Everest Base Camp Trek Distance
by Jayaram Thapaliya · Updated September 6, 2023
The total distance of the most popular Everest Base Camp Trek is 130 km which will start from Lukla and ends also in Lukla.
For those who have previous trekking or hiking experience, the EBC trek distance from Kathmandu is not so far. The 138km distance you’ll cross by plane to get to the gateway of Everest(Lukla) whereas Lukla Everest Base Camp 65km and Base Camp to Lukla 65km is not so far.
Excluding rest day on our 14 days standard Everest Base Camp Trek, we will trek mainly for 9 days. So the average walk Each day during the Everest Trek is 9km(135km/9 days) per day.
If you go through a trekking agency, mostly they provide porters in the trekking package to carry the guest backpack. So in my opinion without a heavy pack, a 9km walk is not a difficult journey even though it’s high altitude trekking.
How many kilometers we should walk each day during Everest Base Camp Trek?
- Day 1: 9 km Trekking (Fly from Kathmandu to Lukla and trek to Phakding in 4 hours)
- Day 2: 12 km(Phakding to Namche Bazaar 6 hours )
- Day 3: NA ( Acclimatization day)
- Day 4: 11 km (Namche Bazaar to Tengboche 6 hours)
- Day 5: 12 km (Tengboche to Dingboche 7 hours)
- Day 6: NA (Rest Day)
- Day 7 : 12 km (Dingboche to Lobuche 6 hours)
- Day 8: 8 km ( Lobuche to Gorak Shep 4 hours)
- Day 9: 22 km (Gorak Shep to EBC and back to Dingboche 8 hours)
- Day 10: 24 km (Dingboche to Namche Bazaar 9 hours)
- Day 11: 21 km (Namche Bazaar to Lukla)
- Day 12: 138km (Lukla to Kathmandu 35 minutes)
Bottomline
There are several ways to get Everest Base Camp to see Everest Base Camp. The distance of Everest Base Camp Hike depends on the Starting point and Ending Point of the trek.
Mainly your duration of holidays decides how much distance you should walk each day. If the EBC trek length is 14 days there should be 9 days trek and on average 15km a day trekkers should walk.
Jayaram Thapaliya, an executive director at BASE CAMP HIKE. He has trekked to mostly places in Nepal. He has been to Annapurna Circuit more than 10 times. Jayaram is the one who is ready to help you to make wonderful trip in Nepal.
