See your public IP address — IPv4 or IPv6 — the moment the page loads, along with the approximate location, timezone, and network provider tied to it. It’s read from your own request and shown straight back; nothing is logged.
What you’re looking at
The big number is the public IP the internet uses to reach your connection — the one every site you visit sees. Below it, the location, timezone, and ISP come from mapping that address to a region. This is the fastest way to answer “what’s my IP?” for remote-support calls, allow-list setups, or confirming a VPN changed your apparent location.
Public vs. private, and why a server has to tell you
Your device also has a private IP on your local network (typically 192.168.x.x or
10.x.x.x) that your router hands out — that one never leaves your home. Your browser can see
the private IP but not the public one, because the public address is assigned upstream by your
provider. That’s why checking your public IP always involves asking an outside point that can
see the address your request arrived from — which is exactly what this page does, without
keeping a record.
Checking a VPN or proxy
The quickest VPN test there is: note the IP and location here, connect your VPN, reload, and watch both change to the VPN server’s. If they don’t change, your VPN isn’t routing your traffic — a leak worth fixing. The location estimate is approximate (see the FAQ), so judge the VPN by whether the IP itself changed, not by pinpoint accuracy.
Private by design
Your IP comes from your own request and is displayed only to you — we don’t store it or the lookup. For the domain-side equivalents, pair this with the DNS lookup and WHOIS lookup.