Berlin, Germany to Melbourne, Australia ICMP RTT: average, min and max latency, jitter, and loss for the 2026-08-15 measurement round.

🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany (BER) → 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Australia (MEL)

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

In the 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z round, ICMP echo RTT from Berlin, Germany to Melbourne, Australia averaged 255.8 ms across 50 samples, with a minimum of 243.27 ms and a maximum of 295.4 ms. The 10.5 ms standard deviation and 9.03 ms jitter are the largest variations, although all 50 probes returned successfully; the route sits in the High latency tier.

Melbourne is roughly 15,965.1 km from Berlin along the great circle, which sets a vacuum round-trip floor of 106.51 ms and an all-fiber round-trip floor of 156.34 ms. The measured average is 1.64 times that fiber floor, and the fiber floor is 61.1 percent of the observed RTT, indicating that distance is the dominant component of the high latency.

Within the 19-route outbound set, this route ranked 18th by average RTT, so only one route in the current set was slower. Variability is also elevated: the standard deviation is about 4.1 percent of the average versus the 3.08 percent median for the set, making the high round-trip time both pronounced and less predictable.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	255.8 ms
Jitter	9.03 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	156.34 ms
Fiber Efficiency	61.1%
Latency Tier	High
Source Region	Europe
Destination Region	Asia Pacific

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: BER → MEL

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z · avg 255.8 ± 1.48 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (249.7–258.7 ms), median 252.6 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 (156.3 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	248.61
2	100	254.49
3	200	250.24
4	300	264.43
5	400	252.17
6	500	271.49
7	600	257.29
8	700	256.92
9	800	251.46
10	900	267.34
11	1000	255.27
12	1100	249.88
13	1200	255.53
14	1300	246.85
15	1400	253.05
16	1500	249.96
17	1600	250.88
18	1700	258.17
19	1800	249.67
20	1900	245.25
21	2000	259.74
22	2100	253.80
23	2200	247.64
24	2300	252.07
25	2400	249.00
26	2500	255.55
27	2600	261.53
28	2700	251.37
29	2800	249.80
30	2900	249.11
31	3000	245.53
32	3100	243.27
33	3200	291.00
34	3300	259.17
35	3400	255.24
36	3500	250.20
37	3600	258.82
38	3700	251.13
39	3800	258.51
40	3900	256.80
41	4000	250.65
42	4100	246.92
43	4200	245.65
44	4300	258.76
45	4400	281.89
46	4500	295.40
47	4600	266.98
48	4700	260.11
49	4800	248.94
50	4900	246.47

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 Berlin (52.52437, 13.41053) and Melbourne (-37.81400, 144.96332). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	15,965.1 km
Vacuum RTT floor	106.51 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	156.34 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	155.71 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	164.18 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	207.94 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	3352.7 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	210 / 209
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.64×

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	243.27 ms
Average RTT	255.8 ms
Maximum RTT	295.4 ms
Standard deviation	10.5 ms
Stdev / average	4.1%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 255.7 ms
Minimum: 253.8 ms
Maximum: 258.2 ms
Average loss: 0.03%

Route Context

Departure PoP: Berlin (BER)
Destination PoP: Melbourne (MEL)
Region overview: Europe → Asia Pacific
Corridor overview: Europe to Asia Pacific
Full global matrix: Backbone Latency Matrix
Physical methodology: Theoretical Fiber Latency

Reverse direction

Melbourne to Berlin latency and RTT — 256.6 ms

Fastest routes departing Berlin (BER)

Berlin to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 6.1 ms
Berlin to Amsterdam latency and RTT — 7.2 ms
Berlin to Paris latency and RTT — 14.2 ms
Berlin to London latency and RTT — 15.9 ms
Berlin to Marseille latency and RTT — 20.5 ms

Fastest routes arriving at Melbourne (MEL)

Sydney to Melbourne latency and RTT — 9.8 ms
Singapore to Melbourne latency and RTT — 87.8 ms
Tokyo to Melbourne latency and RTT — 111.3 ms
Hong Kong to Melbourne latency and RTT — 137.4 ms
Taipei to Melbourne latency and RTT — 143.6 ms

Same corridor (Europe → Asia Pacific)

Moscow to Hong Kong latency and RTT — 118.5 ms
Moscow to Taipei latency and RTT — 130.9 ms
Marseille to Singapore latency and RTT — 138.5 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/ber-mel.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. When citing, include the route, the measurement round timestamp, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Berlin → Melbourne 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.

Berlin, Germany → Melbourne, Australia RTT