ICMP RTT measurements from Amsterdam, Netherlands to Los Angeles, USA: average latency, jitter, packet loss, and fiber efficiency in the 2026-08-16 round.

🇳🇱 Amsterdam, Netherlands (AMS) → 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, USA (LAX)

Measurement round: 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z.

For round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z, ICMP echo RTT from Amsterdam, Netherlands to Los Angeles, USA averaged 133.7 ms over 50 samples; the minimum was 130.58 ms and the maximum was 141.4 ms. No packets were lost, and the 2.49 ms standard deviation produced 2.11 ms jitter, so the long distance did not translate into erratic round-trip times.

At 1.52 times the 87.74 ms fiber floor for the 8,960 km great-circle distance, the route has 65.6% straight-line fiber efficiency and a 59.77 ms vacuum floor. The measured RTT stays within a 10.8 ms band even though the destination is nearly 9,000 km away, making the tight spread the most distinctive feature of this route.

Average latency ranks 11th among the 19 outbound routes measured from Amsterdam. Variability of about 1.9% is much lower than the 3.28% median variability across the route set, which makes the 133.7 ms average a dependable reference for this coastal destination.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	133.7 ms
Jitter	2.11 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	87.74 ms
Fiber Efficiency	65.6%
Latency Tier	Good
Source Region	Europe
Destination Region	North America

Ping Measurement Series

The chart below renders the 50-sample ICMP echo measurement round for this route; an accessible table of every sample is included with the chart.

Ping series: AMS → LAX

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z · avg 133.7 ± 0.35 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (131.8–135.3 ms), median 133.1 ms · whiskers = min–max · diamond = round average · each dot is one measured sample.

How to read this chart

The shaded band spans the measured minimum to maximum RTT of all samples collected up to that point, and the thin line traces the running average. The final position therefore matches the round statistics exactly — the band only widens when a new extreme sample arrives.

The dashed line is the round average, and the shaded band at the bottom is the theoretical fiber-optic floor (87.7 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	131.28
2	100	132.31
3	200	130.64
4	300	132.50
5	400	133.14
6	500	131.53
7	600	130.95
8	700	131.09
9	800	133.35
10	900	141.40
11	1000	133.94
12	1100	132.69
13	1200	130.79
14	1300	130.58
15	1400	132.08
16	1500	132.96
17	1600	131.21
18	1700	132.88
19	1800	130.85
20	1900	136.69
21	2000	132.73
22	2100	132.05
23	2200	131.79
24	2300	133.13
25	2400	133.92
26	2500	131.60
27	2600	131.02
28	2700	133.03
29	2800	131.98
30	2900	132.76
31	3000	131.34
32	3100	132.31
33	3200	135.41
34	3300	134.84
35	3400	136.63
36	3500	134.40
37	3600	136.06
38	3700	136.49
39	3800	133.30
40	3900	137.56
41	4000	136.52
42	4100	136.96
43	4200	133.93
44	4300	137.54
45	4400	133.14
46	4500	133.51
47	4600	139.34
48	4700	134.19
49	4800	136.71
50	4900	137.95

Download This Route's Data

This route's measurement round is published as open data (CC BY 4.0) in CSV, JSON, and YAML. See About This Measurement for citation guidance.

Download this dataset

Per-route ICMP ping series, released under CC BY 4.0. Uncompressed plain text — no decompression step needed.

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Theoretical Fiber Latency

The public physical reference uses the GeoNames city centres for Amsterdam (52.37403, 4.88969) and Los Angeles (34.05223, -118.24368). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	8,960 km
Vacuum RTT floor	59.77 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	87.74 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	87.39 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	92.14 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	116.7 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	1881.6 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	118 / 117
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.52×

Attenuation is used to estimate the number of 80 km optical spans; it does not directly slow light. See the full theoretical fiber latency, GeoNames, attenuation, and amplifier methodology.

Stability & Trend

The current measurement round (2026-08-16T04:07:28Z) collected 50 ICMP echo samples on this route. Distribution statistics from that round:

Round Statistic	Value
Minimum RTT	130.58 ms
Average RTT	133.7 ms
Maximum RTT	141.4 ms
Standard deviation	2.49 ms
Stdev / average	1.9%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 133.7 ms
Minimum: 132.7 ms
Maximum: 134.7 ms
Average loss: 0.02%

Route Context

Departure PoP: Amsterdam (AMS)
Destination PoP: Los Angeles (LAX)
Region overview: Europe → North America
Corridor overview: Europe to North America
Full global matrix: Backbone Latency Matrix
Physical methodology: Theoretical Fiber Latency

Reverse direction

Los Angeles to Amsterdam latency and RTT — 132.1 ms

Fastest routes departing Amsterdam (AMS)

Amsterdam to London latency and RTT — 5.2 ms
Amsterdam to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 5.9 ms
Amsterdam to Paris latency and RTT — 7 ms
Amsterdam to Berlin latency and RTT — 7.2 ms
Amsterdam to Marseille latency and RTT — 19.6 ms

Fastest routes arriving at Los Angeles (LAX)

Seattle to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 25.9 ms
Miami to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 56.8 ms
New York to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 58.9 ms
Ashburn to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 60.7 ms
Tokyo to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 101.2 ms

Same corridor (Europe → North America)

London to New York latency and RTT — 63.8 ms
Amsterdam to New York latency and RTT — 68.6 ms
Paris to New York latency and RTT — 68.9 ms

About This Measurement

Published RTT reflects best-case backbone path behavior measured with ICMP echo probes between PoPs. End-user latency also depends on local access networks, congestion, routing policy, and traffic engineering. None of these values is an SLA.

The measurement round behind this page is published as open data under CC BY 4.0 in the Hats Network latency dataset. Per-pair files are available at /opendata/latency/latest/pairs/ams-lax.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. When citing, include the route, the measurement round timestamp, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Amsterdam → Los Angeles round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z, CC BY 4.0".

Data auto-generated on August 16, 2026. Explore the full interactive latency matrix or browse more city-pair routes.

Amsterdam, Netherlands → Los Angeles, USA RTT