Canton of Basel-Stadt
Canton · Municipalities with height data: 3
Parcel data from Jul 2025, statistics computed on 29 Sept 2026.
In the canton of Basel-Stadt, the parcel data holds a measured building height for 20’050 parcels. On a typical parcel the tallest building is 14.5 m high, and on 19 in 20 parcels it is 22.5 m or lower.
Key figures
- Median building height
- 14.5 m
- Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 3
Switzerland: 2
- Tallest building
- 205.1 m
Switzerland: 221.3 m
- Parcels measured
- 20’050
1.3% of Switzerland
- 25 m or taller
- 486
2.4% of measured parcels
About the canton of Basel-Stadt
For the canton of Basel-Stadt, the parcel data holds a measured building height for 20’050 parcels. On half of them the tallest building is at most 14.5 m, on three quarters at most 18.7 m, and on 19 in 20 at most 22.5 m. The parcel data holds building heights for 3 of the canton’s 3 municipalities.
In the canton, the median building height, 14.5 m, is above the Swiss median of 9.5 m. The tallest building measures 205.1 m. 172 parcels have a building of 30 m or taller.
The median floor count is 3, and the building with the most floors has 49. By median building height, the canton of Basel-Stadt ranks 1st of 20 cantons with complete height data. Among its municipalities with at least 200 measured parcels, the highest median building heights are those of Basel (16.1 m), Riehen (10.2 m) and Bettingen (9.7 m).
Building heights
The height of the tallest building on each parcel, over the 20’050 parcels with a measured height. Each percentile is the height that share of parcels stays at or below.
| Figure | Here | Switzerland |
|---|---|---|
| P25 (lower quartile) | 11.1 m | 7.8 m |
| P50 (median) | 14.5 m | 9.5 m |
| P75 (upper quartile) | 18.7 m | 11.5 m |
| P95 | 22.5 m | 16.6 m |
| Tallest building | 205.1 m | 221.3 m |
Parcels by building height
Floors
The number of floors of the building with the most floors on each parcel, over the 19’685 parcels with a floor count. Median: 3, most floors: 49.
Parcels by number of floors
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 205.1 m.
| Tallest building | Parcels | Share of measured |
|---|---|---|
| 15 m or taller | 9’430 | 47% |
| 25 m or taller | 486 | 2.4% |
| 30 m or taller | 172 | 0.9% |
| 50 m or taller | 34 | 0.2% |
| 100 m or taller | 3 | < 0.1% |
Building height map for the canton of Basel-Stadt
roofs maps building height for every parcel in the canton of Basel-Stadt. 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 ~.