How high do passenger jets fly?
11,000 mAbout 36,089 ft · Land-sized
About 11 km (35,000 to 36,000 feet).
A red kangaroo would need about 1,400 hops (8 m each) to cover it.
✈️11,000 m
☄️Meteor Crater
To scale: a jet's cruising height is about 9.2× bigger than Meteor Crater.
Things about the same size
- How tall is K2?8,611 m
- How tall is Mount Everest?8,849 m
- How wide was the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs?10,000 m
- How tall is Mauna Kea, measured from the sea floor?10,210 m
- How deep is the Challenger Deep, the deepest point of the ocean?10,935 m
- How deep is the Kola Superdeep Borehole?12,262 m
- How wide is the Strait of Gibraltar at its narrowest?14,300 m
- How wide is the nucleus of Halley's Comet?15,000 m
Many real things vary in size, so we use a typical or official figure. Spotted a mistake? Email [email protected].