How many steps in a mile?

About 2,300 steps, for an adult of average height walking normally. A shorter adult takes about 2,500, a tall one about 2,050, because a walking step is roughly 41% of your height: 0.70 m for someone 1.7 m tall, so 1,609 m of mile takes 2,300 of them.

Steps

Who is walking?

Height: 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)

Pace

Your weight, for calories (optional)

Distance

7.0 km · 4.4 miles

6.3 to 7.7 km depending on your stride, about 0.70 m a step at this height, give or take 10%.

Time on foot

1 h 24 min

at 5 km/h, no stops

Calories

Depends on your weight more than anything else. Enter it to see an estimate.

On a reTrek route

That is 1/8 of the way to Everest Base Camp.

Steps in a mile, by height

Height	Step length	Steps per mile	Steps per km
1.5 m	0.62 m	2,600	1,610
1.6 m	0.66 m	2,450	1,510
1.7 m	0.70 m	2,300	1,420
1.8 m	0.75 m	2,150	1,340
1.9 m	0.79 m	2,050	1,270
2.0 m	0.83 m	1,950	1,210

The 41% figure comes from a one-mile step-count study of about a thousand adults, and it holds to about 5% on average. Your own stride can sit 10 to 15% either side of it, and everyone takes longer steps when they walk faster. If you want your own number, count your steps over a known 100 m and divide.

A hiker's boot mid-stride on a grassy hilltop path, seen from ground level against the sun

How many steps is half a mile?

About 1,150 for an adult of average height, from about 1,000 for someone 1.9 m tall to 1,250 at 1.55 m. Half a mile is 805 m, about ten minutes of walking at a normal pace.

How many steps in a kilometre?

About 1,420 for an adult of average height, from about 1,270 for someone 1.9 m tall to 1,610 at 1.5 m. The right-hand column of the table above has the figure for each height. A kilometre is 0.62 miles, so the steps-per-kilometre number is always about 62% of the steps-per-mile one. The figure for every height in centimetres is on how many steps in a km, and each common distance has its own page: 2 km, 3 km, 4 km, 5 km, 6 km and 10 km.

How many steps is 2, 3, 5 or 10 miles?

Multiply the steps in a mile by the miles. Each distance has its own page, with the steps for every height in feet and inches:

Step counts, one page each

How far each is, how long it takes, what it burns, and whether it is enough for a day. For the day itself, start with how many steps a day is good.

The same counts in kilometres, for readers who walk in km: 5,000, 6,000, 7,000, 8,000, 10,000, 12,000, 15,000, 20,000, 30,000.

Race distances, in miles, km and steps

How far a 5k, a 10k, a half marathon and a marathon are, how many steps each takes, and how long they take to walk. All of them on one table, or one page each:

How long does it take to walk a distance?

By pace and by age, with the steps and the calories for each.