Drive Time Map: How Far Can You Go?
See everywhere you can reach in 5 to 60 minutes by car, on foot or by bike, count the customers inside, and export the areas. Free, no signup.
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How to make a drive-time map
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Pick a travel mode and times
Drive, walk or cycle, and up to four times between 5 and 60 minutes, such as 15 and 30 minutes.
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Add a location
Type an address or click the map. The area you can reach in each time is drawn around it. Add up to five locations to compare them.
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Count, export or share
Upload your customer list to see how many are within each travel time, download the areas as KML or GeoJSON, or share a link.
What a drive-time map is good for
Delivery and service promises
Know which customers you can really reach in 30 minutes before you promise same-day service.
Site selection
Compare how many customers live within a 15-minute drive of each candidate store, office or clinic.
Field sales and territories
Build territories around what a rep can cover in a day, not around a straight-line radius.
Hiring and commuting
See which neighborhoods are within a reasonable commute of an office, by car, bike or on foot.
Just need distance? The free radius map draws mile or kilometer circles with no limits. For drive-time areas around your own customers, every day, use GeoMaps drive-time layers.
Drive time map: FAQ
- What is a drive-time map?
- A drive-time map, also called an isochrone map, shows every place you can reach from a starting point within a given travel time, such as 15 or 30 minutes by car. Unlike a radius, it follows the road network, so it stretches along highways and shrinks where roads are slow or missing.
- What's the difference between a drive-time area and a radius?
- A radius is distance as the crow flies: a perfect circle. A drive-time area is based on the roads, so a 30-minute drive can reach much further along an interstate than across a city center, a river or a mountain. For service areas and delivery promises, drive time is usually the more honest answer. For a simple distance circle, use the free radius map.
- Does it include traffic?
- No. The areas are calculated by Mapbox and don't reflect live traffic or the time of day, so allow some margin at rush hour.
- Can I count how many customers are within a 30-minute drive?
- Yes. Upload a CSV or Excel file with latitude and longitude columns (or a KML, KMZ or GeoJSON file). Each location shows how many of your points fall within each travel time, and you can download your list with the travel-time band added. The file stays in your browser.
- Is the drive-time map tool free?
- Yes, it's free with no signup. To keep it free there is a monthly limit on how many areas the tool calculates for all visitors combined; if it's reached, the tool is available again on the 1st of the next month. GeoMaps itself has drive-time layers with no such limit for your own maps.
- Can I open the drive-time areas in Google Earth?
- Yes. Export them as KML or KMZ and open the file in Google Earth or import it into Google My Maps. GeoJSON works in GIS tools like QGIS.
More free tools: radius map, territory map maker, batch geocoder.