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Country Guide · Honest Height Rankings
In Honest 100
2
Rank pending
0
Tallest (honest)
494m
Best ratio
2.6%
Saudi Arabia has two confirmed entries in the Honest 100. The Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower in Mecca (607 metres architectural top, 494 metres highest occupied floor) scores 18.6% - a significant vanity gap driven by 113 metres of mechanical and decorative structure above the highest hotel floors. The Public Investment Fund Tower in Riyadh (385 metres) has unconfirmed occupied floor data. The Kingdom Tower (Jeddah Tower), under construction and targeting 1,000 metres, will test Saudi Arabia's honest height metrics when complete.
Buildings ranked by Honest Height - the elevation of the highest occupied floor, not architectural top. The gap is the Vanity Ratio. See the full methodology.
Buildings in Saudi Arabia, drawn to scale
Each silhouette drawn to scale. Silver = the height humans actually reach. Amber = the decorative steel above it.
Top 2 in Saudi Arabia · Confirmed occupied height
The Abraj Al-Bait is one of the more complex buildings in the Honest 100: it is a complex of seven towers, the tallest of which bears the iconic four-faced clock. The 18.6% Vanity Ratio reflects genuine mechanical floor use above the hotel guest rooms - this is not purely decorative. Still, 113 metres of unoccupied height is 113 metres of unoccupied height. The clock faces are not habitable floors.