What Is My IP Address?
See the public IP address your connection is using right now, along with your provider, connection type and approximate location. Your address is never stored.
About this connection
Your address is read from the request your browser made and is never written to our database or our logs.
The connection details below are looked up from a geolocation provider, so your address is sent there to be answered. The result is cached against a salted daily hash, never against your address.
If you are on a VPN, a proxy or a corporate network, this is that network's address rather than your own — which is exactly what everyone else on the internet sees.
Location is estimated from your network, not measured from your device. The country is usually reliable; the city is an approximation and can be some distance out, particularly on mobile networks.
Related tools
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 What Is My IP
Your public IP address is shown above. It is the address the rest of the internet sees when you connect to anything — every website you visit, every app on your phone, every server you talk to receives it, because without it there is nowhere to send the reply.
The address itself takes no work to find. Your browser had to tell our server where to send this page in order to ask for it, so we are simply showing you what it said — there is no lookup involved in that part and nothing about it is written down. The details underneath it are a different matter: your internet provider, connection type and approximate location come from a geolocation service we query on your behalf, so your address is sent there to be answered. That is the only thing on this page that leaves our server, and the result is held briefly against a scrambled identifier so that reloading does not ask again.
Is it a problem that websites can see this? Not by itself. An IP address is routing information, not an identity: it tells a site roughly which network you are on and which country you are in, and that is the extent of it. It does not carry your name, and no site can turn it into one — the mapping from address to subscriber exists only in your provider's own records, which they release to law enforcement with a court order rather than to anybody who asks. What it does allow is coarse geolocation and a weak signal for tracking across sites, which is one of several reasons people use a VPN.
If the address shown is not what you expected, the usual explanations are straightforward. On a VPN or a corporate network you will see that network's address rather than your own, which is the entire point of using one. On mobile data you will often see an address shared with thousands of other subscribers, because carriers ran out of IPv4 addresses years ago. And most home connections have a dynamic address that changes when the router restarts or the lease expires, so the one here today may not be the one here next week.
Everyone on your home or office network shares this same public address. The devices behind the router each have their own private address — usually starting 192.168 or 10 — which is meaningful only inside that network and is not visible from outside it.
How to use the What Is My IP
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Read the address
It is at the top of this page. Nothing to press — it was already in the request your browser made, so it appeared with the page itself.
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Copy it if you need it
The copy button puts it on your clipboard. This is what a support desk or a firewall allow-list is usually asking for when someone asks for "your IP".
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Read the connection details
Your provider, connection type and approximate location appear below the address. They are looked up once when the page loads, so there is nothing to press.
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Look into it further
Use our IP Address Lookup to see the location and network behind it, or the VPN & Proxy Detector to check how it is classified.
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Check again after a change
Reload after connecting to a VPN, restarting your router or switching between wifi and mobile data, and you will usually see a different address.
Frequently asked questions
Can someone find my home address from my IP?
No. IP geolocation places a network, not a person, and it is typically accurate to a city at best — often only to a region, and on mobile networks sometimes to the wrong one entirely. The link between an address and a subscriber exists only in your internet provider's records, and they hand that over to law enforcement with a valid legal order, not to members of the public or to websites. Anything claiming to show a street address from an IP is guessing.
Why does my IP address keep changing?
Most home connections are given a dynamic address, leased from the provider's pool and reassigned periodically. It commonly changes when your router restarts, when the lease expires, or after a prolonged outage. A static address that never changes is usually a paid business option. On mobile data it can change several times a day as you move between parts of the network.
Why is my IP shown in a different country from where I am?
Either you are using a VPN or proxy, which is exactly what it is meant to do, or your provider is routing your traffic through infrastructure elsewhere. The second is common with smaller ISPs, satellite connections and some mobile carriers, and it happens because the geolocation database maps your address block to wherever the operator registered it rather than to where you are sitting.
What is the difference between this address and 192.168.1.x on my computer?
The one on this page is your public address — what the internet sees, shared by every device on your network. The 192.168 or 10.x address on your computer is a private one, assigned by your router, and it is meaningful only inside your own network. Millions of networks use the same private ranges simultaneously, which is why they cannot be looked up publicly and why our IP tools refuse them.
Should I hide my IP address?
For most people, most of the time, it is not something to worry about — every site you visit needs it to send you anything at all. A VPN is worth considering if you are on public wifi, if you do not want your provider building a record of the sites you visit, or if you have a specific reason to avoid coarse location tracking. It is a privacy improvement rather than a security necessity for ordinary browsing.
Do you store or log the address shown on this page?
No. It is read from the request your browser made, displayed, and discarded when the page finishes rendering — it is never written to our database or our logs. The connection details below it do involve sending your address to the geolocation provider that answers them, because there is no way to look something up without saying what to look up. That result is cached for a day so a reload does not ask again, and the cache is keyed on a salted hash that rotates daily rather than on the address itself, so nothing on our disk records who asked.
Where do the provider and location details come from?
A commercial IP geolocation service, queried once when the page loads. It maps address blocks to the networks that registered them, which is how it knows your internet provider, the kind of connection you are on and roughly where that network operates. It is inference from public registry data and commercial datasets, not anything read from your device — which is why the location comes with an accuracy figure rather than a pin on a street.
Why does the page show only one of my two addresses?
Most connections have both an IPv4 and an IPv6 address, but a server only ever sees the one your browser actually used to reach it. There is nothing in the request that reveals the other. Showing both requires connecting a second time to a hostname that answers on the other family alone, which this page does when those hostnames are configured — otherwise it shows the one address it can genuinely prove.