IP Address Lookup

Find physical geolocation, ISP, ASN, and organizational details for any IPv4 or IPv6 address.

About IP Geolocation

IP Geolocation relies on databases maintained by Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) and third-party telecom data providers. When an Internet Service Provider (ISP) is assigned a block of IP addresses, they document the general geographic region those IPs will serve.

Accuracy Note: IP geolocation is rarely accurate to the street level. It typically resolves to a city, regional data center, or the ISP's nearest routing hub. Mobile networks and VPNs will show the location of the provider's exit node, not the user's actual physical location.

Our IP Geolocation Lookup returns the approximate physical location of any IPv4 or IPv6 address — country, region, city, coordinates and timezone — along with the ISP and organisation that operate it.

What is IP Geolocation?

IP geolocation estimates where an IP address is physically located. It is an estimate rather than a measurement, because IP addresses carry no inherent location data.

Providers build their databases from several sources: registry allocation records showing which organisation holds a block and in which country, routing data, latency measurements between known points, and information supplied by ISPs themselves.

Accuracy varies sharply by granularity. Country-level results are correct roughly 95 to 99 per cent of the time. City-level accuracy is far weaker, often 50 to 80 per cent, and the coordinates returned are frequently the centre of a city or even a country rather than a real address — which has caused genuine harm to people living at those default coordinates.

Estimates location from registry, routing and latency data
IP addresses contain no inherent location information
Country accuracy is high; city accuracy is considerably lower
Coordinates are often a regional centroid, not a real address
VPNs, proxies and mobile carriers routinely defeat it

Why IP Geolocation Matters

Geolocation drives a great deal of everyday internet behaviour: content licensing restrictions, currency and language selection, regional pricing, and fraud detection that flags a login from an unexpected country.

In security work it is a triage signal. A login from a country where you have no staff, or traffic from a region you do not serve, is worth investigating. It is also useful in incident response for characterising where an attack originated, with the important caveat that the apparent origin is frequently a rented server rather than the actual operator.

Drives content licensing and regional restrictions
Used in fraud detection to flag improbable login locations
Helps characterise the origin of attack traffic
Enables regional pricing, language and currency selection
Country-level compliance requirements often depend on it

How This IP Geolocation Lookup Works

The tool resolves the address against geolocation and network registry data.

Validates the IP address input against format and SSRF safety checks
Queries geolocation data for the address
Returns country, region, city, coordinates and timezone
Retrieves the ISP, organisation and autonomous system details
Indicates where the result is likely to be imprecise

How to Use the IP Geolocation Lookup

Enter an IPv4 or IPv6 address in the input field
Run the lookup to retrieve location and network data
Treat the country as reliable and the city as approximate
Check the ISP and organisation fields, which are often more useful than the location
For investigation, combine with WHOIS and ASN data rather than relying on location alone

Understanding Your Geolocation Results

Different fields carry very different levels of confidence:

Field / Value	Meaning
`Country`	The most reliable field, typically 95 to 99 per cent accurate. Derived largely from registry allocation records, which are authoritative.
`Region and city`	Considerably less reliable. City-level accuracy commonly falls between 50 and 80 per cent, and can be much worse for mobile and satellite ranges.
`Coordinates`	Frequently a regional or national centroid rather than a real location. They should never be treated as a physical address.
`ISP`	The internet service provider operating the address. Generally accurate and often more useful than the location itself.
`Organisation`	The entity the block is allocated to. For corporate ranges this can identify the company directly; for consumer ranges it merely repeats the ISP.
`ASN`	The autonomous system number routing the address. Reliable, and the best starting point for understanding what kind of network it is.
`Hosting or VPN`	Whether the address belongs to a datacentre, VPN or proxy range. Often the single most useful signal, since it indicates the location is likely meaningless.

Common Problems & How to Fix Them

This is expected in several situations: the user is on a VPN or proxy, the address is in a mobile carrier range that aggregates traffic through distant gateways, or the ISP recently reallocated the block and databases have not caught up.

Treat city-level data as approximate at all times. If accurate location genuinely matters, ask the user rather than inferring it, or use browser geolocation with explicit consent.

The provider has no city-level data for that block and is returning a regional or national centroid.

This is why the default coordinates for some countries have caused real problems for the people who live there. Never interpret returned coordinates as a physical address.

Cloud providers hold address blocks registered in one country while operating the servers in another, and reallocation between regions is common.

Check the ASN and organisation fields rather than the location. A hosting-provider ASN tells you far more about the nature of the traffic than any city name.

Geolocation errors, corporate VPNs and travelling users all produce false positives when location is used as a hard block.

Use it as a risk signal that triggers additional verification rather than an outright denial. Blocking on location alone will reliably exclude real customers.

IPv6 allocation data is sparser and databases have had less time to refine it, so results are often country-level only.

Where both are available, an IPv4 lookup generally gives a more precise result. Expect lower confidence on IPv6 and weight it accordingly.

Best Practices

Trust country-level data and treat city-level data as approximate
Never present returned coordinates as a physical address
Use the ASN and organisation fields, which are often more informative than location
Treat geolocation as one signal among several, never as proof
Prefer additional verification over hard blocking on location
Check whether the address belongs to a hosting or VPN range before drawing conclusions
Expect lower accuracy on IPv6 and mobile carrier addresses

Security Recommendations

Never use geolocation as a sole authentication or authorisation factor, since a VPN defeats it in seconds
Treat an impossible-travel pattern as a stronger signal than any single location
Remember an attacker apparent country is usually just where they rented a server
Be aware that blocking entire countries excludes legitimate users and is trivially bypassed by determined attackers
Handle IP-derived location as personal data under GDPR and similar regimes, since an IP address is generally treated as identifying
Combine location with hosting and VPN detection, which is frequently the more actionable signal

Frequently Asked Questions

Country-level results are typically 95 to 99 per cent accurate. City-level accuracy is much weaker, commonly 50 to 80 per cent, and degrades further on mobile, satellite and IPv6 addresses.

No. It estimates a general area at best, and the coordinates returned are frequently a city or country centroid rather than a real place. It cannot identify an individual address or person.

Common causes are a VPN or proxy, a mobile carrier routing traffic through a distant gateway, or an ISP having reallocated the address block without databases updating. City-level data is inherently approximate.

Providers combine registry allocation records, routing data, latency measurements between known reference points, and information supplied by ISPs. IP addresses themselves contain no location data, so everything is inference.

Yes. A VPN, proxy or Tor makes your traffic appear to originate from a different address entirely. This is why geolocation should never be relied on as a security control on its own.

Looking up an address is generally permitted, but IP addresses are typically treated as personal data under GDPR and similar regimes. Storing or processing location derived from them requires a lawful basis and appropriate handling.

Because they belong to a datacentre range. This is usually the more useful answer — it tells you the traffic is from a server rather than a residential user, which matters far more for security assessment than any city name.