IP & Network

IP Geolocation

Look up city, country, ASN, and coordinates for any IP address.

IP address IPv4 or IPv6. We look up country, region, city, coordinates, timezone, and ASN from a local geolocation database.

Try: 8.8.8.8 1.1.1.1 142.250.190.78 2606:4700:4700::1111

1.1.1.1

No geolocation data

The IP is not in the geolocation database — likely a private/loopback address (RFC 1918) or a brand-new allocation not yet indexed.

What does each field mean?

Field reference

ASN

Autonomous System Number — globally unique identifier of the network. Geo databases use ASN to enrich location data (an ASN often spans many countries; the assignment here picks the most likely origin for the specific IP).

Organization

The organization that holds the IP allocation. For consumer IPs this is usually a telco / cable ISP. For datacenter IPs — AWS, Google Cloud, OVH, Hetzner. Useful as a sanity check against the city/country geo answer.

City

MaxMind's "city" answer — a best-guess based on routing, latency probes, and submitted feedback. Accuracy ranges from neighborhood-level (urban ISPs) to country-level only (mobile, satellite, VPN). Treat as a hint, not ground truth.

Region / state

Subdivision below country level — US state, German Bundesland, Ukrainian oblast. Useful when city is unknown but country is known.

Country

Country-level accuracy is the most reliable answer in any geo database — usually 99%+. ISO code (US, DE, UA, etc.) is the canonical form. Watch for anycast IPs (Cloudflare 1.1.1.1) where there is no single country — answers may vary by query origin.

Coordinates

Approximate lat/lng. Often points to the centroid of the city, ISP's HQ, or even the country center for unknown locations. NEVER treat as a precise address — accuracy is typically 10–50 km.

Postal code

Provided when MaxMind's data covers the city. Accuracy varies widely; multi-postcode cities only get one representative answer. Often missing for IPs outside major Western markets.

Timezone

IANA timezone identifier — used for "convert UTC to local" calculations. More reliable than city/postal because it changes only at country / state borders. Examples: <code>Europe/Berlin</code>, <code>America/New_York</code>, <code>Asia/Tokyo</code>.

Map note

The map pin reflects city-level centroid, not the actual address of the device. For VPN / hosting / cellular IPs the pin can be hundreds of kilometers off. Use geolocation for analytics, not for identification.

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.

Frequently asked questions

How precise are the coordinates?

The latitude/longitude pair is an approximation. For most residential ISPs it points to the centre of the city the IP block is registered in; for cloud and hosting providers it usually resolves to the country or POP city. It will never identify a specific street address — IP geolocation does not work at that resolution, regardless of vendor claims.

Why does my home IP show the wrong city?

ISPs allocate IPs from regional pools, so a customer in a small town often gets an IP registered to a larger nearby city. CGN (Carrier-Grade NAT) makes this worse: thousands of mobile subscribers share a single IP that geolocates to the carrier's data centre, not the device. The country will still be right; the city is best-effort.

What is the ASN field?

The Autonomous System Number identifies the network that announces the IP to the rest of the internet via BGP. Every ISP, cloud provider, and large enterprise has its own ASN. For example, AS13335 is Cloudflare, AS15169 is Google, AS16509 is AWS. ASN tells you who is responsible for routing this IP today, even when the registry data is years out of date.

Can I geolocate an IPv6 address?

Yes. IPv6 coverage in modern geolocation databases is comparable to IPv4 for residential ISPs and hosting providers. Enter any IPv6 in standard notation (for example 2606:4700:4700::1111) and you will get the same fields as for IPv4. Smaller and rarely-routed prefixes may have country-only data.