The city is situated in the Carpathian region northeast of the mountain range, sitting approximately 120 metres (390 ft) above mean sea level. One of the several main geographical features is the Vovchynets Hill also known as the Vovchynets Mountains. The hill reaches 300-350 metres (1,150 ft) above the sea level and is part of the Pokuttya Highland (Upland). Around the hill Bystrytsia River branches into Bystrytsia of Nadvirna, Bystrytsia of Solotvyn, and Vorona. The last two rivers serve as a natural border between the Pokuttya Highland and Stanislav Basin. The Vovchynets Hill is located just outside and northeast of Ivano-Frankivsk. Located southeast from the Stanislav Basin in the direction of the Prut Valley is the Khorosnen (Prut-Bystrytsia) Highland. The highest point of that highland is Mount Hostra, 425 metres (1,394 ft).

The closest neighboring city is Tysmenytsia, less than 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) to the east. Other cities that lie in the radius of 25 to 30 km (16 to 19 mi) are Tlumach (east), Nadvirna (south), Kalush (west), and Halych (north). The city also administers five adjacent villages that surround it: Mykytyntsi, Krykhivtsi, Vovchynets, Uhornyky, and Khryplyn.

National landmarks

• the Church of the Holy Resurrection (Greek Catholic Cathedral),
• the Church of Virgin Mary (at the moment used as museum of Sacred Art of Galicia)
• Latin Collegiate
• the Armenian church (presently used by one of the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches).
• City Brewery

Other attractions

• Market Square with the city's old town hall, today hosting an ethno-cultural museum.
• Shevchenko Park, a big park that consists of an amusement park, a big lake with swans, couple of full-size football fields, and many other interesting places which are worth a visit.
• Bily Budynok, a big white building in the middle of the city and next to the Market place. It is the main administration building of Ivano-Frankivsk and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. In front of the building, there are two full-size sculptural monuments to Franko and Shevchenko.
• Bazaar, a huge area that covers the old market and the new market with a couple of supermarket stores locally known as the universal stores.
• 100 m (328.08 ft) stretch (stometrivka), unofficial local name for a part of Independence Street that consists of numerous shops and is restricted to pedestrian traffic only.

Architecture

• Stanislav fortress compound and Potocki palace
• Cathedral of the Holy Resurrection, locally known as Katedra (Greek-Catholic Cathedral)
• Jesuit Kostel, the second building of Jesuits after they were forced to surrender Katedra
• Fara, also known as the Collegiate Church of Virgin Mary and Saint Stanislaus (today - the Regional Art Museum)
• Ratusha, a former city hall
• Battle of Grunwald monument - commemorating the victory of the Poland on Grunwald fields in 1410.
• Monument to Adam Mickiewicz (1930) - it was reconstructed in 1989, located in Adam Mickiewicz Square next to a regional concert (philharmonic) hall. It is the oldest surviving monument in the city and was built on 20 November 1898 (sculptor Tadeusz Blotnicki).
• Monument to Stepan Bandera and Museum of the Insurgent Army in European Square were awarded the best architectural project of 2007 designed by a local architecture company "Atelie Arkhitektury"

Theaters

• Ivan Franko Academic Regional Music and Drama Theater
• Mariika Pidhirianka Academic Regional Puppet Theater
• Regional Philharmonic Society
• Lumiere Movie Theater (previously, Ivan Franko Movie Theater)
• Cosmos Movie Theater

Former

• Patriot Movie Theater
• Shevchenko Movie Theater (previously "Pioneer")
• "Videotech"
• Gorky Movie Theater
• Komsomolets Movie Theater
• Shevchenko Movie Theater (original)
• Trembita, a summer movie theater

City parks

• Shevchenko Park
• Park of Warriors-Internationalists
• Park "Valy"
• Pryvokzalny park
• Memorial Park, near Ivan Franko Academic Regional Music and Drama Theater

Festivals

• Blacksmiths festival

Night life

• Bomba
• Panorama Plaza
• Pasage Gartenberg
• eL Dorado
• Deja Vu