Frankfurt, Germany to Ashburn, USA ICMP RTT data: 80.7 ms average, zero loss, and stability ranking from the 2026-08-16 round.

🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Germany (FRA) → 🇺🇸 Ashburn, USA (IAD)

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

The 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z ICMP echo round from Frankfurt, Germany to Ashburn, USA recorded an average RTT of 80.7 ms across 50 samples, with a minimum of 79.19 ms, a maximum of 87.49 ms, and zero packet loss.

At 6,566 km, this is a long-haul transatlantic pair, and the measured average is only 1.26 times the theoretical fiber floor of 64.3 ms - a strong efficiency result at 79.7%. The 1.42 ms standard deviation and 1.11 ms jitter keep the sample tightly grouped despite the distance.

The same round covers 19 routes from this network, with Frankfurt-Ashburn ranking eighth. Its variability is about 1.8% of the average RTT, well below the network's median variability of 3.28%, making this an efficient and comparatively stable long-distance route.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	80.7 ms
Jitter	1.11 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	64.3 ms
Fiber Efficiency	79.7%
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: FRA → IAD

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z · avg 80.7 ± 0.20 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (79.9–81.1 ms), median 80.3 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 (64.3 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	87.49
2	100	82.84
3	200	81.46
4	300	79.81
5	400	80.65
6	500	79.53
7	600	79.96
8	700	79.62
9	800	80.40
10	900	79.48
11	1000	79.90
12	1100	79.90
13	1200	79.89
14	1300	82.12
15	1400	80.56
16	1500	81.78
17	1600	80.26
18	1700	83.39
19	1800	81.12
20	1900	80.30
21	2000	79.53
22	2100	79.21
23	2200	79.80
24	2300	80.52
25	2400	81.39
26	2500	80.89
27	2600	79.71
28	2700	80.34
29	2800	80.02
30	2900	79.36
31	3000	79.19
32	3100	80.21
33	3200	80.92
34	3300	81.59
35	3400	79.92
36	3500	82.49
37	3600	80.20
38	3700	80.09
39	3800	80.05
40	3900	79.50
41	4000	79.71
42	4100	81.13
43	4200	80.27
44	4300	81.52
45	4400	79.98
46	4500	80.59
47	4600	83.81
48	4700	81.73
49	4800	80.46
50	4900	80.41

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 Frankfurt am Main (50.11552, 8.68417) and Ashburn (39.04372, -77.48749). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	6,566 km
Vacuum RTT floor	43.8 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	64.3 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	64.04 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	67.52 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	85.52 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	1378.9 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	87 / 86
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.26×

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	79.19 ms
Average RTT	80.7 ms
Maximum RTT	87.49 ms
Standard deviation	1.42 ms
Stdev / average	1.8%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 80.6 ms
Minimum: 79.9 ms
Maximum: 81.4 ms
Average loss: 0.02%

Route Context

Departure PoP: Frankfurt (FRA)
Destination PoP: Ashburn (IAD)
Region overview: Europe → North America
Corridor overview: Europe to North America
Full global matrix: Backbone Latency Matrix
Physical methodology: Theoretical Fiber Latency

Reverse direction

Ashburn to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 81.2 ms

Fastest routes departing Frankfurt (FRA)

Frankfurt to Amsterdam latency and RTT — 5.9 ms
Frankfurt to Berlin latency and RTT — 6.1 ms
Frankfurt to Paris latency and RTT — 7.6 ms
Frankfurt to London latency and RTT — 12.9 ms
Frankfurt to Marseille latency and RTT — 16.4 ms

Fastest routes arriving at Ashburn (IAD)

New York to Ashburn latency and RTT — 6 ms
Miami to Ashburn latency and RTT — 27.3 ms
Los Angeles to Ashburn latency and RTT — 60.4 ms
Seattle to Ashburn latency and RTT — 61.5 ms
London to Ashburn latency and RTT — 71 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/fra-iad.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. When citing, include the route, the measurement round timestamp, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Frankfurt → Ashburn 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.

Frankfurt, Germany → Ashburn, USA RTT