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What Is My IP

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What's my IP — the address the internet sees, and where it thinks you are.

  1. Open the page — your address is already shown
  2. Compare it before and after connecting to a VPN to check the VPN is working
  3. Copy it if a support desk or an allow-list has asked for it

Your IP address

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Protocol
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Approximate location
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Time zone
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Network
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The location is your network's, not yours — a VPN or mobile connection will show wherever it routes through.

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About this tool

Your IP address is the return address your internet connection uses — every site you load is handed one, because without it there is nowhere to send the page back to. This shows the one your connection is currently presenting, whether it is IPv4 or the newer IPv6, and the rough location and network name that go with it. Two things are worth knowing about that location. It is the network's, not yours: it usually points at wherever your provider routes traffic through, which can be a different city and occasionally a different country. And it is not identification — an address says which connection, not which person, and typically changes when your router restarts or you move between networks. If the location looks wrong or you appear to be somewhere unexpected, you are almost certainly on a VPN or a mobile network, both of which route through their own infrastructure. Nothing here is logged: the address is read from the request and sent straight back to you.

Frequently asked questions

What is my IP address used for?

Routing, mostly. Every server you connect to needs somewhere to send the response, so your address is handed over automatically on every request. It is also used for coarse geolocation, rate limiting and fraud checks — which is why a site sometimes behaves differently on a VPN.

Why does an IP address lookup show the wrong city?

Because the location comes from a database mapping address ranges to places, not from your device. It is usually right about the country and often out by a city or two, since the range may be registered where your provider's equipment is rather than where you are sitting. A VPN moves it entirely, which is the point of one.

Why is the location wrong?

Because it is your network's location rather than yours. Addresses are assigned to providers in blocks and the mapping points at wherever traffic is routed through, which on a mobile network or a VPN can be a different city or country entirely. It is accurate to the country far more often than to the town.

What is the difference between IPv4 and IPv6?

IPv4 addresses look like 203.0.113.5 and there are about four billion of them, which ran out. IPv6 looks like 2001:db8::1 and there are enough for every device that will ever exist. Most connections now have both and use whichever the site supports — which is why this may show a different form from another tool.

Can someone find me from my IP address?

Not to an address or a name. It identifies a connection rather than a person, and only your provider can map it to an account — which they will not do without a legal request. What anyone can see is the approximate area and the provider, roughly what this page shows you.

Do you log my IP address?

No. It is read from the request that already carried it and written straight back into the page. Nothing is stored, and no record of your visit keeps it.

How do I check my VPN is working?

Load this page with the VPN off, note the address, then turn it on and reload. If the address and location have not changed, the VPN is not routing your traffic — which is the failure worth catching, because it fails silently.

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