IP Lookup
Look up geolocation, ISP, timezone, and organisation for any IP address — or instantly find your own public IP.
Click What's my IP? to see your own IP address and location, or enter any IPv4/IPv6 address to look up its geolocation, ISP, and timezone.
What is IP Lookup?
IP Lookup returns the geolocation and network details for any IPv4 or IPv6 address: country, region, city, postal code, ISP, organisation, timezone, and coordinates. Leave the field blank and click 'What's my IP?' to look up your own public IP address.
IP geolocation is used in fraud detection, content personalisation, access control, rate limiting, and network diagnostics. Results are sourced from ipwho.is, a free geolocation API. Accuracy is typically at the city level for residential IPs and at the ISP/organisation level for data-centre IPs.
Common Use Cases
- Finding your own public IP address when working behind a router or VPN
- Investigating a suspicious IP from server logs or failed login attempts
- Verifying a VPN server is routing traffic through the expected country
- Confirming the ISP and organisation behind a specific IP during network debugging
- Checking geolocation accuracy for an IP before using it in access-control rules
How to Use IP Lookup
- Click 'What's my IP?' to instantly see your own public IP address and location.
- Or enter any IPv4 or IPv6 address in the field and click Lookup.
- View country, city, ISP, timezone, coordinates, and a link to the location on Google Maps.
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FAQ
What is my public IP address?
Your public IP address is the address assigned to your router by your ISP — it is what websites and servers see when you connect to them. It differs from your private/local IP (like 192.168.x.x) which is only visible on your local network. Click 'What's my IP?' to see your current public address.
How accurate is IP geolocation?
IP geolocation is typically accurate at the country level (99%+), reliable at the region/state level (85–90%), and approximate at the city level (50–80%). It is not precise enough to pinpoint a street address. Data-centre and cloud provider IPs are usually identified by organisation rather than city. VPN and proxy IPs show the VPN server's location, not your actual location.
Can IP geolocation detect VPNs?
Some geolocation databases flag known VPN and data-centre IP ranges, but this is not perfectly reliable. Many consumer VPN services rotate IPs or use residential proxy networks to avoid detection. The ISP and organisation fields can hint at a VPN (e.g. 'Cloudflare' or 'Mullvad Networks'), but there is no definitive real-time VPN detection in free geolocation data.
Why does the location show my ISP's city, not my actual city?
ISPs often assign IP blocks at a regional hub level rather than at the subscriber's location. Your IP may be registered to your ISP's nearest exchange city rather than where you physically are. This is normal — geolocation databases map IPs to the location of the ISP's infrastructure, not the end user.
What is the difference between IPv4 and IPv6?
IPv4 addresses are 32-bit numbers written as four decimal octets (e.g. 93.184.216.34), giving about 4.3 billion possible addresses. IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses written in hexadecimal (e.g. 2001:0db8::1), giving a practically unlimited number of addresses. IPv6 was developed to address the exhaustion of IPv4 space; many networks now support both simultaneously (dual-stack).