Your exact location
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Your IP location and your real location
The yellow pin is where your IP address places you. The blue pin is your device's own location, once you share it.
Location details
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- Distance between the two
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How your location is found
There are two very different ways to work out where you are. This page shows both.
IP location: every website you open sees your IP address, and IP databases map each address to the city where the network that owns it is registered. It needs no permission and is usually right about the country, often right about the city, and wrong by tens of kilometres or more about anything finer.
Device location: when you allow it, your browser asks your phone or computer for its own position. Phones use GPS, which is accurate to a few metres outdoors. Laptops and desktops use nearby Wi-Fi networks and cell towers, which is usually accurate to a street or a block.
Why your location is wrong
- Your IP location is the city where your internet provider's network is registered or routed, which can be the next large city or even another region.
- Mobile networks often route all traffic through a few central gateways, so phones on 4G or 5G can show a city hundreds of kilometres away.
- A VPN, proxy, iCloud Private Relay or a work network replaces your IP address, so websites see the location of that server instead of yours.
- Indoors, GPS signals are weak. Phones then fall back to Wi-Fi and cell towers, and the accuracy drops to hundreds of metres. Step outside or turn on Wi-Fi and try again.
- Desktop computers without Wi-Fi have nothing to measure, so the browser guesses from the IP address too.
How to change or hide your location
Websites can't read your GPS without your permission, so the location they actually use is the one from your IP address. To change it, connect through a VPN server in the country you want. Websites then see that server's location.
Two things can still give you away: your device's time zone, shown above, and WebRTC, which can reveal your real IP address. Set your clock to the VPN country's time zone if it matters, and run the WebRTC leak test to make sure your real IP stays hidden.
How to turn on location in your browser
- Chrome and Edge: click the icon to the left of the address bar > Site settings (or Permissions) > Location > Allow, then reload the page.
- Safari on Mac: Safari > Settings > Websites > Location, and choose Allow for this site. Also check System Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services.
- iPhone: Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services must be on, and Safari Websites set to While Using the App.
- Android: pull down the quick settings and turn on Location, then allow it for your browser when asked.
- Firefox: click the icon left of the address bar and clear the blocked location permission, then try again.
Questions
Where am I right now?
The top of this page shows the city your IP address points to straight away. Click Show my exact location and allow access to see your precise address and coordinates, read from your device's GPS or Wi-Fi.
How accurate is my location?
GPS on a phone outdoors is usually accurate to 5 to 20 metres. Wi-Fi based location on a laptop is usually within 20 to 100 metres. IP location is only reliable for the country and region; the city it shows can be 50 km or more away.
Can websites see my exact location?
Not without asking. The browser always shows a permission prompt before a site can read your GPS or Wi-Fi location. Without it, websites only know the approximate location of your IP address.
Why does my IP address show a different city?
IP addresses are registered to your internet provider, not to your home. Providers often route traffic through a regional hub, so the city shown is where the network is, not where you are. On a VPN it's the VPN server's city.
What are my GPS coordinates?
After you share your location, your latitude and longitude appear above in decimal degrees, for example 40.71280, -74.00600. Use Copy coordinates to paste them into a map app, a message or a form.
Do you store my location?
No. Your coordinates are used only in your browser. To show a street address, they're sent to BigDataCloud's free reverse-geocoding service, and the map is loaded from OpenStreetMap. We never receive them.
Guides
- What is an IP address?
An IP address is the number that tells the internet where to send data meant for you. Here's what it looks like, the different kinds, and what yours says about you.
- How to find your IP address
Your public IP takes one click to find. Your private IP depends on the device. Here are the exact steps for each.
- IPv4 vs IPv6: what's the difference?
IPv6 replaces IPv4 because the world ran out of addresses. Here's how the two compare, how to tell which you're using, and why IPv6 matters if you use a VPN.
- What is a DNS leak and how do you fix it?
Even with a VPN on, your device may still ask your internet provider for every website you visit. That's a DNS leak. Here's how to spot one and stop it.