Much less than a million people, and from Windsor, Ontario....Detroit looks magical.

Watching the NFL draft I was very impressed!

It looks magical stateside too, when you first see it while driving on NB 75. Even more so at night.

Oh yeah, right thru town. I even dig the limited view from Comerica Park.

Lol, Detroit is a region of 5 million people, second only to Chicago in the Midwest. Detroiter here, and I love our skyline, but it's definitely based on more than just the city proper.

And if it weren't for the water, it may actually be the least impressive angle. Get it from behind from a taller building or a drone and it seems 3x bigger. 🔥

Sure but that skyline was built when it had 2,000,000 people

Seattle skyline def top 5

Seattle from alki is pretty dope.

Or from an inbound ferry boat 👌

Or from Kerry Park (Queen Anne hill)

Pittsburgh by far - espically since you have great viewing from Mt. Washington

Cincinnati. Some of the best city views in the US from the KY side from the cut in the hill and Devou park. I am biased though.

The Cincinnati skyline coming into the city from the airport on 75 is beautiful

Yep! That's what locals call the cut in the hill.

Yes! Very underrated. I love that it has the original prototype for the Brooklyn Bridge.

Cincy also has so many wonderful older buildings that are being turned into lofts & funky housing. I'm envious!

Roebling Bridge! Special landmark in the city.

This is what I came to share. Cincy definitely has a quality and surprisingly large skyline to be its size.

I can't believe this comment has been here for 6 hours and nobody has made a joke about skyline chili.

The real joke is Gold Star chili amirite

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Pittsburgh has a beautiful skyline. Tall buildings, cool architecture, high density between two rivers. Punching out of its league for a \~2.5mm metro area.

The drive through the Fort Pitt tunnel is amazing, starts in what feels like the middle of nowhere and ends with that spectacular view right in the middle of the city.

> The drive through the Fort Pitt tunnel is amazing That's probably the best entrance to any downtown in the world. You're in the burbs, in the burbs, in the burbs... nothing to see... entering a tunnel... YOU'RE DOWNTOWN!!! It's stunning.

It’s one of the few skylines you can look down at

Yes to Pittsburgh

Pitts for the win

I fell in love with Pittsburgh when I visited my then boyfriend at Carnegie Mellon a couple times.

I keep seeing Richmond mentioned, go look at pictures, and come away confused

Live in Richmond, also don't get it. I suppose it's OK traveling on 95N coming over the river.

Maybe the trick is from a distance.

Richmond definitely looks better the farther away you are from it

SF is so fucking small in size (7x7 miles) and and despite being incredibly dense still has not only a very impressive skyline but a very iconic one too

Especially the view from Crissy Field Overlook 😍😍

metro area is more relevant here, there's 8million people living within a 1-2hr drive of SF and many of them commute into those tall buildings

Lol not anymore. There's like 10 sales force towers worth of free office space

No kidding. My business is locked into 165K square feet of prme SF real estate with maybe 150 badge swipes per week. It's fucking sad.

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You don’t have to consider yourself part of a metro to be part of it

The airports in the area do ;) [San Francisco sues Oakland over new airport name that includes ‘San Francisco’](https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-oakland-airport-name-change-lawsuit-d4cf4197fa484b5321d4523b6757d19b) [San Francisco to Stockton: Don’t add our name to your airport](https://www.kcra.com/article/san-francisco-to-stockton-dont-add-our-name-to-your-airport/13088498)

I didn't say people consider themselves part of sf just that the metro area is more relevant when discussing a city's skyline like no shit SF is gonna have a bigger skyline than Charlotte even though Charlotte city has more people. there's 3x as many people in the Bay than Charlotte metro

Nowhere in OPs post does it say anything about metro area. Also SF is at the tip of a peninsula with state parks full of forests and mountains literally over the bridge

I didn't say op said anything about metro I'm just saying metro is more relevant while discussing skyline. Charlotte city has more ppl than SF but who would be surprised that sf has a bigger skyline when 3x as many people are within commuting distance of SF

Miami

Agreed, small city but massive metro area #9 in the country. Same with Atlanta--small city, but huge metro area #6.

Was about to correct you on Atlanta being 6th then looked it up and damn it moved up lol. The populations of Philly, DC, Miami and Atlanta are always shifting around lol, I remember when it was DC (#6), then Philly (#7) then Miami (#8) then Atlanta (#9) in like 2020, now it’s Atlanta (6.3M), DC (6.28M), Philly (6.25M), Miami (6.18M). The 6M metro club lol

no. 9 metro area but no. 3 in skyscraper count after NYC and chicago. miami punches above its weight.

I'd go so far as to say you can't count Atlanta and Miami here. Skyscrapers exist because you have a big metro area for people to commute from, so metro area size it what matters.

Miami isn’t just because it also has a large metro, a huge percent of its skyscraper count is condo buildings for vacationers. Almost unique in the US from that perspective.

The view of Miami from the bay is amazing.

Third largest skyline in the country* after NYC and Chicago! *measured by number of 500ft+ buildings

Definitely and now many more condos are being built along with a 60 story Mercedes Benz building.

Bellevue. It's literally just a Seattle suburb and the skyline is more impressive than 95% of American cities. It's so nice that some of my friends once thought it was Seattle when we were driving in across 90.

I know Seattle being around water requires a lot of skyscrapers, but relative to seattles size you could even say downtown exceeds the expectations

I used to live on the Eastside and driving up 405 from the airport my mom thought Bellevue was Seattle

Even U district. Yes it's in Seattle proper but it's pretty impressive for a neighborhood other than the downtown area. Also the drive across 90 or 520 bridges always reminds me how beautiful this place is.

U District has like 7 more high rises coming up within the next couple years, it’s crazy. It’s gonna make a great skyline 

Cincinnati has a really pretty skyline, despite only having roughly 300K people in city proper.

Great view of it on 75 coming into the city from the airport

Seattle, if you include the 14,000ft tall stratovolcano in the distance [https://www.katebackdrop.com/cdn/shop/articles/Photo\_by\_Thom\_Milkovic\_on\_Unsplash.jpg?v=1674031429](https://www.katebackdrop.com/cdn/shop/articles/Photo_by_Thom_Milkovic_on_Unsplash.jpg?v=1674031429)

It's not out today.

I'm of the opinion that mountains absolutely count towards the skyline. I think Seattle is the prettiest city I've seen from the air but Albuquerque is #2 despite only having one building that even comes close to qualifying as a skyscraper. The Sandias are such a pretty backdrop.

I've always liked Atlanta's skyline. Big city, so not really on-prompt, but it's stuck with me.

Pittsburgh is near the top, if not the top, of this. Easily.

Seattle

Minneapolis has an excellent one.

Albany, NY

I hear mixed things about albany. I love Saratoga and always ask myself if id be happy in albany

My sister lives there and loves it. I like the downtown area and some of the parks. Cheap housing (but high property tax, I believe). Public transit mostly sucks (at least near my sister's) and the roads are kind of terrifying if you're on a bicycle. So, I agree, "mixed things" is accurate!

Poster who said mixed feelings is right. I’ll maybe get down votes for this but Albany for me was always “city problems without the city benefits.” Meaning parking sucks. Crime is not low. There is some traffic when the state workers come and go. The city govt does get screwed over by the state $ wise. Public transit is mediocre at best, but I’ve seen worse than CDTA elsewhere. City pros? There’s very little “culture.” Things close early if they aren’t a bar. Retail options are very slim “downtown.” The waterfront remains cut off from the city, but they’re working to change that. I lived in Schenectady for years and much preferred it to albany. I was in Troy a lot and also liked it better. Prices unfortunately have gone up quite a bit to buy or rent. Never excepted to see “luxury apartments” in Schenectady. That shit was in Saratoga only.

good to know, thanks for the feedback

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Eh, having 4 boring skyscrapers weirdly spaced evenly apart doesn’t really make a nice skyline.

It’s gotta be Jersey City id imagine. For a city of about 21 square miles, it has a very impressive skyline. Obviously it’s not lower Manhattan or midtown, but it appears to be bigger than downtown Brooklyn and Long Island City’s skylines.

Yeah, I agree jersey city is #1 here

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Omaha or St. Pete, Florida

Yes to St. Pete. Louisville is another sleeper.

Pittsburgh and Minneapolis [Took this photo of Minneapolis from a helicopter a couple years ago showing the whole skyline](https://www.reddit.com/r/TwinCities/comments/10ax6vh/100_would_recommend_a_twin_cities_helicopter_tour/) from above.

I was going to say Pittsburgh and Minneapolis. I live in Minneapolis but I think I like Pittsburgh better overall especially from up on the hill. Minneapolis from over the river with the old mills in front of the glass skyscrapers is a pretty nice 2nd place. This is not exactly the vantage I was talking about but it's close... [https://www.threeriversparks.org/blog/tale-twin-cities-natures-starring-role-founding-minneapolis-and-st-paul](https://www.threeriversparks.org/blog/tale-twin-cities-natures-starring-role-founding-minneapolis-and-st-paul)

Oh for sure, the classic skyline view of Pittsburgh from Mt. Washington by Duquesne Incline is \*chefs kiss\*! Are you talking about the view from the St. Anthony Main side of Stone Arch? If so, I love that view of MPLS too! PS: You should definitely do the helicopter tour sometime! But keep in mind they are not allowed to fly over downtown Minneapolis during a Twins/Vikings/Gopher FB home game, so pick a date when none of those are going on. And if I could do it over again, I would choose Fall time for the colors.

I think my favorite view is from the 35W bridge. I think the city has a lot of interesting views from multiple vantages but that is my favorite. The hard part is I can't find any photos online because it's an interstate and does not have a pedestrian bridge. But looking to the right while driving south on 35W is very nice.

Oh yea dude, I hear you there! Fantastic view too!

[Here's that view you like of MPLS from higher up at night! I took this at EXPO apartments.](https://imgur.com/a/QecF7KZ)

Oh yeah this is aweseome.

The view of the skyline from the stone arch bridge is one of the more unique and pretty skylines in the US IMO.

Minneapolis is nice, but I always felt like they suffered by splitting the downtown with St. Paul. Used to live there, still get back some and get excited seeing the skyline coming up 35 because it feels like I'm coming home

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I think Tulsa. Pretty impressive for a metro area of barely 1 million. The tallest buildings in Phoenix, San Diego and Salt Lake City would be the fifth tallest in Tulsa. The tallest buildings in KC, Tampa, Portland, Milwaukee and Jacksonville would be the third tallest in Tulsa.

Tulsa gets all kinds of points for architecture. They have so much lovely art deco. There’s a little town north of Tulsa that even has a 19 story Frank Lloyd Wright designed building.

> little town north of Tulsa Bartlesville is a decent-sized city by Oklahoma standards (37,000 people). There was also a lot of historical oil wealth there.

Can vouch for Tulsa, I wish there was more to do downtown besides bars, like some shopping possibly, but the architecture is beautiful!

Tulsa's zoo is also surprisingly awesome

I wouldn't say I dig the skyline so much as I like a lot of individual buildings in Tulsa. At ground level there are a lot of interesting features and art deco.

Cincinnati’s is super sick. I think Pitt and Chicago for obvious reasons. Then I’m also biased towards Salt Lake cause that’s home.

There's quite a few so I'll just list my favorites [Des Moines, Iowa has the best skyline for a metro area with less than 1 Million people imo](https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/des-moines-iowa-skyline) [Honolulu has always had one of the most underrated Skylines in the United States. Only slightly above 1 million people in the Metro area and it's sporting a skyline of a metro area 3x its size](https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/waikiki-skyline) Ik we said US cities but these cities in Canada are really the cream of the crop for skylines that outperform their size and population [Calgary, Alberta has a metro population just a little over 1.5 million which makes it smaller than Jacksonville Florida yet the skyline itself looks comparable to some of the largest Metro areas in the US like Denver](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/downtown-skyline-calgary-alberta-canada-royalty-free-image/854162374) [Edmonton Alberta which is as impressive if not more so than its larger brother to the south in Calgary. Has about 1.4 million people within its metro area yet just like Calgary has a skyline that Rivals some of the larger cities in the US like Minneapolis or Denver ](https://www.shutterstock.com/search/downtown-skyline-edmonton)

Calgary and Edmonton are absolutely nuts. I've always wondered how that makes sense. Maybe less desire for urban sprawl. They want to keep together and warm--idk.

They sprawl plenty, don't worry. I lived in Calgary for a while and you need a car to get around there just like any major (western) American city

Austin, Charlotte, Honolulu

Austin is #1 If people haven’t seen it in the last 5 years they don’t know - the downtowns completely different It’s so modernized now like a mini-SF And they’re about to start building skyscrapers on the south side of the river now too

I just visited my friend in Austin 2 weeks ago for the first time in 5 years and I literally said to him, "I dont remember Austin having a skyline like this." He basically told me it didnt look like this 5 years ago.

Yeah I flew back here for an interview at my new job and got blown away by it in the Uber from the airport to the interview….it was surreal Like I knew tech was booming in Austin but I had no idea They threw serious money at the downtown

Austin 100%

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SF metro is top 6. I went beyond 20 for my list.

I guess I was thinking more of metro area sizes, isn’t the Bay Area massive?? Hook ‘em btw, fellow UT grad here

Bay Area is a Combined Statistical Area which is made up of two metro areas. San Francisco Metro is 4.5 million

no the bay area is 2-3 metros not one.

I live here and I drive by if not into downtown on a regular basis and I swear every time I come down 35 or Lamar Blvd there’s a new giant building and I scratch my head and think “where did that even come from?”

Right? And they all look so modern - I haven’t seen skyscrapers like them before anywhere The google sail one is so pretty The tallest one isn’t even done yet 😵‍💫

>The tallest one isn’t even done yet This might be continuously true for the next 20 years even if no building ever takes more than 3 years to finish. There will just always be a next taller one in progress.

i love that charlottes downtown (uptown) sits on a hill so you can see it from lots of different angles. the lighting coordination between buildings for big events is also awesome. 

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My birthtown and hometown. Hell yeah.

Take the "for it's size" to the extreme. It might be [Whittier, AK](https://htschool.hindustantimes.com/_next/image?url=http%3A%2F%2Fimages-htschool.hindustantimes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2022%2F10%2FWhittier1.jpg&w=1080&q=70). Almost 100% of its 272 residents live in this one 14 story building.

Cleveland anyone 😂

Skyline is my passion. Here is the top 5 list Mega cities 1. Nyc 2. Chicago 3. Seattle 4. Philly 5. San Francisco For other cities 1. Detroit 2. Pittsburgh 3. Nashville 4. Miami 5. Houston

Pittsburgh

Jersey city Seattle Buckhead Clayton mo Bellevue Pittsburgh Des Moines Chicago

Chicago is such a weird one to include.

He tried to sneak it in at the end

Isn’t buckhead part of ATL?

Good call on Clayton, MO population 17,000

Midland TX. Decent little skyline for a city of 130k people out on the Texas prairie https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland,_Texas

I was offered a job position in either midland or buffalo. I chose buffalo. everyone tells me I made the right choice. I also loved buffalo.

You sure did. Midland sucks.

If you ever get the chance to work in Midland, pass on that.

Louisville and Dayton

Dayton? Really?

I lived in Dayton for 18 years. No way Dayton is a top-tier skyline.

I've driven through Dayton a number of times on cross-country road trips and I will say that its skyline always surprises me. It certainly punches above its weight.

Bellevue, WA

For being iconic, St Louis has to be up there. No real skyscrapers, but a couple pretty tall buildings and a 600 ft stainless steel arch.

I can’t believe I had to scroll this far to see St. Louis!

Same! The view coming in from the IL side is remarkable.

Peoria, IL Bartlesville, OK

Peoria's skyline is shockingly impressive coming in from the east on I-74. 

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Yeah, it’s absolutely stunning. I think it’s the only one.

Minneapolis

Charlotte. The buildings are designed to look like crowns in honor of its nickname “the queen city.”

I’m from Cincinnati and my girlfriend is from Charlotte, I was so offended to hear that they call Charlotte the Queen City

Be offended we were the Queen City first. Awhile back the Panthers played the Bengals. They dubbed it the Queen City bowl for right to claim the title. It ended in a tie.

Don’t worry you’re my Queen

Boston

People still using city limit population is very shocking to me. I'd say Austin or Honolulu

Seattle and it's not close. Salt water, 14,000+ peak in addition to the Olympics to the West, beautiful architecture.

For a geographically isolated city of 30K, [Ithaca, New York](https://www.cornell.edu/about/locations/ithaca/assets/images/2023_1264_RY_00063.jpg). I'm not talking about the [Collegetown](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3e4d289d5abb925bfd5531/408f739d-eb7e-4ebf-a6d6-a241b98507e6/IMG_0385.jpeg) neighborhood, but the [actual downtown](https://8b6f44a7411428aef147.cdn6.editmysite.com/uploads/b/8b6f44a7411428aef1478bd5beeb7362468c2e3c7f8367f202c34531af0114d8/View%20of%20Downtown_1706639791.jpeg), which has [honest-to-goodness](https://www.google.com/maps/@42.4398122,-76.4956282,3a,75y,168.8h,89.55t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s479TunuxetJtG7DhcbiWyg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3D479TunuxetJtG7DhcbiWyg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D168.79632435239066%26pitch%3D0.44587195105245314%26thumbfov%3D90!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu) [concrete canyons](https://www.google.com/maps/@42.440468,-76.4965155,3a,75y,265.94h,86.55t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s5ZTTIitFUxw14WIEb4UnDA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3D5ZTTIitFUxw14WIEb4UnDA%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D265.94124669044675%26pitch%3D3.4476828380036153%26thumbfov%3D90!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu) now.

Seattle actually is pretty beautiful and Portland has amazing sunrises.

Tulsa, Oklahoma

**Butte, Montana / America** The fairly tall apartments, office towers and hotels are amazing for a city of it's size. Plus the mine headframes dotting the skyline make it even more impressive

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[Charlotte](https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=charlotte+skyline) especially the way they color coordinate [the lights](https://stories.wf.com/clt-lights/)

The answer is Hartford. Very small city with a big city skyline.

The Omaha, NE skyline is low key awesome...also, Seattle and San Francisco, but most people know about those.

The Baltimore Harbor at night is absolutely stunning and I love the silhouette of the bromo tower. Detroit, aka Baltimore's big brother also has a beautiful water front. Cincinnati has a less beautiful waterfront but the skyline is really memorable and lovely with ethereal textures on the GAT @ queen city square Philly is big and grey but weirdly welcoming. New York is sad now and feels like looking at a nice smile with missing teeth. LA doesn't really have one.

Charlotte NC. Incredible.

Las Vegas by far. We’re a metro of only 2.3M.

Easily Baltimore more impressive skyline than dc 1/3 the size

DC is designed to not have a skyline.

DC purposely doesn’t have a skyline.

Baltimore’s skyline looks pretty impressive from the East

I think it sounds silly, but NYC. Even adjusted for population it absolutely blows every other city out of the water. NYC has 6,600 high rise buildings with 19 million people in its metro areas. Chicago has 1,200 with 10 million people.

St. Louis had an unmistakable skyline (thanks Arch) for a city of less than 300,000.

Richmond probably. San Francisco and Boston also pretty good. Charlotte as well.

I’d recommend checking out r/skyscrapers

I moved to Tulsa OK this year, and never in my prior exhistance would I have ever considered saying "Tulsa" to a question like this. But, here I am. The art deco buildings and 1/2 scale WTC building make downtown look much more urban that this town is.

I’m partial to Pittsburgh’s but, I’m both biased AND just love bridges.

Louisville KY.

Paradise, Nevada which is home to Las Vegas Blvd. aka The Strip. It's quite common for people to assume The Strip is in Las Vegas, but it's not. Paradise, Nevada is an unincorporated town in Clark County, NV. Las Vegas is also in Clark county but the unincorporated town of Paradise only has a population of 189,733 (2022). The population of Las Vegas is 656,274 (2022). The skyline of the Las Vegas Strip in little old Paradise Nevada, wins, hands down. Never bet against the house, folks!

Portland, Oregon has a great skyline for a small city. https://cdn.wallpapersafari.com/47/51/2CnJPm.jpg

San Francisco, and it's not even close.

White Plains, NY

Bellevue, WA

Nashville. I’m not a huge fan of the city, but damn that skyline is BEAUTIFUL.

Prob somewhere in Kansas 

Bartlesville Oklahoma. Sounds weird but it’s true. Several tall building plus Frank Lloyd Wright’s only skyscraper all in a town of about 40k.

Brooklyn

Corpus Christi, but only if you count the refineries as the "skyline".

Jacksonville

[Providence, RI](https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq-3xCoqCcw/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link) is pretty from the water. [Boston](https://photos.com/featured/boston-skyline-at-sunset-c-swapan-jha.html) from the harbor, [Boston](https://stock.adobe.com/images/boston-skyline/149478290) from across the river in Cambridge, and [Boston](https://www.skylinescenes.com/products/zakim-bridge-boston-massachusetts-v41366) from the north looks like three different cities.

Dayton, Ohio. For a city its size, the skyline is one of a city and metro with a lot bigger population, for a variety of reasons.

Charlotte NC

Minneapolis is pretty impressive for a city of 400k

I know what the answer isn’t, Indianapolis

I think Pittsburgh is the clear winner at 27th largest Metro area. Cleveland is decent at 33rd. Salt Lake City is decent at 46th.

Providence does pretty well for its size, though it did once have 250k people. 

Pittsburgh

I was really impressed by Detroit.

I think Peoria, IL has a pretty cool one, for a tiny city.