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It might be worth noting that Google Maps will no longer return results for these postal codes either, at least for me. Strangely, Google Maps does return results for some other people, including the creator of this issue. I am not sure if there is some regional caching at play here.

Thanks for the post.

Using a 4-digit number as the address input is often an ambiguous query, even within the context of a single country.

You can use Places Autocomplete as an alternative as it is designed to cope with ambiguous queries. Combined with its support to restrict results by country and types, it has proven able to find every single postal code (that exists in Google Maps). For example:

• https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/autocomplete/json?input=2013&types=(regions)&components=country:AT&key=YOUR_API_KEY
• https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/autocomplete/json?input=2020&types=(regions)&components=country:AT&key=YOUR_API_KEY
• https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/autocomplete/json?input=2014&types=(regions)&components=country:AT&key=YOUR_API_KEY

Please see https://issuetracker.google.com/75985322#comment20 for reference and more information.

That being said, we are now marking this report as a duplicate of issue https://issuetracker.google.com/75985322. All publicly available updates will be posted there. You can star that issue to get updates and feel free to comment for additional information.

We greatly appreciate your patience.

Recent improvements in our address geocoding systems have addressed this issue in most countries.

A few issues remain in certain countries with 4-digit postal codes, we will continue working on these and post updates here.

In the meantime, the correct results can be obtained from the Geocoding API using the format in comment #1 plus setting the language parameter to the local language of the region.

For instance, postal codes in Austria are still affected and yield ZERO_RESULTS when the request language preference is set to English (default):

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?components=country:at|postal_code:2013&language=en

{
   "results" : [],
   "status" : "ZERO_RESULTS"
}

Note: &language=en is added above to reflect the API's default language preference, which may be overriden by the Accept-Language header sent by web browsers when testing API requests manually (see https://issuetracker.google.com/35822155).

In contrast, the vast majority of postal codes (in Austria and other countries) yield the correct result when the request language preference is set to the local language (German in Austria):

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?components=country:at|postal_code:2013&language=de

"formatted_address" : "2013, Österreich",
"place_id" : "ChIJcT372HFpbUcR6NyHqvLactE",
"types" : [ "postal_code" ]

Hello I have the same issue (ZERO_RESULTS) in GB for some postcodes i.e. SW1V 3EN, M154YQ and M4 4AX. I have tested the API in your comment #4 and still receive ZERO_RESULTS. If you try any other valid postcode i.e. OX44UB the API will return data in the response.

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?components=country:gb|postal_code:SW1V3EN&language=en-gb&key=YOUR_API_KEY

Also tried autocomplete api but has the same result

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/autocomplete/json?input=SW1V3EN&components=country:GB&key=YOUR_API_KEY

Can you advise?