Accuracy figures for our more accurate GeoIP City database are available here.
MaxMind tests the accuracy of the GeoLite Databases on a periodic basis. The following table shows a breakdown of recent test results of the accuracy of GeoLite City
on a city level by country for selected countries. The GeoLite databases tested at 99.5% accurate at a country level.
We arrive at the accuracy figure by checking known IP address and location pairs against our database.
We obtain the known IP location pairs from sites that ask the web visitor to provide their geographic location.
The geographic location along with the web visitor's IP Address is forwarded to us.
While only larger countries are shown below, the GeoLite City database covers cities worldwide.
Disclaimer: Due to the nature of geolocation technology and other factors beyond our control, we cannot guarantee any specific future accuracy level. Nevertheless, we expect that the GeoLite City database will at any given time in the future correctly identify locations with an accuracy meeting the level of accuracy indicated in the table below.
Table Terms:
Correctly Resolved Within 25 Miles of True Location: refers to the IP addresses that are
correctly resolved within 25 miles of the actual city. The second number in parenthesis refers to the
percentage of IP addresses that are correctly resolved if excluding data not covered on a city level.
Incorrectly Resolved More Than 25 Miles From True Location: refers to IP addresses that were
incorrectly resolved by more than 25 miles of the actual city.
Not Covered on a City Level: refers to the percentage of the data of select country that does not contain city
information. We leave these data ranges without city information to prevent false positives.
The city information is not available for AOL IP address or when Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
route traffic through proxies thus masking the originating location.
Updated May 17th, 2010
| Countries |
Correctly Resolved Within 25 Miles of True Location |
Incorrectly Resolved More Than 25 Miles from True Location |
Not Covered on a City Level |
| Algeria |
43% (66%) |
22% |
35% |
| Argentina |
67% (70%) |
29% |
4% |
| Australia |
58% (61%) |
37% |
5% |
| Austria |
74% (76%) |
23% |
3% |
| Azerbaijan |
81% (91%) |
9% |
10% |
| Bahamas |
86% (87%) |
13% |
1% |
| Bangladesh |
74% (78%) |
21% |
5% |
| Belgium |
70% (81%) |
16% |
14% |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina |
61% (64%) |
34% |
5% |
| Brazil |
62% (72%) |
23% |
15% |
| Bulgaria |
70% (71%) |
29% |
1% |
| Canada |
81% (82%) |
18% |
1% |
| Chile |
77% (78%) |
22% |
1% |
| China |
66% (69%) |
29% |
5% |
| Colombia |
52% (58%) |
38% |
10% |
| Costa Rica |
82% (84%) |
16% |
2% |
| Cote D'Ivoire |
81% (98%) |
2% |
17% |
| Croatia |
68% (71%) |
28% |
4% |
| Cyprus |
75% (77%) |
23% |
2% |
| Czech Republic |
64% (69%) |
30% |
6% |
| Denmark |
76% (81%) |
18% |
6% |
| Dominican Republic |
81% (87%) |
12% |
7% |
| Ecuador |
68% (70%) |
30% |
2% |
| Egypt |
68% (80%) |
17% |
15% |
| El Salvador |
87% (90%) |
10% |
3% |
| Estonia |
76% (76%) |
23% |
1% |
| Faroe Islands |
91% (94%) |
5% |
4% |
| Finland |
72% (74%) |
25% |
3% |
| France |
62% (65%) |
33% |
5% |
| French Polynesia |
82% (83%) |
17% |
1% |
| Georgia |
92% (95%) |
5% |
3% |
| Germany |
70% (74%) |
26% |
4% |
| Greece |
66% (70%) |
27% |
7% |
| Greenland |
66% (67%) |
33% |
1% |
| Guadeloupe |
35% (77%) |
11% |
54% |
| Hong Kong |
89% (93%) |
7% |
4% |
| Hungary |
74% (74%) |
25% |
1% |
| Iceland |
79% (80%) |
20% |
1% |
| India |
58% (61%) |
38% |
4% |
| Indonesia |
56% (61%) |
36% |
8% |
| Ireland |
56% (60%) |
36% |
8% |
| Israel |
66% (69%) |
29% |
5% |
| Italy |
54% (59%) |
37% |
9% |
| Jamaica |
62% (64%) |
36% |
2% |
| Japan |
56% (69%) |
26% |
18% |
| Jordan |
59% (88%) |
9% |
32% |
| Kazakhstan |
84% (84%) |
15% |
1% |
| Kenya |
51% (74%) |
17% |
32% |
| Korea, Republic of |
75% (80%) |
19% |
6% |
| Kuwait |
92% (94%) |
7% |
1% |
| Latvia |
73% (77%) |
21% |
6% |
| Lebanon |
70% (83%) |
15% |
15% |
| Lithuania |
67% (68%) |
31% |
2% |
| Luxembourg |
86% (91%) |
9% |
5% |
| Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of |
69% (69%) |
30% |
1% |
| Malaysia |
57% (58%) |
41% |
2% |
| Malta |
96% (97%) |
3% |
1% |
| Martinique |
44% (82%) |
10% |
46% |
| Mexico |
61% (70%) |
26% |
13% |
| Morocco |
44% (50%) |
44% |
12% |
| Netherlands |
79% (80%) |
20% |
1% |
| New Caledonia |
66% (92%) |
6% |
28% |
| New Zealand |
60% (62%) |
37% |
3% |
| Nigeria |
30% (57%) |
22% |
48% |
| Norway |
73% (75%) |
25% |
2% |
| Oman |
77% (80%) |
20% |
3% |
| Pakistan |
51% (52%) |
46% |
3% |
| Paraguay |
55% (61%) |
36% |
9% |
| Peru |
88% (88%) |
11% |
1% |
| Philippines |
52% (60%) |
35% |
13% |
| Poland |
51% (52%) |
48% |
1% |
| Portugal |
64% (65%) |
34% |
2% |
| Qatar |
94% (95%) |
4% |
2% |
| Romania |
72% (73%) |
27% |
1% |
| Russian Federation |
75% (78%) |
22% |
3% |
| Saudi Arabia |
47% (57%) |
36% |
17% |
| Singapore |
93% (95%) |
5% |
2% |
| Slovakia |
52% (53%) |
46% |
2% |
| Slovenia |
71% (71%) |
28% |
1% |
| South Africa |
52% (63%) |
31% |
17% |
| Spain |
70% (71%) |
28% |
2% |
| Sri Lanka |
37% (55%) |
31% |
32% |
| Sweden |
70% (71%) |
29% |
1% |
| Switzerland |
61% (66%) |
30% |
9% |
| Taiwan |
79% (85%) |
14% |
7% |
| Thailand |
57% (67%) |
27% |
16% |
| Trinidad and Tobago |
83% (93%) |
6% |
11% |
| Tunisia |
9% (45%) |
12% |
79% |
| Turkey |
69% (71%) |
29% |
2% |
| Uganda |
46% (91%) |
5% |
49% |
| Ukraine |
61% (65%) |
34% |
5% |
| United Arab Emirates |
72% (73%) |
26% |
2% |
| United Kingdom |
56% (61%) |
36% |
8% |
| United States |
78% (82%) |
17% |
5% |
| Uruguay |
75% (75%) |
24% |
1% |
| Venezuela |
52% (54%) |
45% |
3% |
| Vietnam |
55% (63%) |
32% |
13% |
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