There is no doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic has radically changed our lifestyle . The biosecurity measures recommended by the World Health Organization ask, among other things, to maintain physical distance to minimize infections.
Of course there are situations that require that we have contact with people . Either because we have to go to the workplace, go to the supermarket to buy food or to do any other activity, we can see how tragic the situation is. However, in some countries the measures have been relaxed to the point that you can go to a restaurant, cinema, museums, bars, etc.
If that is your case, surely you would like to visit these places at the time of day when they are less crowded to minimize physical contact. Well, there is a very effective way to find out online using a tool created by Google Maps called Popular Hours.
Google keeps up with the changing demands of the modern world and continues to create applications and tools such as Google Maps and its Popular Hours feature. That is why we must learn how to use them and make the most of the tricks that this app offers .
What are Google Maps Popular Hours?
It is a tool created by Google Maps that shows information about the attendance of people in a certain place at different times of the day. It can be a restaurant, historical site, tourist, company or business. Without a doubt, this tool is very useful to plan our visit to some place, especially if we want to save time and resources, or simply because we want to maintain physical distance.
The information provided by Google Maps Popular Hours includes, among other things: how busy a place is at different times of the day, what time of day it is more or less visited, etc.
In addition, it informs you how long the place is usually busy. This is very useful especially if you are going to visit a restaurant, a clothing store, for example and you do not want to wait a long time to be served.
The information appears displayed on the screen of your computer or mobile in the form of graphs or bars. Indicating with their size which is the hour of greatest or least influx during the day . Google Maps collects all this information using the data of users who have voluntarily enabled their Google location history .
Google monitors and averages the attendance of people at certain times of the day in recent weeks. However, not everyone likes to have their movements recorded all the time. That is why you can delete your location history from Google Maps whenever you want.
Next, we will show you how to use this tool so that you can use it to find out how many people are on a certain site without any problems.
How to use ‘Popular Hours’ from Google Maps?
To begin with, it is important that you update Google Maps . Let’s take as an example that you need to go to a clothing store in a very popular shopping center in the area and you don’t want to waste a lot of time until they take care of you.
Step 1
The first thing you should do is open Google Maps on your PC or on your mobile. Then, Enter the name of the store you want to visit. You must also place the city where you are located in the Google Maps search engine. This to make it more specific and faster.
Step 2
Once the results are shown on the screen, you go to the Popular Hours graph and observe what time of day the place is more or less full, and thus determine what time it is more convenient for you to visit.
The graphical indicators not only show you how much influx the site has at different times , but also inform you of the estimated movement or activity of the site in real time.
This allows you to calculate how long you may have to wait to be seen in the store if you decide to go at a specific time and thus take your forecasts.
