How common is it for skyscrapers and residental towers to skip the thirteenth floor?

I worked in a building on the 13th floor. No skipping here.

It is, nonetheless, common to skip the 13th floor. Especially hospitals. Often it is a skip in numbers but sometimes the thirteenth floor is maintenance and storage or offices.

Superstition is a false belief but phobias also exist—people may know their fear is irrational but it bothers them anyway. Someone with harmless spiders in their yard may fear spiders and have them exterminated, in a similar vein, even though they are beneficial in insect control

Superstition or phobia, its hard to believe in this day and age but thirteen is still problematic for enough people that buildings are sometimes planned accordingly

I actually can’t recall ever being in a building or an elevator where the 13th floor was listed. I’m going to start REALLY paying attention.

The thing is when they skip the 13th floor, then the 14th floor is the 13th floor.

Some hotels and tall buildings make the 13th floor the gym, pool, or some other designation that is not residential apartments or hotel rooms, but rather amenities for the building.

I think it’s pretty common in NYC to not have a 13th floor. I don’t know the statistics. I’ll have to pay better attention next time I’m there.

I haven’t lived in a place with tall buildings in a long while. My husband’s work building in TN might have been that tall? I’m not sure. I’ll ask him and get an answer to you if there was a 13th floor.

I can’t recall being in a building where the 13th floor was skipped. However, I asked my husband and he said he has and it used to be quite common. So perhaps it is more common in older hotels and buildings. I will keep an eye out in hotels and buildings I frequent in future.

In Asian countries they tend to skip the 4th floor, and sometimes both 4th and 13th for international hotel. I even heard that they skip 4th room, not sure about 13th and 666th, though.

In reality, it’s plain foolishness. Some cultures consider the lowest floor to be the 1st floor, while Western culture can have as many layer of basement floors under the floor they decided as the 1st. Imagine to count it differently and then apply the superstition.

I can’t think of any buildings big enough to have a thirteenth floor within a two hour drive

I have worked in both kinds of buildings.

Don’t know.
Good question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_floor

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/02/skipping-the-13th-floor/385448/