How long does it take to walk 2 miles?
About 40 minutes at a normal walking pace, half an hour at a brisk one, closer to 50 at a stroll. Two miles is the classic daily walk, and the one most guidelines are quietly describing. Here it is by pace, age, steps and calories.
The numbers
3.2 km · 2.0 miles, in steps
| A child, 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) | about 6,500 steps |
| 1.6 m (5 ft 3 in) | about 4,900 steps |
| 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in), the average adult | about 4,600 steps |
| 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) | about 4,300 steps |
| 1.9 m (6 ft 3 in) | about 4,100 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 | 48 min |
| A normal walk, 5 km/h | 39 min |
| A brisk walk, 6 km/h | 32 min |
Walking without stops, on level ground.
Calories, by body weight
| 55 kg (121 lb) | about 113 kcal (150 incl. resting) |
| 70 kg (154 lb) | about 144 kcal (191 incl. resting) |
| 85 kg (187 lb) | about 174 kcal (232 incl. resting) |
| 100 kg (220 lb) | about 205 kcal (273 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 2 miles?
Try your own distance
Steps
about 4,600
4,100 to 5,000 depending on your stride, about 0.70 m a step at this height.
Distance
3.2 km · 2.0 miles
Time on foot
39 min
at 5 km/h, no stops
Calories
Depends on your weight more than anything else. Enter it to see an estimate.
That is 1/20 of the way to Everest Base Camp.
How long does it take to walk 2 miles?
About 39 minutes at a normal pace of 5 km/h (3.1 mph), 32 minutes at a brisk 6 km/h, 48 at a stroll of 4 km/h, on level ground without stops. Two miles is 3.2 km, and it is roughly what 30 minutes of “moderate activity” a day comes to on foot, which is the figure behind the 150 minutes a week that the WHO and the CDC recommend.
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 2 miles?
About 4,600 for an adult of average height, from about 4,100 at 1.9 m to 4,900 at 1.6 m, since a walking step is about 41% of your height.
How many calories does walking 2 miles burn?
About 145 kcal for a 70 kg (154 lb) adult at a normal pace, from roughly 115 kcal at 55 kg (121 lb) to 205 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 2 miles, counted toward somewhere
2 miles is 1/20 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 2 miles a day gets you from Lukla to Base Camp in about 18 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 · WHO guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour, 2020