List of longest cable-stayed bridge spans


This list ranks the world's cable-stayed bridges by the length of main span, i.e. the distance between the suspension towers. The length of the main span is the most common way to rank cable-stayed bridges. If one bridge has a longer span than another, it does not mean that the bridge is the longer from shore to shore, or from anchorage to anchorage. However, the size of the main span does often correlate with the height of the towers, and the engineering complexity involved in designing and constructing the bridge.
Cable-stayed bridges with more than three spans are generally more complex, and bridges of this type generally represent a more notable engineering achievement, even where their spans are shorter.
Cable-stayed bridges have the second-longest spans, after suspension bridges, of bridge types. They are practical for spans up to around. The Changtai [Yangtze River Bridge] over the Yangtze River in China, with its span, has the longest span of any cable-stayed bridge, displacing the former record holder, the Russky Bridge over the Eastern Bosphorus in Vladivostok, Russia on 9 September 2025.

Completed cable-stayed bridges

This list of largest cable-stayed bridges includes all bridges with a main span of at least in length. This list only includes bridges that carry vehicular traffic, such as automobiles or trains. It does not include suspension bridges, footbridges or pipeline bridges.
ImageNameMain span
metres 		PylonsYear
completed		LocationCountryRef
Changtai Yangtze River Bridge22025ChangzhouTaizhou, Jiangsu
ChinaConvert|1104|m|ft|0|abbr=on|sortable=on|adj=ri0ndashCoord|qid=Q209710|type:landmark|display=inline|format=dms|name=Russky Bridge

Cable-stayed bridges under construction

ImageNameMain span
metres 		PylonsYear
to open		LocationCountryRef
Guanyinsi Yangtze River Bridge22026Gong'an CountyJiangling County, Hubei
ChinaConvert|1120|m|ft|0|abbr=on|sortable=on|adj=ri0Coord|qid=Q132776070|type:landmark|display=inline|format=dms|name=Ma'anshan Yangtze River Rail-Road Bridge

Longest cable-stayed bridge decks

The definition of cable-stayed bridge deck length used here is: A continuous part of the bridge deck that is supported only by stay-cables and pylons, or are free spans. This means that columns supporting the side span as found in Pont de Normandie, excludes most of the side span decks from the cable-stayed deck length.
There are some bridges with long bridge decks whose span lengths have not been published, and therefore are missing. Extradosed bridges are not included. The thirty longest decks are:
NameCable-stayed
deck length		PylonsDiagram
Ma'anshan Yangtze River Rail-Road Bridge1=3
Jiaxing-Shaoxing Sea Bridge1=6
Millau Viaduct1=7
Lena Bridge
under construction		1=3
Rio-Antirio Bridge1=4
Changtai Yangtze River Bridge1=2
Husutong Yangtze River Bridge1=2
Huangmaohai Bridge1=3
Pelješac Bridge1=6
Queensferry Crossing1=3
Sutong Yangtze River Bridge1=2
1=3
Erqi Yangtze River Bridge1=3
Nhật Tân Bridge1=5
General [Rafael Urdaneta Bridge]1=6
1=3
Chishi Bridge1=4
Pingtang Bridge1=3

Timeline of world record lengths

Many early suspension bridges included cable-stayed construction, including the 1817 footbridge Dryburgh Abbey Bridge, James Dredge's patented Victoria Bridge, Bath, and the later Albert Bridge, London, and Brooklyn Bridge. Their designers found that the combination of technologies created a stiffer bridge. Albert Caquot's 1952 concrete-decked cable-stayed bridge over the Donzère-Mondragon canal at Pierrelatte is one of the first of the modern type, but had little influence on later development. The steel-decked Strömsund Bridge designed by Franz Dischinger is therefore more often cited as the first modern cable-stayed bridge.
This list tracks the bridge having the longest cable-stayed main span through time.
RecordNameLocationMain span:
metres
CrossesNotes
1871 – 1885Old Redheugh Bridgeconvert|73|m|abbr=onInterlanguage link multi|Järnbron|sv|3=Jernbron