📍 IP Geolocation Lookup

Your public IP address

Look up any other IP below — country, region, city and the network that owns it. Geolocation is an estimate based on registry and routing data, not a precise position, and VPNs or mobile carriers will often report the wrong city entirely.

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Where the location actually comes from

The address is checked for IPv4 or IPv6 shape in your browser, then sent to our server, which queries a geolocation database and returns whatever fields it holds - country, region, city, postal code, timezone, ISP and ASN. Nothing is measured. The database is built from what the regional registries publish about who was allocated a block, and from how traffic to it is routed:

8.8.8.8              -> US, Google LLC, AS15169
2001:4860:4860::8888 -> the same network, IPv6 form

Use my IP asks our server what address your request arrived from, then looks that up - so it shows your public address, not the 192.168.x.x your router gave you.

Why the city is often wrong

Country is usually right. City is a different matter: an ISP that registers one block for a whole region puts every customer in it at the regional centre, often hundreds of kilometres away. Mobile carriers place you at the gateway your traffic exits, a VPN reports its exit server, and cloud ranges often return only a country.

Latitude and longitude are the centre of the matched range, not a position. When a database has only a country, some providers return that country's geographic midpoint - which is how a household in Kansas became the default answer for every unlocatable US address.

Frequently asked questions

Why does my IP address show the wrong city?

Because the answer describes the address block, not you. Your ISP registered the block to one city, or routes your traffic out through another. Nothing on your device changes it - the ISP has to update its registry entry.

Can an IP address be traced to a street address?

Not from public data. City and ISP are the practical limit. Linking an address to a subscriber requires the ISP's own logs, which are released to law enforcement on a legal request.

Why does a private IP return no location?

Ranges like 10.0.0.0/8 and 192.168.0.0/16 are reserved for local networks and never routed, so no registry allocates them. Use "Use my IP" to get your public address instead.