Calories Burned Hiking Calculator
Estimate kilocalories for a hike from MET, body weight, and minutes. Choose a standard hike or a steeper / pack-loaded effort. Informational, not a trail prescription.
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How to estimate hiking calories
- Choose kilograms or pounds for body weight.
- Enter weight and total moving-plus-rest minutes you want to count.
- Select standard hiking or steep / pack hiking.
- Read session kcal and the MET applied.
- Use walking calories for flat sidewalk loops. Nothing is uploaded.
Hiking calorie estimate
Trail MET × kg × hours
| Standard MET | 6.0 |
|---|---|
| Steep / pack MET | 7.8 |
| Formula | kcal ≈ MET × body kg × hours |
| Inputs | Weight, minutes, trail effort |
| Related entities | Walking calories, TDEE |
| Advice | Informational. Not wilderness medicine. |
What hiking calories covers
Trail days usually cost more energy than flat walking. This page offers a general hiking MET and a steeper or pack-loaded MET so you can match rough terrain without entering elevation profiles.
How hiking calories are built
kcal ≈ MET × body kg × hours. Standard hiking uses MET 6. Steep or pack hiking uses MET 7.8. Two hours is 2.0 in the hours term.
Trail effort and related tools
Entities include hiking MET, duration, and session kcal. Flat pavement walks sit on walking calories. The mixed sport menu is calories burned. Daily maintenance is TDEE.
Use cases
Planning snack needs for a half-day outing using a transparent formula. Comparing a gentle ridge walk with a loaded climb of similar clock time. Classroom demos of MET on uneven ground. Not a search-and-rescue guide.
Default numbers
At 70 kg for 120 minutes (2 hours) at MET 6, kcal ≈ 6 × 70 × 2 = 840. Steep / pack MET 7.8 for the same window is about 1092 kcal.
Limits
Altitude, bushwhacking, and exact pack kilograms are not fields. GPS apps that integrate grade will differ. Informational only. See the disclaimer. CZNull does not receive trail logs.