Google Maps Platform Environment

Environment. Know the conditions at every site, now and looking ahead.

Weather conditions laid over a road network, with a route and a disruption
Conditions on the networkWeather conditions laid over a road network, with a route and an active disruption.

Conditions shape demand, journeys and risk. We bring Google’s weather, air quality, pollen and solar data onto your map. Then we join it to your own data, so you can see what the conditions change.

The platform. Current conditions and forecasts for any location.

Journey times on a route, with the weather for the next two hours

Weather

Current conditions and forecasts for any location, with history for analysis.

A heatmap over a map

Air quality

Indices, pollutants and health recommendations, now and forecast.

A heatmap across a city

Pollen

Pollen types and levels with a forecast, for health, tourism and outdoor operations.

A height map of a building and its surroundings, with solar panels marked on the roof

Solar

Roof geometry, panel layouts and energy estimates for each building.

Featured

Conditions in context. The forecast, built into the systems you already use.

We add conditions to the solutions your teams already use. A store finder can show the weather on arrival, and fleet plans can steer around a storm.

Air quality and solar potential sit beside every site in a risk or property view.

Weather bands over a road network, with a disrupted route running through them

What we build. Answers on demand, disruption and resilience.

Weather bands over a road network, with a lane closure flagged and a delayed route

Disruption views

Weather laid over your road network, routes and live disruptions.

Predicted values plotted against actual values from a forecasting model

Demand forecasting

Weather history joined with places data and forecasting models, to explain and predict demand.

A roof with a solar panel layout, beside sunshine, roof area and energy estimates

Solar assessment

Roof-by-roof solar potential for installers, utilities and energy retailers.

Road travel time data as a BigQuery table, ready to query

Data in your cloud

Environmental datasets delivered to BigQuery, with clear advice on what Google’s terms allow.

New from Google. Short-range rain forecasts minute by minute, and long-term weather history in BigQuery.

Tell us where conditions matter most. We’ll put them in front of the people who act on them.

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