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How big is a water tower?
40 m
A water tower measures 40 m. That's about 3.33 school buses lined up end to end.
By the numbers
- That's 40 meters, or about 131 feet.
- It's about 24 times taller than an average adult (1.7 m).
- Roughly 3.33 school buses could line up across it.
- At a normal walking pace you'd cross it in about 29 seconds.
- Out of all 1,014 things in this collection, it ranks #234 by size.
Size comparison
How water tower stacks up against things of a similar size. Tap any bar to explore it.
Olympic pool
50 m
Colosseum
48 m
Rialto Bridge
48 m
glacier crevasse
45 m
water tower
40 m
pine tree
40 m
typical highway overpass
40 m
Boeing 737
39 m
Christ the Redeemer statue
38 m
Bars use a logarithmic scale so everything fits — real differences are even more extreme!
Fun fact
Standing beside it, an average person (1.7 m tall) would reach only about 4.25% of its height.
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