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.
A reason to walk today
Most of us know we should walk more and still skip it, because “go for a walk” has no finish line. reTrek gives you one: pick a famous route, like the Camino de Santiago or the Inca Trail, and every walk moves you further along it, with a short film about the place waiting at each milestone. You stop looking for a spare moment to walk and start walking to reach the next milestone.
At 3.2 km (2.0 miles) a day, Lukla to Everest Base Camp takes about 18 days. Walk it with a friend and pool your steps, or race them there. Everest Base Camp is free. Get reTrek.
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