Cities of the World

Which cities have the most tall buildings? This directory ranks the cities shown below by their count of tall buildings, and each entry opens onto that city's full skyline: its tallest building, what is under construction, and the complete list with heights and completion years.

Showing cities with at least 500,000 residents. Rankings and totals apply only to these cities; the all-city ranking is temporarily unavailable.

SKYDB counts a building as a tall building from 10 floors, as a skyscraper from 100 meters (328 feet), and as a supertall from 300 meters (984 feet). The columns build on each other: every supertall is also counted as a skyscraper, and every skyscraper is also counted as a tall building. The numbers include buildings that stand today and buildings under construction, but not those that are planned, canceled, never built or since demolished.

#	City	Tall Buildings	Skyscrapers	Supertalls	Tallest	Population	Area
1	São Paulo	19,822	274	5	219 m	11,451,999	1,523 km²
2	Hong Kong	17,469	3,124	36	320 m	7,413,070	—
3	Singapore	10,473	355	6	305 m	5,866,139	—
4	New York City, NY	9,103	1,363	87	390 m	8,804,190	—
5	Beijing	7,674	405	23	275 m	21,893,095	—
6	Dubai	5,170	1,037	134	516 m	4,248,200	4,011 km²
7	Toronto	4,758	1,723	19	309 m	2,794,356	631 km²
8	Tokyo	4,477	733	28	266 m	14,264,798	—
9	Moscow	3,970	359	22	345 m	13,274,285	—
10	Rio de Janeiro	3,290	155	0	129 m	6,211,223	1,200 km²
11	Seoul	3,200	730	36	333 m	9,668,465	—
12	Shanghai	3,105	599	34	480 m	24,870,895	—
13	Kyiv	3,061	45	3	170 m	2,952,301	—
14	Buenos Aires	2,556	106	5	235 m	3,121,707	—
15	Guangzhou	2,521	927	36	376 m	18,676,605	—
16	Hyderabad	2,387	446	2	243 m	9,191,000	—
17	Chicago, IL	2,236	584	33	293 m	2,664,452	—
18	Mexico City	2,236	228	7	254 m	9,209,944	—
19	Osaka	2,207	211	1	199 m	2,808,624	225 km²
20	Bangkok	1,923	520	12	436 m	5,676,648	—
21	Shenzhen	1,916	1,233	64	407 m	17,494,398	—
22	Saint Petersburg	1,869	28	5	105 m	5,652,922	—
23	Busan	1,773	589	22	339 m	3,453,198	—
24	Chongqing	1,653	470	31	468 m	32,054,159	—
25	Wuhan	1,572	753	43	470 m	12,326,518	—
26	Jakarta	1,535	394	30	384 m	11,135,191	—
27	Recife	1,523	114	0	148 m	1,488,920	219 km²
28	Tianjin	1,459	261	21	597 m	13,866,009	—
29	Sydney	1,377	293	7	263 m	4,698,656	2,194 km²
30	Incheon	1,347	668	5	248 m	3,049,315	—
31	Madrid	1,292	32	1	173 m	3,506,730	604 km²
32	Fortaleza	1,231	41	0	175 m	2,578,483	312 km²
33	Yekaterinburg	1,227	36	2	194 m	1,468,833	—
34	Vancouver	1,182	131	1	137 m	662,248	115 km²
35	Melbourne	1,153	347	11	253 m	4,585,537	2,881 km²
36	Mumbai	1,119	433	26	308 m	15,414,288	—
37	Montreal	1,063	92	0	233 m	1,762,949	365 km²
38	Zhengzhou	1,039	125	4	250 m	12,600,574	—
39	Paris	972	38	0	58 m	2,133,111	—
40	Minsk	966	13	0	189 m	1,995,091	—
41	Libertador de Caracas	956	32	0	110 m	1,943,901	377 km²
42	Los Angeles, CA	930	205	5	212 m	3,820,914	—
43	Washington, DC	884	0	0	56 m	678,972	—
44	Nagoya	847	50	0	214 m	2,345,892	326 km²
45	Kuala Lumpur	843	461	23	370 m	1,982,112	—
46	Chengdu	842	367	10	489 m	20,937,757	—
47	Berlin	818	36	1	149 m	3,782,202	—
48	Istanbul	811	231	7	354 m	15,655,924	—
49	Nanning	801	392	22	346 m	8,741,584	—
50	Philadelphia, PA	799	129	7	121 m	1,603,797	—
51	Porto Alegre	792	2	0	95 m	1,388,794	496 km²
52	Taichung	791	156	2	323 m	2,868,465	2,215 km²
53	Salvador	788	56	0	161 m	2,417,678	693 km²
54	Stockholm	776	28	0	80 m	988,781	176 km²
55	Shenyang	776	326	26	388 m	9,070,093	—
56	Sofia	774	24	2	121 m	1,213,134	—
57	Goiânia	770	135	0	200 m	1,437,366	729 km²
58	Rosario	764	11	0	141 m	1,193,605	—
59	Boston, MA	761	90	1	211 m	675,647	—
60	Houston, TX	734	155	9	167 m	2,314,157	—
61	Novosibirsk	723	9	0	130 m	1,637,266	—
62	Lima	721	17	0	120 m	9,943,800	—
63	Curitiba	718	43	0	179 m	1,773,718	435 km²
64	San Francisco, CA	715	140	9	165 m	873,965	—
65	Guiyang	715	364	19	381 m	5,987,018	—
66	Jinan	700	244	8	428 m	9,202,432	—
67	Daegu	699	333	0	202 m	2,444,412	—
68	New Taipei	683	137	0	184 m	4,044,831	2,053 km²
69	Macau	674	148	3	284 m	682,100	—
70	Amsterdam	671	29	0	143 m	907,630	220 km²
71	Ottawa	663	21	0	124 m	1,017,449	2,788 km²
72	Kaohsiung	657	166	4	267 m	2,718,545	2,952 km²
73	Kazan	651	3	0	85 m	1,329,825	—
74	Frankfurt am Main	649	109	1	173 m	775,790	—
75	Warsaw	648	84	4	195 m	1,866,729	517 km²
76	Panama City	642	210	10	235 m	1,540,000	—
77	Atlanta, GA	632	140	5	223 m	510,823	—
78	Hangzhou	626	230	10	400 m	11,936,010	—
79	Xiamen	611	156	10	344 m	5,163,970	—
80	Belo Horizonte	610	8	1	115 m	2,315,560	331 km²
81	Gold Coast	588	190	10	305 m	607,665	553 km²
82	Barcelona	576	12	0	96 m	1,731,649	101 km²
83	Prague	572	11	0	94 m	1,397,880	496 km²
84	Rotterdam	562	86	2	215 m	606,467	129 km²
85	Calgary	556	118	1	152 m	1,306,784	821 km²
86	Brisbane	553	159	2	269 m	2,287,896	2,027 km²
87	Londrina	543	14	0	146 m	581,382	1,648 km²
88	Dallas, TX	532	103	3	191 m	1,302,868	—
89	Hiroshima	531	24	0	193 m	1,172,423	907 km²
90	Taipei	526	116	5	360 m	2,439,507	272 km²
91	Yokohama	515	84	0	212 m	3,754,840	438 km²
92	Seattle, WA	498	142	2	152 m	755,078	—
93	Mississauga	494	119	0	260 m	717,961	293 km²
94	Taoyuan	478	39	0	153 m	2,355,106	1,221 km²
95	Medellín	468	10	0	175 m	2,526,795	375 km²
96	Nanjing	467	237	29	500 m	9,314,685	—
97	Edmonton	467	64	2	123 m	1,010,899	766 km²
98	Samara	461	8	0	113 m	1,154,223	—
99	João Pessoa	458	43	0	177 m	833,932	210 km²
100	Huizhou	447	99	1	253 m	6,042,852	—

Source: SKYDB | As of: 2026-11-07