IP Geolocation

Determine country, city, provider and coordinates for any IP address.

IP geolocation — how to find the location of an IP address

Find where an IP address is located: country, region, city, coordinates and time zone, plus ISP, organisation and ASN. The tool flags mobile networks, proxies/VPNs and data-centre addresses. Data comes from the ip-api.com geolocation database: the country is usually right, the city only approximate.

Country, region, city and postal code

Coordinates on a map and time zone

ISP, organisation and ASN

Flags: mobile network, proxy/VPN, data centre

How to Use

Enter an IPv4 or IPv6 address or a domain (your own IP is on the “What is my IP” page)
Review the country, region, city and the map pin
Check the ISP, ASN and any VPN or data-centre flag

FAQ

Enter an IPv4 or IPv6 address or a domain above. The tool shows the country, region, city, map coordinates, time zone and ISP. For a domain it uses the IPv4 address from DNS, so you see the server or CDN, not the company's office.

The country is usually right. The city is often wrong: the database returns the ISP's hub or a nearby large city, and on mobile data the error can be hundreds of kilometres. Coordinates are a reference point, not an address.

No. Public databases only know the approximate area and the ISP. Only the ISP knows who had the address, and it discloses that to law enforcement.

Common reasons are a VPN or proxy, mobile data routed through a few carrier gateways, and CDNs: the address of a site behind Cloudflare belongs to a CDN edge, not the server. If the database is wrong, the correction goes to its owner or your ISP.

Look at the proxy/VPN and hosting/data-centre flags under the address and at the Organisation field. The database sets the flags and does not always catch new VPN servers or residential proxies.

How IP geolocation works

An IP address carries no coordinates. The location comes from geolocation databases that map address ranges to places using registry records (RIPE NCC, ARIN and the other RIRs), data from ISPs, latency measurements and geofeeds published by the networks themselves. This tool queries such a database through ip-api.com, which is why country, region and city names are shown in English.

You can enter an IPv4 address, an IPv6 address or a domain. For a domain, the tool first resolves its IPv4 address (the first A record) and then locates that address: the server, host or CDN, not the company's office.

What the result shows

Country, region, city and postal code. City and postal code are the least reliable fields, see below.
Coordinates. A reference point, usually the centre of a city or district. The map pin does not mark a building or street.
Time zone in IANA format, such as Europe/London.
ISP, organisation and ASN. Who assigned the address and which autonomous system announces it. More about the network in the ASN lookup.
Flags for mobile network, proxy/VPN and hosting/data centre. The database sets them and does not catch everything: a fresh VPN server or a residential proxy can come back unflagged.

How accurate is IP geolocation?

Level	How far to trust it
Country	Usually right. Wrong for VPNs and proxies, satellite internet, corporate networks with a single exit point and address blocks that recently changed hands.
Region	Often right for home broadband. Sometimes shows where the ISP is registered instead.
City	Frequently wrong. The database returns the ISP's hub or the nearest large city. On mobile data an error of a few hundred kilometres is normal.
Coordinates, postal code	An approximation. You cannot find a house or a person with it.

You also cannot identify a person from an IP address. Only the ISP knows who had the address at a given moment, and it discloses that to law enforcement, not to lookups on the internet.

When the result is not about the user at all

VPNs and proxies. You see the exit server, not the person behind it.
Tor and browser privacy relays. The address belongs to an exit node that can be in any country.
Mobile data and CGNAT. Carriers route thousands of subscribers through a few gateways per country, so they all appear to live in the gateway's city.
CDNs and clouds. Enter the domain of a site behind Cloudflare or another CDN and you get a CDN edge. The same anycast address answers from dozens of cities, so the city means nothing here. To see every address of a domain with a CDN flag, use domain to IP lookup.

Why site owners and SEOs use it

Reading server logs. A visitor flagged as hosting/data centre that never loads images or scripts is almost always a bot.
Before checking local rankings. Make sure your VPN really exits in the country you want before you look at search results.
Where a site's server is. Useful when choosing hosting or debugging speed: a server on another continent adds latency to every request. For rankings in a country, server location is secondary; Google relies first on the domain, hreflang, language and page content.
Fraud checks. An order billed in one country from a data-centre IP in another deserves a manual look, not an automatic rejection.

My IP shows the wrong city. How do I fix it?

Websites see whatever the geolocation databases say, so the fix has to happen in the databases. Major providers (MaxMind, IP2Location, ipinfo and others) have correction forms, and your ISP can update its geofeed. Changes take time to spread because databases update on a schedule. Check your current address on What is my IP, and see whether it is on spam lists with the IP blacklist check.