At 5 km/h, 1 km takes 12 min and 1 mile takes 19 min. At a brisk 6.5, 9 min and 15 min.
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Walking time by pace and distance
Slow to brisk, across the distances people ask about. Every figure is distance divided by speed and nothing else.
| Pace | 1 km | 1 mile | 3 km | 3 miles | 5 km | 7.5 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 km/h | 20 min | 32 min | 1h 00m | 1h 37m | 1h 40m | 2h 30m |
| 3.5 km/h | 17 min | 28 min | 51 min | 1h 23m | 1h 26m | 2h 09m |
| 4 km/h | 15 min | 24 min | 45 min | 1h 12m | 1h 15m | 1h 53m |
| 4.5 km/h | 13 min | 21 min | 40 min | 1h 04m | 1h 07m | 1h 40m |
| 5 km/h | 12 min | 19 min | 36 min | 58 min | 1h 00m | 1h 30m |
| 5.5 km/h | 11 min | 18 min | 33 min | 53 min | 55 min | 1h 22m |
| 6 km/h | 10 min | 16 min | 30 min | 48 min | 50 min | 1h 15m |
| 6.5 km/h | 9 min | 15 min | 28 min | 45 min | 46 min | 1h 09m |
| 7 km/h | 9 min | 14 min | 26 min | 41 min | 43 min | 1h 04m |
There is no 10,000 steps row, and that is deliberate. Ten thousand steps is 6.5 km at a 65 cm stride and 8.5 km at 85 cm, a 2 km spread. Which stride is yours is not something we can tell you. Why a step count is a range covers it.
What counts as a "normal" walking pace
There is no single correct number, because pace depends on height, fitness, terrain and what you are doing while you walk. The plain description this site uses throughout: under 4.5 km/h is a slow walk, up to 6 a walk, up to 7 a brisk walk, and above that a jog.
The effort column is a plain description of the speed, not a claim about what it will do for anyone and not taken from a source. Where one person walks, another jogs. We have not measured anyone's walking pace. How we review.
Why this differs from what your phone tells you
A phone or watch estimates your pace from GPS and step data, and both are noisy over short distances, in traffic, indoors, or with a stride-length assumption that does not match you. The table above is pure arithmetic; your own device is a measurement, and a measurement of the real world is usually more accurate than an assumed average, not less.
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Corrections
- 19 September 2026 This page called 6 to 6.5 km/h "the pace most step-count guidance assumes". We could not find a source for that and have taken it out.
- 19 September 2026 The row speeds were attributed to "NHS/British Heart Foundation general guidance". We opened neither document and neither publishes this table, so the attribution has gone; the speed labels come from the one place on this site that names a speed.