Health & Fitness Calculators

Calories to Steps Calculator

Enter a calorie target and your body weight to estimate how many steps you'd need to walk to burn it.

6,000 steps

Uses a common approximation of about 0.05 calories burned per step for a 180lb person, scaled by your body weight — actual calorie burn per step varies with pace, incline, and individual metabolism.

How to use this tool

  1. 1Enter your calorie burn target.
  2. 2Enter your body weight.
  3. 3See the estimated number of steps needed.

Frequently asked questions

How is this different from the steps-to-calories calculator?+

That one goes step count → calories burned; this one works backward from a calorie goal to the steps needed to reach it.