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Canton of Basel-Landschaft

Canton · Municipalities with height data: 86

Parcel data from Jul 2025, statistics computed on 29 Sept 2026.

In the canton of Basel-Landschaft, the parcel data holds a measured building height for 68’586 parcels. On a typical parcel the tallest building is 9.6 m high, and on 19 in 20 parcels it is 14.7 m or lower.

Key figures

Median building height
9.6 m
Switzerland: 9.5 m
Median floors
2

Switzerland: 2

Tallest building
81.7 m

Switzerland: 221.3 m

Parcels measured
68’586

4.5% of Switzerland

25 m or taller
255

0.4% of measured parcels

About the canton of Basel-Landschaft

For the canton of Basel-Landschaft, the parcel data holds a measured building height for 68’586 parcels. On half of them the tallest building is at most 9.6 m, on three quarters at most 11.2 m, and on 19 in 20 at most 14.7 m. The parcel data holds building heights for 86 of the canton’s 86 municipalities.

In the canton, the median building height, 9.6 m, is close to the Swiss median of 9.5 m. The tallest building measures 81.7 m. 152 parcels have a building of 30 m or taller.

The median floor count is 2, and the building with the most floors has 20. By median building height, the canton of Basel-Landschaft ranks 9th of 20 cantons with complete height data. Among its municipalities with at least 200 measured parcels, the highest median building heights are those of Birsfelden (12.5 m), Allschwil (10.8 m) and Eptingen (10.8 m).

Building heights

The height of the tallest building on each parcel, over the 68’586 parcels with a measured height. Each percentile is the height that share of parcels stays at or below.

Building height percentiles
FigureHereSwitzerland
P25 (lower quartile)8.0 m7.8 m
P50 (median)9.6 m9.5 m
P75 (upper quartile)11.2 m11.5 m
P9514.7 m16.6 m
Tallest building81.7 m221.3 m

Parcels by building height

  • 0-3 m1’483
  • 3-6 m4’261
  • 6-9 m21’331
  • 9-12 m29’591
  • 12-15 m8’886
  • 15-18 m1’972
  • 18-21 m568
  • 21-24 m198
  • 24-27 m88
  • 27-30 m56
  • 30 m or taller152

Floors

The number of floors of the building with the most floors on each parcel, over the 64’594 parcels with a floor count. Median: 2, most floors: 20.

Parcels by number of floors

  • 1 floor16’198
  • 2 floors25’726
  • 3 floors17’570
  • 4 floors3’911
  • 5 floors787
  • 6 floors197
  • 7 floors78
  • 8 or more floors127

Tallest buildings

Parcels whose tallest building reaches at least the height in each row. The rows are cumulative: a parcel with a 60 m building also counts in every row below 60 m. The tallest building measures 81.7 m.

Parcels by tallest building
Tallest buildingParcelsShare of measured
15 m or taller3’0344.4%
25 m or taller2550.4%
30 m or taller1520.2%
50 m or taller10< 0.1%
100 m or taller00%

Building height map for the canton of Basel-Landschaft

roofs maps building height for every parcel in the canton of Basel-Landschaft. Heights come from swisstopo swissBUILDINGS3D and the number of floors from the federal building register (GWR); where no height was measured, the map estimates it from the floors and marks it with a ~.

Municipalities in the canton of Basel-Landschaft

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