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In such a situation, Google introduced the Community Mobility Reports, which use anonymized and aggregated location data to monitor changes in movement across various location categories. These mobility trends provide important insights that help inform timely public health interventions and support data-driven decisions during and after the pandemic. This study aims to forecast human mobility trends in Thailand during the COVID-19 pandemic using data from Google\u2019s reports. Three forecasting models were applied: Facebook Prophet, ARIMA, and Feature Engineered XGBoost. The Granger Causality Test was used to examine the relationship between mobility patterns and COVID-19 case numbers across different phases of lockdown. The results indicated that Feature Engineered XGBoost demonstrated the highest overall accuracy in forecasting mobility trends across all six location categories. 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