If you plan to travel extensively during Thanksgiving and Black Friday, check out these Google Maps tips and tricks.
We’re approaching that time of the year, the busy Thanksgiving and Black Friday season, when you’ll have to simultaneously navigate family events and score some of the best possible deals for your growing Christmas shopping list. This will involve some sort of traveling, whether flying across the country or going for a 30-minute drive. Not to mention that shopping might require in-store pickup, which involves additional travel.
Like every year, Google has handy tips for navigating Thanksgiving and Black Friday with Google Maps. The company released its forecast for this year’s Thanksgiving and Black Friday season, offering you an idea of the best time to travel in late November.
Google Maps also knows which are the busiest times at various places of interest you might visit, like airports, bakeries, gas stations, shopping centers, and others.
Google explained in a blog post the best time to travel for Thanksgiving (November 28th). You should avoid traveling on Tuesday and Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Leaving too early isn’t advised either. The Friday before Thanksgiving might be the busiest, especially between 1:00 and 2:00 PM.
