Higher floors are quieter?

[abbby]

Are higher floor apartments quieter despite facing the roads? ie: 30th, 40th floors?

[Max Headroom]

Comparing a low floor to a high floor, in my experience the high floor is noisier traffic-wise. Not sure of the science behind it, but perhaps having the length of the building below, all the lower floors, are like a partial funnel, similar to cupping your hand behind your ear. Whatever the reason, that higher floor was clearly noisier.

[abbby]

Thanks!

[bgd]

It's worth researching. An engineer once explained to me, and the details I no longer recall, that different floors have different noise levels. It wasn't obvious either, e.g. floor 8 might be quiet but 14 noisy.

I lived on the 31st floor when I first moved here. Traffic wasn't an issue, but those jolly toads don't half make a racket - the toads were at ground level.

[SGBoyxxx]

In Singapore might due to reflection of the noise bouncing off , as you can see in Singapore the Public housing and condos are build quite close to one another. The Most Epic times I was at this Cinema at City hall area, forget the name of it. No doubt, I'm a Singaporean. I don't always recall all those local cinema names , street names etc. I only recall , familiar is by looking.

I was standing there having a smoke break , the cars pass by the roads .I can heard the noise reflection directly bouncing off from the condo behind me.

I stay in HDB , mid level. There is a main road beside. Yes at night while I sleeping can heard car noise but used to it is not so dam noisy till you can't sleep at all.