GeoIP® accuracy comparison for locations worldwide

The accuracy comparison tool gives you a high level view of the GeoIP City database and web service accuracy. It shows you the percentage of IP addresses correctly located within a particular accuracy radius. If you select a specific country from the options below, you can compare city-level results for the GeoIP web services, databases, and GeoLite (the free version of the MaxMind's IP geolocation data) within your chosen country, to determine which service best fits your goals.

Country
Correctly located within exact postal
Located to a postal, but outside exact postal
No postal-level data available
Albania 0% 1% 98%
Algeria 13% 66% 21%
Angola 0% 0% 100%
Argentina 36% 55% 9%
Armenia 0% 5% 95%
Aruba 0% 0% 100%
Australia 6% 93% 1%
Austria 13% 76% 11%
Azerbaijan 1% 9% 90%
Bahamas 0% 0% 100%
Bahrain 0% 0% 100%
Bangladesh 14% 71% 15%
Barbados 0% 0% 100%
Belarus 24% 74% 2%
Belgium 15% 62% 22%
Bermuda 0% 0% 100%
Bolivia 0% 0% 100%
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1% 1% 98%
Brazil 12% 86% 2%
Bulgaria 28% 71% 1%
Cambodia 0% 2% 98%
Cameroon 0% 0% 100%
Canada 33% 64% 3%
Cayman Islands 0% 0% 100%
Chile 0% 0% 100%
China 0% 0% 100%
Colombia 17% 83% 1%
Costa Rica 10% 90% 1%
Croatia 27% 63% 9%
Cuba 0% 0% 100%
Cyprus 0% 0% 100%
Czechia 15% 85% 0%
Denmark 19% 61% 20%
Dominican Republic 4% 93% 2%
DR Congo 0% 0% 100%
Ecuador 0% 7% 93%
Egypt 0% 0% 100%
El Salvador 0% 2% 98%
Estonia 0% 0% 100%
Ethiopia 0% 0% 100%
Finland 5% 94% 1%
France 17% 54% 29%
French Guiana 40% 48% 11%
French Polynesia 0% 0% 100%
Georgia 0% 1% 99%
Germany 14% 85% 1%
Ghana 0% 0% 100%
Greece 0% 0% 100%
Guadeloupe 24% 64% 12%
Guam 21% 78% 1%
Guatemala 5% 85% 10%
Guyana 0% 0% 100%
Honduras 0% 1% 99%
Hong Kong 1% 0% 99%
Hungary 14% 86% 0%
Iceland 16% 84% 0%
India 4% 94% 2%
Indonesia 2% 95% 3%
Iraq 3% 6% 91%
Ireland 17% 53% 30%
Israel 0% 0% 100%
Italy 3% 67% 30%
Ivory Coast 0% 0% 100%
Jamaica 0% 0% 100%
Japan 7% 61% 32%
Jersey 0% 100% 0%
Jordan 0% 0% 100%
Kazakhstan 0% 1% 98%
Kenya 1% 1% 98%
Kosovo 1% 0% 99%
Kuwait 0% 0% 100%
Kyrgyzstan 0% 1% 99%
Latvia 0% 99% 1%
Lebanon 0% 0% 100%
Lithuania 1% 84% 15%
Luxembourg 0% 66% 34%
Malaysia 5% 89% 6%
Maldives 0% 0% 100%
Malta 9% 90% 1%
Martinique 22% 52% 26%
Mauritius 0% 0% 100%
Mexico 6% 90% 4%
Moldova 0% 99% 1%
Mongolia 0% 0% 100%
Montenegro 0% 0% 100%
Morocco 0% 0% 100%
Mozambique 0% 0% 100%
Namibia 0% 0% 100%
Nepal 0% 1% 99%
The Netherlands 16% 66% 17%
New Zealand 9% 83% 8%
Nicaragua 0% 0% 100%
Nigeria 0% 0% 100%
North Macedonia 45% 52% 3%
Norway 8% 80% 12%
Oman 0% 9% 91%
Pakistan 21% 70% 9%
Panama 0% 1% 99%
Paraguay 0% 2% 98%
Peru 0% 5% 95%
Philippines 13% 85% 2%
Poland 9% 90% 1%
Portugal 1% 87% 12%
Puerto Rico 8% 73% 19%
Qatar 0% 1% 99%
Réunion 26% 70% 4%
Romania 5% 95% 1%
Russia 6% 79% 15%
Saudi Arabia 0% 0% 100%
Senegal 0% 0% 100%
Serbia 0% 5% 95%
Singapore 9% 91% 1%
Slovakia 12% 88% 0%
Slovenia 28% 72% 0%
South Africa 7% 87% 6%
South Korea 19% 73% 8%
Spain 16% 67% 17%
Sri Lanka 9% 91% 0%
Sweden 3% 76% 21%
Switzerland 10% 87% 3%
Taiwan 0% 0% 100%
Tanzania 0% 0% 99%
Thailand 20% 79% 1%
Trinidad and Tobago 0% 0% 100%
Tunisia 0% 0% 100%
Türkiye 6% 90% 3%
U.S. Virgin Islands 0% 0% 100%
Uganda 0% 0% 100%
Ukraine 9% 83% 8%
United Arab Emirates 0% 0% 100%
United Kingdom 18% 77% 5%
United States 25% 71% 4%
Uruguay 11% 87% 2%
Uzbekistan 0% 2% 98%
Venezuela 9% 9% 82%
Vietnam 38% 60% 3%
Zambia 0% 0% 100%
Zimbabwe 0% 0% 100%

Notes:

  1. Accuracy is calculated by checking known web user IP address and location pairs against the data within MaxMind's GeoIP web service as well as the GeoIP City and GeoLite City database offerings.
  2. Due to the nature of geolocation technology and other factors beyond our control, we cannot guarantee any specific future accuracy level.
  3. Fewer countries are available for cellular and IPv6 IPs due to limited test data.

What's the difference between the GeoIP web services and databases?

MaxMind's IP geolocation data is available in two primary delivery methods: as a downloadable database and as a web service, which is accessed via an API. The GeoIP databases allow users to locally host and utilize the downloadable databases for their applications. The GeoIP web services, delivering our most comprehensive GeoIP data available, are hosted, maintained, and updated regularly on secure MaxMind servers.

Looking for more than just city-level data?

Our web services provide IP geolocation and network data such as country, region, city, ZIP/postal code, anonymizer type, user count, confidence factors, static IP score, and more.

Accurate IP geolocation with emphasis on security and privacy

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