MapPlanner is a map distance calculator and route planner designed for runners, cyclists, hikers, and walkers. Draw a route on the map to measure distance, elevation gain, and estimated travel time. Whether you're planning a running route, a bike ride, or a hiking trail, the tool helps analyze terrain and route difficulty anywhere in the world.
Enter your trailhead (address, city, or location) and start drawing your route. Our automatic route calculator adapts to your activity: running, walking, hiking, or cycling.
Place waypoints along your route — the tool automatically follows roads and trails. View elevation gain to assess difficulty and choose your preferred map style (street, satellite, or outdoor).
See total distance, elevation profile, and estimated time in one click. Generate loops, plan multi-day routes and add points of interest with photos. Save and share your routes, export to GPX, and explore thousands of member rides worldwide.
Plan your runs, generate loops by distance, and get pace and elevation.
Plan hikes and multi-day treks, with elevation gain, difficulty and hiking time.
Create bike routes and analyse climbs, surface and elevation gain.
Map walks, add stops and photos, and estimate time on foot.
Use our advanced route planner to map your run, walk, hike or bike ride and instantly see how far you go. Measure your running, walking or cycling distance accurately in miles or kilometers and track your pace to better understand your performance.
Easily measure your route distance and analyze your performance with detailed elevation profiles in meters or feet. See how steep your route is with slope percentage, identify surface types like road or trail, and estimate calories burned for every run, ride or hike.
Use our distance and time calculator to estimate how long your activity will take in just one click. Improve your planning with daylight data and weather forecast, so you can choose the best time to run, cycle or hike in ideal conditions.
No destination in mind? On the map, set a distance or time and get a ready-made loop that brings you back to your start — for a run, ride or walk.
Pick a point on the map and reveal the whole area you can reach within a set distance or time, on foot or by bike — perfect for exploring somewhere new.
Split a long hike or ride into daily stages and add every waypoint along the way — huts, viewpoints and rest stops — to organise your whole trip from start to finish.
See whether your route follows roads, trails, gravel or footpaths and pick the terrain that best suits your run, hike or ride.
Explorer
Open any saved route and fly over it in 3D to picture the climbs, the terrain and the scenery before you head out.
Planning a hike? MapPlanner shows official waymarked trails on the map and can snap your route to them, so you follow marked paths and never lose the way.
Turn any route into a clean PDF roadbook — map, elevation profile, distances and points of interest — ready to print or take offline for your run, hike or ride.
Plan your route using a wide range of maps including standard maps, satellite view, USGS Topo, OpenTopoMap, OS Maps, SwissTopo and OpenCycleMap. Easily switch between map types to find the best route for running, cycling or hiking.
Explore thousands of running, cycling and hiking routes shared by the community and get inspired by the best trails. Find nearby parking areas and points of interest to easily start your activity and discover new locations.
Import and export your routes using GPX, KML or FIT files and sync them with your GPS devices such as Garmin, Apple Watch, Suunto, Polar, Wahoo, Coros or Samsung. You can also view additional data like heart rate to analyze your effort.
Upload your activity photos and automatically place them on the map using GPS coordinates. Turn your route into an interactive experience and relive your run, ride or hike visually.
Track your running, cycling, walking and hiking performance over time with detailed statistics. Compare your routes, monitor your improvements and share your results with the community.
Invite your friends to suggest and edit routes together, making it easy to plan group rides, runs or hikes. Build and refine your route collaboratively to create the perfect outdoor experience.
Save locations you want to explore and plan your future routes directly on the map. Organize your next run, ride or hike by marking places and building your own collection of outdoor destinations.
Explorer
Track your real-time position and orientation directly on the map using Explorer mode. Stay on your route, navigate easily, and never get lost during your activity.
I planned a 5-mile running loop around my neighborhood in minutes. The distance and pace estimate were spot on for my morning run before work.
With the isochrone mode, I plan my hikes in no time! I instantly see how far I can go with my available time. GPS tracking keeps me on trail in the Rockies.
We prepared a 25-mile cycling loop with friends and exported the GPX track. Everyone followed the same route on their Garmin without getting lost. Perfect organization!
Before a hike in Shenandoah, I checked the elevation and duration. The route followed real trails, which saved me from unpleasant surprises. Very reliable!
I wanted an easy walk for my kids. I set a short max distance and MapPlanner helped me create the perfect loop. We had a wonderful family afternoon.
I love planning my outings in advance. I saved several routes for the weekends. It saves me so much time compared to figuring it out on the go.
By exploring the routes around my area, I discovered great trails I didn’t know about. MapPlanner opened new places for me to explore right in my backyard.
I keep track of my progress with the history feature. Comparing my running pace and distance over the months keeps me motivated and accountable.
For our MTB group ride, we created the route and sent the GPX to everyone. Nobody got separated — the whole group stayed together from start to finish.
I love taking photos while hiking. MapPlanner automatically places my pictures on the map. It’s awesome to review the route and share it with friends.
Depending on the activity, I switch the map style: topo for the mountains, street for the city, satellite to scout terrain. It makes route planning super intuitive.
MapPlanner now estimates my times based on my own pace. I know exactly how long my next run will take. Perfect for squeezing in a workout on a tight schedule.
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Set a start and end point, or type two addresses, and MapPlanner measures the distance between them along the route, in kilometres or miles, with the travel time. Add stops along the way to measure a full itinerary.
Click your starting point, then each point along the way. MapPlanner follows the roads and paths and shows the exact distance between them.
Draw your route on the map and the distance calculator adds up every segment instantly, in kilometres or miles. Move a point to adjust and the total updates live.
At an average pace of about 3 mph, walking a mile takes roughly 15 to 20 minutes — so 5 miles is about 1h15 to 1h40. Draw your route on the map to get the exact walking time for any distance.
Yes. Measuring distance, elevation gain and duration on the map is free and unlimited, with no account required.
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