Remove padding or margins from Google Charts

Answer 1

I arrived here like most people with this same issue, and left shocked that none of the answer even remotely worked.

For anyone interested, here is the actual solution:

... //rest of options
width: '100%',
height: '350',
chartArea:{
    left:5,
    top: 20,
    width: '100%',
    height: '350',
}
... //rest of options

The key here has nothing to do with the "left" or "top" values. But rather that the:

Dimensions of both the chart and chart-area are SET and set to the SAME VALUE

As an amendment to my answer. The above will indeed solve the "excessive" padding/margin/whitespace problem. However, if you wish to include axes labels and/or a legend you will need to reduce the height & width of the chart area so something slightly below the outer width/height. This will "tell" the chart API that there is sufficient room to display these properties. Otherwise it will happily exclude them.