The list of the world’s highest bungy jumps has changed more in the last two years than in the previous twenty. A run of enormous bridge projects in China has rewritten the top of the table, and several sites that held records for decades have quietly moved down it.

Here is where things stand, ranked by the height of the jump itself rather than the height of the structure.

1. Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, China

Around 625 metres. The bridge opened to traffic in Guizhou province in September 2025 and is the highest bridge in the world by a considerable margin. The bungy operation from it is in a category of its own, and the site also offers a glass viewing hall, an edge walkway and a cafe on top of a pylon more than 800 metres above the canyon floor.

It is a genuinely extraordinary structure. It is also extremely remote, which is worth knowing before you plan a trip around it.

2. Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge, China

260 metres. The jump goes from a glass floored bridge spanning a canyon in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in Hunan, the landscape that inspired the floating mountains in Avatar. Until the Guizhou bridge arrived, this held the title of the world’s highest commercial bungy.

3. Macau Tower, Macau

233 metres. For most of the 2000s and 2010s this was the answer to the question. Operated by AJ Hackett, it is a jump from a platform on the side of a tower into a city, which makes it visually unlike anything else on this list. A guide wire keeps jumpers clear of the building.

4. Verzasca Dam, Switzerland

220 metres. Better known as the Contra Dam, and better known still as the jump in the opening sequence of GoldenEye. A concrete wall in the Ticino valley with nothing but a straight drop below it. Arguably the most cinematic jump in the world, and the one with the strongest sense of falling down a flat surface rather than into open space.

5. Bloukrans Bridge, South Africa

216 metres. The highest bungy jump in Africa, the highest in the Southern Hemisphere, and the highest commercial jump anywhere outside China and Switzerland.

Bloukrans has been running since December 1997, which makes it one of the longest continuously operating high jumps in the world, and it has done so with a 100% safety record. Six Guinness World Records have been set from the bridge, including the oldest person to bungy jump, set by Mohr Keet at the age of 96, and 19 jumps in a single hour by Veronica Dean.

What separates it from everything above it on this list is what surrounds it. The bridge sits on the N2 in the middle of the Garden Route, so it is a stop rather than an expedition, and the jump is only one of three things you can do there. The SkyWalk takes you out under the arch to the centre of the span, and the Zipline runs 200 metres back across the gorge. No other site in the top five offers all three from the same structure.

6. Europabrucke, Austria

Roughly 190 metres from a motorway bridge in the Wipp valley near Innsbruck, with the Alps on either side. It operates on limited dates rather than daily, so it needs planning.

7. Niouc Bridge, Switzerland

Around 190 metres from a suspension bridge in the Val d’Anniviers. Smaller operation, spectacular alpine setting, and a jump with a reputation among people who chase these things.

8. Nevis Bungy, New Zealand

134 metres from a pod suspended on cables over a canyon near Queenstown. New Zealand is where commercial bungy began, and the Nevis remains the country’s highest. The freefall is long enough that the pod itself becomes part of the story.

9. Victoria Falls Bridge, Zambia and Zimbabwe

111 metres into the Batoka Gorge from the bridge on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, with the spray of the falls upstream. Africa’s second highest jump, and one of the most dramatic settings anywhere.

10. Kawarau Bridge, New Zealand

43 metres, and the most historically important jump on this list. This is where AJ Hackett opened the world’s first commercial bungy operation in 1988, an event you can trace through the company timeline. Every other entry here exists because this one worked.

Does height actually matter

Less than you would think, and this is worth saying honestly.

Past roughly 150 metres, the difference is not something your body registers in the way the numbers suggest. Freefall time increases, but the experience of stepping off is essentially the same at 216 metres as at 260. What actually changes the experience is the setting, the length of the walk out, and what you can see while you fall.

Which is a long way of saying that chasing the number is not the point. The best jump is the one you will actually get to, at a site that has been doing it long enough to do it properly.

Jumping at Bloukrans

If the Garden Route is anywhere on your list, the bridge is on the way. Read more about the six world records set here, or about how the site operates.

Most people book the Full Adventure Package rather than the jump on its own. It puts the bungy, the SkyWalk and the Zipline into one visit, and it is the only way to experience the whole bridge rather than one piece of it.