How to find the nearest pharmacy
- Press “Find near me” and allow location access, or type a street, town, station or postcode. You can also click anywhere on the map.
- Pick the tab you need: pharmacies and defibrillators within 3 km, or hospitals within 15 km. The number on each tab is how many were found.
- Check the hours and labels. Each result shows the opening hours as mapped, and labels such as “Dispenses prescriptions” or “Emergency department (A&E)” where they are recorded.
- Press Directions to open walking directions in Google Maps, or call the number shown before you set off.
Which pharmacy is open at night or on a Sunday?
Across much of Europe pharmacies share out-of-hours duty on a rota, so the late-night or Sunday pharmacy changes from day to day. The duty pharmacy is posted on the door or window of every pharmacy in the area, so the nearest one on the list will tell you where to go even when it is closed. National services also publish the rota:
- United Kingdom: call NHS 111, or use the NHS "Find a pharmacy" service on nhs.uk (England).
- Germany: the Apotheken-Notdienst search on aponet.de, run by the German pharmacists' association.
- France: call 3237, or ask the gendarmerie or police at night, for the pharmacie de garde.
- Italy and Spain: search for "farmacia di turno" or "farmacia de guardia" with your town; the regional health service or the local pharmacists' association publishes the rota.
Nearest hospital with an emergency department
The hospitals tab lists every hospital mapped within 15 km. Those marked Emergency department (A&E) have one recorded on OpenStreetMap; the label is called A&E in the UK, Notaufnahme in Germany and urgences in France. Many hospitals are not labelled either way, so if the nearest unlabelled hospital is much closer, a quick call or its website will tell you. For anything serious, call 112: an ambulance crew starts treatment on the way and knows which hospital is open for your problem.
Find a defibrillator (AED) near you
Public defibrillators hang in green cabinets at stations, shops, sports halls and town squares. The tool lists those mapped within 3 km, with notes such as indoors or outdoors, the floor, and where exactly it hangs when a volunteer recorded it. If someone collapses and is not breathing normally:
- Call 112 (999 in the UK) and put the phone on speaker.
- Start chest compressions: hard and fast in the middle of the chest, about two per second.
- Send someone else for the AED. Switch it on and follow its spoken instructions.
Some cabinets are locked, and the call handler gives you the code. A defibrillator in a shop or office is only reachable while the building is open; those marked “Customers only” may need staff to fetch it.
Where the data comes from
Every place comes from OpenStreetMap, the free map of the world built by volunteers, read through the Overpass API. Coverage of pharmacies and hospitals is very good in most European towns, and defibrillators have been added in large numbers by local first-responder groups. Our server keeps each area’s answer for up to a day, so a place added this morning may not show until tomorrow. When something is wrong, the “Details or fix” link under each result opens it on OpenStreetMap, where anyone can correct it.