What Is My IP
This is the address websites see when you visit them, with the network it belongs to and where it appears to be. The diagram shows how your device reaches the web over IPv4 and IPv6, and where your address changes along the way.
Your public IP address
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Your connection
How your traffic reaches this site
Your device has a private address that only your own network uses. Over IPv4, your router swaps it for the shared public address before anything leaves your home or office. IPv6 usually skips that step, so the device’s own address is the public one.
What a website can and cannot tell from this
Can see
Cannot see
- Your name, email address or street address. Only your provider can link an IP address to a customer.
- Your device’s private address, such as 192.168.1.20, which stays behind your router.
- Other devices on your network. Over IPv4 they all share the same public address.
Worth knowing
Location comes from IP geolocation data, which matches addresses to places using registry records and provider data. It is usually right about the country, often right about the region, and can be tens of kilometres off for the city. To find each address family, your browser also asks icanhazip.com, a Cloudflare service, once over IPv4 and once over IPv6. Nothing on this page is stored. Read What Is My IP Address? What Websites Can See to learn more.