Tallest Building in Kolkata: Full Ranked List 2026

Last verified: September 2026, cross-checked against Wikipedia’s list of tallest buildings in Kolkata and The 42’s building record(set them to open in a new tab when publish )

The tallest building in Kolkata is The 42, standing 260 metres tall with 65 floors. It sits on Chowringhee Road, right in the heart of the city’s central business district.

That single fact answers most of what people search for. But there’s more worth knowing, like how The 42 compares to the rest of India, what held the record before it, and which towers round out Kolkata’s skyline.

Here’s the full ranked list, with real height, floor count, and location for every major building in the city.

What Is the Tallest Building in Kolkata Right Now?

The 42 holds the title, and has held it since 2019. At 260 metres and 65 floors, it’s not just the tallest building in Kolkata, it’s the tallest completed building anywhere in India outside Mumbai

A few quick facts worth knowing:

• It’s the 14th tallest building in the entire country
• It’s located on Chowringhee Road, in the middle of Kolkata’s central business district
• It was developed by a group of four companies: Mani Group, Salarpuria Sattva Group, Alcove Realty, and Diamond Group
• It’s primarily residential

Before The 42 came along, Kolkata’s tallest towers barely crossed 150 metres. The 42 didn’t just break the record, it more than doubled it.

Top 10 Tallest Buildings in Kolkata (Ranked List)

Here’s the tallest building in Kolkata and the rest of the city’s tallest towers, ranked by height.

A few of these figures vary slightly across sources, floor counts especially, since not every developer publishes an identical count. Treat anything below The 42 as a close approximation rather than an exact engineering figure.

The 42, Chowringhee — The Tallest Building in Kolkata

The 42 didn’t just become the tallest building in Kolkata, it became the tallest completed building in India outside Mumbai. That’s a bigger deal than it sounds, since it beat out every other Indian metro, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, all of them.

Before construction started, the land belonged to the Maharaja of Darbhanga. Four different developers worked together to build it: Mani Group, Salarpuria Sattva Group, Alcove Realty, and Diamond Group. The building has faced a civil suit over the years, though it’s remained completed and occupied since 2019.

If you’re exploring property options in Kolkata, Chowringhee remains one of the most sought-after and expensive addresses in the city, largely because of towers like this one.

Urbana Towers, Anandapur

Before The 42 existed, Urbana held Kolkata’s height record. Tower 2 topped out at 167.6 metres in October 2013, and Tower 6 followed close behind at 152.4 metres the same year.

Urbana isn’t just one building, it’s a full township with seven towers spread across 66 acres, built as a joint venture between the West Bengal government and a handful of private developers. Three more towers are planned for a second phase. Anandapur has become one of the more affordable pockets for flats in Kolkata precisely because of large-scale developments like this one.

Forum Atmosphere, EM Bypass

Forum Atmosphere isn’t just two towers, it’s two towers connected by something unusual: a sky sculpture called ‘Deya,’ suspended 500 feet in the air. It’s reportedly the world’s first residential floating sky sculpture of its kind, and it houses the building’s shared club facilities.

The Westin Kolkata Rajarhat

Unlike most names on this list, The Westin isn’t residential, it’s a full-service luxury hotel, one of the tallest hospitality buildings in Eastern India. It sits in Rajarhat’s New Town area, alongside several of the city’s newer high-rises.

The V, Tower 2

The V is a residential complex in New Town’s Action Area II, built with a contemporary design and a full set of lifestyle amenities. It’s one of several similarly-scaled towers that have turned this part of Rajarhat into a genuine high-rise cluster over the past decade.

Uniworld City Air, Rajarhat

Uniworld City Air is part of the larger Uniworld City township in Rajarhat, one of the bigger integrated residential developments to come up in this corridor. Like The V and The Westin, it reflects how much of Kolkata’s newer height has shifted away from the old city centre and into Rajarhat and New Town.

South City Towers, Jodhpur Park

South City Towers were the first buildings in Kolkata to cross the 100-metre mark, back in 2008. Four identical towers make up the complex, right next to South City Mall, one of the city’s most popular shopping destinations.

They’ve since been passed on height by The 42 and the Urbana and Forum Atmosphere towers, but they’re still one of the more recognisable names in the city, mostly because of how central and well-connected the location is.

Chatterjee International Centre, Chowringhee

Before The 42 existed, before Urbana existed, Chatterjee International Centre was already Kolkata’s tallest office building, and had been since 1976. It’s on Jawaharlal Nehru Road, right in the same Chowringhee business district that’s still home to the city’s tallest tower today.

Nearly 50 years on, it’s still in active use, housing corporate offices and multinational companies, a rare case of a 1970s-era tower staying commercially relevant well into the 2020s.

Other Notable Tall Buildings in Kolkata

These didn’t make the current Top 10 by height, but they’re worth knowing, either for their history or how often people search for them.

Why Is Kolkata’s Skyline Growing Now?

Kolkata’s high-rise boom is newer than most people think. As recently as 2004, the city didn’t even have a residential high-rise. Everything before that was low-to-mid-rise commercial buildings in the Chowringhee business district.

None of this changes who holds the title of tallest building in Kolkata today, but it does explain why so many of the newer towers are clustered in Rajarhat and New Town rather than the historic core.

Two things changed that: rising land prices in the city’s core, and new townships opening up in areas like Rajarhat, New Town, and the EM Bypass corridor. Once developers had room to build big residential complexes on the city’s outskirts, towers followed quickly. If you’re tracking property rates in Kolkata, these are exactly the neighbourhoods where prices have moved the most over the last decade.

Today, Kolkata has close to 1,000 completed high-rise buildings, and several more under construction. That’s the second-highest number of high-rises of any city in India.

Wrapping Up

The 42 has held the title of tallest building in Kolkata since 2019, and at 260 metres, it isn’t close to being challenged by anything else in the city today. It’s also more than just a local record, it’s the tallest completed building anywhere in India outside Mumbai.

Kolkata’s skyline is still young compared to Mumbai’s, but it’s growing fast. Between the Urbana township, Forum Atmosphere, and the newer developments filling in Rajarhat and New Town, this list is likely to keep shifting over the next decade.

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