Get directions & show routes

Y'all tin can get directions for driving, public transit, walking, ride sharing, cycling, flying, or motorcycle on Google Maps. If there are multiple routes, the best route to your destination is bluish, all other routes are gray. Some directions in Google Maps are in development and may have express availability.

Important: Stay alert when you use directions on Google Maps. Always exist aware of your surroundings to ensure the safety of yourself and others. When in doubt, follow actual traffic regulations and ostend signage from the road or path that you lot're on.

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Maps app Maps.
    • If yous don't yet have the app, download it from the Play Shop.
  2. Search for your destination or tap it on the map.
  3. In the bottom left, tap Directions Directions.
  4. Cull your fashion of transportation.

Learn more near how to search for flights.

Tip: To choose another route in any transportation mode, select it on the map. Each route shows the estimated travel time on the map.

Google Maps transportation modes

You lot can get directions for dissimilar modes of transportation in Google Maps. Learn about the differences in features and availability between each way:

Driving: Driving

  • Driving Driving routes are designed for apply by cars and may navigate to car-but roads. When riding motorized bicycles or motorcycles nether 125cc, utilize the "Avoid tolls and highways" route pick.
  • You tin can pivot your favorite trips when yous tap the Pivot push button at the bottom. Learn more about how to pin your favorite trips.

Transit: Transit

  • Not all cities have public transit directions in Google Maps. Earlier you can go transit directions, your local transit agency needs to add their route info to Google Maps.
  • You tin pin your favorite trips when you tap the Pin button at the bottom. Larn more near how to pin your favorite trips.

Walking: Walking

Ride: Ride services

  • If you lot desire directions in an area with ride or taxi services, y'all can compare ride services with transit and walking directions. Larn how to request a ride.

Cycling: Cycling

  • When you ride your bicycle, you lot tin apply cycling Cycling routes if they're available in your country/region.

Add multiple destinations

You can get directions to multiple destinations for all modes of transportation except public transit or flying.

Tip: You can search for places along your route.

To change the order of your stops:

  1. Observe the destination you want to move and hold Reorder Reorder.
  2. Elevate the destination.

Customize your route

Avert tolls & highways

Plough eco-friendly routing on or off

The Google Maps app displays fuel-efficiency estimates on some routes. The more fuel-efficient the route, the lower your car's fuel usage and CO2 emissions.

By default, Maps factors fuel-efficiency into the routes that it chooses for yous. Most of the time, the fastest route is also the most fuel-efficient one.

When you plow this feature off, y'all ever get the fastest road. Maps stops factoring in fuel-efficiency for route recommendations. Notwithstanding, your fuel-efficiency estimates nevertheless show up.

Tips:

  • This setting might non yet be bachelor to everyone.
  • Fuel-efficiency estimates apply to vehicles that run on gas or diesel only.

How Google Maps calculates fuel-efficiency

Google Maps calculates fuel-efficiency using information from the United states of america Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory. This adding includes factors that bear upon your fuel usage and COtwo emissions, such as:

  • Average fuel consumption for vehicles in your region
  • Steepness of hills on your route
  • Stop-and-get traffic patterns
  • Types of roads (such as local roads or highways)

Maps shows the well-nigh fuel-efficient road when it has roughly the aforementioned arrival time as the fastest road. In cases where fuel savings are also small or increase driving time significantly, Maps shows relative fuel savings between routes to help yous compare.

Read more than nearly eco-friendly routing engineering (PDF).

Change your starting point or destination

By default, your starting point is your location. You lot can change where your road begins and ends.

Important: You can't showtime navigation if y'all don't utilise your current location, simply yous can still get a preview of the route.

Change the time that you leave or get in

You can change your travel date or time to find the best road before y'all leave, based on estimated traffic and transit schedules. This just works for routes with one destination.

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