# how many steps in a km? by height · Angel Step > A kilometer (1 km, 0.6 miles) is about 1,424 steps at 5′7″, 1,501 for an average US woman and 1,381 for a man — 12 min at 3 mph. By height and speed. Canonical: https://angelstep.app/steps-in-a-kilometer 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 kilometer? About 1,424 steps if you are 5′7″ (170 cm), walking a kilometer (1 km, 0.6 miles) at a comfortable pace — 1,501 at the average height of an adult woman in the US and 1,381 for a man. At 3 mph the walk takes 12 min. Angel StepCute Pedometer, Daily StepsFree · In-App Purchases · iPhone Scan with your iPhone camera ### Steps in a kilometer, by height Steps in 1 km by height, walking | height | steps | | 4′11″ · 150 cm | 1,614 | | 5′1″ · 155 cm | 1,562 | | 5′3″ · 160 cm | 1,513 | | 5′5″ · 165 cm | 1,467 | | 5′7″ · 170 cm | 1,424 | | 5′9″ · 175 cm | 1,384 | | 5′11″ · 180 cm | 1,345 | | 6′1″ · 185 cm | 1,309 | | 6′3″ · 190 cm | 1,274 | 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 kilometer takes, by speed Time to walk 1 km, and the cadence each speed means at 5′7″ | speed | time | cadence | | 2 mph | 19 min | 76 steps/min | | 3 mph | 12 min | 115 steps/min | | 3.5 mph | 11 min | 134 steps/min | | 4 mph | 9 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 kilometer. 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 1 mile · 5 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 a kilometer, counted for your height. a step counter that shows the count as one number, on a living sky.