What Is My IP

City-level at best, and honestly often worse. IP geolocation works by mapping address blocks to the ISPs that own them, so it reliably knows your provider and country, usually your metro area, and essentially never your street — the coordinates shown typically land on ISP infrastructure, which can be miles from you or occasionally in the wrong city entirely (mobile connections are the least accurate). If the city shown is wrong, that's the technology, not a glitch.

Most home connections use dynamic addresses: your ISP leases you one from its pool, and it can change when your router reboots, the lease expires, or the ISP reshuffles — anywhere from days to months apart. Mobile IPs change constantly as you move between towers and networks. Static IPs exist but are typically a paid business feature. Practical consequence: an IP identifies a connection at a moment in time, not a person permanently — which matters for both privacy and for anyone parsing server logs.

The VPN server's, if the VPN is working — that's its entire mechanism: your traffic exits from their machine, so websites see their address and location instead of yours. This makes the page a working VPN test: the location shown should match your chosen server, not your real city. If your real ISP or city appears while connected, your VPN is leaking (common causes: it dropped silently, or IPv6 traffic is bypassing an IPv4-only tunnel — worth checking both addresses above).

Knowing your IP alone is far less dangerous than internet folklore suggests: it exposes your ISP and rough location, enables targeted annoyances (like DoS attacks against gamers), and that's roughly the ceiling — your router's firewall rejects unsolicited connections by default. The real risks live elsewhere: accounts, phishing, and unpatched devices. Reasonable hygiene is keeping router firmware updated and not port-forwarding services you don't understand; paranoia about the IP itself is misplaced.