Ranking
The largest cinema screens
Every “world’s biggest screen” list measures the fabric. That is the number cinemas publish, and it is not the number you watch. A screen only shows you the part the projector lights, and the two rankings are not the same list.
By screen
width × height of the fabric
- 1Traumpalast Leonberg IMAX815 m²
- 2IMAX Melbourne736 m²
- 3AMC Lincoln Square 13 IMAX708 m²
- 4IMAX Sydney (Darling Harbour)696 m²
- 5CGV Yongsan I'Park Mall IMAX694 m²
- 6AMC Metreon 16 IMAX685 m²
- 7Cinema Cineplex IMAX aux Galeries de la Capitale·646 m²
- 8Guangdong Science Center638 m²
- 9SM Mall of Asia IMAX·638 m²
- 10Liaoning Science and Technology Museum IMAX GT638 m²
- 11Keong Emas IMAX Theatre630 m²
- 12Dongguan Wanda & IMAX626 m²
· in this ranking only
By lit picture
the part the projector actually lights
- 1Traumpalast Leonberg IMAX792 m²
- 2IMAX Melbourne716 m²
- 3CGV Yongsan I'Park Mall IMAX672 m²
- 4AMC Lincoln Square 13 IMAX663 m²
- 5AMC Metreon 16 IMAX621 m²
- 6Keong Emas IMAX Theatre600 m²
- 7IMAX Sydney (Darling Harbour)588 m²
- 8Gujarat Science City·588 m²
- 9Guangdong Science Center588 m²
- 10Shandong Science & Technology Museum·588 m²
- 11Liaoning Science and Technology Museum IMAX GT588 m²
- 12Dongguan Wanda & IMAX572 m²
· in this ranking only
What the difference costs
2 rooms are in the top 12 by fabric and not by picture — Cinema Cineplex IMAX aux Galeries de la Capitale, SM Mall of Asia IMAX. The screen is there; the projector never fills it.
Going the other way, Gujarat Science City, Shandong Science & Technology Museum show more picture than rooms with more screen, because they waste almost none of it.
A 1.43:1 room lights nearly all of its screen. A 1.90 room showing a 2.39 film leaves a fifth of it dark and the ranking does not notice. The worked example is two Glasgow cinemas about three miles apart where one has 40% more screen and shows an almost identical picture.
Ranked from the 1,406 premium screens of any format whose width and height we hold, out of 2,707 open today · data reconciled 2026-11-05 · How the areas are worked out