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Walking Pace Calculator: Minutes per Kilometre and Speed
Calculate your average pace and speed from a measured distance and a duration. This describes the entered walk; it does not recommend a fitness target.
Formula: Pace (min/km) = minutes ÷ kilometres. Speed (km/h) = kilometres × 60 ÷ minutes.
Worked example: Walking 5 km in 65 minutes gives 13 min/km and an average speed of about 4.615 km/h.
Enter positive kilometres and decimal minutes. For 1 h 5 min, enter 65 minutes. Choose elapsed or moving time consistently.
Method, examples and limits
Pace and speed run in opposite directions
A smaller minutes-per-kilometre figure means covering each kilometre in less time. At 12 min/km, speed is 5 km/h; at 15 min/km, speed is 4 km/h. Compare like units rather than assuming a larger pace number means a faster walk.
Separate moving time from elapsed time
A 5 km walk with 60 minutes moving and a 10-minute stop has a moving pace of 12 min/km, but an elapsed pace of 14 min/km. Enter 60 or 70 according to the question you want answered. This calculator cannot detect breaks from a distance and duration alone.
Do not average split paces blindly
Suppose the first kilometre takes 10 minutes and the next two take 30 minutes. The total is 3 km in 40 minutes, so overall pace is 13 min 20 s/km. Averaging 10 and 15 gives 12.5, which incorrectly gives the unequal distances equal weight.
Allow for measurement and rounding
GPS distance, route changes and timer choices affect the answer. The clock-style pace rounds to the nearest second, while decimal pace and speed retain more digits. This is not a calorie estimate, a medical assessment or a prediction of how quickly you can complete a different route.
Reference (English): NIST: time-unit definitions
Maintained by: Muhammad Bhutto · 2026-10-21 · Methodology · Report an error