Building & Landmark Height Comparison

The ruler axis automatically fits the tallest figure on the chart, and every figure is drawn at the same pixels-per-metre scale. So when you add something very tall, everyone else shrinks to match — the proportions between figures always stay true. Very short figures keep a small minimum size so they never disappear entirely.

This building height comparison page lets you compare a two-storey house (8 m), Christ the Redeemer (38 m), the Statue of Liberty (93 m), Big Ben (96 m), the Great Pyramid (139 m), the Eiffel Tower (330 m), the Empire State Building (381 m) and the 828 m Burj Khalifa — plus people for scale. Add your own entries by name and height too, in metres, centimetres or feet and inches. Because the ruler rescales to the tallest figure on the chart, putting the Burj Khalifa next to a house shrinks the house to a sliver — remove the tallest item to spread the shorter ones out again. Companion pages cover animals, trees and plants, and everyday objects on the main height comparison.

The unit toggle on this building height comparison flips the whole chart, the ruler and every label between metric (cm / m) and imperial (feet and inches). When adding a height you can type it either way — for example 178 cm, 1.78 m, or 5'10 — and it is converted automatically. A bare number is read in whichever unit is active: inches in imperial, and in metric anything above 3 is treated as centimetres while anything smaller is read as metres. Every height is stored internally in metres, so switching units only relabels the chart and never rounds or alters the figures you added.

The building and landmark shapes on this page are the tool's own drawn vector outlines, not third-party artwork, so there is nothing to license for the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben or the Burj Khalifa. The human silhouettes used for scale are real vector artwork from Wikimedia Commons, released under Creative Commons Zero, and are credited by artist in the silhouette credits section at the bottom of this page. Animal and plant silhouettes on the companion pages come from PhyloPic contributors under CC0 or a public-domain mark. Every shape keeps a fixed aspect ratio as it is scaled, so a building drawn small has exactly the proportions it has when drawn large.

Nothing from this building height comparison is uploaded. The figures you add are stored only in your own browser using localStorage, so they are still there when you come back on the same device, and clearing them removes them completely. Your unit preference is saved the same way, in a separate key. There is no account and no server behind the chart, so your list does not follow you to another browser or another device.