How to find gas stations near my location

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If you are wondering how you can find gas stations near my location, you have come to the right article. To find gas stations near my location, it is necessary to use the location of our mobile device, tablet or computer, as long as we want the task to be quick and easy.

If we are not in a hurry, we can find the gas stations closest to our position without using the GPS of our device, but the results will not be as satisfactory or fast. If you want to know how to find gas stations near my location, I invite you to continue reading.

Using a browser

Sometimes, the simplest and fastest solution is to use the browser that we have installed on our device. Using the browser of our device together with the Google search engine is the easiest and fastest method to find the gas stations closest to our position, as long as the browser has access to our location.

If this is not the case, the search results will not offer us the results that we are looking for near our location and will focus on offering results that are of little or no use to us. If you want to use the browser to find the gas stations closest to your position, you just have to write «gas stations near me» without the quotes.

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Google will return a list with the closest gas stations to our location from closest to furthest. If we want to establish the route to get to one or another gas station, we will click on the How to get there button so that the browser shows us the shortest route without using Google Maps. If we have Google Maps installed, the browser will open the application with the route to follow.

How to check if our browser has access to the location

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  • It is useless to use the browser installed on our device to find gas stations near our location if it does not have access to our location. To check it, we must perform the following steps:
  • We access the settings of our device.
  • Next, click on Applications.
  • Within Applications, we click on the name of our browser to access the permissions it has.
  • Next, click on Permissions and check if you have access to our location. If not, we activate them.

Google Maps

Cheap gas stations Google Maps

Use Google Maps to access the locations closest to our position is the fastest and easiest method. But, in addition, it is the best method to know the price of fuel at each gas station, which will allow us to decide which one we are most interested in visiting to refuel if we want to save a few euros.

To find the gas stations closest to my location with Google Maps, we must perform the following steps:

  • We open the Google Maps application.
  • In the top search box, we type gas stations.
  • Next, a list of the gas stations closest to our location will be displayed along with the price of fuel.
    • In the details of the gas station, only the price of gasoline will be displayed. If we want to see the price of diesel, we click on the name of the gas station to see all the prices.
  • From the details of the gas station, as well as from the list of results that the application offers us, we can click on the button How to get there to establish the route to follow.

Google Maps allows us to filter search results based on our location and the price of gas that fits our budget. To access the search filters for gas stations on Google Maps, we must click on the three horizontal lines that are shown to the right of the search box.

Petal Maps

Petal Maps

If your device is a Huawei without Google services, you cannot use Google Maps. Fortunately, that doesn't mean you can't access gas stations closest to your location. The easiest option is to use the browser that we have installed. Another, for using Petal Maps, Huawei's browser.

The main difference between Google Maps and Petal Maps when searching for gas stations near our location is that the Huawei application does not inform us about the price of fuel at each gas station.

If the important thing is to put gasoline before being left lying and not the price of gasoline, with Petal Maps it is more than enough if you do not have the option of Google.

If you don't like Google Maps or don't want to continue giving Google more data, you can use Petal Maps, as this application is available for any Android device, not only for Huawei device users.

To download Petal Maps, you must first download the Huawei App Gallery through the following link. To find nearest gas stations, the process is the same as with Google Maps. We just have to enter Gas Stations in the search box so that, based on our location, the gas stations closest to our position are displayed.

Being a maps application, it is necessary, when installing it, to give the application location permissions so that it can offer us the exact information that we are looking for based on our location on the map.

OCU

OCU cheap gas stations

Another option, if you reside in Spain and do not use Google Maps or your device does not have Google services, is to use the website that the OCU (Organization of Consumers and Users) makes available to us to find the gas stations with the best price.

Through this link, you can set your address (with the postal code is enough), the search area in kilometers, the number of liters you want to refuel and the type of fuel. By clicking on Send, all the gas stations will be displayed along with the distance in kilometers and the price of the fuel that we have selected.

The list that is shown is organized by the price of the fuel selected from the cheapest to the most expensive, together with the total amount that the books that we want to refuel will cost us. If we click on the gas station that interests us, Google Maps will automatically open with the directions to follow to get to the gas station.

Alternatives

In the Play Store we can find a large number of applications that allow us to find the closest gas stations to our location along with the price. However, most of them do not update the price daily. And those that do, do not offer us any additional advantage that we cannot find in Google Maps.

Furthermore, they include a lot of advertisements that make using these applications very annoying. Of all the solutions that I have shown you in this article, the best is Google Maps, an application that you can use all over the world.

If you reside in Spain, the solution offered by the OCU is an excellent option to consider.


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