Do you know Google Maps has a function known as Journey Time that permits you to to see roughly how far you possibly can journey in a given time restrict?
As of now, this function works with Strolling and Driving navigation, however not Biking or Public Transportation. It’s additionally solely out there within the internet model of Google Maps, not the Android or iOS apps.
Right here’s how one can activate Journey Time in Google Maps and what makes it such a helpful function to begin utilizing.
Find out how to allow Journey Time
Navigate to maps.google.com
in your internet browser (you don’t should be logged in together with your Google account), then hover over the bottom-left icon labeled Layers to open a menu.
Within the hover menu, click on Extra, then look beneath the Map Instruments part and click on on Journey Time to allow the function:

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Joel Lee / IDG
Joel Lee / IDG
When you allow Journey Time, you’ll see a brand new panel seem on the bottom-center of Google Maps, and this panel may have grayed-out choices for choosing a time restrict and technique of journey:

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Joel Lee / IDG
Joel Lee / IDG
Now click on anyplace on the map to set a beginning location. As soon as a beginning location is ready, you’ll be capable of choose a time restrict and technique of journey, which can then reveal how far you possibly can go in that point.
Find out how to use the Journey Time function

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Joel Lee / IDG
Joel Lee / IDG
With Journey Time, you possibly can select the next cut-off dates when Strolling is the strategy of journey:
And these cut-off dates with Driving chosen:
- quarter-hour
- half-hour
- 1 hour
- 2 hours
- 3 hours
- 4 hours
- 6 hours
You’ll see a shaded area on the map that reveals all over the place you might journey inside the time restrict by way of the strategy of journey. The shaded area received’t essentially be a circle as a result of completely different paths could permit for better journey in sure instructions (or be blocked off completely).

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Joel Lee / IDG
Joel Lee / IDG
Relying on the time restrict chosen, you could have to zoom out of the map to have the ability to view the complete shaded area:

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Joel Lee / IDG
Joel Lee / IDG
There are two drawbacks to Journey Time as of this writing:
- The estimate doesn’t have in mind site visitors circumstances and solely represents a normal thought of the place you might go. It might be inaccurate throughout rush hour or if there’s an accident someplace.
- Not each location at the moment has Journey Time knowledge, and a few areas could solely have Driving knowledge however not Strolling knowledge.
Regardless of these shortcomings, the Journey Time function is fairly cool to mess around with and may be helpful for getting a normal thought of the place you might presumably go given sure parameters.
This text initially appeared on our sister publication PC-WELT and was translated and localized from German.