How many steps is 6 miles?
About 13,700 steps for an adult of average height, from about 12,100 at 6 ft 4 in to 15,800 at 4 ft 10 in. Six miles is almost exactly a 10k race, and a 10,000-step day for anyone.
The numbers
Steps in 6 miles, by height
| 4 ft 10 in (1.47 m) | about 15,800 steps |
| 5 ft (1.52 m) | about 15,300 steps |
| 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) | about 14,800 steps |
| 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) | about 14,300 steps |
| 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | about 13,900 steps |
| 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | about 13,500 steps |
| 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | about 13,100 steps |
| 6 ft (1.83 m) | about 12,800 steps |
| 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | about 12,400 steps |
| 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | about 12,100 steps |
Step length is about 41% of height. Give or take 10% for how you walk.
For the average American woman and man (according to the CDC)
| A woman, 5 ft 3.5 in | about 14,500 steps |
| A man, 5 ft 8.9 in | about 13,300 steps |
Average heights of US adults, from the CDC. A woman's step is almost the same share of her height as a man's, so the gap comes from height.
Against a daily step count
| A 5,000-step day | 274% of it |
| A 7,000-step day | 196% of it |
| A 10,000-step day | 137% of it |
For an adult of average height, walking only this distance.
On a reTrek route
9.7 km is 1/6 of the way to Everest Base Camp. At that distance a day, the whole route takes about 6 days.
About the Everest Base Camp routeTry your own distance
Steps
about 13,700
12,300 to 15,100 depending on your stride, about 0.70 m a step at this height.
Distance
9.7 km · 6.0 miles
Time on foot
1 h 56 min
at 5 km/h, no stops
Calories
Depends on your weight more than anything else. Enter it to see an estimate.
That is 1/6 of the way to Everest Base Camp.
How many steps is 6 miles?
About 13,700 for an adult 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) tall. Six miles is 9,656 m, and a walking step is roughly 41% of your height, about 0.70 m for that adult. The average American woman (according to the CDC), at 5 ft 3.5 in, takes about 14,500, and the average American man, just under 5 ft 9 in, about 13,300. Even at 6 ft 4 in it is over 12,000.
Six miles is almost a 10k
A 10k race is 6.21 miles, so six miles is a 10k minus about 340 m, a few hundred steps. If you have walked a 10k, you have walked six miles and a bit: about 14,200 steps for the full race distance. How many miles is a 10k has the race in miles, km and time.
It also leaves a 10,000-step day far behind. Ten thousand steps is about 4.4 miles for an adult of average height, so six miles clears it by more than a mile and a half, at every height on the table.
Six miles a day, counted toward somewhere
In reTrek those 13,700 steps become distance on a real trail. Pick a route, Everest Base Camp is free, and six miles a day carries you from Lukla to Base Camp in about 6 days, with a short film about the place waiting at each milestone. Something to look forward to, and progress you can see on the map every evening.
Or take someone with you: walk the same route with a friend and pool your steps, or race each other to Base Camp.
Other distances in steps
Sources: One-mile step count at walking and running speeds, Hoeger et al., ACSM's Health and Fitness Journal, 2008 · Body measurements, average height of US adults, CDC FastStats (NHANES August 2021 to August 2023)