Shanghai Tower – Top of Shanghai Observatory

上海中心大厦 · 上海之巅观光厅

Floor 118, 546 m up; go before sunset for day, dusk and night

⚠ No view on hazy days

Hours

Daily 8:30am–10pm (last entry 9:30pm). In 2025 it closed for one day (16 Sep) for maintenance.

Tickets

Adults ¥180, students and over-60s ¥120. Buy at the B1 counter or via WeChat (search 上海之巅观光厅). Passport required; non-refundable.

Address

Shanghai Tower, 501 Yincheng Middle Road, Lujiazui, Pudong; observatory tickets and entry on B1

The lift does the climb in under a minute, ears popping on the way, and lets you out on the 118th floor, 546 metres up. From here the Jin Mao Tower and the 'bottle opener' of the World Financial Center look like desk ornaments, the barges on the river shrink to ants, and you finally see what the Huangpu is up to: a lazy S-bend slicing the city in two. Go up about an hour before sunset and one ticket buys you three views — daylight, the orange fade, and the grid lighting up.