	118th floor
2	Ping An Finance Centre	2017	Skyscraper	Shenzhen	7002562000000000000♠562^[2]	7002599000000000000♠599	The observation deck is on the 116th floor and opened on February 10, 2018
3	Burj Khalifa	2010	Skyscraper	Dubai	7002555000000000000♠555^[3]	7002829800000000000♠829.8	148th floor (opened October 2014^[4]) decks are also on 124th floor
4	Canton Tower	2010	Steel Tower	Guangzhou	7002488000000000000♠488	7002604000000000000♠604
5	Lotte World Tower	2017	Skyscraper	Seoul	7002486000000000000♠486	7002555000000000000♠555
6	Abraj Al Bait	2011	Skyscraper	Mecca	7002484400000000000♠484.4	7002601000000000000♠601
7	Shanghai World Financial Center	2008	Skyscraper	Shanghai	7002474000000000000♠474^[5]	7002492300000000000♠492.3	100th floor, decks also on levels 94 & 97
8	Tokyo Skytree	2012	Steel Tower	Tokyo	7002451200000000000♠451.2	7002634000000000000♠634	Three additional observation decks at 340 m, 345 m, and 350 m
9	CN Tower	1976	Concrete tower	Toronto	7002446700000000000♠446.7	7002553290000099999♠553.3	Two additional observation decks at 342 m (outdoor) & 346 m (indoor).
10	Willis Tower	1974	Skyscraper	Chicago	7002412700000000000♠412.7	7002527290000099999♠527.3	103rd floor, it is the highest observation deck in the United States
11	Sky100, International Commerce Centre	2011	Skyscraper	Hong Kong	7002393000000000000♠393	7002484000000000000♠484	100th floor 360-degree indoor observatory
12	Taipei 101	2004	Skyscraper	Taipei	7002391600000000000♠391.6	7002509200000000000♠509.2	91st-floor outdoor observatory, it's the previous record of highest outdoor observatory in the world. The 89th floor indoor observatory is 383.2 metres (1,257 ft).
13	One World Trade Center	2014	Skyscraper	New York City	7002386600000000000♠386.6	7002541290000099999♠541.3	Observatory on the 100th, 101st and 102nd floors
14	Petronas Towers	1998	Skyscraper	Kuala Lumpur	7002370000000000000♠370	7002452900000000000♠452.9	Observatory on 86th floor of tower 2, in addition there is the skybridge between the two towers on 41st and 42nd floors at 170 meters.
15	Empire State Building	1931	Skyscraper	New York City	7002369000000000000♠369^[6]	7002448700000000000♠448.7	102nd floor, additional 86th floor deck (320 m)
16	Oriental Pearl Tower	1994	Concrete tower	Shanghai	7002351000000000000♠351	7002467900000000000♠467.9	15 observation levels, the highest one being outdoors
17	Tuntex Sky Tower	1997	Skyscraper	Kaohsiung	7002341000000000000♠341	7002347500000000000♠347.5	74th floor
18	Jin Mao Tower	1998	Skyscraper	Shanghai	7002340100000000000♠340.1	7002420500000000000♠420.5	88th floor
19	Ostankino Tower	1967	Concrete tower	Moscow	7002340000000000000♠340	7002540100000000000♠540.1	Indoor deck is at 337 m
20	John Hancock Center	1969	Skyscraper	Chicago	7002313800000000000♠313.8	7002343500000000000♠343.5	Observation deck
21	Milad Tower	2007	Concrete tower	Tehran	7002312000000000000♠312	7002435000000000000♠435	Top level
22	China World Trade Center Tower III	2010	Skyscraper	Beijing	7002311800000000000♠311.8	7002330000000000000♠330	81st floor
23	Shun Hing Square	1996	Skyscraper	Shenzhen	7002298100000000000♠298.1	7002384000000000000♠384
24	US Bank Tower	1989	Skyscraper	Los Angeles	7002297000000000000♠297	7002310000000000000♠310	70th floor
25	Abeno Harukas(Abenobashi Terminal Building)	2014	Skyscraper	Osaka	7002288000000000000♠288	7002300000000000000♠300	58th-60th floor (top floor)
26	Zifeng Tower	2010	Skyscraper	Nanjing	7002287000000000000♠287	7002450000000000000♠450
27	Eureka Tower	2007	Skyscraper	Melbourne	7002285000000000000♠285	7002297300000000000♠297.3	Skydeck 88 is at a height of 285 m
28	Eiffel Tower	1889	Wrought iron lattice tower	Paris	7002276100000000000♠276.1	7002324000000000000♠324	3rd floor
29	Menara Kuala Lumpur	1996	Concrete tower	Kuala Lumpur	7002276000000000000♠276	7002421000000000000♠421
30	Columbia Center	1985	Skyscraper	Seattle	7002275000000000000♠275	7002284000000000000♠284	73rd floor
31	Yokohama Landmark	1993	Skyscraper	Yokohama	7002273000000000000♠273	7002296000000000000♠296	69th floor
32	One Liberty Place	1987	Skyscraper	Philadelphia	269	288	57th Floor
33	Bank of America Plaza (Dallas)	1985	Skyscraper	Dallas	7002268390000099999♠268.4	7002281000000000000♠281	71st floor, additional 70th floor 264.6 metres (868 ft).
34	JPMorgan Chase Tower	1982	Skyscraper	Houston	7002268200000000000♠268.2	7002305390000000000♠305.4	60th floor
35	Sydney Tower	1981	Steel Tower	Sydney	7002268000000000000♠268	7002309000000000000♠309
36	GE Building	1933	Skyscraper	New York City	7002259100000000000♠259.1	7002259100000000000♠259.1	70th floor ("Top of the Rock")
37	Tianjin Tower	1991	Concrete tower	Tianjin	7002257000000000000♠257	7002415200000000000♠415.2
38	40 Wall Street	1929	Skyscraper	New York City	7002255000000000000♠255	7002283000000000000♠283
39	Osaka Prefectural Government Sakishima Building	1995	Skyscraper	Osaka	7002252000000000000♠252	7002256000000000000♠256
40	63 Building	1985	Skyscraper	Seoul	7002249000000000000♠249	7002250000000000000♠250	60th floor
41	Midland Square	2007	Skyscraper	Nagoya	7002247000000000000♠247	7002247000000000000♠247	47th floor
42	The Shard	2013	Skyscraper	London	7002244800000000000♠244.8	7002306000000000000♠306	72nd floor Observatory Deck
43	Central Radio & TV Tower	1992	Concrete tower	Beijing	7002238000000000000♠238	7002405000000000000♠405
44	Sunshine 60	1978	Skyscraper	Tokyo	7002237600000000000♠237.6	7002239800000000000♠239.8
45	Federation Tower (Tower West)	2008	Skyscraper	Moscow	7002235000000000000♠235^[7]	7002252000000000000♠252	62nd Floor
=46	Q1	2005	Skyscraper	Gold Coast	7002230000000000000♠230	7002323000000000000♠323	77th floor (SkyPoint), with the function hall on the 78th^[specify]
=46	West Pearl Tower	2006	Concrete tower	Chengdu	7002230000000000000♠230	7002339000000000000♠339
47	Roppongi Hills Mori Tower	2003	Skyscraper	Tokyo	7002229300000000000♠229.3	7002238000000000000♠238	52nd floor (indoor) & 54th floor (roof-deck)
48	Europaturm	1979	Concrete tower	Frankfurt	7002227000000000000♠227	7002337500000000000♠337.5	Since 1999, the Europaturm has been closed to the public-->
49	Tokyo Tower	1958	Steel truss tower	Tokyo	7002223500000000000♠223.5	7002332600000000000♠332.6	6th floor
50	Macau Tower	2001	Concrete tower	Macau	7002223000000000000♠223	7002338000000000000♠338
51	Sky Tower	1997	Concrete tower	Auckland	7002220000000000000♠220	7002328000000000000♠328
52	Tour Montparnasse	1972	Skyscraper	Paris	7002209000000000000♠209	7002209000000000000♠209
53	Fernsehturm Berlin	1969	Concrete tower	Berlin	7002207000000000000♠207	7002368000000000000♠368
54	Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building	1990	Skyscraper	Tokyo	7002202000000000000♠202	7002243400000000000♠243.4
=55	Main Tower	1999	Skyscraper	Frankfurt	7002200000000000000♠200	7002240000000000000♠240
=55	Marina Bay Sands	2010	Skyscraper	Singapore	7002200000000000000♠200	7002200000000000000♠200
56	Olympiaturm	1968	Concrete tower	Munich	7002192000000000000♠192	7002291000000000000♠291
57	Vysotsky	2011	Skyscraper	Yekaterinburg	7002186000000000000♠186	7002188300000000000♠188.3	Observation deck was opened on 3 May 2012^[8]
58	Bitexco Financial Tower	2010	Skyscraper	Ho Chi Minh City	7002181000000000000♠181	7002262500000000000♠262.5	47th floor
59	Tower of the Americas	1968	Concrete tower	San Antonio	7002176000000000000♠176	7002229000000000000♠229
=60	Umeda Sky Building	1993	Skyscraper	Osaka	7002170000000000000♠170	7002173000000000000♠173
=60	Tallinn TV Tower	1980	Tower	Tallinn	7002170000000000000♠170	7002314000000000000♠314
61	Donauturm	1964	Concrete tower	Vienna	7002169400000000000♠169.4	7002252000000000000♠252
62	N Seoul Tower	1975	Steel tower	Seoul	7002168300000000000♠168.3	7002236700000000000♠236.7	Tower sits atop Namsan Mountain
63	Vilnius TV Tower	1980	Tower	Vilnius	165	326.5
64	Space Needle	1962	Steel tower	Seattle	7002158500000000000♠158.5	7002184400000000000♠184.4
65	Calgary Tower	1968	Concrete tower	Calgary	7002157500000000000♠157.5	7002190800000000000♠190.8
66	Fernsehturm Stuttgart	1956	Concrete tower	Stuttgart	7002153000000000000♠153	7002216600000000000♠216.6
67	Avala Tower	2009	Concrete tower	Belgrade	7002135000000000000♠135	7002204500000000000♠204.5
68	Fukuoka Tower	1989	Tower	Fukuoka	7002123000000000000♠123	7002234000000000000♠234
69	Kuwait viewing sphere	1979	Concrete tower	Kuwait City	7002120000000000000♠120	7002187000000000000♠187	(1990 Liberation Tower of ~300 m is not open to public)
70	Spinnaker Tower	2005	Tower	Portsmouth	7002110000000000000♠110	7002170000000000000♠170
-71	Kyoto Tower	1964	Tower	Kyoto	7002100000000000000♠100	7002131000000000000♠131
=71	Nagoya TV Tower	1954	Tower	Nagoya	7002100000000000000♠100	7002180000000000000♠180
72	Kobe Port Tower	1963	Tower	Kobe	7001908000000000000♠90.8	7002108000000000000♠108
73	Sapporo TV Tower	1957	Tower	Sapporo	7001900000000000000♠90	7002147190000000000♠147.2
74	Tsūtenkaku	1956	Tower	Osaka	7001875000000000000♠87.5	7002108000000000000♠108

List of highest observation decks by type

Type	Name and Location	Constructed	Height	Notes
Enclosed	Shanghai Tower, Shanghai, China	2015	583 m (1,913 ft)
Outdoor	Canton Tower, Guangzhou, China	2011	488 m (1,601 ft)
On Skyscraper	Shanghai Tower, Shanghai, China	2015	583 m (1,913 ft)
On Tower	Canton Tower, Guangzhou, China	2011	488 m (1,601 ft)
Bridge	Royal Gorge Bridge	1929	291 m (955 ft)	Above water level.
Dam	Grande Dixence Dam	1964	285 m (935 ft)

Timeline of world's highest observation decks

This is a timeline of the development of world's highest observation decks since the inauguration of the Washington Monument in 1885.

Held record		Name and Location	Constructed	Height of highest observation deck	Notes
From	To	Name and Location	Constructed	Height of highest observation deck	Notes
1885	1889	Washington Monument, Washington D.C., United States	1889	152.3 m (500 ft)	Was the world's tallest structure when completed.
1889	1931	Eiffel Tower, Paris, France	1889	275 m (902 ft)	Two further observation decks 57 & 115 m.
1931	1973	Empire State Building, New York City, United States	1931	369 m (1,211 ft)^[6]	A second observation deck is located on the 86th floor at 320 metres above ground.
1973	1974	World Trade Center, New York City, United States (article)	1973	399.4 m (1,310 ft)	Measured from sea level, street level was 10 feet above sea level. Indoor observatory on the 107th floor of South Tower opened on April 4, 1973. Destroyed during the September 11 attacks.
1974	1975	Sears Tower (since renamed Willis Tower), Chicago, United States	1974	412.4 m (1,353 ft)	Measured from the Franklin Street entrance, 103rd floor observation deck opened on June 22, 1974
1975	1976	World Trade Center, New York City, United States (article)	1973	419.7 m (1,377 ft)	Measured from sea level, street level was 10 feet above sea level. Outdoor observatory on rooftop of the South Tower opened on December 15, 1975. Destroyed during the September 11 attacks.
1976	2008	CN Tower, Toronto, Ontario, Canada	1976	446.5 m (1,465 ft)	Two further observation decks 342 and 346 metres above ground.
2008	2011	Shanghai World Financial Centre, Shanghai, People's Republic of China	2008	474 m (1,555 ft)	Other observation decks are at 423 m (1,388 ft) and 439 m (1,440 ft).
2011	2014	Canton Tower, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China	2011	488 m (1,601 ft)	The outdoor rooftop observation deck opened in December 2011. There are also several other indoor observation decks in the tower, the highest at 433.2 m (1,421 ft).
2014	2016	Burj Khalifa, Dubai, UAE	2010	555 m (1,821 ft)	Opened on October 15, 2014 on the 148th floor. There is another observation deck at 452.1 m (1,483 ft) on the 124th floor, which has been open since the building was opened to the public.
2016	present	Shanghai Tower, Shanghai, China	2015	562.1 m (1,844 ft)	Opened on July 1, 2016. there are also 2 more observation decks on the 118th and 119th floor, at 546 and 552 meters respectively.

Under construction

2019 (est.) Wuhan Greenland Center, People's Republic of China. 610 m (2,000 ft), Level 126

2022 (est.) Jeddah Tower, Saudi Arabia. 644 m (2,113 ft), Level 157

See also List of tallest buildings and structures in the world#World's highest observation deck

Observation deck gallery

The 10-m observation deck of Ronda, Spain, overlooks the Depression of Ronda plain over 100 m below.

A multi-level tree house in Cape Town, South Africa, with an observation deck on top

A observation deck place in Rokko Garden Terrace, Mount Rokko, Kobe, Japan

Observation deck in West Berlin with a view of Potsdamer Platz on the other side of the Berlin Wall, 1977. At the bottom of the steps a placard shows what the square looked like in 1929.

Brooklyn Bridge as viewed from the One World Observatory in New York City

Night View of the Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong from sky100

References

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Observation deck

Contents

List of public observation decks

List of highest observation decks by type

Timeline of world's highest observation decks

Under construction

Observation deck gallery

See also

References

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