How this works · About & privacy
All heights are estimates. They come from free map data that volunteers add, so a place can be missing, closed, or mapped on the wrong floor. Always check with the venue.
Where the places come from. Bars, pubs, restaurants, cafés, beer gardens, nightclubs, viewpoints and observation decks from OpenStreetMap. We look for places with a floor number, rooftop places, names like "Sky" or "Rooftop" in tall buildings, places inside tall buildings, and places on high ground or near hilltops.
How high is it? Each card says how we worked it out:
- Tagged floor: the map lists the floor. We count about 3.5 m (11 ft) per floor.
- Floor from the name: the name includes a floor number, like "at the 95th".
- Building height: a rooftop or top-floor place, using the building's mapped height.
- Floors estimate: the building's number of floors × about 3.5 m.
- Terrain: the ground there is higher than the land around it (within about 1 km), from a free elevation model (Open-Meteo, Copernicus 90 m data). We compare the spot with the lower land around it, so it tells you roughly how far you look down. We don't add terrain for places in tall buildings, because the elevation model sees big buildings as hills.
Open to the public? We list public places first, even if they are lower. A place counts as public when it's a regular bar or restaurant with opening hours, a website, a phone number or a known brand listed, or a public viewpoint, and nothing says otherwise. It goes in the second list if the map marks it private, members-only or a club, if its name says "club", "members", "residents" or "private", or if the map has no hours or website for it (so we can't tell).
Nothing to find here? If no building within the circle is mapped taller than 5 floors, and no place sits notably above the land around it, we say so rather than padding the list.
Privacy. No sign-up, no ads, no tracking. Your location is used only in your browser if you tap â—Ž. The spot you pick is sent to the free map and elevation services to look up data (OpenStreetMap Overpass via this site's server, or straight from your browser if that server can't get through; Open-Meteo, and Nominatim for search). Results are cached for a week to spare the free servers.