How long does it take to walk 10 miles?
A little over three hours at a normal walking pace, two and three quarters at a brisk one, four hours at a stroll, and none of those include the stops you will want. Ten miles is 16 km, a proper day out. Here it is by pace, age, steps and calories.
The numbers
16.1 km · 10.0 miles, in steps
| A child, 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) | about 32,400 steps |
| 1.6 m (5 ft 3 in) | about 24,300 steps |
| 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in), the average adult | about 22,900 steps |
| 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) | about 21,600 steps |
| 1.9 m (6 ft 3 in) | about 20,500 steps |
| A giraffe, 5.5 m (18 ft) | no idea, sorry |
Step length is about 41% of height. Give or take 10% for how you walk.
How long it takes to walk
| A stroll, 4 km/h | 4 h 1 min |
| A normal walk, 5 km/h | 3 h 13 min |
| A brisk walk, 6 km/h | 2 h 41 min |
Walking without stops, on level ground.
Calories, by body weight
| 55 kg (121 lb) | about 564 kcal (750 incl. resting) |
| 70 kg (154 lb) | about 718 kcal (955 incl. resting) |
| 85 kg (187 lb) | about 872 kcal (1,159 incl. resting) |
| 100 kg (220 lb) | about 1,026 kcal (1,364 incl. resting) |
The walk's own cost at 5 km/h. The second number adds what you would have burned sitting still, which is what some fitness trackers show.
Steps by height: How many steps is 10 miles?
Try your own distance
Steps
about 22,900
20,600 to 25,200 depending on your stride, about 0.70 m a step at this height.
Distance
16.1 km · 10.0 miles
Time on foot
3 h 13 min
at 5 km/h, no stops
Calories
Depends on your weight more than anything else. Enter it to see an estimate.
That is 1/4 of the way to Everest Base Camp.
How long does it take to walk 10 miles?
About 3 hours and 13 minutes at a normal pace of 5 km/h (3.1 mph), 2 hours 41 at a brisk 6 km/h, 4 hours at a stroll of 4 km/h. Those are level-ground figures without a single stop, and over ten miles nobody walks without stopping, so plan on four hours and a sit-down. Ten miles is 16.1 km, which is the daily distance of a walking holiday and a little under a day on the Everest Base Camp trek.
Does age change it?
Yes, but less than people expect. A meta-analysis of 41 studies and 23,111 healthy adults measured normal walking speed by decade: the fastest group, men in their forties, averaged 1.43 m/s, which is a mile in about 19 minutes, and the slowest, women over eighty, averaged 0.94 m/s, about 28 minutes a mile. Everyone in between is within that band, and the decline is gradual through the sixties and seventies. A healthy walker of any age covers a mile in 18 to 28 minutes.
How many steps is 10 miles?
About 22,900 for an adult of average height, from about 20,500 at 1.9 m to 24,300 at 1.6 m. That is far beyond any daily target in the step research, and the research found no level at which more became worse. The cost of ten miles is time and feet, not health.
How many calories does walking 10 miles burn?
About 720 kcal for a 70 kg (154 lb) adult at a normal pace, from roughly 565 kcal at 55 kg (121 lb) to 1025 kcal at 100 kg (220 lb). Weight decides most of it, pace barely matters between 4 and 6 km/h on the flat, and that is the walk’s own cost above sitting still. Some fitness trackers add the resting share and come out about a third higher.
The same 10 miles, counted toward somewhere
10 miles is 1/4 of the way to Everest Base Camp. Walk it every day and reTrek turns the repetition into a journey: pick a route, Everest Base Camp is free, and 10 miles a day gets you from Lukla to Base Camp in about 4 days, with a short film about the place waiting at each milestone. Something to look forward to. Progress you can see on the map every evening.
Someone who notices is the third part. Walk the same route with a friend and pool your steps, or race them to Base Camp and find out which of you skips fewer evenings.
Other distances
Sources: Normal walking speed, a descriptive meta-analysis, Bohannon and Williams Andrews, Physiotherapy, 2011 · Energy expenditure during level human walking, Ludlow and Weyand, Journal of Applied Physiology, 2016 · The association between daily step count and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 2023