What is my IP address?

Your IP address is the address your internet provider gives your connection, and every website you open can see it. It is shown at the top of this page, together with your country, your provider and the network the address belongs to. Below that, three checks – WebRTC, IPv6 and time zone – tell you whether anything is giving away more than you expect. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for, and we do not store the address.

Updated 11 August 2026

What an IP address actually is

An IP address is the return address on your internet connection. When you open a website, your request has to say where the answer should be sent, and that is your IP address. Without it, the page you asked for would have nowhere to go.

It looks either like 203.0.113.17 – the older IPv4 format – or like a longer string such as 2001:db8:85a3::8a2e:370:7334, which is IPv6. Most connections today have both, and a site may see one or the other depending on how it is set up.

The address is not yours the way your phone number is. It belongs to your internet provider or mobile operator, who lends it to your connection for a while and can take it back later. That is why an IP address points at a network and a rough area, not at a person or a front door.

How to check your IP address

The quickest way is to open a page that reads the address straight out of your request. That is what this site does.

1. Open ipgeo.ru in the browser you normally use.
2. Your address appears at the top of the page right away – nothing to click, nothing to install.
3. Below it you will see the country, the provider the address belongs to and the network it sits in.
4. Scroll down for the leak checks: WebRTC, IPv6 and time zone.

It works the same on a phone, a tablet and a computer, because the answer is taken from the connection itself. So if you want to know what one particular device is showing to websites, open the page on that device.

One thing worth remembering: the result describes the connection you are on at that moment. Move a phone from home Wi-Fi to mobile data and the address will usually be completely different.

External address vs local address

Two different addresses both get called "my IP", and they are easy to mix up.

• External, or public, address – what the rest of the internet sees. Your router shares one external address with every device in your home. This is the address shown on this page.
• Local, or private, address – what your router hands out inside your own network. It usually starts with 192.168, 10 or 172.16. It only means something on that network: it is how your laptop finds the printer, and it means nothing to anyone outside.

If you need the local one, here is where it lives:

• Windows: open Command Prompt, type ipconfig and look for the line marked IPv4 Address.
• macOS: System Settings, then Network, pick your connection and open Details.
• iPhone: Settings, Wi-Fi, then tap the small (i) next to the network you are on.
• Android: Settings, Network and internet, Wi-Fi, then tap the connected network.

When support staff ask for "your IP", they almost always mean the external one, and reading it off this page is faster than digging through system settings.

Why your IP address keeps changing

Most home and mobile connections get a dynamic address: the provider lends it for a while, then hands out a new one. Nothing is broken when it changes, and there is not much you can do about it.

Common reasons today's number is not yesterday's:

• You restarted the router, or the connection dropped and came back.
• The provider's lease ran out and a new address was issued.
• You moved between Wi-Fi and mobile data, or between two Wi-Fi networks.
• You are on mobile and your phone switched to different equipment as you moved around.
• You turned a VPN or proxy on or off, so sites now see that server's address instead of yours.

A static address – one that never changes – is normally a paid extra, and it mainly matters if you run something at home that other people connect to. Also worth knowing: many mobile operators put a large number of customers behind a single public address, so the one you see may be shared with strangers and says even less about you than usual.

What a website can tell from your address

Every site you open sees your IP address. From it, a site can look up the country, often a region or city – roughly, and frequently a long way off – and the name of your provider. It does not reveal your name, your flat number or what you do on other sites.

It gets more interesting when you use a VPN or proxy and something slips out around it. The three checks on this page cover the usual culprits:

• WebRTC – a browser feature built for voice and video calls. It can hand a page addresses it was never meant to learn, including the one sitting behind your VPN.
• IPv6 – many VPN and proxy setups only carry IPv4. If your connection also has IPv6, that part of your traffic can go out directly and take your real address with it.
• Time zone – your browser reports the time zone your device is set to. When that does not match the country of the address a site sees, the mismatch is easy to spot.

The page tells you plainly whether anything is showing that should not be. If a check comes back red – or if you would simply rather not have every site you visit see the address your provider gave you – one straightforward fix is a browser extension that sends your browser traffic through another server first. Ours is AnonVPN, for Chrome. Be clear about what that changes: sites see the server's address instead of yours, which genuinely helps with that one thing. It does not make you anonymous, and your browser still gives plenty away through cookies and the accounts you are signed in to.

When you actually need your IP address

Most of the time you never think about it. These are the moments it comes up:

• Your provider's support desk asks for it while working out why the connection is slow or keeps dropping.
• A work system, admin panel or database only accepts connections from known addresses, and yours has to be added to the list.
• You are running something at home – a game server, remote desktop, a camera – and other people need an address to reach it.
• You want to confirm a VPN or proxy is doing its job. Check the page before you turn it on, then again afterwards: the address and the provider name should both have changed.
• A site keeps greeting you in the wrong language or showing prices in an odd currency. That usually follows the address, and one look at the page explains it.

Reading your address from a script

If you need the address inside a script, a monitoring job or a home automation setup, there is a machine-readable version at api.ipgeo.ru. No key, no sign-up, no form to fill in first. It returns the same information as the page, in JSON, so one curl command or a single fetch call from your own code is enough.

People mostly use it for small, practical jobs: recording what address a home connection had at a given moment, getting a warning when it changes, or checking from a server that traffic is leaving where it should.

What happens to your address here

Everything you see is worked out on our own servers. We do not pass your address to an outside geolocation service to look it up on our behalf, and we do not keep visitor addresses, so checking yours here does not create yet another record of where you were.

There are no advertising scripts and no analytics trackers on the page either. That is also why it loads instantly and shows you the answer before you have finished reading this sentence.