IP Address Lookup Online Free
Your IP address is detected automatically. Enter any IP to look up its geolocation, country, city and ISP.
Enter an IP address or domain, or press My IP to look up your own connection.
How accurate is this really. IP geolocation maps an address block to wherever the network operator registered it. Country is right almost all the time. City is right often enough to be useful and wrong often enough that you should not rely on it. Street level accuracy does not exist, whatever any service claims, and the coordinates shown here are the centre of a region rather than anyone’s location.
Mobile and VPN connections skew badly. A phone on mobile data often reports the city where the carrier’s gateway sits, which can be hundreds of miles away. VPNs report the exit server. Neither is an error, it is what the address genuinely belongs to.
Nothing is stored. Lookups run from your browser directly against public geolocation services. We keep no log of what you search, and the recent list lives only in this tab until you close it.
How the IP lookup tool turns an address into a place, a network, and a timezone
An IP address alone tells you nothing readable. It is a number assigned to a network interface, and mapping that number to a country, city, or internet provider requires a geolocation database that somebody has to build and maintain by correlating IP address blocks against regional internet registry allocation records. This tool does not maintain that database itself. It queries a third party API that does.
The request, in full
Every lookup, whether you type an address or click the automatic option, calls the same public API from ipapi.co directly from your browser.
Leave the address field blank and click Look up and the query segment of the URL is empty, which tells ipapi.co to geolocate whichever IP address the request itself arrived from, meaning your own connection’s public IP as seen by their server. That is how the my IP button and the automatic result on page load both work. There is no separate mechanism for detecting your own address, it is simply the same lookup with nothing to look up but yourself.
Where the data actually comes from
| Field returned | What it represents |
|---|---|
| country_name, country_code | Registry allocated country for the address block |
| city, region, postal | Estimated location, accuracy varies widely by ISP and address type |
| org, asn | The internet service provider or hosting company and its autonomous system number |
| timezone, utc_offset | IANA timezone name and current UTC offset for that location |
| latitude, longitude | Approximate coordinates, linked to a Google Maps view in the results |
| currency, languages, in_eu | Country level metadata unrelated to the network itself |
The two things this is not measuring
Not a live network trace
This is a single database lookup, not a traceroute. It tells you who owns the address block and roughly where it is registered, not the path packets take to reach it.
Not device identification
The address identifies a network connection point, commonly a router or a carrier gateway, not a specific device or person. Multiple devices on the same home or office network share one public IP.
- ipapi.co API documentation lists every field this tool can return and its free tier request limits.
- IANA number resources is the root allocation authority above the five regional registries.
- ARIN is the regional registry for North America, one of the five sources this kind of data traces back to.
- IANA Time Zone Database is the source for the timezone names returned in results.
What an IP address reveals
Checking which country a suspicious login attempt originated from, confirming a VPN connection actually shows an exit location in the expected country, diagnosing why a website is serving the wrong regional content or currency to a visitor, identifying the hosting provider behind an unfamiliar server address, and quickly confirming your own public facing IP when configuring firewall rules or remote access.
Questions about IP address lookup online free
Yes. Completely free with no signup. Lookups use a public geolocation API.
Country-level accuracy is typically above 95%. City-level accuracy varies and may be off by tens of kilometres for some IPs.
Yes. Enter any valid IPv4 or IPv6 address and the tool returns the same geolocation data.
IP geolocation is based on data provided by ISPs and may not reflect your exact location. VPNs and proxies show the location of the exit server.
No. Lookups are made directly from your browser to the geolocation API. No data is stored on ConvertNow servers.
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