What City Am I In?
Tap the button below and, with your permission, your browser reads your position from GPS or Wi-Fi. This page converts it into a full address — the city you are standing in, the neighbourhood around it, and your exact coordinates on the map.
How your city is determined
Your device produces a coordinate pair; turning that into a city name is reverse geocoding — matching the point against administrative boundaries in open map data. With the location permission granted, that match is usually exact. If you decline, the page falls back to your IP address, which is only reliable to the metro area: it can name the neighbouring city, or the city where your provider's equipment sits rather than where you are.
City, town, suburb or metro — why the name can surprise you
“What city am I in” has more than one honest answer in many places. Big cities contain named boroughs and suburbs that map data may list first — you can be in a metropolis while the nearest label is a district. Postal addressing adds another layer: the post office sometimes files an address under a different town than the one whose boundary you are standing in. The full address shown above lists these levels from most local to most general, so read one step up if the first name looks too small.
If the city shown is wrong
- Grant the permission — without it the IP fallback is city-level at best.
- On a VPN? The IP fallback shows your exit server's city; check with the VPN checker.
- Near a boundary? GPS is accurate to a few meters, but if you are standing near a city line the honest answer really is “almost both”.
- Full troubleshooting: why is my location wrong.