Berlin, Germany to New York, USA ICMP round-trip time (RTT) measurements: average latency, jitter, packet loss, and route efficiency for network diagnostics.

🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany (BER) → 🇺🇸 New York, USA (NYC)

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

In measurement round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z, 50 ICMP echo probes from Berlin to New York produced an average RTT of 79.6 ms, a minimum of 78.03 ms, a maximum of 83.78 ms, and no packet loss. Jitter of 1.07 ms and a standard deviation of 1.28 ms put the data in the excellent latency tier.

The average is 1.27 times the 62.7 ms fiber floor for the 6,402.4 km geodesic distance, corresponding to 78.8 percent fiber efficiency. The measured RTT stays close to the physical reference, with a narrow spread across all 50 samples.

Among the 19 outbound routes in this cycle, Berlin-New York ranks 7th, and its standard deviation is about 1.6 percent of the average RTT, comfortably below the 3.28 percent median across the route set. For a corridor anchored at New York's carrier hotels, the zero-loss result and low jitter make this a clean reference point for ICMP RTT expectations.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	79.6 ms
Jitter	1.07 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	62.7 ms
Fiber Efficiency	78.8%
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: BER → NYC

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z · avg 79.6 ± 0.18 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (78.8–80.0 ms), median 79.2 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 (62.7 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	82.90
2	100	79.64
3	200	79.21
4	300	79.20
5	400	79.95
6	500	79.49
7	600	79.04
8	700	79.00
9	800	79.32
10	900	78.44
11	1000	78.04
12	1100	79.19
13	1200	80.27
14	1300	80.27
15	1400	80.75
16	1500	79.06
17	1600	81.06
18	1700	83.78
19	1800	80.56
20	1900	79.85
21	2000	78.71
22	2100	78.62
23	2200	79.95
24	2300	82.47
25	2400	79.51
26	2500	78.95
27	2600	78.40
28	2700	78.22
29	2800	79.34
30	2900	78.37
31	3000	79.19
32	3100	81.76
33	3200	79.33
34	3300	79.63
35	3400	81.11
36	3500	79.37
37	3600	78.51
38	3700	78.77
39	3800	78.90
40	3900	78.32
41	4000	78.27
42	4100	78.03
43	4200	79.20
44	4300	78.96
45	4400	79.71
46	4500	82.45
47	4600	80.43
48	4700	78.97
49	4800	78.44
50	4900	79.09

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

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	6,402.4 km
Vacuum RTT floor	42.71 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	62.7 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	62.45 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	65.84 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	83.39 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	1344.5 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	85 / 84
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.27×

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	78.03 ms
Average RTT	79.6 ms
Maximum RTT	83.78 ms
Standard deviation	1.28 ms
Stdev / average	1.6%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 79.5 ms
Minimum: 78.9 ms
Maximum: 80.1 ms
Average loss: 0.03%

Route Context

Departure PoP: Berlin (BER)
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 Berlin latency and RTT — 78.8 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 London latency and RTT — 15.2 ms
Berlin to Paris latency and RTT — 15.6 ms
Berlin to Marseille latency and RTT — 20.2 ms

Fastest routes arriving at New York (NYC)

Ashburn to New York latency and RTT — 6 ms
Miami to New York latency and RTT — 33.3 ms
Los Angeles to New York latency and RTT — 57.9 ms
Seattle to New York latency and RTT — 59.5 ms
London to New York latency and RTT — 63.8 ms

Same corridor (Europe → North America)

Amsterdam to New York latency and RTT — 68.6 ms
Paris to New York latency and RTT — 68.9 ms
London to Ashburn latency and RTT — 71 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-nyc.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. When citing, include the route, the measurement round timestamp, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Berlin → New York 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.

Berlin, Germany → New York, USA RTT