# how many steps in a 5K (5 km)? by height · Angel Step > A 5K (5 km, 3.1 miles) is about 7,121 steps at 5′7″, 7,506 for an average US woman and 6,906 for a man — 1 h 2 min at 3 mph. By height and speed. Canonical: https://angelstep.app/steps-in-5-km Language: en Updated: 2026-10-05 Whole site in one file: https://angelstep.app/llms-full.txt This file is the markdown twin of the page at the canonical address above: the same words, without markup. Cite the canonical address, not this file. --- how many steps are in a 5K? About 7,121 steps if you are 5′7″ (170 cm), walking a 5K (5 km, 3.1 miles) at a comfortable pace — 7,506 at the average height of an adult woman in the US and 6,906 for a man. At 3 mph the walk takes 1 h 2 min. Angel StepCute Pedometer, Daily StepsFree · In-App Purchases · iPhone Scan with your iPhone camera ### Steps in a 5K, by height Steps in 5 km by height, walking | height | steps | | 4′11″ · 150 cm | 8,071 | | 5′1″ · 155 cm | 7,811 | | 5′3″ · 160 cm | 7,567 | | 5′5″ · 165 cm | 7,337 | | 5′7″ · 170 cm | 7,121 | | 5′9″ · 175 cm | 6,918 | | 5′11″ · 180 cm | 6,726 | | 6′1″ · 185 cm | 6,544 | | 6′3″ · 190 cm | 6,372 | 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 a 5K takes, by speed Time to walk 5 km, and the cadence each speed means at 5′7″ | speed | time | cadence | | 2 mph | 1 h 33 min | 76 steps/min | | 3 mph | 1 h 2 min | 115 steps/min | | 3.5 mph | 53 min | 134 steps/min | | 4 mph | 47 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 a 5K. Running steps are longer, so a race 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 1 mile · 1 km · 10 km · 2 miles · 3 miles · 4 miles · 5 miles · 6 miles · 10 miles 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 5 km is a real walk. a step counter that shows the count as one number, on a living sky.