Empire State Building
443.2 m (1,454 ft)
Height to the top of the antenna
New York's Art Deco skyscraper, measured to the tip of its antenna. 1,454 ft (443 m) to the antenna tip; 1,250 ft to the top floor.
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How big is that?
443.2 m is 1.3 times the Eiffel Tower and 5% of Mount Everest.
Empire State Building is the 2nd largest of the 39 Classic objects, and the 31st 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: Empire State Building in orange beside the Classic objects nearest in size, in teal.
| Object | Size | vs Empire State Building |
|---|---|---|
| Golden Gate Bridge (Tower)One of the two Art Deco towers of San Francisco's suspension bridge, measured above the water. | 227 m tall | 51% of the size |
| Eiffel TowerThe wrought-iron lattice tower in Paris. | 330 m tall | 74% of the size |
| Empire State Building | 443.2 m tall | – |
| Burj KhalifaThe skyscraper in Dubai, the tallest building in the world. | 828 m tall | 1.9× bigger |
In other units
| Metres | 443.2 |
|---|---|
| Kilometres | 0.4432 |
| Feet | 1,454 |
| Yards | 484.7 |
How it's measured
Height to the top of the antenna. Empire State Building official facts, converted from 1,454 ft.
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
- esbnyc.com: 1,250 feet to its highest occupied floor and 1,454 feet to the top of the building's antenna.
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Could you have guessed it by eye?
Empire State Building 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.