ICMP RTT from Berlin, Germany to Taipei, Taiwan: average 156.8 ms latency, jitter, and packet loss in the 2026-08-16 measurement round.

🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany (BER) → 🇹🇼 Taipei, Taiwan (TPE)

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

ICMP echo round-trip time from Berlin, Germany to Taipei, Taiwan in the 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z round averaged 156.8ms, with a minimum of 150.23ms and a maximum of 174.22ms from 50 samples. Jitter was 4.24ms and packet loss was 0%, so the path was both moderate in latency and clean during the window.

The measured average is 1.78 times the 87.84ms fiber-floor estimate for the 8,970.4km geodesic, adding about 68.9ms of overhead above the theoretical minimum. With fiber efficiency at 56%, the route sits in the Fair latency tier while carrying a noticeable gap from the theoretical floor.

This route is 13th among the 19 outbound routes in the round, while the network-wide median variability relative to the average is 3.28%. The route's own standard deviation of 5.07ms is about 3.23% of the average, placing its variability almost exactly in line with the network median.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	156.8 ms
Jitter	4.24 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	87.84 ms
Fiber Efficiency	56%
Latency Tier	Fair
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 → TPE

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z · avg 156.8 ± 0.72 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (153.3–158.6 ms), median 155.1 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 (87.8 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	150.23
2	100	167.37
3	200	160.81
4	300	154.10
5	400	151.91
6	500	152.14
7	600	151.36
8	700	150.85
9	800	151.54
10	900	155.27
11	1000	153.25
12	1100	153.09
13	1200	152.12
14	1300	152.27
15	1400	154.43
16	1500	156.32
17	1600	162.38
18	1700	166.89
19	1800	163.91
20	1900	155.14
21	2000	154.64
22	2100	153.49
23	2200	153.28
24	2300	156.75
25	2400	152.69
26	2500	156.88
27	2600	154.74
28	2700	155.08
29	2800	174.22
30	2900	158.66
31	3000	153.44
32	3100	155.15
33	3200	153.71
34	3300	154.66
35	3400	168.25
36	3500	156.91
37	3600	159.21
38	3700	159.14
39	3800	155.65
40	3900	164.59
41	4000	157.95
42	4100	152.90
43	4200	154.80
44	4300	156.63
45	4400	158.42
46	4500	156.62
47	4600	158.85
48	4700	165.40
49	4800	158.47
50	4900	153.44

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 Taipei (25.05306, 121.52639). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	8,970.4 km
Vacuum RTT floor	59.84 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	87.84 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	87.49 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	92.25 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	116.83 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	1883.8 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	118 / 117
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.78×

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	150.23 ms
Average RTT	156.8 ms
Maximum RTT	174.22 ms
Standard deviation	5.07 ms
Stdev / average	3.2%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 156.8 ms
Minimum: 155.1 ms
Maximum: 158.1 ms
Average loss: 0.03%

Route Context

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

Reverse direction

Taipei to Berlin latency and RTT — 158.6 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 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 Taipei (TPE)

Hong Kong to Taipei latency and RTT — 14.7 ms
Tokyo to Taipei latency and RTT — 32.3 ms
Singapore to Taipei latency and RTT — 45.8 ms
Seattle to Taipei latency and RTT — 114.7 ms
Sydney to Taipei latency and RTT — 131.7 ms

Same corridor (Europe → Asia Pacific)

Moscow to Hong Kong latency and RTT — 118.6 ms
Moscow to Taipei latency and RTT — 132.1 ms
Marseille to Singapore latency and RTT — 139.6 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/ber-tpe.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. When citing, include the route, the measurement round timestamp, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Berlin → Taipei 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 → Taipei, Taiwan RTT