BigDataCloud Free Reverse Geocode to City API
by bigdatacloud.com
Location Information
Added on November 1st, 2026
Checked and working on November 1st, 2026
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What it does
BigDataCloud's client-side reverse geocoding API turns the user's current coordinates into a place: city or locality, region, country and continent, in the language you ask for. Call it from the browser or a mobile app after getting the position with the HTML5 Geolocation API. Without coordinates it gives a best-effort place based on the user's IP address. It returns JSON. Free, no key needed, under a fair use policy: client-side calls with the device's own location only.
At a glance
- API key
- Not needed · More APIs with no key
- Pricing
- Free, no key needed, under a fair use policy: client-side calls with the device's own location only.
- From the browser
- Yes (CORS)
- Formats
- JSON
- Interface
- REST, HTTP-GET
- Provider
- bigdatacloud.com
- Last checked
- Working on November 1st, 2026
More information: https://www.bigdatacloud.com/free-api/free-reverse-geocode-to-city-api
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Example request
curl
curl 'https://api.bigdatacloud.net/data/reverse-geocode-client?latitude=51.5&longitude=-0.12&localityLanguage=en'JavaScript
const response = await fetch("https://api.bigdatacloud.net/data/reverse-geocode-client?latitude=51.5&longitude=-0.12&localityLanguage=en");
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);Python
import requests
response = requests.get(
"https://api.bigdatacloud.net/data/reverse-geocode-client?latitude=51.5&longitude=-0.12&localityLanguage=en",
timeout=30,
)
print(response.json())The JavaScript works in a web page as well as in Node.js 18 or newer.