Network Tool
IP Geolocation
Geolocate any IPv4 or IPv6 address — ISP, organization, city, country, ASN, and timezone.
Enter an IPv4 or IPv6 address to look up its geolocation, ISP, and ASN — or leave blank to look up your own public IP.
This free IP geolocation tool shows the approximate physical location, ISP, ASN, and organization associated with any IPv4 or IPv6 address. Geolocation is an approximation derived from RIR allocation data and ISP-reported information — it is useful for network troubleshooting and traffic analysis, but should not be treated as a precise physical address. Lookups run via our API; no browser location data is used.
How IP geolocation works
Geolocation databases are built by cross-referencing RIR (Regional Internet Registry) allocation records, BGP routing data, and ISP-reported location information. When an ISP receives an IP block, they register the block with a RIR along with contact and country data. Geolocation providers augment this with active probing, user-contributed corrections, and commercial data feeds. The result is reasonably accurate at the country and sometimes city level, but the mapping is inferential — no IP address has a GPS coordinate embedded in it.
Accuracy caveats — mobile, VPN, and CGNAT
Several factors cause IP geolocation to report a location far from the actual user. Mobile networks route traffic through centralized carrier gateways — a user in Seattle on a national carrier may show up as Denver or Dallas. VPNs and proxies replace the user\'s IP with the exit node\'s IP, so geolocation returns the VPN server\'s location. CGNAT (Carrier-Grade NAT) assigns one public IP to thousands of users, further decoupling the IP from any physical location. City-level accuracy across public internet traffic is typically 50-80% depending on the database and region.
IPv4 vs. IPv6 geolocation
IPv4 geolocation databases are mature and have dense coverage because the address space is fully allocated and ISPs have registered their blocks for years. IPv6 coverage is improving but remains less precise in some regions: large /32 or /48 allocations to ISPs are sometimes mapped only to the country or city where the ISP\'s headquarters is registered, not where the specific prefix is deployed. Both are supported by this tool, but treat IPv6 city-level results with additional skepticism.
Frequently asked questions
How accurate is IP geolocation?+
Country-level accuracy is generally above 95% for public IPv4. City-level accuracy drops to roughly 50-80% depending on the provider and region. The tool returns a location estimate, not a verified physical address.
Why is my location showing up wrong?+
Common reasons: you are behind a VPN or proxy (the exit node\'s location is shown), your ISP uses CGNAT (a shared public IP maps to the ISP\'s routing hub, not your location), or the geolocation database has stale allocation data. ISPs occasionally renumber and databases take time to update.
Does it work for IPv6 addresses?+
Yes. Both IPv4 and IPv6 lookups are supported. IPv6 geolocation data is less granular in some regions because large prefix allocations are registered at the ISP level rather than by deployment location.
Is my current IP address being tracked?+
No. The tool performs a one-time lookup for the IP you submit and does not log or store the query beyond what is needed to return the result.