Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower vs Ping An Finance Center
Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower and Ping An Finance Center are the same size to within half a percent.
Stacking one on the other changes nothing — they match.
The comparison in numbers
| Thing | Size | In feet | Measured as |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower | 601 m | 1,972 ft | height |
| Ping An Finance Center | 599 m | 1,965 ft | height |
What the scale shows
Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower and Ping An Finance Center are the same size to within half a percent. Both are buildings & towers, so the figures describe the same kind of thing.
Walking pace is 1.4 m/s, so crossing Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower's 601 m takes 7.2 minutes and Ping An Finance Center's 599 m takes 7.1 minutes.
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What each figure means
The figure for Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower is its height (architectural height). The figure for Ping An Finance Center is its height (architectural height).
Crossing them
In people: Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower is 354 adults of 1.7 m tall, Ping An Finance Center is 352.4. By size Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower is 4th of the 23 buildings & towers on this site and Ping An Finance Center is 5th, so 1 place separates them in the ranking.
How to read these two figures
Before trusting any comparison, check what each number measures. The Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower is given as a height, architectural height. The Ping An Finance Center is given as a height, architectural height. Both are height figures, so putting them on one baseline is a like-for-like comparison, although the exact individual or convention still matters.
Building heights depend on the rule used: architectural height counts spires but not antennas, tip height counts everything. The basis is named with each figure.
Where the pair sits among all the sizes here
Across all 86 things on this site, the Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower is number 30 from the top and the Ping An Finance Center is number 31.
Because the collection spans 13 mm up to 1,392,700 km, a ratio of 107,130,769,231× from smallest to largest, the position of a pair says a lot: the pair sits in the middle of the range rather than at an extreme.
Time to cross each one
A sprinter holding about 10 m/s covers the Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower in 60 seconds and the Ping An Finance Center in 60 seconds. Sound, at about 343 m/s in air, takes 1.8 seconds for the larger and 1.7 seconds for the smaller. A jet cruising at 900 km/h needs 2.4 seconds and 2.4 seconds.
These times assume a straight line and constant speed, which no real crossing has, but they turn a number in metres into something the body understands. At any fixed speed the travel times keep the same 1× ratio as the sizes.
The same figures in other units
The Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower measures 601 m, which is 1,972 ft or 657.3 yards. The Ping An Finance Center measures 599 m, which is 1,965 ft.
Questions people ask about this pair
Which is bigger, the Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower or the Ping An Finance Center?
They match to within half a percent on the figures used here.
Are the two figures measured the same way?
Yes in kind: both are height figures. The Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower is architectural height; the Ping An Finance Center is architectural height.
Where do the numbers come from?
Each item has its own page that names the measurement and links to the Wikipedia article it was taken from. Some figures are rounded, and animals vary from one individual to the next, so treat them as representative values rather than records for every case.
How the sizes are taken. Each figure says what it measures — height, length, diameter or elevation — and for which individual or convention. Everything is drawn standing upright on one baseline so a single scale holds, including things that are long rather than tall. Values come from the linked Wikipedia article for each item.