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What Is My Location?

This tool answers where you are in two ways. If you allow it, your browser's geolocation API gives precise latitude and longitude — on a phone that usually means GPS, and on a laptop it means nearby Wi-Fi networks, which is often accurate to a few tens of metres. If you would rather not grant permission, or you dismiss the prompt, the page falls back to an approximate location derived from your IP address, which is typically accurate to the city. Either way the result is displayed to you and nowhere else: coordinates never reach our servers, are never written to a database, and disappear when you close the tab. Naming a precise fix — the city, region, and postal code shown beneath it — sends those coordinates, and nothing that identifies you, to BigDataCloud's keyless reverse-geocoding lookup, and only once you have pressed the button.

Your approximate location

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Derived from your IP address. Allow the browser prompt for GPS or Wi-Fi precision.

Source
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Accuracy
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Degrees, minutes, seconds
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Altitude
Not reported
City
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Region
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Country
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Time zone
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How to use the what is my location

  1. Open the page and choose whether to allow the browser location prompt.
  2. Allow it for precise latitude and longitude from GPS or Wi-Fi positioning, and the city they fall in.
  3. Dismiss it to fall back to the approximate location derived from your IP address.
  4. Copy the coordinates for use in maps, forms, or reports.

Frequently asked questions

Why does my browser ask for permission?
Precise location is protected. Browsers require an explicit grant per site, and you can revoke it at any time from the padlock or site-settings menu in the address bar.
What happens if I deny the prompt?
Nothing breaks. The page falls back to IP-based location, which is less precise but needs no permission at all.
How accurate is browser geolocation?
On a phone with GPS it is often accurate to within a few metres outdoors. On a laptop it relies on nearby Wi-Fi networks and is typically accurate to tens or hundreds of metres. IP-based fallback is accurate to the city at best.
Are my coordinates stored or shared?
They are never stored, and our own servers never receive them at all. To put a city name to a precise fix, the page sends the coordinates alone to BigDataCloud's reverse-geocoding endpoint — no cookies, no referrer, no account, nothing that identifies you — and discards the answer when you close the tab. That request is only ever made after you press the button, never on page load.

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