What Is My Address?
Your current address is the postal label for the exact spot you are standing on — street name and number, neighbourhood, city, postal code, and country. Tap the button below: with your permission, this page reads your device’s GPS position and converts it into the nearest street address, ready to copy, read aloud, or share.
Your address, piece by piece
A full street address is assembled from several parts, and it helps to know which part came from where when one of them looks off:
| Part | Example | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| House / building number | 221B | Parcel and door-number databases — sometimes interpolated between known corners |
| Street name | Baker Street | Road map data |
| Neighbourhood / locality | Marylebone | Administrative boundaries |
| City & region | London | Administrative boundaries |
| Postal / ZIP code | NW1 6XE | Postal-service zone data |
| Country | United Kingdom | Administrative boundaries |
The conversion from your GPS coordinates to this label is called reverse geocoding. Your coordinates are the ground truth; the address is the best matching label from map data. If you need the opposite direction — typing an address to get its coordinates — use the address to coordinates tool.
Why the house number can be a door or two off
Two independent error sources stack up. First, consumer GPS is typically accurate to 3–10 m outdoors — about the width of a building plot — so the pin itself may sit on your neighbour’s roof. Second, many streets don’t have every door individually mapped; the database then interpolates: if it knows number 2 and number 40 stand at the ends of the block, it estimates where 26 should be. Both errors are small, but they add up to the classic “right street, wrong door” result.
- Step outside or near a window — a clear sky view tightens the GPS fix dramatically.
- Allow precise location when your browser asks (iPhone: Settings ▸ Privacy & Security ▸ Location Services ▸ your browser ▸ Precise Location on).
- Turn off your VPN if the whole city is wrong — check with the VPN checker.
- Still off? The full checklist lives in why is my location wrong.
Copy it, read it aloud, or send it
Once the address appears you can copy it with one tap, or share it as a link or QR code — useful for taxi pickups, deliveries to a spot without a saved address, or telling a friend where to meet you. On a phone call, read it in this order and most people can write it down first try: house number → street → area → city → postal code.
Standing somewhere with no street address at all — a beach, a trailhead, a festival field? Share your GPS coordinates or a Plus Code instead; both name any point on Earth without needing a street. The QR sharing guide shows the phone-to-phone flow step by step.
Address language and format
Addresses come back in the language and convention of the local map data — a Tokyo address may arrive with Japanese components and block-based numbering, a German one as “Straße 12, 10115 Berlin”. Postal-code position, street-before-number order, and even whether streets have names at all vary by country; what this page shows is the form a local postal service would recognise. Where the map data provides romanised names, the address appears in Latin script — and this site itself is available in 35 languages from the switcher in the footer.