Core update
March 2025 core update
Rolled out 13 Mar – 27 Mar 2025, 13 days, 20 hours. Google’s page for it
What Google posted
Newest first. Times are UTC, with the Pacific time Google shows.
· 27 Mar 2025, 05:34 PDT
The rollout was complete as of March 27, 2025.
· 13 Mar 2025, 09:23 PDT
Released the March 2025 core update (developers.google.com). The rollout may take up to 2 weeks to complete.
Next to other core updates
Google’s 12th core update on its status dashboard, which lists them from November 2021.
It took 13 days, 20 hours. Of the 11 core updates before it, 8 took longer and 3 were shorter; they averaged 18 days, 15 hours.
- Before it: December 2024 core update, 12 Dec 2024
- After it: June 2025 core update, 30 Jun 2025
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