Canton of Zug
Canton · Municipalities with height data: 9
Parcel data from Jul 2025, statistics computed on 29 Sept 2026.
Gaps in the height data
There are no height statistics for 2 municipalities: Oberägeri and Unterägeri.
In the canton of Zug, the parcel data holds a measured building height for 13’508 parcels. On a typical parcel the tallest building is 11 m high, and on 19 in 20 parcels it is 19.2 m or lower.
Key figures
- Median building height
- 11 m
- Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 3
Switzerland: 2
- Tallest building
- 82 m
Switzerland: 221.3 m
- Parcels measured
- 13’508
0.9% of Switzerland
- 25 m or taller
- 205
1.5% of measured parcels
About the canton of Zug
For the canton of Zug, the parcel data holds a measured building height for 13’508 parcels. On half of them the tallest building is at most 11 m, on three quarters at most 13.6 m, and on 19 in 20 at most 19.2 m. The parcel data holds building heights for 9 of the canton’s 11 municipalities.
In the canton, the median building height, 11 m, is above the Swiss median of 9.5 m. The tallest building measures 82 m. 95 parcels have a building of 30 m or taller.
The median floor count is 3, and the building with the most floors has 25. By median building height, the canton of Zug ranks 2nd of 20 cantons with complete height data. Among its municipalities with at least 200 measured parcels, the highest median building heights are those of Zug (12.3 m), Menzingen (11.1 m) and Baar (11 m).
Building heights
The height of the tallest building on each parcel, over the 13’508 parcels with a measured height. Each percentile is the height that share of parcels stays at or below.
| Figure | Here | Switzerland |
|---|---|---|
| P25 (lower quartile) | 9.0 m | 7.8 m |
| P50 (median) | 11.0 m | 9.5 m |
| P75 (upper quartile) | 13.6 m | 11.5 m |
| P95 | 19.2 m | 16.6 m |
| Tallest building | 82.0 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 10’679 parcels with a floor count. Median: 3, most floors: 25.
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 82 m.
| Tallest building | Parcels | Share of measured |
|---|---|---|
| 15 m or taller | 2’320 | 17.2% |
| 25 m or taller | 205 | 1.5% |
| 30 m or taller | 95 | 0.7% |
| 50 m or taller | 6 | < 0.1% |
| 100 m or taller | 0 | 0% |
Building height map for the canton of Zug
roofs maps building height for every parcel in the canton of Zug. 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 ~.