Travel Time Map: Drive Time & Isochrone Tool
See how far you can travel from any address in a set number of minutes. This isochrone tool maps the real area you can reach by car, on foot, or by bike, following the actual road and path network.
What is a travel time map?
A travel time map, also called an isochrone map, shows every place you can reach from a starting point within a given time. Instead of a plain circle, it follows the real road, path, and street network, so a 15 minute drive stretches further along motorways and shrinks in dense city centres. This tool draws three nested time bands from any address, for driving, walking, or cycling.
Why an isochrone beats a plain circle
Nobody travels in a straight line. An isochrone is the true reachable area once roads, one-way streets, rivers, and speed limits are taken into account, which is why the shape looks lopsided: you get further on a fast road than across a canal or a pedestrian zone. For catchment analysis, site selection, and delivery zones, the isochrone is the honest answer. If you only need a straight-line circle, use the radius map instead.
How this tool works
When you enter an address, we forward-geocode it to a latitude and longitude with the MapAtlas Geocoding API, then call the MapAtlas Isochrone API, which routes across the real network for your chosen mode and returns polygons for each time band. Everything is computed on EU-hosted infrastructure. To build the same drive time bands into your own product, the Isochrone API exposes them through a stable endpoint.
When you need this
Real estate portals showing how far a commute reaches from a listing, retail teams sizing catchment areas before signing a lease, logistics planners drawing delivery zones, HR tools matching candidates to reachable offices, and healthcare planners checking who can reach a clinic within 20 minutes. Any time the question is how far can I get from here, a travel time map answers it more honestly than a circle.
Frequently asked questions
Build travel time maps into your product
The MapAtlas Isochrone API returns drive time, walk time, and cycle time polygons for any point, up to 120 minutes or 200 km. EU-hosted and GDPR-compliant.