IP Address Lookup

What is my IP address? Yours is shown below, automatically — the public address every website sees when you visit, together with the location and network it maps to. This free IP lookup also checks any other address you type in: enter an IPv4 or IPv6 address from a server log, an email header or an analytics report, and you will see its country, city, region, timezone, coordinates and the organisation that owns the block (its ISP or hosting company). Security teams use this to sanity-check suspicious logins, marketers use it to verify traffic geography, and anyone on a support call uses it to prove which network they are really on — VPN on or off.

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Look up any IP address

How to use this tool

  1. Read your own IP panel — it loads automatically.
  2. Type any other IP address to look it up.
  3. See country, city, timezone and coordinates.
  4. Check the organisation that owns the address block.

Worked example

An unfamiliar login from a log resolves to a hosting company in another country — the tell-tale sign of a VPN or a bot, not a travelling customer.

Frequently asked questions

How accurate is IP geolocation?

Country-level location is very reliable (95%+). City-level is approximate — typically right within a few tens of kilometres for fixed broadband, and less precise for mobile networks, whose traffic may exit through a gateway in another city entirely. Treat the city as "the network's registered location", not a street address: IP lookup can never pinpoint a house, and any service claiming otherwise is overselling estimation data.

Why does my IP location show a different city from where I am?

Three usual reasons: your provider routes traffic through a regional gateway (common with mobile and rural broadband); you are on a VPN or your employer's network, so the internet sees that exit point, not your desk; or the address block was recently reassigned and databases have not caught up. The "your IP" panel above is genuinely useful here — it shows the internet's view of you, which is what websites and geo-restrictions act on.

What is the difference between IPv4 and IPv6?

IPv4 addresses look like 8.8.8.8 — four numbers — and there are about 4.3 billion of them, which ran out years ago; sharing and carrier-grade NAT are the workarounds, which is why your whole household (and sometimes half your street) shares one public IPv4. IPv6 addresses are long hexadecimal strings with colons, with effectively unlimited supply; modern networks increasingly assign them directly to each device. This lookup handles both.

Can someone find my home address or identity from my IP?

No — not from the address alone. An IP reveals the provider and an approximate area; mapping it to a named subscriber requires the provider's own records, which they release to authorities through legal process, not to websites or lookup tools. Your IP is still worth treating as light personal data (it can link your sessions together), which a VPN addresses by substituting its own address — at the cost of trusting the VPN instead.

Related tools: decode your browser's identity with the user agent parser, and check your connection quality with the internet speed test.

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