A zoom lens including, in order from an object side, positive, negative, positive, positive, and positive lens units, or positive, negative, positive, positive, positive, and positive lens units. 1.5<L2fm / L2W<500; −30<f3 / f2<−3; and −15<f1 / f23W<−8 are satisfied, where fm=fw×(Z)1 / 2, fw represents a focal length of the entire system at a wide angle end, Z represents a zoom ratio, L2W represents an interval between a second and third lens units at the wide angle end, L2fm represents an interval between the second and third lens units at a zoom position at which an offaxial principal ray having a largest image height is highest farthest from an optical axis on a lens surface disposed on the most object side in the first lens unit in a zoom range from the wide angle end to the focal length fm, f1, f2 and f3 respectively represent focal lengths of the first, second, and third lens units, and f23W represents a combined focal length of the second and third lens unit at the wide angle end.