Calculate calories burned from outdoor activities like hiking, walking, trail running, biking, backpacking, paddling, gardening, yard work, and nature activities. Estimate total calories, calories per hour, calories per mile, effort-adjusted calories, and activity intensity using time, distance, body weight, terrain, elevation, and pack weight.
Calories from time:
The calculator uses activity type, body weight, and duration to estimate calories burned.
Calories from distance:
Enter distance and speed to estimate activity time, then calculate calories burned.
Calories from steps:
Enter steps and stride length to estimate walking distance, time, and calories.
Calorie goal:
Enter a calorie goal to estimate how long the selected outdoor activity may take.
An outdoor calories burn calculator helps estimate energy use for outdoor activities where terrain, elevation, distance, and conditions matter.
It can be useful for hiking, walking, trail running, backpacking, biking, paddling, gardening, yard work, snowshoeing, route planning, and outdoor fitness tracking.
Your result shows estimated total calories burned, calories per hour, calories per mile, active time, moving time, distance, elevation effort, terrain adjustment, pack weight adjustment, and time needed to reach a calorie goal.
Calories are estimated from activity intensity, body weight, and time. This calculator also adjusts for terrain, elevation, pack weight, and outdoor conditions.
Usually yes. Hiking often includes uneven terrain, hills, elevation gain, and sometimes pack weight, which can increase calorie burn compared with flat walking.
Yes. Climbing requires additional effort, so this calculator adds an elevation effort adjustment based on total elevation gain.
No. Actual calorie burn varies by fitness, pace, age, body composition, terrain, weather, heart rate, technique, and measurement method.