Regular hours are your default week
Google keeps several kinds of hours on a profile, and mixing them up causes most of the trouble. Your main hours are the normal week: what’s true most Mondays, most Saturdays. Holidays and one-off days belong in special hours. Extra service windows like delivery or a drive-through go in more hours. Long shutdowns, like a renovation or an off-season, use the temporarily closed status, not a week of unticked days. And none of these settings hides a home address or moves your pin; those live elsewhere in the profile.
Change main hours only when your normal week changes: new staff schedule, a new season you’ll keep for months, opening on Sundays from now on. If you edit your weekly hours to cover next Thursday’s early close, you’ll have to remember to change them back, and customers will see the wrong hours if you forget.
Getting the details right
A few settings trip people up:
- Days off. Leave the box unticked for any day you’re closed. That shows as closed, rather than as missing information.
- Split days. For a midday break, add two entries for the same day. One long block that ignores the break sends people to a locked door.
- All-day opening. Choose Opens at and then 24 hours for each day it applies to, instead of typing midnight to midnight.
Where it’s offered, the Generate hours box lets you type something like “weekdays 8 to 6, Saturday 9 to 2” and builds the schedule. It’s only in select regions and languages, and you should check each day before saving.
What customers see after you change
Google may show customers a message on your profile that your hours were updated, and add a post to the Updates tab in the mobile app. If you’d rather not announce it, or want to add context like “now open Sundays,” you can edit or delete that post.
If your hours change back
Google’s hours page doesn’t give a time frame for edits to show. If your hours look wrong a day or two later, open Hours again and confirm what’s saved. It also helps to make your website, your door sign and your other directory listings show the same times, so nobody has a reason to suggest different ones.
If it doesn't work
- The change is only for a holiday or one odd day: don't touch your regular hours. Use Special hours, which revert on their own.
- Your hours keep reverting or show something else: Google's hours page doesn't explain why. Re-enter them, and see our page on edits that don't show.
- You'll be shut for more than a week: mark the business Temporarily closed instead of blanking out your hours.
- You don't want the auto-generated update post: edit it to add detail, or delete it to remove the update message and post.
Questions owners ask
Can I type my hours in plain words instead of using dropdowns?
In some regions and languages, yes. Google offers a Generate hours box where you describe your hours and select Generate hours. Check the result carefully before you save, since it's only offered in select places.
How do I show a lunch break?
Enter two sets of hours for the same day, for example one ending when you close for lunch and one starting when you reopen. Google displays both, so customers know not to come by in between.
Will customers be told I changed my hours?
Possibly. Google says after you update hours, customers may see a message on your profile and a post on the Updates tab in the mobile app. You can edit that post or delete it.
Can I hide my hours completely?
Google's reopening page describes an Open with no main hours choice that hides hours on your profile. Keep in mind special hours and more hours only display when main hours are set.
Sources
- Edit your business hours (support.google.com)
- Mark your business as reopened (support.google.com)
- How to set Special hours (support.google.com)
Checked 13 Nov 2026. When the platform changes its process we update this page and log it in What changed.