Find where any photo was taken — free AI location finder
Reads the GPS tag if the file still has one, then looks at landmarks and any text in the picture. JPG, PNG or WebP, up to 10MB.
Name it, half-name it, or describe it. Spelling does not have to be right.
Upload a picture and AI identifies the landmark, city and coordinates, then shows it on a map. Or just describe the place in your own words. No GPS, no EXIF, no sign-up.
Most people arrive here with one of three questions. Each one has a fast answer.
Upload the picture. The AI compares buildings, terrain, vegetation, signs and skyline against millions of known places and returns the most likely match with a confidence score — even when the photo has no GPS data.
Identify a place from a photoEvery result includes the place name, country, latitude and longitude, a map pin and a short background from Wikipedia, so you know exactly where it is and what you are looking at.
See a location on the mapPhotos work best, but you can also paste a screenshot from a video, or type a description like 'the Japanese city with all the cherry blossoms'. The Video Location Finder handles clips from TikTok, YouTube and Instagram.
Find where a video was filmedEach one works on its own, and the finder runs them together on every image you give it.
Type what you remember — a half-recalled name, a misspelling, or 'the Japanese city with all the cherry blossoms' — and you get the place back with its country, region and a pin on the map. This is the quickest route when you saw somewhere but never took the picture.
When a photo still carries its EXIF GPS tag, that is a recorded measurement rather than an inference, so it outranks everything else: exact coordinates, straight onto a map. Most pictures saved from social apps have had that tag stripped — the EXIF Location Viewer tells you whether yours still has one before you go any further.
Monuments, skylines and other well-photographed landmarks are matched against known places, and any legible text in the shot — a shop sign, a street plate, a station name — is used as a further clue. A famous building is usually named outright. An ordinary residential street usually is not.
Every result carries the coordinates, the method behind it and a confidence figure, plus a short background from Wikipedia when the place has an entry. If nothing in the picture is conclusive, the finder says so rather than returning a guess dressed up as a fact.
Worth reading before you upload, because the answer depends far more on what is in the picture than on the software.
The best case. Anything photographed millions of times — a cathedral, a bridge, a distinctive tower, a recognisable skyline — is usually named correctly, and you get the city and coordinates with it.
Read the landmark guideShop fronts, road signs, number plates and station names narrow things down fast, often to a specific street. Script and language alone can rule out most of the world before anything else is read.
Five ways to read a photoStraight off a phone or camera, with the GPS tag intact, the location is not a guess at all. Note that this cuts both ways: it is also how a photo you share can reveal where you live.
Check your photo's GPS tagTerrain, vegetation and light can suggest a region or a hemisphere, but a stretch of sand looks much like any other stretch of sand. Expect a rough area at best, and often nothing at all.
Place a photo by sun and shadowWhen a picture is not enough on its own, the guides below cover the manual methods — reverse image search, shadow and sun angles, vegetation, architecture — that professional verifiers fall back on.
Frequently Asked Questions about AI Geographic Identification Service
Identify any location worldwide in 3 seconds. From text descriptions to photo location, AI makes geographic queries simple and efficient