How High Does Tears of the Kingdom’s Map Actually Go? We Found the Answer

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom builds upon an already massive Hyrule from Breath of the Wild to add a simply unbelievably large vertical scope from sky to ground…and beyond. Without loading screens, you can climb ridiculously high up and jump down into Hyrule from almost anywhere. So naturally, we had to figure out just how high it all goes. And we did.

There is, it turns out, an upper limit to the sky. It’s all the way up at +3300 on the Y axis (visible on the minimap in the bottom right corner of the screen). Unfortunately, you don’t get anything for reaching that high — just a message that says “You can’t go any farther.”

For context, “sea level” in Tears of the Kingdom is a flat 0, and the highest point on the map you can actually stand on without building is roughly just above 2600 meters. In contrast, the underground goes down roughly to as deep as roughly -1166, though we won’t tell you where this is — it’s a bit of a spoiler.

We tried the longest possible fall in Tears of the Kingdom

Just for fun, we tried to create the longest possible fall in Tears of the Kingdom with this information. We didn’t use a paraglider for this (except at the very end, to keep from dying), but we did use some special equipment that improved our diving abilities. Though it may be possible to do a longer one, we managed to jump from 3288, where our balloon hit the sky’s upper limit, all the way down through the Gerudo Summit Chasm to a depth of roughly -1130. It doesn’t seem possible to go all the way from the height limit of the map to the lowest possible depth, simply because there’s not a chasm close enough to make that work.

So no, there’s nothing truly incredible waiting at the upper limit of the sky, but it is fascinating to experiment with the lengths needed to actually get up there in the first place, as well as marvel at the sheer vertical scope of this absolutely massive game.

When you’re done practicing your dives off the Sky Islands, we’ve got all kinds of help with everything Tears of the Kingdom, including our Tears of the Kingdom Walkthrough and Guide about making your way through Hyrule. In fact, you can start here:

Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.