Bitnodes estimates the relative size of the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network by finding all of its reachable nodes.


Global Bitcoin nodes by city

8015 cities with their respective number of global IPv4/IPv6 Bitcoin nodes as of Tue Dec 16 00:00:00 2025 UTC.

Window size: 1-day

NODES73277
COUNTRIES157
CITIES8015
ASNS2579
SERVICES6
PORT NUMBERS310

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RANKCITYNODES
1n/a5402 (9.86%)
2Germany Frankfurt am Main
793 (1.45%)
3Finland Helsinki
782 (1.43%)
4Germany Falkenstein
781 (1.43%)
5Switzerland Zurich
597 (1.09%)
6The Netherlands Amsterdam
596 (1.09%)
7Singapore Singapore
512 (0.93%)
8Australia Sydney
494 (0.90%)
9United States Ashburn
491 (0.90%)
10Germany Berlin
466 (0.85%)
11Germany Nuremberg
409 (0.75%)
12Japan Tokyo
380 (0.69%)
13France Lauterbourg
372 (0.68%)
14United States Los Angeles
336 (0.61%)
15Canada Toronto
309 (0.56%)
16Australia Melbourne
308 (0.56%)
17Sweden Stockholm
306 (0.56%)
18Ireland Dublin
298 (0.54%)
19France Paris
297 (0.54%)
20United States Chicago
293 (0.53%)
21Czechia Prague
286 (0.52%)
22Germany Munich
279 (0.51%)
23United States Dallas
272 (0.50%)
24Russia Moscow
270 (0.49%)
25Canada Montreal
256 (0.47%)

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This page reports the estimated size of the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network including both reachable and unreachable nodes, i.e. global nodes. Unlike the low churn rate estimation method for reachable nodes (see the latest snapshot here), the method for this report can only provide a rough estimation and does not filter out potentially spurious nodes that may be gossiped by non-standard/spam/malicious peers.

Bitnodes crawler captures these nodes from the addr messages returned by all the reachable nodes. Each snapshot or data point in this report represents a rolling window. A snapshot with window size of 1 day will include all nodes by IP addresses with timestamps less than 1 day old. The timestamp for a node here refers to the time when its peer last connects to it. If you turn on your Bitcoin node for only a few minutes anytime during the last 24 hours, it will be included in the latest snapshot with a window size of 1 day.

Multiple nodes from the same IP address, but different port numbers are counted as one node in this report. A larger window size may increase the likelihood of the same node being counted more than once due to, e.g., IP lease renewal.

A Bitcoin node may be unreachable for several reasons. It may be configured by the operator to only attempt to make outgoing connections or it may be located behind corporate/ISP firewalls or NAT. A node could also become temporarily unreachable if it has hit its maximum allowed connections or if it is in the process of syncing up to the latest blocks. As it is impossible to connect to an unreachable node directly, we cannot reliably confirm the true existence of an unreachable node, hence the rough estimation.


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