Gutzlaff Signal Tower
The Gutzlaff Signal Tower, also known as the Bund Weather Tower, is a landmark on Shanghai’s Bund. Standing about 36.8 meters tall (49.8 meters to the top), it was built in 1907 for the Shanghai Reinforced Concrete Company and designed in Beaux-Arts style. Its original job was to provide weather information to ships on the Huangpu River and to issue typhoon warnings.
A signal station first appeared in the Bund area in 1865, built by the French, and was rebuilt in 1884 to support the Zikawei Observatory’s weather forecasts. The 1907 tower was named after Karl Gützlaff and signaled weather five times a day, plus emergency flag signals during storms. Its operation ended in 1956. The tower was moved 22.4 meters to its current location in 1993 and reconstructed in 1999. Today, the ground floor houses a Bund history museum, and the first floor hosts a cafe.
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 05:52 (CET).