# how many steps in 3 miles? by height · Angel Step

> 3 miles is about 6,877 steps at 5′7″, 7,247 for an average US woman and 6,669 for a man — 1 h at 3 mph. By height and speed.

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how many steps are in 3 miles?

About 6,877 steps if you are 5′7″ (170 cm), walking at a comfortable pace — 7,247 at the average height of an adult woman in the US and 6,669 for a man. At 3 mph the walk takes 1 h.

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### Steps in 3 miles, by height

Steps in 3 miles by height, walking

| height | steps |
| 4′11″ · 150 cm | 7,793 |
| 5′1″ · 155 cm | 7,542 |
| 5′3″ · 160 cm | 7,306 |
| 5′5″ · 165 cm | 7,085 |
| 5′7″ · 170 cm | 6,877 |
| 5′9″ · 175 cm | 6,680 |
| 5′11″ · 180 cm | 6,495 |
| 6′1″ · 185 cm | 6,319 |
| 6′3″ · 190 cm | 6,153 |

Taller walkers take longer steps and so fewer of them; the table uses a step of 0.413 × height. The average adult woman in the US is 161.3 cm (63.5 in) and the average man 175.3 cm (69.0 in), by the CDC's 2015–2018 measurements.

### How long 3 miles takes, by speed

Time to walk 3 miles, and the cadence each speed means at 5′7″

| speed | time | cadence |
| 2 mph | 1 h 30 min | 76 steps/min |
| 3 mph | 1 h | 115 steps/min |
| 3.5 mph | 51 min | 134 steps/min |
| 4 mph | 45 min | 153 steps/min |

Time depends only on speed. The cadence column is how many steps a minute that speed takes at 5′7″ — about 100 a minute is where walking becomes moderate exercise, as steps per minute explains.

### Walking or running

These counts are for walking. Running steps are longer, so the same distance takes noticeably fewer of them; why the low figures you see quoted are usually running figures is on how many steps are in a mile.

### Other distances

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Angel Step, the step counter behind this site, shows today's count as one number on a living sky — the same count Apple Health keeps, with a widget for the home screen and the lock screen.

### Sources

- Step length ≈ 0.413 × height: the ratio behind steps in a mile and every calculator on this site.
- Average adult height in the US, 2015–2018: women 161.3 cm, men 175.3 cm — CDC, Anthropometric Reference Data (Vital Health Stat 3(46)), tables 9 and 11.

Updated 5 October 2026

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