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Google Maps Outage History

Every past Google Maps outage tracked by IsDown, with detection times, duration, and resolution details.

There were 32 Google Maps outages since May 2024. The 20 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Minor April 7, 2026

April 2026: Address Validation API rejecting some requests with 403

Detected Apr 7, 2026 6:58 PM EDT · Resolved Apr 7, 2026 7:05 PM EDT · Duration 7 minutes

Google Maps' Address Validation API experienced an issue where some requests were being rejected with 403 errors. The incident affected the Address Validation API component and lasted for 7 minutes before being resolved.

Minor March 18, 2026

March 2026: Current Production Issue - Google Maps Platform

Detected Mar 18, 2026 2:49 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 18, 2026 5:33 PM EDT · Duration about 3 hours

Google Maps Platform experienced elevated 5xx errors and increased latency affecting the Geocoding API (Reverse Geocoding) and Places/Places(New) NearbySearch services. The incident began on March 18, 2026 at 08:13 PDT and was classified as a minor service disruption. The issue was resolved after 2.7 hours of service degradation.

Minor March 11, 2026

March 2026: We are investigating a potential issue with Google Maps Platform routing/directions APIs

Detected Mar 11, 2026 9:04 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 11, 2026 12:15 PM EDT · Duration about 3 hours

Google Maps Platform's Routes API experienced elevated latency and error rates for 3.2 hours, particularly affecting requests from the JAPAC region. The engineering team investigated the routing and directions API issues while providing workarounds including request retries, routing requests away from JAPAC sources, and using alternative routing APIs.

Minor February 25, 2026

February 2026: Elevated latency and 5xx error rate for Google Maps Platform, Geocoding API, Places API. Roads API

Detected Feb 25, 2026 6:51 PM EST · Resolved Feb 26, 2026 5:08 PM EST · Duration about 22 hours

Google Maps Platform experienced elevated latency and 5xx error rates affecting the Geocoding API, Places API, and Roads API for 22.3 hours. The incident caused API requests to fail or respond slowly, impacting applications relying on these mapping services. The issue was partially resolved with a recommended workaround of retrying failed requests.