IP Address Lookup
Look up any public IP address: country, region, city, coordinates, time zone, currency, and the ASN and organisation that owns the network.
Enter a public IPv4 or IPv6 address — 8.8.8.8 or 2001:4860:4860::8888.
IP location is approximate. It places the network, not the person — usually the right country, often the right city, and never a street address.
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All Network tools →This tool queries an external service to answer your request. Only the value you enter — such as a domain or IP address — is sent. Your other data stays on your device.
This tool reads public records — DNS, WHOIS and certificate data that registries and servers publish openly. It sends nothing to the host you enter and changes nothing there. Use it on infrastructure you own or are authorised to look into.
About the IP Address Lookup
Find out where an IP address is and which network it belongs to. Enter any public IPv4 or IPv6 address and get back the country, region and city, the coordinates and time zone, and — usually more useful — the autonomous system number and the organisation that actually owns the block.
Be clear about what IP location can and cannot tell you, because this is the thing most often misunderstood about it. Geolocation places a network, not a person. It works by mapping address blocks to the places their operators say they serve, which means the country is nearly always right, the city is often right, and anything finer is an estimate dressed up as a fact. The coordinates shown are frequently the centre of a city or even of a country rather than a real location — which is how a handful of unlucky addresses have had strangers turning up at their houses for years, because a database used a farm in Kansas as its default point for "somewhere in the United States". An IP address is not a street address and nothing here should ever be used as one.
Mobile and satellite connections are looser still. A phone on a cellular network is routed through infrastructure that can be in a different city or country from the handset, so a mobile address can place someone hundreds of miles from where they are standing. VPNs are simply honest about doing the same thing on purpose — if you want to know whether an address belongs to one, our VPN and Proxy Detector answers that specifically.
The network fields are the ones professionals actually use. The ASN identifies the network operator, and the organisation name tells you whether you are looking at a residential ISP, a mobile carrier, a hosting company or a cloud provider. That distinction answers far more real questions than the city does: traffic from a data centre behaving like a person is worth a second look, and traffic from a residential ISP behaving like a data centre is worth one too. For the registry record and the abuse contact behind a block, use our IP WHOIS tool.
How to use the IP Address Lookup
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Enter an IP address
Type any public IPv4 or IPv6 address. A port or a CIDR suffix pasted from a log or a routing table is fine — 8.8.8.8:53 and 8.8.8.0/24 both work.
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Run the lookup
Complete the verification check and press Look up IP. The lookup is made when you ask, so the result reflects the current allocation.
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Read the network first
The ASN and organisation tell you who operates the address and whether it is a residential ISP, a mobile carrier or a data centre. That is usually the answer people actually needed.
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Treat the location as approximate
Country is reliable, city is usually close, coordinates are an estimate. Never treat an IP location as a street address — it identifies a network, not a person.
Frequently asked questions
How accurate is IP geolocation, really?
Country is right the large majority of the time. City is often right for fixed broadband and frequently wrong for mobile, satellite and corporate networks, where traffic can be routed through infrastructure in another region entirely. Coordinates are the least reliable part of all: they are commonly the centre of a city or country rather than a real position, and a default point for a whole country has in the past sent police and strangers to the homes of people who had nothing to do with anything.
Can I find out who a person is from their IP address?
No, and no tool can. An IP address identifies a network connection, not a person. It tells you which operator holds the block and roughly where that block is served. Linking an address to a subscriber at a particular moment requires the ISP's own logs, which they release only to law enforcement with a valid legal order. Anything claiming to give you a name and address from an IP is either guessing or lying.
Why does it show the wrong city for my own address?
Usually because your ISP routes your traffic through a regional hub, and the database maps your block to where that hub is rather than where you are. It is especially common on mobile networks and with smaller ISPs that were allocated addresses from a larger provider's range. You can often get it corrected: the major geolocation databases have public correction forms, though changes take weeks to propagate.
What is an ASN and why does it matter more than the city?
An Autonomous System Number identifies a network operator — an ISP, a hosting company, a large organisation running its own network. It is the most reliable field in the whole result because it comes from routing data rather than from an estimate. It also answers the question people usually actually have: whether traffic is coming from a residential connection, a mobile carrier or a data centre, which matters far more for most purposes than which city a database thinks it is in.
Can I look up a private address like 192.168.1.1?
No, and the tool refuses them deliberately. Private addresses exist inside millions of separate networks simultaneously — your router and mine may both be 192.168.1.1 — so there is no global answer to give. The refusal also covers reserved ranges such as the cloud metadata address, which no public lookup tool has any business reporting on.
Do you keep the addresses I look up?
No. The address is sent to the lookup service and is not written to our database or our logs. We record that an IP lookup happened so we know the tool is used, with no record of which address, who asked, or what came back.