Running Pace Guide
Pick a pace below to see what it means in practice.
Each page shows the equivalent pace in both minutes per mile and minutes per kilometre, gives the speed in mph and km/h, and shows what that pace equates to across every race distance from 5K to marathon.
Running a pace that isn’t listed? The pace converter and the pace conversion chart take any value.
Paces per mile
From 5 to 15 minutes per mile.
- 5 minute mile pace3:06 min/km · 12 mph
- 5:30 minute mile pace3:25 min/km · 10.91 mph
- 6 minute mile pace3:44 min/km · 10 mph
- 6:30 minute mile pace4:02 min/km · 9.23 mph
- 7 minute mile pace4:21 min/km · 8.57 mph
- 7:30 minute mile pace4:40 min/km · 8 mph
- 8 minute mile pace4:58 min/km · 7.5 mph
- 8:30 minute mile pace5:17 min/km · 7.06 mph
- 9 minute mile pace5:36 min/km · 6.67 mph
- 9:30 minute mile pace5:54 min/km · 6.32 mph
- 10 minute mile pace6:13 min/km · 6 mph
- 10:30 minute mile pace6:31 min/km · 5.71 mph
- 11 minute mile pace6:50 min/km · 5.45 mph
- 11:30 minute mile pace7:09 min/km · 5.22 mph
- 12 minute mile pace7:27 min/km · 5 mph
- 12:30 minute mile pace7:46 min/km · 4.8 mph
- 13 minute mile pace8:05 min/km · 4.62 mph
- 13:30 minute mile pace8:23 min/km · 4.44 mph
- 14 minute mile pace8:42 min/km · 4.29 mph
- 14:30 minute mile pace9:01 min/km · 4.14 mph
- 15 minute mile pace9:19 min/km · 4 mph
Paces per kilometre
From 3 to 10 minutes per kilometre.
- 3 minute km pace4:50 min/mile · 12.43 mph
- 3:30 minute km pace5:38 min/mile · 10.65 mph
- 4 minute km pace6:26 min/mile · 9.32 mph
- 4:30 minute km pace7:15 min/mile · 8.28 mph
- 5 minute km pace8:03 min/mile · 7.46 mph
- 5:30 minute km pace8:51 min/mile · 6.78 mph
- 6 minute km pace9:39 min/mile · 6.21 mph
- 6:30 minute km pace10:28 min/mile · 5.74 mph
- 7 minute km pace11:16 min/mile · 5.33 mph
- 7:30 minute km pace12:04 min/mile · 4.97 mph
- 8 minute km pace12:52 min/mile · 4.66 mph
- 8:30 minute km pace13:41 min/mile · 4.39 mph
- 9 minute km pace14:29 min/mile · 4.14 mph
- 9:30 minute km pace15:17 min/mile · 3.92 mph
- 10 minute km pace16:06 min/mile · 3.73 mph