IP Address Lookup
Look up the geographic location, ISP, and timezone of any IP address. Shows country, city, coordinates, and an interactive map.
How to Use
- Leave the input blank and click Look Up to find your own IP location
- Enter any IPv4 or IPv6 address to look up its location
- Press Enter or click Look Up to run the query
Frequently Asked Questions
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How accurate is the IP location?
IP geolocation is accurate to the country level in nearly all cases. City-level accuracy varies — it's typically within 25–50 km for most IPs, but can be less precise for mobile networks, VPNs, or corporate proxies.
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Why does my IP show a different city?
ISPs often route traffic through regional hubs, so your IP may be geolocated to the ISP's nearest data center rather than your exact city. VPNs and proxies will show the location of the VPN server.
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Does this work with IPv6?
Yes, both IPv4 (e.g. 8.8.8.8) and IPv6 addresses are supported.
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Is my query logged?
Lookups are sent directly to ip.guide from your browser. This tool does not store or log any IP addresses.
What Is IP Geolocation?
Every device connected to the internet has an IP address — a unique numerical label assigned by its Internet Service Provider (ISP). IP geolocation is the process of determining the approximate physical location of a device based on its IP address.
The geolocation database is built and maintained by mapping IP address ranges to known locations. ISPs register their address blocks with regional internet registries (ARIN, RIPE, APNIC, etc.) with associated organization and country information. Additional location data is gathered through network measurements, user-reported data, and commercial partnerships.
What Information Can Be Derived from an IP Address?
A successful IP lookup typically reveals:
- Country and region/state — highly reliable, nearly always accurate
- City — moderately reliable, accurate to within 25–50 km for most residential IPs
- ISP and organization name — the company that owns the IP block
- Autonomous System Number (ASN) — the network routing identifier
- Timezone — derived from the country/region
- Approximate coordinates — latitude/longitude, useful for mapping
What IP addresses cannot reveal: your street address, your name, your device details, or any personal information. IP geolocation is inherently approximate.
Why Might the Location Be Wrong?
ISP routing: Large ISPs often route all customer traffic through a regional hub or data center. Your IP may be registered to that hub, not your actual city.
VPNs and proxies: If you're using a VPN, the lookup returns the location of the VPN server, not your actual location.
Mobile networks: Mobile carriers use shared IP pools that may be geolocated to the carrier's headquarters city rather than where the device is actually located.
Corporate networks: Employees connecting through a company VPN or proxy will show the company's office location.
Satellite and fixed wireless: Services like Starlink assign IPs that may not reflect geographic location at all.
Common Use Cases
Fraud detection: E-commerce and financial services use IP geolocation to flag transactions where the billing address country doesn't match the IP country.
Content localization: Websites use IP location to serve language-appropriate content, local pricing, or region-specific promotions.
Access control: Some services restrict content to specific countries (geo-blocking) based on IP location.
Network diagnostics: Determining the location of a server, CDN node, or suspicious connection source.
Security analysis: Identifying the origin of unauthorized access attempts in server logs.
IPv4 vs. IPv6
IPv4 addresses are 32-bit numbers written as four decimal octets (e.g., 192.168.1.1). The IPv4 address space has approximately 4.3 billion addresses — a number that has been exhausted at the regional level, driving the transition to IPv6.
IPv6 addresses are 128-bit numbers written in hexadecimal groups separated by colons (e.g., 2001:0db8:85a3::8a2e:0370:7334). IPv6 provides approximately 340 undecillion addresses — enough to assign billions of addresses to every person on Earth.