Travel distance in the North Sword Coast

I needed a quick travel way of determining how far a party would be able to travel around the Sword Coast area. The internet and the sources I have available is pretty vague on the actual distances, and different maps give different measures. I’ve based the following distances on the Sword Coast map from 4E. Night’s End is a village of my own design that lies a couple of days east of Luskan along the River Mirar. The following tables is in kilometers:

Walking Distance in km

LuskanPort LlastNeverwinterNight’s EndLeilonWaterdeepMirabar
Luskan
011219096334654380
Port Llast
112080208224544492
Neverwinter
190800286144464570
Night’s End
962082860430750284
Leilon
3342241444300320714
Waterdeep
65454447884432001034
Mirabar
38049257028471410340

The typical walking speed per day if lightly encumbered is around 5 km/hour. With a few breaks that ends up around 30km / day. It can be pushed up to 40 km / day but with with the risk of injury or fatigue. A cautious party would travel half the normal speed at 15 km / day. The quick table below shows time between locations when moving at 30 km / day:

Walking distance in Days

LuskanPort LlastNeverwinterNight’s EndLeionWaterdeepMirabar
Luskan
0463112213
Port Llast
403771816
Neverwinter
6301051519
Night’s End
3710014259
Leilon
11751401124
Waterdeep
2218162811034
Mirabar
131619924340

The numbers are rounded down and is a little bit on the positive side as it does not take elevation, weather, encounters, or road conditions into consideration. I would be assuming that the adventurers would be on the road 6-7 hours, have a lunch break, setup camp and have time to do a little foraging/hunting if environment allows it.

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