⚡ Geolocation in the United Kingdom

IP Geolocation services determine the approximate location of a user based on their IP address, providing data such as country, region, city, and Internet service provider.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) is a Western European country with a population of over 67 million people.

According to our research, geolocation tools are used on 0.6% of websites from the United Kingdom.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top geolocation tools in the United Kingdom in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is GeoJS with an impressive share of 39%, followed by IPinfo with 27.6% and MaxMind with 13.7%.

GeoJS 39%
IPinfo 27.6%
MaxMind 13.7%
ipapi.co 13.1%
ipify 7.7%
IP2Location 4.2%
IP-API 3.4%
Ipstack 1.7%
DB-IP 1.3%
🗺️ Jsonip 1.1%
ipdata 1%
ipgeolocation.io 0.8%
Abstract IP Geolocation API 0.3%
ipapi 0.2%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top tools that are more popular in the United Kingdom than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

1. GeoJS ^(-1)
3. MaxMind ^(-2)
6. IP2Location ^(-1)
9. DB-IP ^(-2)

✨ Best Geolocation Tools

Below is a more detailed list of 14 geolocation tools used on sites from the United Kingdom, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	GeoJS Australia A highly available REST/JSON/JSONP IP Geolocation lookup API. Free	39%
2	IPinfo Seattle, Washington, United States A data service that provides IP address information via free and paid APIs. Free$49+/month	27.6%
3	MaxMind Malden, Massachusetts, United States A provider of IP address intelligence, geolocation and fraud detection tools. Free$374+/year	13.7%
4	ipapi.co Henderson, Nevada, United States Provides a REST API to find the location of an IP address. Free$15+/month	13.1%
5	ipify Texas, United States An API service that provides a free IP address API and a paid IP geolocation API. Free$15+/month	7.7%
6	IP2Location Bayan Baru, Malaysia A geolocation service that provides databases and a real-time API to determine a user's location. Free$99+/year	4.2%
7	IP-API Bucharest, Romania An IP geolocation API that offers a limited free tier and a paid pro service. Free€13.3/month	3.4%
8	Ipstack Vienna, Austria A subscription-based IP geolocation API service that provides geolocation data, including city, region, country, and time zone information. Free$9.99+/month	1.7%
9	DB-IP Perros-Guirec, France A geolocation service that provides IP Geolocation API and downloadable databases to determine a user's location. Free€49.90+/year	1.3%
10	🗺️ Jsonip Seattle, Washington, United States A free API that returns a client's IP address (IPv4 or IPv6) as a JSON object. Free	1.1%
11	ipdata Newark, Delaware, United States Provides an IP Geolocation and Threat Intelligence API. Free$10+/month	1%
12	ipgeolocation.io Citra, Florida, United States Provides an IP Geolocation API that is free for non-commercial use up to 30K requests per month. Free$19+/month	0.8%
13	Abstract IP Geolocation API San Francisco, California, United States Provides geolocation data, including city, postal code, region, country, along with proxy & VPN detection and IP reputation score. Free$19+/month	0.3%
14	ipapi Vienna, Austria Ipapi.com provides an API that allows customers to look up information associated with IP addresses, such as location and connection data, ISP information, time zone, currency, and security assessment data. Free$6.99+/month	0.2%

👉 See Also

🌎 Geolocation in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 157,370 websites from the United Kingdom.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.