Explore Frankfurt, Germany to Los Angeles, USA ICMP RTT, jitter, packet loss and fiber latency limits on the AS203314 network.

🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Germany (FRA) → 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, USA (LAX)

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

Frankfurt to Los Angeles averaged 141.8 ms across 50 replies. The observed range was 135.2 to 158.63 ms; these figures describe one probe round, not a long-term service target.

Standard deviation was 5.99 ms, or 4.2% of the average. This describes variation within the sample without identifying its cause.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	141.8 ms
Jitter	5.12 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	91.31 ms
Fiber Efficiency	64.4%
Latency Tier	Good
Source Region	Europe
Destination Region	North America

Ping Measurement Series

50 ICMP echo probes were recorded in this round. Individual replies and their distribution are shown below.

Ping series: FRA → LAX

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z · avg 141.8 ± 0.85 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (137.3–144.0 ms), median 140.4 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 (91.3 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	135.69
2	100	139.54
3	200	151.28
4	300	141.84
5	400	140.65
6	500	142.25
7	600	137.92
8	700	137.44
9	800	137.26
10	900	136.30
11	1000	136.68
12	1100	152.71
13	1200	145.73
14	1300	141.67
15	1400	139.36
16	1500	137.46
17	1600	135.40
18	1700	136.93
19	1800	136.27
20	1900	146.75
21	2000	138.65
22	2100	144.27
23	2200	156.30
24	2300	147.45
25	2400	141.65
26	2500	156.45
27	2600	158.63
28	2700	145.08
29	2800	140.93
30	2900	138.10
31	3000	141.40
32	3100	142.20
33	3200	140.84
34	3300	140.15
35	3400	136.27
36	3500	137.10
37	3600	136.85
38	3700	135.94
39	3800	137.50
40	3900	156.96
41	4000	143.21
42	4100	141.65
43	4200	138.99
44	4300	142.08
45	4400	137.12
46	4500	135.20
47	4600	146.15
48	4700	138.60
49	4800	145.74
50	4900	139.41

Download This Route's Data

Download the probe round as CSV, JSON or YAML under CC BY 4.0. Citation details include the route and round timestamp.

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Theoretical Fiber Latency

The propagation model uses public city-centre coordinates from GeoNames: Frankfurt am Main (50.11552, 8.68417) and Los Angeles (34.05223, -118.24368). These are not facility coordinates or a surveyed cable path.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	9,324.5 km
Vacuum RTT floor	62.21 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	91.31 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	90.95 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	95.89 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	121.45 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	1958.1 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	123 / 122
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.55×

The span count assumes 80 km optical spans. Attenuation is a power-loss term, not a propagation delay. See the model assumptions and equations.

Stability & Trend

Statistics from the same 50 replies. They describe this probe round, not continuous historical monitoring.

Round Statistic	Value
Minimum RTT	135.2 ms
Average RTT	141.8 ms
Maximum RTT	158.63 ms
Standard deviation	5.99 ms
Stdev / average	4.2%

Estimated RTT trend

Modeled comparison, not historical probe measurements.

Average: 142.0 ms
Minimum: 140.7 ms
Maximum: 142.8 ms
Average loss: 0.02%

Route Context

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

Reverse direction

Los Angeles to Frankfurt latency and RTT: 142.3 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 Los Angeles (LAX)

Seattle to Los Angeles latency and RTT: 25.9 ms
Miami to Los Angeles latency and RTT: 56.8 ms
New York to Los Angeles latency and RTT: 58.9 ms
Ashburn to Los Angeles latency and RTT: 60.7 ms
Tokyo to Los Angeles latency and RTT: 101.2 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

These ICMP measurements cover the two backbone endpoints. Access networks, routing policy and load can change an end user's result. A probe round is not an SLA.

The underlying replies are available under CC BY 4.0 in the Hats Network latency dataset. Per-pair files are available at /opendata/latency/latest/pairs/fra-lax.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. Cite the route, round timestamp and dataset version. Example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Frankfurt → Los Angeles round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z, CC BY 4.0".

Round published August 16, 2026. See the full interactive latency matrix or browse more city-pair routes.

Frankfurt, Germany → Los Angeles, USA RTT