A calculator for a question nobody asked, but everybody's wondered.

Google Maps will tell you a walk takes fourteen minutes. It will not tell you that fourteen minutes is also 1,830 steps, which is a number that actually changes whether you bother. calculatesteps.com exists to close that gap: type where you are, type where you're going, and get the number that matters when you're deciding whether it's a walk or an Uber.

Behind this is one guy named Michael. He's the type who wants to know the number — how far, how many steps, what it actually costs to get somewhere — rather than just the vague shape of it. At some point that turned into a simple question: why doesn't a website already do this? So he built one.

Next up on his own step count: Mount Whitney, the tallest peak in the contiguous United States. It's less a hike than a stress test — for his legs, and for whether this site's math holds up somewhere considerably steeper than a sidewalk. Results pending.

The step counts aren't guesses — they're built on real walking-route distances and standard step-length averages. The full math is on the how we calculate page, for anyone who wants to check our work.

Found a bug, or a legendary route the internet needs to know the step count for? Get in touch.