IP-based estimate
Your public IP points to a likely city, region, network owner, and routing footprint. It may reflect your ISP, VPN, mobile gateway, or company edge.
IP location, live map context, and optional device compare
What's my location?
See the approximate place websites infer from your connection, then compare it with precise device coordinates only when you choose.
Finding your network location
Automatic result
Locating your connection…
IP-based location is approximate and may reflect your ISP, VPN, or network gateway.
Public IP
Checking…
- Country
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- Local time
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- Network
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- Privacy signal
- Checking
Live map context
World locator
Only in this tab
Device location
- Coordinates
—- Distance from IP estimate
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How close is this to your real location?
Compare the estimate with what your device can report.
IP location is an estimate. It can identify a city or region, but not your precise device position.
Device location
Browser geolocation asks for permission only after you click. When available, it can use GPS, Wi-Fi, and local signals to get much closer to the device itself.
Why they differ
Carrier-grade NAT, hosted infrastructure, stale geolocation data, and privacy tools can make an IP estimate land far from where the device is actually standing.
Location readout
Where the IP points
Network and privacy
How the connection looks
Routing and evidence
What the provider reported
Reported signals
Quick actions
Every check stays on one page, one tap away.
Page-native actions only: anchors, sample lookups, privacy terms, and the live health endpoint.
My IP result
Jump back to the live result card and copy the current public IP in one click.
Open result IP lookupGo straight to the input field and run another public IPv4 or IPv6 query.
Open input Precise compareAsk the browser for device location and compare it with the network estimate on the same map.
Use GPS DetailsRead the routed prefix, network role, timezone, confidence, and evidence grouped below.
Read evidence Service healthOpen the live health endpoint used to verify the application is responding.
Open endpoint Privacy termsRead how IP-based estimates work here, where GPS stays, and what the map provider can see.
Open termsLearn more
Three practical ways to interpret the result before you overtrust it.
Location accuracy
Wrong city does not always mean wrong data.
An IP address often maps to the network edge that served you, not the room your device is in. That is normal for many residential, mobile, and hosted routes.
Read the live location evidenceDevice comparison
GPS and browser geolocation answer a different question.
If you need the device position instead of the network footprint, compare the map after pressing the precise-location button and granting permission.
Run the compare nowNetwork role
Public resolvers, VPNs, and cloud edges leave different clues.
The network, privacy, and routing groups help explain whether the address looks residential, shared, hosted, or otherwise different from a normal home line.
FAQs
Frequently asked questions about this location result.
How accurate is the IP-based result?
Usually accurate to a city or region, sometimes less. It reflects network registration and routing more than the exact device position.
Why can the map show the wrong city?
ISPs, mobile carriers, VPN exits, corporate gateways, and stale geolocation records can all shift the estimate toward a nearby or provider-owned location.
Do you send my device coordinates to the API?
No. Device latitude, longitude, and accuracy stay in the current tab. Only the browser and the map tile provider see the viewed map area needed to render the comparison.
Can I share a lookup?
Yes. Shared links include only the public IP query through the ?ip= parameter. They never include optional device coordinates.
What kinds of addresses are accepted?
One public IPv4 or IPv6 literal. Hostnames, URLs, private ranges, CIDR blocks, and port numbers are intentionally rejected.
What should I use for a real physical location?
Use the precise-location button and your browser's geolocation permission. IP geolocation is not a substitute for GPS or a verified street address.