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title: "Steps to Km Calculator (and Miles) | City on Foot"
description: "Convert steps to km or miles, or a distance to steps, from your height or your own step length. See what 5,000, 7,500 and 10,000 steps add up to."
url: https://cityonfoot.me/steps-to-km/
---

[City on Foot](https://cityonfoot.me/) Steps to km

# Steps to km

How far did those steps take you? Turn a step count into kilometres or miles, or find how many steps a walk will be, from your height or your own step length.

## Measure your own step length

For a better answer than any formula, walk 20 ordinary steps on a pavement, measure the distance from where you started to the same heel at the end, and divide by 20. Choose **My own step length** and enter it.

## How this is worked out

Distance is steps × step length. Without a measurement, the step length comes from a widely used pedometer rule of thumb: about 41.3% of height for women and 41.5% for men (41.4% if you would rather not say). It is an average, so treat the answer as an estimate. Your own steps get shorter on hills, stairs and busy pavements.

## Questions

**How many steps are there in a kilometre or a mile?**

By the height rule, about 1,300 to 1,600 steps per kilometre and 2,000 to 2,600 per mile for adults between 150 and 190 cm tall. Taller people take fewer, longer steps.

**How far is 10,000 steps?**

About 7 km (4.4 miles) for someone 170 cm tall, around 6.2 km at 150 cm and 7.9 km at 190 cm. At an average walking pace that is roughly an hour and a half on your feet.

**Why does my phone show a different distance?**

Phones and watches estimate step length too, often from your height or from GPS, and step counters can miss or add steps. A measured step length entered here usually gets closest.

**Is stride length the same as step length?**

In pedometer settings, stride length usually means one step, from one heel to the other. Strictly, a stride is two steps. This page always uses one step.