# How far do you walk in a day? How fast do you walk? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 5, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-walk-in-a-day-how-fast-do-you-walk/466507 "2008-10-05T01:04:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-walk-in-a-day-how-fast-do-you-walk/466507/21 "2008-10-08T12:03:40Z")
I’m not going to pad my figure by counting up the running and exercise stuff I do. I walk pretty fast, about 6 km/hr, (3.7 m/hr). I walk to work, which is very close by, so about 2 km every day at least, plus a decent amount of walking around at work. I also tend to walk to the store instead of drive, unless the near place doesn’t have what I need. In the countryside you tend to need to drive more. It’s a huge pain in the ass to live here without a car; I know, I didn’t have one for almost a year. If I’ve gone down to Tokyo I’ll walk a lot more, several kilometers to and from various places. Probably comes out to an average of only a mile or three on a daily basis. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-walk-in-a-day-how-fast-do-you-walk/466507/22 "2008-10-17T19:45:11Z")
Hm. Turns out I actually walk closer to 4 mph. It’s a mile to Pioneer Square and it took me 17 minutes, including waiting for crossing signals. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-walk-in-a-day-how-fast-do-you-walk/466507.md?page=1)