IP Address Lookup

IP address lookup — also called IP geolocation or IP location — is one of the most common network diagnostics people reach for: finding where a suspicious login came from, checking whether a VPN is actually routing through the country it claims, troubleshooting why a website shows different content to different regions, or simply verifying what information your own IP address leaks to every website you visit. Every device connected to the internet has an IP address, and while that address alone does not reveal your name, street address or exact GPS coordinates, it does usually reveal enough to place you within a city, identify your internet service provider, and sometimes name the organisation that owns the IP block — information that is publicly registered and used every day for routing, abuse prevention, and content localisation.\n\nThis tool works in two modes. Leave the IP field empty and click Look Up (or visit the page — it auto-detects on load), and it looks up your own public IP as seen by our server. Or type any IPv4 address and click Look Up to query that address instead. The result shows the IP, city, region, country, ISP, organisation name, time zone and approximate latitude/longitude — all served from a free third-party geo-IP database that correlates IP blocks with ISP registrations and regional assignments.\n\nThe lookup is performed server-side, not from your browser. This is necessary because browsers cannot make arbitrary network requests to geo-IP services (same-origin policy blocks cross-origin API calls from JavaScript, and there is no browser-native IP geolocation API that provides ISP-level detail without user permission or external requests). The server acts as a relay: your request queries our endpoint, our server calls the upstream geo-IP API, and the result is returned to your browser as JSON. The upstream API we use (ip-api.com) is free for non-commercial use, requires no API key, and enforces its own 45-request-per-minute rate limit — so the tool is reliable for occasional lookups but not suitable for bulk or automated querying.\n\nA note on precision: IP geolocation is approximate. It can reliably determine the country in over 99% of cases, the city in roughly 70-80% of cases for residential connections, and rarely the exact neighbourhood. Mobile connections (3G/4G/5G) can appear hundreds of miles from the actual device because carrier IPs register at a central data centre, not at the cell tower. Corporate VPNs will show the VPN exit node location, not the laptop behind it. Proxy and VPN detection is not attempted here — this is a basic geolocation lookup, not an advanced fraud-detection system. The coordinates are a best-effort centroid of the ISP\u0027s coverage area in that city, not a street address.\n\nSecurity considerations are straightforward: the IP you look up is transmitted to our server and forwarded to the upstream geo-IP service. We do not log, store, or aggregate IP lookups. The upstream service also has its own privacy policy. If you are behind a VPN or proxy, be aware that the IP our server sees is the exit node address, which may differ from what you expect — use the manual entry mode to query any specific IP.