Select locations for your project

Several Firebase products require a location setting:

  • Google Analytics — If you enable Google Analytics in your Firebase project, you're prompted to select an Analytics reporting location. This location represents the country or region of your organization. Your Analytics location, in turn, sets the currency for revenue reporting.

  • Cloud Firestore and Cloud Storage — If you start using either of these products, you're prompted to select your project's default Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resource location (if it wasn't already selected when setting up another service).

  • Cloud Functions for Firebase (scheduled functions only) — If you run scheduled functions, Cloud Scheduler requires an App Engine app; during its setup you're prompted to select your project's default Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resource location (if it wasn't already selected when setting up another service).

    To learn more about location settings for non-scheduled functions, visit Cloud Functions Locations.

  • Realtime Database — If you create a Realtime Database instance, you're prompted to select the location of the instance, and each instance can be in a different location. Note that the locations of your Realtime Database instances do not affect the options for your default GCP resource location.

Select a location setting for a product or group of products

For most use-cases, you select a location setting in the Firebase console, either during project creation or in the console page for a specific product.

Analytics

If you enable Google Analytics in your Firebase project in the Firebase console, you're prompted to select an Analytics reporting location. Select a country or region that represents the location of your organization.

If you're a project Owner or Editor, you can edit the time zone and the currency for your Analytics reporting location; go to your Google Analytics settings, then scroll to the Reporting pane.

Cloud Firestore, Cloud Storage, and scheduled functions

Cloud Firestore, Cloud Storage, and scheduled functions all share the same location setting, called the default GCP resource location (learn the specifics about this location setting below). Note that this location might have been previously set, either during project creation or when setting up another service that uses this location setting.

  • If you set up Cloud Firestore or Cloud Storage, you're prompted to select your project's default GCP resource location in the Firebase console workflow.

    For Cloud Storage, your default GCP resource location only applies to your default bucket. If you're on the Blaze plan, you can create multiple buckets, each with its own location.

  • If you run scheduled functions, Cloud Scheduler requires an App Engine app. During its setup, you're prompted to select your project's default GCP resource location.

  • You can programmatically set your default GCP resource location by calling the defaultLocation.finalize endpoint for your Firebase project.

Realtime Database locations

If you create a new Realtime Database instance, you need to specify the location for that instance. Each Realtime Database instance in your project can be located in a different location. The currently supported locations for Realtime Database instances are listed below along with their associated database URL schemes.

Note that the locations of your Realtime Database instances do not affect the options for your default GCP resource location.

Region name Region description Database URL scheme
us-central1 Iowa DATABASE_NAME.firebaseio.com
europe-west1 Belgium DATABASE_NAME.europe-west1.firebasedatabase.app
asia-southeast1 Singapore DATABASE_NAME.asia-southeast1.firebasedatabase.app

View location settings

  • For Analytics — In the Firebase console, go to your Google Analytics settings, then scroll to the Reporting pane.

  • For Cloud Firestore, Cloud Storage, and scheduled functions — In the Firebase console, go to your Project settings.

  • For Realtime Database — In the Firebase console, view the list of your database instances in the Realtime Database data viewer.

Learn about the default GCP resource location

Several services available for your app require a location setting that's called your project's default Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resource location. This location is where your data is stored for GCP services that require a location setting.

The following products share the same default GCP resource location:

  • Cloud Firestore
    Note that your default GCP resource location does not apply to Firebase Realtime Database.

  • Cloud Storage
    Note that your default GCP resource location only applies to your default Cloud Storage bucket. If you're on the Blaze plan, you can create multiple buckets, each with its own location.

  • App Engine app (for example, for scheduled functions)
    If you set up an App Engine app, its location shares your default GCP resource location. Note that if you use Cloud Scheduler (for example, to run scheduled functions), you're required to have an App Engine app in your project.

You can select either a multi-region location or a regional location as your default GCP resource location. Note that if you already have an App Engine app with a location of either us-central or europe-west, any GCP service that uses this location setting will be considered multi-regional.

Multi-region locations

Select a multi-region location to maximize the availability and durability of your database.

A multi-region location consists of a defined set of regions where multiple replicas of the database are stored. Each replica is either a read-write replica which contains all of the data in the database or a witness replica which does not maintain a full set of data but participates in replication.

By replicating the data between multiple regions, data can continue to be served even with the loss of an entire region. Within a region, data is replicated across zones so that data can continue to be served within that region even with the loss of a zone.

Firebase supports the following multi-region GCP resource locations:
Multi-Region Name Multi-Region Description Read-Write Regions Witness Region
eur3 Europe europe-west1 (Belgium), europe-west4 (Netherlands) europe-north1 (Finland)
nam5 United States us-central1 (Iowa), us-central2 (Oklahoma—private GCP region) us-east1 (South Carolina)

Regional locations

A regional location is a specific geographic place, such as South Carolina. Data in a regional location is replicated in multiple zones within a region. All regional locations are separated from other regional locations by at least 100 miles.

Select a regional location for lower costs, for lower write latency if your application is sensitive to latency, or for co-location with other GCP resources.

Firebase supports the following regional GCP resource locations:
Region NameRegion Description
North America
us-west1Oregon
us-west2Los Angeles
us-west3Salt Lake City
us-west4Las Vegas
northamerica-northeast1Montréal

northamerica-northeast2

Toronto
us-east1South Carolina
us-east4Northern Virginia
South America
southamerica-east1São Paulo
Europe
europe-west2London

europe-west1

Belgium

europe-west4

Netherlands

europe-west9

Paris
europe-west3Frankfurt
europe-central2Warsaw
europe-west6Zürich
Middle East

me-central1

Doha

me-central2

Dammam

me-west1

Tel Aviv
Asia
asia-south1Mumbai

asia-south2

This location does not support Cloud Storage for Firebase. If you plan to use Cloud Storage for Firebase, you should choose a different location.

Delhi
asia-southeast1Singapore
asia-southeast2Jakarta
asia-east2Hong Kong
asia-east1Taiwan
asia-northeast1Tokyo
asia-northeast2Osaka
asia-northeast3Seoul
Australia
australia-southeast1Sydney

australia-southeast2

This location does not support Cloud Storage for Firebase. If you plan to use Cloud Storage for Firebase, you should choose a different location.

Melbourne

Next steps

  • To create a Cloud Firestore database in a specific location, visit Get started with Cloud Firestore.

  • To create a Cloud Storage bucket, visit the Get Started page for your platform.

  • To run scheduled functions with Cloud Functions for Firebase, visit the setup guide.

  • For more information about building applications to meet your latency, availability, and durability requirements, refer to Geography and Regions.