ICMP RTT measurements from Amsterdam, Netherlands to New York, USA: average latency, jitter, packet loss, and route efficiency for this transatlantic city pair

🇳🇱 Amsterdam, Netherlands (AMS) → 🇺🇸 New York, USA (NYC)

Measurement round: 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z.

In the 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z measurement round, ICMP echo RTT from Amsterdam, Netherlands to New York, USA averaged 68.2 ms over 50 samples, with a standard deviation of 1.21 ms and jitter of 0.97 ms. The minimum was 66.81 ms, the maximum was 72.73 ms, and no packets were lost.

Relative to the 19 outbound routes from Amsterdam, this path ranked 7th by average RTT. Its variability was roughly 1.8% of the average, comfortably tighter than the 3.08% median for the same origin's route set.

The observed average sits only 18% above the theoretical fiber floor, yielding a fiber efficiency of 84.4% for the 5,877.8 km great-circle distance. That combination of low spread, zero loss, and sub-millisecond jitter makes this transatlantic path particularly predictable at the network layer.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	68.2 ms
Jitter	0.97 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	57.56 ms
Fiber Efficiency	84.4%
Latency Tier	Excellent
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 → NYC

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z · avg 68.2 ± 0.17 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (67.4–68.8 ms), median 67.9 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 (57.6 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	72.73
2	100	70.09
3	200	69.02
4	300	67.60
5	400	67.09
6	500	67.23
7	600	69.26
8	700	67.91
9	800	68.09
10	900	67.81
11	1000	68.80
12	1100	68.57
13	1200	71.81
14	1300	68.97
15	1400	67.49
16	1500	69.53
17	1600	68.26
18	1700	67.60
19	1800	67.42
20	1900	67.00
21	2000	69.94
22	2100	68.60
23	2200	68.61
24	2300	67.34
25	2400	67.22
26	2500	66.81
27	2600	67.24
28	2700	67.60
29	2800	67.21
30	2900	68.83
31	3000	69.47
32	3100	67.68
33	3200	67.93
34	3300	67.65
35	3400	68.31
36	3500	67.30
37	3600	67.87
38	3700	67.39
39	3800	66.92
40	3900	70.38
41	4000	69.26
42	4100	68.09
43	4200	67.41
44	4300	67.02
45	4400	67.02
46	4500	68.06
47	4600	67.49
48	4700	67.94
49	4800	67.95
50	4900	67.18

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 New York City (40.71427, -74.00597). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	5,877.8 km
Vacuum RTT floor	39.21 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	57.56 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	57.33 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	60.45 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	76.56 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	1234.3 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	78 / 77
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.18×

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 (2026-08-15T04:03:13Z) collected 50 ICMP echo samples on this route. Distribution statistics from that round:

Round Statistic	Value
Minimum RTT	66.81 ms
Average RTT	68.2 ms
Maximum RTT	72.73 ms
Standard deviation	1.21 ms
Stdev / average	1.8%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 68.2 ms
Minimum: 67.7 ms
Maximum: 68.8 ms
Average loss: 0.03%

Route Context

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

Reverse direction

New York to Amsterdam latency and RTT — 68.5 ms

Fastest routes departing Amsterdam (AMS)

Amsterdam to London latency and RTT — 5.1 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 — 19.7 ms

Fastest routes arriving at New York (NYC)

Ashburn to New York latency and RTT — 6 ms
Miami to New York latency and RTT — 34 ms
Los Angeles to New York latency and RTT — 59 ms
Seattle to New York latency and RTT — 59 ms
London to New York latency and RTT — 63.5 ms

Same corridor (Europe → North America)

Paris to New York latency and RTT — 68.6 ms
London to Ashburn latency and RTT — 71.3 ms
Frankfurt to New York latency and RTT — 73.6 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-nyc.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. When citing, include the route, the measurement round timestamp, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Amsterdam → New York round 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z, CC BY 4.0".

Data auto-generated on August 15, 2026. Explore the full interactive latency matrix or browse more city-pair routes.

Amsterdam, Netherlands → New York, USA RTT