Urban hike · Amsterdam metro
5.45 mi · 34 ft up (8.8 km · 10 m up)
5.5 effort mi (8.9 effort km)
Climbing is what makes a hike hard, and flat miles hide it. So every 500 feet of climbing counts as one extra mile (in kilometres: about 95 m of climbing per extra km).
A flat 6-mile (9.7 km) walk is 6.0 effort miles (9.7 effort km). Little Si — 3.7 miles, 1,300 ft up (6.0 km, 395 m) — is 6.3 (10.1). Your legs already knew those two are about the same amount of work.
How the numbers work — the rules behind your plan.
These numbers are estimates. We haven't walked this one ourselves to check them yet.
Loading map…
Map tiles come from a third-party host, which sees the general area shown here.
Amstel-side route past the Riekermolen. Flat, paved, and reliably walkable in winter -- the Amsterdam equivalent of a Seattle bad-weather default.
Tram, bus or on foot from the city
Source: distance measured from the seeded line (OSM route relation 17987329, 2026-08-24); gain from EU-DEM 25 m DEM, sustained rises only; operator publishes 5.41 mi; desk-sourced, not walked