How to know the traffic of a route in Google Maps

Google Maps is a much more complete application than it seems, since it not only helps us find the destination we want to go to. The application allows activate COVID-19 mode, choose the best route, save locations and to calibrate the compass with Live View AR for greater precision.

The tool goes much further, since it will tell us the traffic of a route to which we are going to consult it and thus save waiting time. Google Maps you can know that if you want to take less time to go to a specific point, so you can take an alternative road to the one you usually use.

How to know the traffic of a route in Google Maps

If there is a traffic jam, it is always better to know if it is possible to find another place to pull and arrive on time if you go to work, study or if you have a meeting. To find out the traffic of a route in Google Maps everything happens to know a little more about the app and get the most out of it.

Google Maps is updated periodicallyTherefore, being updated, you can know the traffic at that time, it is one of the many added improvements that users will enjoy. It doesn't matter if you live in Madrid, Malaga or Barcelona, ​​it will show you as long as you catch a traffic jam.

To find out the traffic of that route in Google Maps you have to do the following:

• Launch the Google Maps application on your mobile device
• Enter an address you are going to, no matter what route it is
• Hit the blue tone button to show you the information
• Click on the three points in the upper right and choose the option that says "Set departure or arrival time", take a good look at your phone's clock and enter this information
• Once the time has been entered, click on "Today" and choose the specific date, it also comes to try with yesterday's to see if there were traffic jams or not in case it is very passable
• Once you have tried the dates, click on "Define", now the route will take a few seconds depending on your connection to load to go to that route with less traffic

Google Maps knows the information of those daily routesTherefore, we can take an alternative route as long as there is one to get to the point. The application will show you all the routes to get there, it is better to take one even if it is a little longer but in which there will surely not be much traffic.