List of cities with the most skyscrapers


This is a list of cities with most skyscrapers. For the purposes of this article, a skyscraper is defined as a continuously habitable high-rise building that is taller than 150 meters. Historically, the term first referred to buildings with 10 to 20 floors in the 1880s. The definition shifted with advancing construction technology during the 20th century which allowed for taller buildings to be constructed.
Hong Kong is the city with the most skyscrapers, with a total of 569 such buildings as of 2026, followed by Shenzhen, New York City, Mumbai, and Dubai. Historically, New York City was the city with the most skyscrapers from the development of early skyscrapers until the early 2000s, when it was overtaken by Hong Kong. The country with the most cities that have at least 30 skyscrapers is China, with 28, followed by the United States, with five. With the exception of New York City, the ten cities with the most skyscrapers are all in Asia; four of them are in mainland China.
The title of the city with the most skyscrapers changes if alternative definitions for skyscraper are used. For example, when measured by the number of buildings taller than 200 m, Shenzhen and Dubai rank higher than Hong Kong. The ranking also depends on whether the wider metropolitan areas are counted; some metropolitan areas, such as Metro Manila, have many skyscrapers spread across several different cities. There are 20 cities with at least 100 skyscrapers taller than 150 m. The first city to reach this milestone was New York City, and the most recent to do so was Moscow in 2025. If metropolitan areas are counted, Seoul and Metro Manila also surpass 100 skyscrapers.
New York City, with 323 skyscrapers, remains the city with the most in North America. Melbourne has the largest skyline out of any city in Oceania, with 77 skyscrapers. Moscow has the most skyscrapers in Europe, with 60. The Brazilian city of Balneário Camboriú has the most in South America, with 30, although São Paulo is the city with the most high-rises on the continent. The city with the most skyscrapers in Africa is Johannesburg, with five such buildings.

Cities with the most skyscrapers

This list includes every city with more than 30 skyscrapers taller than 150 metres, as of January 2026. A main source for this article is the Skyscraper Center database, which is managed by the Council on Vertical Urbanism. The CVU's figures may undercount a city's actual number of skyscrapers, and are unreliable for many non-Western cities due to incomplete data on high-rise buildings. In this article, figures from the linked Wikipedia pages are used instead for Bangkok, Hyderabad, Miami, Moscow, Mumbai, Taipei, Thane, Tokyo, and Toronto.
File:Dubai Skyline 2016.jpg|thumb|350x350px|Dubai has the most skyscrapers of any city in the Middle East, and the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa
File:02540-Guangzhou.jpg|thumb|350x350px|Guangzhou is part of the Pearl River Delta alongside Hong Kong and Shenzhen; the urban agglomeration has over 1,000 skyscrapers
File:成都.jpg|thumb|350x350px|Chengdu has the most skyscrapers of any city without a supertall skyscraper
File:Panama 08 2013 Ave Balboa 7044.JPG|thumb|350x350px|Panama City has the most skyscrapers of any city in Central America and all of Latin America
File:Moscow City.jpeg|thumb|350x350px|Moscow, with 100 skyscrapers, has the most in Europe
File:Metro Manila Cityscape.jpg|thumb|350x350px|Makati, with 55 skyscrapers, makes up less than half of the total number of skyscrapers in Metro Manila
File:COLS.Reza 07.jpg|thumb|350x350px|Before Brexit, London had the most skyscrapers in the European Union
File:Houston, Texas - 19.jpg|thumb|350x350px|Houston has the most skyscrapers in the U.S. state of Texas
File:Empty Singapore-Malaysia Causeway.jpg|thumb|350x350px|Malaysia is the least populous country to have three cities with at least 30 skyscrapers. Shown above is Johor Bahru
File:One-tower-bc.jpg|thumb|350x350px|The resort city of Balneário Camboriú is the only city in South America with at least 30 skyscrapers
File:Good morning LA.jpg|thumb|350x350px|Los Angeles has the most skyscrapers in the U.S. state of California
RankCityCountryImageNo. of skyscrapers
1Hong KongHong Kong

Metropolitan areas with the most skyscrapers

This list ranks metropolitan areas with the most completed skyscrapers that are taller than as of 2026. Metropolitan areas with over 50 skyscrapers are shown. Unless indicated in the above list or otherwise, the number of skyscrapers is given by the Council on Vertical Urbanism.
RankMetropolitan areaCountryImageSkyscrapersCities included
1Hong KongHong Kong

Map of cities with the most skyscrapers

The following maps shows the location of every city and urban area with over 30 skyscrapers taller than 150 m. Cities with over 100 skyscrapers are indicated by blue dots. Labels in italics indicate metropolitan areas with over 30 skyscrapers, but without any individual city that reaches that number. Cities in China and South Korea are labelled on the lower map due the lack of space on the upper map.

Cities with the most skyscrapers under construction

This is a list which ranks cities that have at least 10 skyscrapers under construction that are taller than as of September 2025. Values without a citation or a link to the city's corresponding Wikipedia page indicate that the figure was obtained from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
RankCityCountrySkyscrapers under construction
1MumbaiIndiaefn-la|This figure is from the corresponding linked article. It excludes buildings that are topped out.|name=articlenotopped

Cities with the most skyscrapers by height

The ranking of cities with the most skyscrapers depends on the height used for the definition of a skyscraper. The following table lists the number of skyscrapers in a city that stands above 150 meters, 200 meters, and 300 meters, as of January 2026. When using a definition of 200 meters, Shenzhen is the city with the most skyscrapers, followed by Dubai, Hong Kong, and New York City. Dubai is the city with the most supertall skyscrapers, followed by Shenzhen and New York City.
CityCountry≥150 m ≥200 m ≥300 m ≥400 m
Hong KongHong Kong

Cities with the most skyscrapers by year

The following tables list the ten cities with the most skyscrapers taller than by the end of the first year of every decade, starting from 1910. This includes demolished skyscrapers such as the Singer Building in New York City and the Morrison Hotel in Chicago. Unless indicated otherwise, all data is taken from the Council on Vertical Urbanism. There are a number of skyscrapers in the CVU database for which the year of completion is unknown; such buildings are excluded from the figures below.