The Altitude Census · 2026
How high does Bangkok drink?
We logged the floor number of all 137 rooftop bars in Bangkok — from a first-floor terrace to a deck on the 78th floor — to map exactly where the city takes its drinks.
(Combined, they sit atop 3,394 floors of building — stack them into one tower and the top bar pours from 10.9 km up, just above Everest's summit.)
The highest pour
Floor 78
The Roof Top Bar and The Sky Beach, tied at the top
The median rooftop
Floor 24
half the city's rooftop bars pour below this line
The fifty-plus club
21 bars
serve at floor 50 or above
The seven highest
Bangkok drinks at two altitudes
The census's oddest finding: there's almost nobody in the middle. 58 bars sit within ten floors of the street, just 6 occupy floors 11–20, and then the sky bars begin. Bangkok pours at street level or from a tower — rarely in between.
The neighborhood altitude ladder
Average floor by neighborhood, for areas with at least four rooftops. Silom / Riverside drinks 15× higher than Khao San / Phra Nakhon — the river district builds up, the old town stays on its shophouse roofs.
The highest rooftop bars in Bangkok
- The Roof Top BarFloor 78
- The Sky BeachFloor 78
- Ojo BangkokFloor 76
- Sky BarFloor 64
- Flûte - a Champagne Bollinger BarFloor 64
Altitude isn't free: across these same venues, every floor adds roughly ฿8 to the price of a cocktail. The full numbers live in the Bangkok Rooftop Cocktail Index.
Methodology
Floor numbers cover all 137 rooftop bars we track in Bangkok and always use the venue's lowest rooftop level — a bar spanning floors 61–63 counts as 61. Neighborhood averages are only shown for areas with four or more venues. The stacked-tower figure assumes 3.2 m per storey. Venue list last updated August 2026.
Use this data
The full census — every venue, neighborhood, and floor, plus review scores — is free to reuse for articles, research, and graphics under CC BY 4.0. Credit "Bangkok Rooftops" with a link to this page.
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