+1 from Melbourne, Australia is full of variable speed limits. School zones drop to 40 at set times, strip shopping centres change through the day, and the electronic signs on the freeways change with traffic, roadworks and weather. You can drive the same road twice in one day and have two different limits.

It’s always up to the driver to know the limit and stick to it. No argument there. But people use Waze because it helps, and a speed limit that’s wrong at the times that matter most works against them. Right now the times when you most need to slow down, like school pick-up, are the exact times Waze shows the higher limit.

Getting it wrong here is expensive. The fines are big, you lose demerit points, and the mobile speed cameras are in unmarked cars. You often don’t know you’ve been caught until the letter turns up a couple of weeks later.

I understand time-based limits take work to build. In the meantime, an easy fix would be to show the lower limit wherever a road has more than one. If I’m a bit under the limit at midnight, nobody cares. If I’m over it outside a school at 3:30, that’s a fine, and it’s a safety issue too.

Please make this a priority. I am suprised that after 9 years this is still not a feature!

This feature is imperative to improving map reliability, navigation and, most importantly, road safety. Displaying the higher speed limit when a lower limit applies during certain times of the day is downright dangerous. Drivers rely on Waze to provide accurate and reliable information, and displaying an incorrect speed limit undermines that reliability and potentially puts road users at risk. Time-dependent speed limits would be a significant improvement and should be a priority.

I'm submitting this as the fines for speeding can be quite high.

@Mark Snell, without trying to take away from the importance of this suggested feature, the driver is solely responsible for abiding by the law..

Waze is inadvertently encouraging people to break the law by either not implementing this or continuing to show the higher limit.

2026 and we still don’t have this feature!!

Agree with comments below that we need the variable feature or post the lower limit. Need to avoid inadvertently speeding

We need this feature in Melbourne. At least put the slowest speed rather than the midnight maximum.

How is it 2026 and variable speed isn't implemented yet?

I think this is an extremely critical issue for Australia. There are many roads that have variable speed limits and it almost makes the use of Waze impractical without it.

This would really be fantastic to have and would better alert drivers of changes in speed limits especially when the speed limit sign can be missed / not the easiest to see

This would be a great addition in Australia, especially since the government is starting to making a lot of places variable speed limit zones between certain times.not just school zones.

Would love this to have more attention. Speeding fines are insane, and it's difficult to trust Waze to have the correct speed limit due to the variable zones.

@Totallyt there's no plans in Australia to change this to the lower speed because of a variable speed limit. All I can say is Waze has plans to implement it to school zones atm and we hope to see this feature rolled out later this year. https://www.youtube.com/live/wWJX_xTj5Ec?si=cI-seHjNWqZrl_i9&t=573

This is a 💯 critical. @numbermaniac we get beeped once within the same drive for going over the Waze limit. I’m sure most of us won’t mind getting the new very irritating ’double beep’ by going over the lower set limit than running over somebody while driving the upper limit during a lower limit time dependent zone.
In short, we don’t mind Waze showing the lower limit when visually we can see that it’s a higher limit.

Please, please, please put more effort in the deveolpment of time based speed limits.

Hi, can you review this request?

@Adele the reason we don't show the lower limit is because, when the higher speed limit is in effect, if Waze is showing the lower limit, every driver will keep getting beeped at by Waze for exceeding the speed limit, even when they're not.

It used to show the variable speeds and warn if speeding. Why remove such a good thing. Half the time I'm not sure what time in afternoon it is and sometimes miss the first school zone signs. BRING IT BACK 🤬. Unless you don't want anyone to use anymore.

waze is now useless in australia since they’ve made the choice to show the higher of the two speed limits. there’s a speed trap near my house and waze always used to show the lower limit of 40 but now they’ve changed it to 60 and many who don’t know the area will get demerit points because of this. if waze isn’t able to show variable speed limits can they at least go back to showing the lower limit? especially in the presence of speed cameras?