Map

The everyday map: streets, place names, parks, rail lines and borders in clear, flat colors.

What you see

• Roads and streets, from highways to old-town lanes
• Place names in English and local scripts
• Parks, beaches and water in soft colors
• Train and metro lines in big cities

Best for

Finding your way in a city, planning walks between sights, and seeing how places connect.

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Paris travel guide · New York City travel guide · Kyoto travel guide

Satellite

Real photographs of the Earth taken from satellites and aircraft, with place names laid on top.

What you see

• The true colors of beaches, reefs, deserts and forests
• Lagoons, sandbars and how clear the water is
• Rooftops, old towns and the shape of islands
• Labels for towns and roads, so you stay oriented

Best for

Seeing what a place really looks like before you go: the color of the sea, the size of a beach, how green an island is.

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Santorini travel guide · The Maldives travel guide · Great Barrier Reef travel guide

Terrain

An outdoor map with shaded hills, hiking trails, peaks, huts and protected areas.

What you see

• Hill shading that shows valleys and ridges at a glance
• Hiking and cycling trails, with mountain huts and viewpoints
• Peaks with their height
• National parks and nature reserves

Best for

National parks, hiking trips and road trips through mountains, where the shape of the land matters.

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Banff National Park travel guide · Yosemite travel guide · Lake District travel guide

Topographic

A classic hiker's map with contour lines: each line joins points of the same height above sea level.

What you see

• Contour lines: close together means steep, far apart means gentle
• Exact heights of peaks and passes
• Glaciers, cliffs, scree and forests
• Paths and trails across the mountains

Best for

Planning a trek or a mountain day: how steep a climb is, how high a pass goes, where the land is flat enough to rest.

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Zermatt and the Matterhorn travel guide · Machu Picchu travel guide · The Dolomites travel guide

Winter and ski

A winter map made for snow trips: ski areas, slopes colored by difficulty, and lifts.

What you see

• Ski runs colored by difficulty
• Chairlifts, gondolas and cable cars
• Ski areas and their villages
• Winter trails and snowy mountains

Best for

Ski and snowboard holidays: seeing which runs a resort has, how the lifts connect, and how far the village is from the slopes.

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St. Anton am Arlberg travel guide · Chamonix travel guide · Zermatt travel guide

Ocean

A map of the sea: water shaded by depth, from shallow lagoons to the deep ocean, with coastlines and islands.

What you see

• Sea depth: light blue is shallow, dark blue is deep
• Reefs, atolls, lagoons and underwater ridges
• Coastlines and island groups
• Depth lines out at sea

Best for

Island holidays, diving, snorkeling, sailing and cruises: where the shallow reefs are and how islands sit in the ocean.

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The Maldives travel guide · Fiji travel guide · Zanzibar travel guide

Landscape

A soft, natural-color map of the land itself: forests, grassland, desert, ice and farmland.

What you see

• Land cover: forest, farmland, desert, ice and wetland
• Gentle relief that shows mountains and plains
• Fewer labels, so the landscape stands out
• Rivers, lakes and coastlines

Best for

Understanding the nature of a country at a glance, for example where the deserts, forests and glaciers are.

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Iceland travel guide · Tuscany travel guide · Bali travel guide

Night lights

The Earth at night, photographed from space by NASA: every glow is a city, a road or a harbor.

What you see

• Big cities shine brightest; quiet regions stay dark
• Coastlines and rivers traced by the towns along them
• Remote deserts, rainforests and mountains with almost no light
• Ideal dark-sky areas for stargazing

Best for

Seeing where people live and where the wild, dark places are, and finding dark skies for stargazing trips.

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The Nile Valley travel guide · Europe travel guide · Japan travel guide

3D terrain

The real shape of the land in 3D: mountains rise from the map, and you can tilt and turn the view.

What you see

• Mountains, valleys and volcanoes standing up in 3D
• Satellite imagery draped over the real terrain
• Tilt with two fingers or right-click and drag to turn
• Height made a little stronger so landforms are easy to read

Best for

Understanding mountain destinations before you go: how high the peaks are, how deep the valleys, and how a road or trail climbs.

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The Matterhorn travel guide · Grand Canyon travel guide · Machu Picchu travel guide

Climate

Average weather month by month for the places we cover, colored from cold blue to hot red; pick any month.

What you see

• Average daytime high for the month you choose
• Rainfall shown when you tap a place
• Warm and cool places side by side, worldwide
• Every dot links to that place's travel guide

Best for

Choosing where to go in a given month: where it is warm, where it is cool, and where the rain is.

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Europe in summer travel guide · Southeast Asia travel guide · The Caribbean travel guide

Time zones

The local time right now in every place we cover, colored by time zone.

What you see

• The current local time, updated every minute
• Colors from the earliest to the latest time zones
• Half-hour and 45-minute zones, such as India and Nepal
• Tap a place for its time zone and the time difference from you

Best for

Planning calls home, flights across time zones and how much jet lag to expect.

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India and Nepal travel guide · The United States travel guide · Australia travel guide

Every map, every view

Every map on our country, destination and attraction guides has a Map style menu in its top-right corner. Pick a style and the map changes; the pins stay where they are. Map data comes from OpenStreetMap; satellite imagery and the other styles from MapTiler.