What is the height of the Eiffel Tower without its antenna?
Answer
300 meters
The height of the Eiffel Tower without its antenna is 300 meters.
That figure refers to the tower’s architectural height: the iron structure itself rises 300 metres, or about 984 feet. Its much-quoted modern height of 330 metres includes a broadcasting antenna added at the summit in 2022. Earlier antenna changes also altered the tower’s total tip height over time.
Gustave Eiffel’s company built the tower for the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris. When completed, it became the world’s tallest human-made structure, surpassing the Washington Monument. The 300-metre design was so closely associated with the landmark that the tower was often called the “300-metre tower.”
A common mix-up is 276 metres, which is the height of the top accessible floor, not the structure’s full architectural height. The 330-metre measurement includes modern communications equipment and is therefore not the answer when the antenna is excluded.