If You’re Traveling for the Holidays, Check out These Details

If you are traveling for the Holidays, Google Maps is here to help you. Here’s everything you need to know to ensure your three-hour trip does not take you 10 hours.If you are driving, don’t leave on Wednesday – especially between the hours of 3 and 5 p.m. If you can, leave Tuesday. If not, plan to leave before 2 p.m. on Wednesday or after 7 p.m.

The lightest traffic day is Thanksgiving. More people are on the road between noon and 2, but nothing that will make you late for turkey dinner.

Philadelphia is the worst city for holiday traffic, followed by Austin, Texas, and Washington, D.C.

Drive home on Sunday not Saturday. For some reason, probably because people want a day home before going back to work traffic is worse on Saturday than it is on Sunday