IP Geolocation

About this tool

IP geolocation maps an IPv4 or IPv6 address to a likely physical location and the network operator that announces it. Our tool reads from a local geolocation database (synced monthly) and returns country, region, city, approximate latitude/longitude, time zone, ASN, and the organization that owns the routing prefix — all in one round-trip.

The data ultimately comes from a combination of registry allocations (the RIR-published inetnum blocks), routing announcements (which ASN currently advertises the prefix), and behavioural signals collected by the upstream data vendor. For consumer ISPs, the result usually pinpoints the city; for hosting and mobile networks, the answer is typically just country-accurate.

When to use this tool

• Triage server logs. A flood of requests from one country is easier to recognise than a flood from "203.0.113.x".
• Content licensing checks. Confirm an IP's country before serving region-restricted material.
• Fraud signals. Compare the IP's declared country with the billing address on an order — mismatches deserve a second look.
• ASN identification. Find out whether an IP belongs to AWS, Cloudflare, a residential ISP, or a known VPN provider.

How accurate is geolocation?

Country accuracy is consistently 99%+; city accuracy is typically 60–80% for residential IPs and drops sharply for mobile carriers, satellite links, and any infrastructure that uses CGN. Coordinates are approximations — usually the centre of the assigned city or the carrier's regional POP, never a real street address. For VPN/proxy detection, pair this with the Privacy Check tool.