Where is my IP address located?
216.73.216.229
Location
- United States Country
The country your address block is registered to. Of everything on this page, this is the value that is almost always right.
- Columbus City
A commercial database's best guess, based on where your provider registered the block. It is often the nearest large city rather than yours.
- Ohio Region
The first-level administrative area recorded against the block — state, province, oblast or the local equivalent.
- 43215 Postal code
From the same database as the city and no more precise than it. It is the postcode of an area, not of an address.
- America/New_York Time zone
Derived from the place your address maps to. Compare it with your browser's time zone: a mismatch usually means a VPN.
- 09:55 Local time
The current time where your address appears to be — not necessarily the time where you actually are.
- 39.96118, -82.99879 Coordinates
The centre of the area the database covers, not your position. Suspiciously round numbers mean it only knew the country.
- No In the EU
Whether that country is in the European Union. It matters because the GDPR treats an IP address as personal data.
Network
- Anthropic, PBC Provider
The organisation that registered your address range. Resellers and mobile groups often register under a parent company's name, so this is not always the company you pay.
- AS16509 AS number
The autonomous system number: your provider's identity in the internet's global routing table. Every network that exchanges routes has one, and it is the most reliable way to say who owns an address.
- Data centre Network type
Whether the address belongs to a home connection, a data centre, or a network that exists to relay traffic. This is a heuristic, not a certainty.
- Looking up… Hostname
The name your address resolves to in reverse DNS, if the network operator published one. Plenty do not.
An IP address is a routing label, not a postal address. It says which network you reached the internet through — and from that, approximately where that network operates. The values above show how close that approximation gets in your case.
Where each value comes from
| Value | Source | Reliability |
|---|---|---|
| Country | Registry records for the address block | Very high |
| Region | Provider’s own registration | High |
| City | Commercial geolocation database | Moderate |
| Coordinates | Centre of the mapped area | Approximate by design |
| Time zone | Derived from the mapped location | High |
Registries publish which organisation holds which block, so country and provider are close to factual. Everything more precise is inference layered on top.
Why mobile connections drift so far
On a mobile network your traffic does not leave the internet where you are standing. It travels across the carrier’s own network to a gateway, sometimes one of only a handful serving an entire country, and only there does it acquire the public address the world sees. A phone in a coastal town can legitimately appear to be in the capital.
Carrier-grade NAT compounds this: thousands of subscribers share one public address, so whatever location that address carries is an average of all of them.
When the browser disagrees with the IP
Your browser knows its own time zone, set by your operating system. If that disagrees with the time zone derived from your IP address, something is shifting your traffic — usually a VPN or a proxy. It is a good cross-check, and one that plenty of VPNs fail.
Precise location is a different mechanism
Websites that know exactly where you are did not get it from your IP. They asked, and you allowed the browser’s geolocation permission, which uses GPS and nearby Wi-Fi networks. That prompt is the boundary: without it, a site has the estimate above and nothing better.
Frequently asked questions
How accurate is IP geolocation?
Country is right roughly 95–99% of the time. City is right often enough to be useful and wrong often enough to be annoying — typically within 50 km in dense urban areas, much worse for rural and mobile connections.
Why does my IP say I am in another city?
Providers register address blocks to an administrative centre and then use them across a whole region. Mobile networks are worse still: your traffic may leave the carrier's network from a gateway in an entirely different part of the country.
Can someone find my house from my IP address?
No. The databases behind geolocation simply do not contain that. A street address can only be obtained from the provider itself, and providers release it to law enforcement on legal process, not to websites.
Why do the coordinates look oddly round?
When a database knows only the country or the region, it returns that area's centroid. Several well-known 'mystery' locations are nothing more than the geographic centre of a country.