average speed of a land turtle
Reply. Turtle walking speeds have not received much study. The average walking speed of a land turtle/tortoise is somewhere under a mile an hour on a smooth level surface, but few tortoises walk for a long enough distance that it is meaningful to measure long-distance walking speed.print speed over short distances is a bit higher, and sprint speed of some freshwater species on land, like softshell turtles and some others, may well exceed five miles per hour for a yard or two going downslope.