# how long does it take to walk a mile? · Angel Step > About 23 minutes at an everyday pace if you are 170 cm tall. Walking time for any distance from your height and pace, and what the speed studies measured. Canonical: https://angelstep.app/walking-time Language: en Updated: 2026-09-30 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. --- About 23 minutes at an everyday pace, if you are 170 cm tall — 29 at a stroll and 18 brisk. At the same pace a taller walker is a little quicker, because each step is longer: about 21 minutes at 185 cm. The calculator below works out any distance, and the table under it has the distances people ask about most. Angel StepCute Pedometer, Daily StepsFree · In-App Purchases · iPhone Scan with your iPhone camera ### Work it out for your walk 170 cm · 5′7″ 23 min 2,292 steps · 2.6 mph · 4.2 km/h ### Walking time for common distances At 170 cm, for the three paces every calculator on this site uses: a stroll at 80 steps a minute, everyday at 100 and brisk at 130. Walking 5 km is about 7,121 steps at that height. Time to walk common distances at 170 cm, by pace | distance | stroll | everyday | brisk | | 1 mile | 29 min | 23 min | 18 min | | 2 miles | 57 min | 46 min | 35 min | | 3 miles | 1 h 26 min | 1 h 9 min | 53 min | | 5 miles | 2 h 23 min | 1 h 55 min | 1 h 28 min | | 5 km | 1 h 29 min | 1 h 11 min | 55 min | | 10 km | 2 h 58 min | 2 h 22 min | 1 h 50 min | ### Is a mile a 20-minute walk? Only at 3 mph. For someone 170 cm tall, 3 mph works out to about 115 steps a minute — quicker than an everyday pace of 100 and slower than a brisk 130. Speed is steps a minute times step length, so the same speed asks a shorter walker for more steps. The whole speed table by height is on steps per minute, as mph and km/h. ### What is a normal walking speed? There is no single figure, because it depends where it is measured. On a short lab walkway, healthy adults aged 20 to 79 walked at a comfortable 127.2 to 146.2 centimeters a second — from women in their seventies to men in their forties. Everyday walking is slower: wrist sensors worn by 92,022 adults aged 45 to 79 in the UK Biobank put usual walking at 1.15 meters a second, at a median of about 101 steps a minute. This page's everyday pace — 100 steps a minute at 170 cm — comes to 1.17 meters a second, close to that everyday figure rather than the lab one. That is why it is the pace every answer here leads with. ### Do taller people walk faster? At the same pace, yes: a taller walker's step is longer, so 100 steps a minute is about 4.2 km/h at 170 cm and 4.6 km/h at 185 cm. Whether taller people choose a quicker pace is a weaker link. In a national survey of US adults over 50, height was one of several predictors of walking speed, alongside age, sex and leg strength; in another study, cadence was not associated with height at all. ### Why the stroll and brisk times are estimates Real steps are not one fixed length. In a lab study, men in their twenties took steps of about 53 cm walking slowly, 62 cm at a normal pace and 71 cm walking fast. The formula here keeps one step length, 0.413 × height, for every pace — so the stroll time is probably a little quick and the brisk time a little slow. The everyday figure is the one the measurements back. ### What counts as brisk walking? The US Physical Activity Guidelines give walking briskly as 2.5 miles per hour or faster — about 96 steps a minute for someone 170 cm tall. Crossing signals use a different kind of number: the US manual for traffic signals times the walk for 3.5 feet per second, a design speed that leaves room for slower walkers rather than an average of anyone. These are estimates for planning a walk, not measurements of one. Nothing here is medical advice. ### Sources - Bohannon (1997) — comfortable and maximum walking speed of healthy adults aged 20 to 79, timed over a 7.62 m walkway. Europe PMC - Chan et al. (2024) — usual and maximal walking speed and cadence from wrist sensors in 92,022 UK Biobank adults aged 45 to 79. PMC - Öberg, Karsznia and Öberg (1993) — step length, cadence and speed at slow, normal and fast walking, by age. VA Rehabilitation R&D - Bohannon (2008) — walking speed of US adults over 50 in a national survey, and what predicts it. Europe PMC - Samson et al. (2001) — gait at a preferred speed; cadence was not associated with height. Europe PMC - US Department of Health and Human Services (2018) — Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, 2nd edition. HHS - Federal Highway Administration — Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, section 4E.06, pedestrian intervals. FHWA Updated 30 September 2026 a walk takes as long as it takes. Angel Step reads the steps from Apple Health, however long the walk took.