The two highest leaps most people can name do not qualify for this list. Las Vegas will throw you 253 metres off the Strat, but on a guided descent cable rather than an elastic cord, and Colorado's Royal Gorge Bridge clears its river by 321 metres while only opening to jumpers at an invitational a few days a year. What is left runs from 370 metres down to 134, across nine countries and five continents. Two rules decide it. Every figure here is the height of the jump platform above the terrain or water below, the number the operator itself sells, so Austria's Kölnbreinsperre enters at its 165-metre jump rather than the 200-metre dam wall it hangs beside. And every entry has to be bookable by the public today, which is what keeps Romania's Vidraru dam out. Those two rules cost the countdown its most famous names, and they are why the fifteen below all count.
15 Highest Bungee Jumps in the World (2026)
The record The highest bungee jump in the world is the Balinghe Bridge Bungee, in China — 370.25 m (1,215 ft), jump height. Source: Guinness World Records. Verified .
Highest Bungee Jumps in the World The Ranking at a Glance
Fun Facts About the World's Highest Bungee Jumps
- The sport began as a stunt on the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol on 1 April 1979, when David Kirke and three fellow members of the Oxford University Dangerous Sports Club tied themselves to elastic rope and stepped off, 76 metres above the River Avon.
- They were copying a ritual: on Pentecost Island in Vanuatu, men dive from wooden towers 20 to 30 metres tall with tree vines lashed to their ankles, tied to the yam harvest. There is no elastic involved, and the practice long predates the sport it inspired.
- AJ Hackett jumped off the Eiffel Tower in June 1987 without permission, hiding on the structure overnight with his team and leaping at dawn. The publicity turned bungee from a prank into a business.
- The first commercial bungee site opened at the Kawarau Gorge Suspension Bridge near Queenstown in 1988 — the operation that eventually built the Nevis Bungy and the Macau Tower jump.
- Guinness World Records lists a separate outright record for the highest bungee jump of any kind: 4,632 metres, set by Curtis Rivers in 2002 from a hot-air balloon over Spain. He parachuted down after five bounces, which is why it does not compete with the fixed sites here.
1. Balinghe Bridge Bungee
At 370.25 metres, the jump from the Balinghe Bridge in Guizhou is the highest commercial bungee facility on earth, and Guinness World Records certified it at exactly that figure in January 2019. The deck carries an expressway across the Baling River gorge in southwest China, and the platform hangs beneath it with nothing between you and the water for the better part of four hundred metres. The freefall alone lasts about 8.7 seconds.
That duration is the part that separates Balinghe from everything below it. Most bungee jumps are over in four or five seconds, which is barely long enough to register what has happened; here the fall goes on long enough that jumpers describe watching the river genuinely grow beneath them. Guizhou's karst country is stacked with record-breaking bridges, and the province has been steadily turning its engineering into attractions, but this remains the one that tops the table.
2. Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Bungy
The 260-metre jump at Zhangjiajie hangs from a platform slung beneath the Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge, the 430-metre glass-bottomed walkway that spans a canyon roughly 300 metres deep in Hunan. It opened to walkers in 2016, and the bungee operation sits directly below the deck, which means the approach to the edge is made across a transparent floor before anything else happens.
The canyon it drops into belongs to the Wulingyuan scenic area, the quartz-sandstone pillar country that helped shape the look of the film Avatar. Sessions run through the middle of the day and stop when the weather turns, since heavy rain and wind close the platform. Of the three Chinese entries on this list, it is the one where the setting does as much work as the height.
3. Macau Tower Bungy
The 233-metre leap from the Macau Tower is the highest commercial bungy jump from a building anywhere, and it is the jump that made AJ Hackett a household name outside New Zealand. Jumpers step off an outer platform ringing the tower's observation level, above a city that is almost entirely reclaimed land and casino frontage.
What makes it distinct from a gorge jump is the guide cable system: because a tower has a solid wall to swing back into, the rig runs jumpers down a controlled line rather than letting them pendulum freely. It held the outright highest-bungee title for years before the Chinese canyon jumps arrived, and it is still the one that most reliably appears on lists of things to do in the city.
4. Kushma Bungee
At 228 metres above the Kali Gandaki gorge, the Kushma jump is the highest in Nepal and the highest anywhere outside China. The Cliff opened it in 2020 from a 520-metre suspension bridge strung between the Parbat and Baglung districts, built for the purpose rather than adapted from an existing crossing.
The gorge underneath is the draw. The Kali Gandaki cuts one of the deepest river valleys on the planet as it runs down between the Annapurna and Dhaulagiri massifs, so the drop is into genuine Himalayan terrain rather than a scenic notch. The same bridge carries a swing as well as the bungee, and the site sits close enough to Pokhara to be reached on a long day out.
5. Verzasca Dam Bungee
The 220-metre drop down the face of the Verzasca Dam in Ticino is the most cinematic jump in Europe, and the reason is unambiguous: it is the one Pierce Brosnan appears to make in the opening minutes of GoldenEye. The concrete arch, properly the Contra Dam, curves away beneath the platform so that jumpers fall alongside the wall rather than into open air.
The operation runs through the warmer half of the year and is weather-dependent, since the valley funnels wind. It is a short drive up from Locarno and Lake Maggiore, and the Verzasca valley below is better known to most Swiss visitors for its clear green swimming pools and its arched stone bridge than for anything involving elastic.
6. Bloukrans Bridge Bungy
Bloukrans Bridge sends jumpers 216 metres down towards the Bloukrans River, and it is the highest commercial bridge bungy in the world — a title it has held since Face Adrenalin began running the site in 1997. The bridge itself, a deck arch carrying the N2 across the gorge, opened in 1983, and the walk out to the platform along a catwalk beneath the roadway is part of the experience.
It sits on the Garden Route in the Tsitsikamma area, between the Eastern and Western Cape, which makes it the easiest of these jumps to slot into a wider road trip. It has also been the setting for a string of record attempts, the most memorable being Mohr Keet, who jumped in 2010 at the age of 96.
7. Skypark Sochi Bungy 207
The 207-metre jump at Skypark Sochi is the highest in Russia and among the highest in Europe, launching from the SkyBridge — a 439-metre pedestrian suspension bridge strung across the Akhshtyr gorge above the Mzymta river. The park was built as a joint venture with AJ Hackett International, and the bridge exists primarily to hold the attractions rather than to get anyone anywhere.
The setting is the wooded canyon country inland from the Black Sea coast, on the road up towards Krasnaya Polyana and the mountains that hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics. A shorter 69-metre jump runs from the same structure for anyone not ready to commit to the full drop, alongside a giant swing and a zip line across the gorge.
8. Europabrücke Bungy
The Europabrücke jump drops 192 metres from the Europa Bridge, the motorway viaduct that carries the Brenner route across the Wipp valley just south of Innsbruck. At 192 metres it is the highest bungee in Austria, and when the crossing opened in 1963 it was the highest bridge in Europe, a title it held for about a decade.
The outlook is pure Tyrol: forested valley walls, the Sill river threading the floor, and the Stubai and Zillertal ranges filling the horizon. Rupert Hirner's team has run the operation for decades and also holds the licence at the Kölnbreinsperre further east, which makes them the operator behind two of the four Alpine entries on this countdown.
9. Niouc Bridge Bungee
The 190-metre jump at Niouc goes off the Pont de l'Araignée — the spider bridge — a slender suspension span thrown across the mouth of the Val d'Anniviers in Valais. Bungy Niouc has operated here since 1997, and the freefall runs to roughly six and a half seconds before the cord begins to take the load.
The bridge crosses a narrow gorge where the Navisence river drops towards the Rhône valley, with the Valais Alps stacked up behind. It runs through the summer months only, which is standard for the Alpine jumps on this list, and the site is small enough that the walk from the road to the platform takes a couple of minutes.
10. Artuby Bridge Bungee
At 182 metres, the Pont de l'Artuby is the highest bungee in France and the most photographed jump in the Verdon. The bridge is a single graceful arch spanning the Artuby just before it meets the main gorge, and the drop is into limestone country that gets compared, not unreasonably, to a European Grand Canyon.
Latitude Challenge has been running jumps here since 1989 and has put well over a hundred thousand people off the edge. The Route des Crêtes and the gorge road bring a steady stream of drivers past the parapet, so unlike the Alpine dam jumps this one comes with an audience leaning over the railing on either side.
11. Valgadena Bridge Bungee
The 175-metre jump from the Ponte di Valgadena is the highest in Italy, launched from the country's tallest bridge where it links Foza and Enego across a wooded ravine on the Asiago plateau. The first rebound comes at around 130 metres, which gives the fall an unusually long second act.
The plateau is quiet, pine-covered upland in the province of Vicenza, and the bridge was inaugurated in 1990 as a straightforward piece of road infrastructure before the jumpers found it. It is the higher of Italy's two permanent sites, and the pairing of a 175-metre drop with a valley floor of forest rather than rock or water gives it a softer look than the Alpine entries above.
12. Kölnbreinsperre Bungy
The 165-metre jump at the Kölnbreinsperre is taken not from the dam crest but from a gondola suspended off a crane that reaches out over the wall, which puts jumpers in clear air the whole way down. The dam is the tallest in Austria at 200 metres, and the jump figure is the shorter drop the operator actually sells.
What sets it apart is where it sits: the Malta valley road climbs to just over 1,900 metres to reach the reservoir, deep in the Hohe Tauern, making this the highest-altitude site on the countdown. The Alpine road up is a destination in its own right, with hairpins, tunnels and a viewing platform cantilevered off the dam wall.
13. The Last Resort
The 160-metre drop into the Bhote Koshi gorge was Nepal's first bungee and remains its best known, run by The Last Resort from a suspension bridge built specifically to carry jumpers across the river. The lodge on the far side has been operating since 1998, reached by a walk over the same span that people later throw themselves off.
The setting is the steep, humid valley country of Sindhupalchok, a few hours east of Kathmandu on the Araniko highway towards the Tibetan border. Below the platform the Bhote Koshi runs fast and white, and the site pairs the jump with a swing and some of the more serious commercial rafting in the country.
14. Colossus Bridge Bungee
The 152-metre jump from the bridge nicknamed Colossus is where Italian bungee started: the Ponte della Pistolesa, near Veglio in the Biella foothills, has hosted the country's first permanent bungee centre since 1994. The bridge went up in 1973 and was among the highest in Europe when it did.
It spans the Poala stream in Piedmont, north of Turin and beneath the Biellese pre-Alps, and the low traffic across it is part of why the site works. Jumps here need booking several days ahead rather than turning up, and the operation's three decades of continuous running make it one of the most established on this list.
15. Nevis Bungy
At 134 metres, the Nevis is New Zealand's highest bungee and the last entry to clear our cut-off, but its reputation runs well ahead of its ranking. Jumpers ride a cable car out to a pod suspended on wires strung across the Nevis valley, so the platform itself is hanging in mid-air with no bridge, dam or tower under it at all. The freefall lasts around 8.5 seconds.
That suspended pod is the reason it belongs here despite being the shortest drop on the countdown. The Nevis river runs through empty tussock country in the ranges east of Queenstown, and AJ Hackett — who effectively invented commercial bungee in this part of Otago — built the site as the country's flagship. Every jump on this list traces back to what started a short drive away at the Kawarau bridge.
Higher Jumps Still to Come
One number keeps appearing in headlines about this subject, and it does not belong on the list above. When the Huajiang Canyon Bridge opened across a Guizhou gorge in September 2025, it took the title of the world's highest bridge, with 625 metres of air between its deck and the Beipan River. Reports quickly described a 625-metre bungee jump there, and the figure travelled a long way.
It does not survive a close look. The 625 metres is the height of the bridge, not of any jump taken from it. The attraction built into the deck is a rope-free leap into a safety net from a platform around 60 metres up, with the fall itself measured in tens of metres rather than hundreds — a different activity from anything on this countdown, which is why the bridge sits at the top of our highest bridges ranking and nowhere on this one. Its public opening was also held back while the safety of the rope-free design was assessed.
That is the normal condition of a record list like this one. Guizhou alone has produced two of the three highest jumps here, China's canyon country keeps building the structures that make new sites possible, and the gap between an announcement and a platform the public can book is often a year or more. When something genuinely clears 370 metres on an elastic cord, it will earn the top line.
FAQ: The World's Highest Bungee Jumps
What is the highest bungee jump in the world?
The Balinghe Bridge jump in Guizhou, China, at 370.25 metres. Guinness World Records certified it as the highest commercial bungee jump facility in January 2019, and nothing has displaced it since. The freefall runs to roughly 8.7 seconds, close to double what most high jumps deliver.
Is China's 625-metre Huajiang bridge jump the world's highest bungee?
No. The 625 metres is the height of the Huajiang Canyon Bridge itself, not of a jump. The attraction there is a rope-free drop into a safety net from a much lower platform, so it is not a bungee jump in the sense the rest of this list uses, and Balinghe keeps the record.
What is the highest bungee jump in Europe?
The Verzasca Dam in Ticino, Switzerland, at 220 metres — the jump from the GoldenEye opening sequence. Russia's Skypark Sochi is higher than every other site west of the Caucasus at 207 metres, and Austria's Europa Bridge leads the Alps proper at 192.
Is there a high bungee jump in the United States?
Not a permanent one at this scale. The Royal Gorge Bridge in Colorado stands 321 metres above its river but only opens to jumpers at an invitational event a few days a year, and Las Vegas offers a guided descent rather than an elastic cord. No American site qualifies for a list ranked on bookable jump height.
How long is the freefall on the world's highest bungee jumps?
Longer than most people expect, though not by as much as the heights suggest, because the cord starts taking load well before the bottom. Balinghe's 370-metre drop gives about 8.7 seconds of freefall and New Zealand's 134-metre Nevis around 8.5 — most jumps on this list land between four and seven.
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