What Is My IP Address?
Your public address as this site sees it, with the city-level location and network behind it.
Your public IP address
Asking the server for your public address…
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About this result
Coordinates are a city-level estimate from the IP database, not the device's GPS position. The residential and non-fixed labels are inferred from the network type.
This page asks this site's own server, which reads the address your connection presents and looks up its city-level location and network owner. No third-party script runs in your browser. See how the lookup works and what is sent.
What you are looking at
- Your public IP address. The address websites see when you connect. It can belong to your router, your carrier's NAT or a VPN exit, not to the device itself.
- Location. Country, region, city and postal code from a commercial IP database, with an approximate latitude and longitude. It is a city-level estimate, not a street address.
- Network owner. The ISP, the organisation that holds the address block, the autonomous system number (ASN) and the organisation's domain.
- Connection type. Residential broadband, mobile, data centre or business, inferred from the ISP and organisation names.
- IP assignment. A residential or mobile address is usually assigned dynamically; a data-centre address is not a home line. Only your ISP can confirm whether your line is fixed.
Why the city can be wrong
IP geolocation is not GPS. The database maps ranges of addresses to a likely city, usually the city where the ISP registered the range or where its nearest router sits. A village may be shown as the nearest large city; a mobile connection may be shown as the carrier's regional centre; a VPN may be shown as the VPN provider's data centre.
The coordinates are a centre point for that city or network, not a point outside your house. Treat them as a rough region, not a location. The page deliberately does not embed a map, because a map marker would imply an accuracy the data does not have.
Fixed or non-fixed?
The badge is an inference, not an ISP record. There is no public database that says whether a particular line has a static address. This page labels residential broadband and mobile networks as likely non-fixed because those services commonly change addresses, and labels data-centre addresses as not a home connection. A business line can be either.
To know for certain, check your router's WAN address over several days, or ask your ISP whether the account has a static IP option. A public lookup cannot answer it.
The HOME / 家庭宽带 badge means the network looks like a residential access provider from its name. It is a useful hint, not a contract term. A reseller, a campus network or a small business can sit on the same range.
How the lookup works
The browser calls /api/ip on this site. The server takes the address from the connection, checks that it is public, and asks ipwho.is for the location and network fields. The answer is cached in server memory for up to one hour, so a reload does not spend another request.
The main endpoint has no address input: it reports the connection that asked for it. On dual-stack networks the page also asks an IPv4-only echo service for the browser's IPv4 address and sends it to a separate endpoint with a short-lived token, a same-site origin check and a daily per-client cap. That keeps the service from becoming a free geolocation proxy for someone else's traffic.
Privacy in one paragraph
Your public IP is already visible to every server you visit, including this one. To show a location, this server sends that address to ipwho.is. The page sets no cookie, stores nothing in your browser and writes no lookup result to the site database; the server keeps a short-lived memory cache. If you would rather not share the address with a third-party database, use a VPN or skip the tool.
Questions
Why is the IP different from the one in my router settings?
Your router has two addresses. The LAN address, such as 192.168.1.1, is private and only exists inside your home. The WAN address is the public one your ISP assigns, and it is what this page shows. If your ISP uses carrier-grade NAT, even the router's WAN address may be private, and the address shown belongs to the carrier.
Why does the page show a city I do not live in?
IP databases geolocate ranges, not devices. The range may be registered to a regional office, or the traffic may leave through a router in another city. Mobile and satellite connections are especially coarse. A difference of a few dozen kilometres is normal.
Does a VPN change the result?
Yes. The page shows the exit address of the VPN, so the location and ISP will be the VPN provider's, not yours. That is the point of a VPN, and it is also why the result can disagree with your physical location.
What does "data centre / cloud" mean?
The address belongs to a hosting provider rather than a home or office connection. It may be a cloud server, a VPN exit, a public DNS resolver or a corporate data centre. The badge is inferred from the network owner's name, so it is a hint rather than a guarantee.
Is my IP address stored?
The lookup result is kept in the server's memory for up to one hour to avoid repeating the external request. It is not written to the site database, and the page sets no cookie. The web server still keeps its normal access log, which includes the request IP, like any website.
Why does it say "private or reserved address"?
You are connecting from a private network that the server can see directly, which usually happens only in local testing. On the public internet the server sees your ISP-assigned public address. A private address has no public location to look up.