Tired of having to wait in line for your favorite restaurants? You can see when places are the most busy in the Google Maps app for both Android, and now iOS. Popular times are based on average popularity over the last several weeks, based on data from users who chose to share location information with Google.
Google Search shows users the most popular times for some of their favorite businesses and institutions. When users search for places like a restaurant, bar, or gym on Google, they’ll see when their destination typically draws the largest crowds.
To determine popular times, Google uses data from users who have chosen to store their location information on Google servers. Popular times are based on average popularity over the last several weeks. Not all businesses will have a popular times graph; the graph will only appear for businesses whose hours are listed on Google and about which Google has sufficient popularity data.
On the popular times graph, popularity for any given hour is shown relative to the typical peak popularity for the business for the week. For example, in the image below, the 9:00pm hour on Friday is one of the most popular times of the entire week for this business. (Learn more)