IP Geolocation Lookup
Country, city, ISP and ASN for any IP, with a map link. Look up your own too.
This IP geolocation lookup tells you where an IP address sits and which network runs it: country, region, city, the ISP, and the ASN that announces it to the internet, with coordinates and a map link. Country is reliable, city is a rough guess (it follows the ISP, not a doorstep), and the ASN is often the most telling part: it says whether an address is a home connection, a mobile carrier or a hosting provider, which is exactly what you want to know about a stranger in your logs. Hit 'Use my IP' to locate your own connection. The lookup is relayed by our service, so you never talk to a third party and nothing is logged.
Queries run through the PacketNebula lookup service. We log nothing.
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What an IP can and cannot tell you
Geolocation reads the address against registry and routing data, so the country is reliable and the network is exact, but the city is an educated guess. It often points at wherever the ISP registered the block or hands off the traffic, which can be a data centre nowhere near the actual user. Useful for "is this traffic from where it claims", misleading if you treat the dot on the map as someone's doorstep.
The line that earns its keep: the ASN
The number worth reading first is the ASN and the organization behind it. A residential ISP, a mobile carrier, a hosting provider and a cloud giant look very different in a log. An address that geolocates to a city but sits on a hosting ASN is a server, not a person, and that distinction decides whether a hit in your firewall log is a customer or a scanner. The city is colour; the network is the fact.
Looking up your own connection
Hit "Use my IP" to drop in your public address and locate it: a fast way to check what a VPN is actually doing, or what a site sees when you arrive. For everything else your browser gives away (OS, language, time zone, screen), the What Is My IP tool lays it all out.
Frequently asked questions
How accurate is IP geolocation?
Country is almost always right. City is a good guess, not a fact: it usually reflects where the ISP routes the address or registered the block, which can be a data centre two cities over. Treat it as "roughly here" and never as a home address. Mobile and VPN addresses are the least precise of all.
What is the ASN, and why does it matter?
The ASN (Autonomous System Number) is the network that announces the address to the internet, basically who runs it. Seeing AS15169 Google or a hosting provider rather than a residential ISP tells you a lot about whether traffic is a real user, a cloud server or a scanner. It is often more useful than the city.
Can I look up my own address?
Yes, hit "Use my IP" and it fills in your public address, then locates it. It is a quick way to confirm what a VPN is doing or what a website sees about your connection. For the fuller browser-side picture, the What Is My IP tool shows everything your browser reveals.
Does it work for IPv6?
Yes, paste an IPv6 address the same way. Coverage and city precision for IPv6 can be patchier than IPv4 because the blocks are newer, but country and network are reliable.
Where does the data come from, and is it private?
The address you enter goes to our small lookup service, which queries a geolocation database and relays the result, so you never talk to a third party directly and the lookup is not logged. Geolocation data is inherently approximate; it is sourced from registry and routing information, not from tracking anyone.