Is Google Maps down?

Some regions are being blocked, not necessarily down. 1 of 8 readings for Google Maps came back as a block (a 403 or 429 response, a redirect loop, or a timeout we could rule out as a real outage using a second endpoint) rather than a normal success or failure. That tells us about our own probe's reception, not about Google Maps's actual health. We show it as blocked rather than folding it into down. 1 of those reading received an actual response: we confirmed the connection, the TLS handshake, and the edge all answered, with a real measured latency. That is a positive result, we verified reachability, just not through the specific path automated checks are filtered on. Read how we tell the difference.

We send a single web request to Google Maps from 4 regions on our own schedule and time the response. We do not see inside Google Maps's systems, do not use an account or real transaction, and are not the same signal Google Maps's own team has access to. Treat this as one external data point, not a verdict. We started monitoring this service on 8/8/2026 (1 of 14 days so far, 717 of 500 checks). We show a full track record once we have enough continuous history. Check back soon, or monitor your own site continuously with realuptime. Read the full methodology.