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European Economic Area (EEA) developers

If your billing address is in the European Economic Area, effective on 8 July 2025, the Google Maps Platform EEA Terms of Service will apply to your use of the Services. Functionality varies by region. Learn more.

This product or feature is in Preview (pre-GA). Pre-GA products and features might have limited support, and changes to pre-GA products and features might not be compatible with other pre-GA versions. Pre-GA Offerings are covered by the Google Maps Platform Service Specific Terms. For more information, see the launch stage descriptions.

Follow these steps to get set up with Address Validation in Maps JavaScript API.

Get an API key and enable the Maps JavaScript API

Before using Address Validation in Maps JavaScript API, you need a Cloud project with a billing account, and both the Maps JavaScript API and Address Validation APIenabled. To learn more, see Set up your Google Cloud project.

Get an API key

Enable the Maps JavaScript API

Enable the Address Validation API

Update your map initialization code

1. Load the Maps JavaScript API.

2. Load the Address Validation in Maps JavaScript API library from within an async function when needed:

   const {AddressValidation} = await google.maps.importLibrary('addressValidation');

Next steps

Validate an address