What Is My IP Address? See Your Public IP and Location
Where your connection appears to be
Approximate, from your IP address. This is what websites you visit can see.
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Your device connected over IPv4 or IPv6, so that is the address shown. Many home and mobile connections have both an IPv4 and an IPv6 address; websites see whichever one your device uses for that connection.
What your IP address reveals
Your rough location
Usually the country and often the city, from public registry and routing data. It is typically accurate to a city or district, not a street, and can be well off.
Your internet provider
Which ISP or mobile network you're on (for example a home fibre, mobile or corporate network), and sometimes whether it's a VPN or data centre.
Not your name or address
An IP doesn't name you or give your street address. Only your internet provider can link it to an account holder.
Shared and changing
Home and mobile IPs are often shared by many users (carrier-grade NAT) and change over time, so the same address can belong to someone else tomorrow.
Lookup doesn't store or log the IP shown here. It is read from your request, sent back to your browser and discarded.
Your public IP address
Using a VPN, iCloud Private Relay or a work network? You'll see that service's address, not your own.
How this works
When your browser opens this page, it asks Lookup's server for the address your request came from. The server reads it from the connection headers (the same information every website receives), adds the approximate location that our hosting provider, Vercel, derives from the IP, and sends it straight back. It is not stored or logged, and the reply is marked never to be cached.
An IPv4 address is four numbers from 0 to 255 separated by dots, such as 203.0.113.42. An IPv6 address is longer, written as up to eight groups of hexadecimal digits separated by colons. If your connection supports both, your device picks one per connection, so this page shows the one it used.
Location from an IP is an estimate built from registry and routing data. It is usually right about the country and often the city, but not the street, and it can be far off for mobile networks, VPNs, iCloud Private Relay and corporate networks, which show the service's address rather than yours.
FAQs
What is my IP address?
It's the public address shown at the top of this page: the address the internet sees your requests coming from. It belongs to your current network (home Wi-Fi, mobile data or office), so it changes when you switch networks.
Can someone find my home address from my IP?
Not from the IP alone. It points to your internet provider and a rough area, usually a city. Only your provider knows which account used an address at a given time.
Why does my IP show the wrong city?
IP location is approximate. Mobile networks, VPNs, iCloud Private Relay and company networks often route traffic through another place, so the location is that of the network, not you.
What is the difference between IPv4 and IPv6?
IPv4 addresses are four numbers like 203.0.113.42, and there are only about 4.3 billion of them. IPv6 addresses are much longer (eight groups of hex digits) and were introduced so the internet doesn't run out of addresses.
Does Lookup keep my IP address?
No. The address is read from your request, sent back to your browser and not saved. The answer is marked never to be cached, so no one else sees it.