--- title: "What Is My IP Address" date: 2026-10-20 author: "Sofia Ramirez" featured_image: "https://sqmagazine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/what-is-my-ip.jpg" --- # What Is My IP Address The what is my IP tool shows the public IP address websites see. Below it sit your IP version, internet provider, network (ASN), approximate location, time zone and connection. Each row comes from your own request at the network edge. The documentation example used on this page reads **203.0.113.7** on Example Networks, while every reader sees their own values. What Is My IP Address Nothing to enter. These details are read from your connection when the page loads. Check again Your public IP address Copy Your public IP address IPv4 address IPv6 address Internet provider Network (ASN) Approximate location Time zone Connection Copy all details Download CSV What every site you visit can see | Item | What sites see | Where it comes from | |---|---|---| How this works How it worksProvider and location are the fields Cloudflare attaches to each request, listed in the [Cloudflare request.cf reference (opens in new window)](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/request/). Location comes from the network your address belongs to, so it usually points to your provider's nearest hub rather than your street. Not coveredCannot tell a VPN, proxy or carrier NAT exit from your own address; location is an estimate. Privacy**Nothing from this check is stored.** Your address is read at the network edge when the page loads. To show IPv4 and IPv6 side by side, your browser also asks Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 service once, over the other family; Cloudflare already runs this site's network edge. CorrectionsReport a wrong result to [media@sqmagazine.co.uk](mailto:media@sqmagazine.co.uk?subject=Correction%3A%20What%20Is%20My%20IP%20Address); every report is reviewed and confirmed errors are corrected. Include the inputs and the answer you expected. With your permission, we thank you by name on this page. FeedbackHow useful was this tool? The figures shown are the worked example. Enable JavaScript to calculate with your own numbers. ## How to Use the What Is My IP Tool No fields need filling. As soon as the page loads, the tool fills **7** rows from one request: 1. Begin with “Your public IP address”, the address the websites you visit see. 2. Check “IP version” to learn whether the address is IPv4 or IPv6. 3. Read “Internet provider” and “Network (ASN)” together: the organization that owns your network number, then that number. 4. Treat “Approximate location” and “Time zone” as an estimate for your network rather than your street. 5. Read “Connection” for the HTTP version and the TLS version, the encryption layer behind HTTPS, that your browser used to reach the page. 6. Press “Check again” after you switch networks or turn a VPN on or off. “Copy” copies the address, while “Copy all details” copies every row. If the card reports that it could not read your address, reload the page. ## How Your IP Address Is Found The page asks a small program on Cloudflare’s network, an edge Worker, for the connection details Cloudflare attached to your own request. Once read, they go straight back to your browser. A header Cloudflare adds carries the address. Its [documentation](https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/reference/http-headers/) says “CF-Connecting-IP provides the client IP address connecting to Cloudflare to the origin web server.” The other rows come from a [request object](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/request/) described as “An object containing properties about the incoming request provided by Cloudflare’s global network.” Of its documented fields, the Worker reads asn, asOrganization, city, region, regionCode, country, continent, postalCode, latitude, longitude, timezone, colo, httpProtocol and tlsVersion. Three things then happen to them: - The page shows the address and its version, the organization and number behind the ASN, the city, region and country joined into one line, the time zone, and the HTTP and TLS versions. - Postal code, region code, continent, coordinates, the data center code, a timestamp, your browser’s user agent and language headers, and two proxy hints also arrive in the answer and are never shown. - Nothing about you is stored or logged: the route answers with a no-store header, which tells caches not to keep a copy, and writes no cache entry or database row. No third-party geolocation service is involved. The tool’s only record is an anonymous daily tally of Yes or No votes on the question under it. No IP address, user agent or input is attached. Site-wide analytics run separately from the tool. Like every site you open, the edge Worker sees the address your request arrives from. The tool shows you that view. Cloudflare’s own documentation sets the limit on the location rows: “IP geolocation is an estimate, not an exact science. There is nothing that inherently binds an IP address to a physical location or country.” ## What Is My IP Example: Reading the Documentation Values Live values always fill the card. For illustration, the rows below use addresses the standards reserve for documentation: - Your public IP address: **203.0.113.7**. It sits in 203.0.113.0/24 (TEST-NET-3), one of three blocks [RFC 5737](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5737) says are “provided for use in documentation” and “SHOULD NOT appear on the public Internet”. In the IANA registry, the row for 203.0.113.0/24 Documentation (TEST-NET-3) reads False in every flag column, Globally Reachable among them. - IP version: IPv4. [RFC 791](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc791) fixes these addresses at a “fixed length of four octets (32 bits)”. - Internet provider: Example Networks, an illustrative name. A real answer names the organization that owns the network number. - Network (ASN): AS64500. It falls inside 64496 – 64511, the block [RFC 5398](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5398) reserves “for documentation purposes”. - Approximate location: Springfield, Illinois, United States, an illustrative place in the shape the tool uses: city, region, country. - Time zone: America/Chicago, a name from [IANA’s Time Zone Database](https://www.iana.org/time-zones). Cloudflare’s documentation uses the same name as its example: Timezone of the incoming request, for example, “America/Chicago”. - Connection: HTTP/2 over TLSv1.3. [RFC 9113](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9113) calls HTTP/2 “an optimized expression of the semantics of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)”, and [RFC 8446](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8446) says TLS “is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery.” Both the address and the AS number are reserved, so this example can never be anyone’s real result. ## What Your IP Address Result Means Your result describes the point where your traffic reaches the public internet, read by one network at one moment. Location is an estimate tied to that network, and provider means the organization that owns its network number. [Cloudflare](https://developers.cloudflare.com/network/ip-geolocation/) says it “automatically updates its IP geolocation database multiple times per week” and that it “cannot guarantee that its IP geolocation will align with other providers.” [RFC 6598](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6598) explains the carrier layer, where network address translation (NAT) lets many customers share one public address: “many ISPs will deploy a Carrier-Grade NAT (CGN) device” and number the provider side from Shared Address Space, which “is not globally routable address space and can be used by multiple pieces of equipment.” The public address you see is then the carrier gateway’s, shared with other customers. Sites may use location anyway. The [FTC](https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-protect-your-privacy-online) says they might track activity to “show you personalized content like local weather” and “show you personalized ads based on your browsing history or your location”. ## Public IP vs Private IP Address Websites see one public address per connection. Inside a home or office, each device carries a private address from the three blocks RFC 1918 reserves, and the router stands between the two. | Address class | Range | Where it is used | Shown by this tool | |---|---|---|---| | Public | Any address outside the reserved blocks | The internet side of your router or carrier | Yes, as “Your public IP address” | | Private (IPv4) | 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255, 172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255, 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255 | Home and office networks | No | | Shared (carrier) | 100.64.0.0/10 | Between a carrier’s NAT and customer equipment | No, you see the carrier’s public address | | Local (IPv6) | FC00::/7 | Inside a site | No | *Sources: [RFC 1918](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1918), RFC 6598, [RFC 4193](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4193), [IANA registry](https://www.iana.org/assignments/iana-ipv4-special-registry/iana-ipv4-special-registry.xhtml)* Private blocks need no paperwork, because RFC 1918 lets an enterprise use them “without any coordination with IANA or an Internet registry.” Carriers get a block of their own: RFC 6598 sets aside **100.64.0.0/10** to “number the interfaces that connect CGN devices to Customer Premises Equipment (CPE).” For IPv6, RFC 4193 gives the FC00::/7 prefix a “Well-known prefix to allow for easy filtering at site boundaries.” ### Is My IP Address the Same on All Devices? On one home network over IPv4, usually yes for the public address and no for the private one. Every phone, laptop and TV behind the same IPv4 router shows the same public address here, while each keeps its own private address inside. Over IPv6, each device usually holds its own global address, so the cards can differ. Switch to mobile data and the address changes to the carrier’s. Behind carrier-grade NAT, one public address covers many customers. The [public Wi-Fi security risks](/public-wifi-security-risks/) start from the same shared position. ### What Is My Private IP on My iPhone? Open the phone’s Wi-Fi settings and view the details of the connected network. The IPv4 address listed there is the private one, drawn from the blocks RFC 1918 sets aside for “private internets”. Only the public address appears in this tool, so that IPv4 address never matches it. ## IPv4 vs IPv6: Which Address Do You Have? The “IP version” row reads IPv4 when the address is four dotted numbers and IPv6 when it contains colons. For anyone asking what is my IPv6 address, the address row shows it whenever this row reads IPv6. [RFC 8200](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8200) sets the gap between them: “IPv6 increases the IP address size from 32 bits to 128 bits”. [IANA](https://www.iana.org/numbers) dates the two: “IPv4 was initially deployed on **1 January 1983** and is still the most commonly used version”, while “Deployment of the IPv6 protocol began in 1999”. Only one address reaches the card: the one your browser connected with. A connection that carries both versions and reached this page over IPv6 shows only the IPv6 address. ## What Is My ISP and Network (ASN)? If you came asking what is my ISP, “Internet provider” is the answer: the organization that owns your network number, with “Network (ASN)” giving that number. Cloudflare defines the two fields as the “ASN of the incoming request” and “The organization which owns the ASN of the incoming request”. An autonomous system is a routing unit. [RFC 1930](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1930) defines it: “An AS is a connected group of one or more IP prefixes run by one or more network operators which has a SINGLE and CLEARLY DEFINED routing policy.” IANA explains the chain above it: “Users are assigned IP addresses by Internet service providers (ISPs).” Providers in turn obtain allocations from a local, national or regional Internet registry, and ARIN covers “Canada, USA, and some Caribbean Islands”. On a VPN, the provider row names the operator your traffic exits through, often a hosting company rather than the carrier you pay. ## Why a VPN, Proxy or Private Relay Changes the Answer Whatever address your traffic reaches Cloudflare from is the one the tool reads. With a VPN, proxy, Tor or iCloud Private Relay, that is the exit address. Every row then describes the exit. The tool cannot tell you whether it is one. [Apple](https://support.apple.com/en-us/102602) describes the default state: “information contained in your web traffic, such as your DNS records and IP address, can be seen by your network provider and the websites you visit”. With Private Relay, “Your IP address is visible to your network provider and to the first relay, which is operated by Apple.” The second relay “generates a temporary IP address, decrypts the name of the website you requested, and connects you to the site.” That temporary address is what this page shows a Safari user with the feature on. Tor goes further. The [Tor Project](https://support.torproject.org/about/how-is-tor-different-from-other-proxies/) says “Tor passes your traffic through at least 3 different servers before sending it on to the destination”, and the traffic “pops out somewhere else in the world.” Relay counts appear in the [Tor statistics](/tor-statistics/). Two proxy hints do reach the Worker, a Via or X-Forwarded-For header and a tag set by Cloudflare’s WARP app, yet neither reaches the card. Most commercial VPNs set neither, so an absent hint proves nothing, and the result never labels a connection as a VPN. How many people run one is tracked in the [VPN statistics](/vpn-statistics/). Hiding the address is one layer. It helps reduce what a single site learns about your connection and promises nothing about the rest of your traffic. ## Can Someone Trace My IP Address? A public lookup resolves an address to the network that holds it, the way this page does: the provider or operator and an estimated area, with no name and no street. IANA’s allocation runs from registries to providers to users, and an autonomous system groups prefixes under one routing policy, so a lookup ends at the operator. The party that can match an address to an account at a given time is the provider that assigned it, under its own legal process, never through a web lookup. ## Is there anything else my agent or I should know about this page? Yes. The tool reads your own request at Cloudflare’s edge and shows seven fields from it. Each row describes the network your traffic exits from, which may be a VPN, proxy or carrier gateway rather than your device. The edge Worker reads the connecting address and Cloudflare’s request metadata, and it stores and logs nothing about you. Location is an estimate for the network, which can sit in another city or state. A VPN, proxy, Tor, iCloud Private Relay or carrier-grade NAT shows the exit or gateway address. The tool detects none of them. It shows one address per connection and never your private address. SQ Magazine publishes the page for information. Knowing your address helps you check a setup and promises no security outcome. ## Conclusion In the what is my IP example, the card reads **203.0.113.7** on Example Networks, and your own card reads whatever network your traffic exits from. Run the check once on home Wi-Fi, once on mobile data and once with your VPN on, then compare the “Internet provider” and “Approximate location” rows. What sites do with the rows once they have them is covered in the [customer data privacy statistics](/customer-data-privacy-statistics/). ## More Network Tools [All network tools (3) →](https://sqmagazine.co.uk/network-tools/) - [ Network 192.168.1.10/24 192.168.1.0/24 Network In your browser IP Subnet Calculator Network, broadcast, host range and mask for any IPv4 block. 254Usable hosts → ](https://sqmagazine.co.uk/subnet-calculator/) - [ SPF record Example: example.com v=spf1 -all DMARC: p=reject Network Public DNS lookup TXT Record Lookup TXT, SPF and DMARC records for any domain. 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