Eiffel Tower
330 m (1,083 ft)
Height including antennas
The wrought-iron lattice tower in Paris. Height including the antennas: 330 m (312 m when it opened).
Published
How big is that?
330 m is 3 times an NFL field and 3.7% of Mount Everest.
Eiffel Tower is the 3rd largest of the 39 Classic objects, and the 32nd largest of the 109 objects across all three SizeItUp games.
Closest in size from the other games: Starship (Full stack) (Cosmic Scale), 124 m tall and Bennu (Asteroid) (Cosmic Scale), 484 m across.
Size comparison
To scale, smallest to largest: Eiffel Tower in orange beside the Classic objects nearest in size, in teal.
| Object | Size | vs Eiffel Tower |
|---|---|---|
| Washington MonumentThe marble obelisk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. | 169.046 m tall | 51% of the size |
| Golden Gate Bridge (Tower)One of the two Art Deco towers of San Francisco's suspension bridge, measured above the water. | 227 m tall | 69% of the size |
| Eiffel Tower | 330 m tall | – |
| Empire State BuildingNew York's Art Deco skyscraper, measured to the tip of its antenna. | 443.2 m tall | 1.3× bigger |
| Burj KhalifaThe skyscraper in Dubai, the tallest building in the world. | 828 m tall | 2.5× bigger |
In other units
| Metres | 330 |
|---|---|
| Kilometres | 0.33 |
| Feet | 1,083 |
| Yards | 360.9 |
How it's measured
Height including antennas. Official figure.
Tall buildings are quoted several ways: to the roof, to the top of the spire (architectural height) or to the tip of an antenna.
Sources
- toureiffel.paris: Hauteur actuelle 330 metres; hauteur initiale sans antenne 312 metres.
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Could you have guessed it by eye?
Eiffel Tower is one of the objects in Classic, a daily size comparison game: you stretch a shape to the size you think is right beside one you know.