Frankfurt to Melbourne, Germany to Australia ICMP round-trip time: 50-sample latency, packet loss, jitter and route efficiency metrics.

🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Germany (FRA) → 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Australia (MEL)

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

During the 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z round, 50 ICMP echo requests from Frankfurt to Melbourne averaged 249.7 ms, with a minimum of 238.76 ms and a maximum of 277.5 ms. No packets were lost, and the standard deviation was 9.59 ms with jitter at 7.87 ms, indicating a stable but long-haul path.

With a geodesic distance of about 16,315 km, the route runs at 1.56 times the theoretical fiber floor of 159.77 ms, or roughly 64% fiber efficiency. The observed 249.7 ms average is therefore consistent with what a path of this physical length can deliver.

Among the 19 measured routes this path ranks 18th, and its own 3.84% spread around the average is slightly above the 3.08% median variation across the set. For monitoring Frankfurt-to-Melbourne connectivity, the useful expectation is a steady 240-280 ms round trip with jitter under 8 ms.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	249.7 ms
Jitter	7.87 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	159.77 ms
Fiber Efficiency	64%
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: FRA → MEL

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z · avg 249.7 ± 1.36 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (243.1–252.5 ms), median 246.9 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 (159.8 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	241.10
2	100	238.78
3	200	246.11
4	300	243.07
5	400	248.52
6	500	255.90
7	600	260.43
8	700	251.33
9	800	245.28
10	900	243.07
11	1000	272.03
12	1100	252.59
13	1200	252.02
14	1300	250.54
15	1400	242.27
16	1500	246.53
17	1600	242.75
18	1700	272.98
19	1800	254.37
20	1900	249.41
21	2000	242.84
22	2100	245.11
23	2200	268.17
24	2300	256.55
25	2400	244.81
26	2500	273.31
27	2600	277.50
28	2700	267.00
29	2800	249.15
30	2900	253.72
31	3000	248.47
32	3100	243.61
33	3200	239.93
34	3300	238.76
35	3400	247.20
36	3500	252.25
37	3600	247.26
38	3700	243.95
39	3800	240.99
40	3900	242.54
41	4000	239.40
42	4100	240.86
43	4200	249.85
44	4300	243.63
45	4400	240.69
46	4500	250.67
47	4600	245.20
48	4700	252.71
49	4800	244.27
50	4900	245.52

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 Melbourne (-37.81400, 144.96332). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	16,315.5 km
Vacuum RTT floor	108.85 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	159.77 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	159.13 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	167.78 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	212.5 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	3426.2 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	215 / 214
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.56×

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	238.76 ms
Average RTT	249.7 ms
Maximum RTT	277.5 ms
Standard deviation	9.59 ms
Stdev / average	3.8%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 249.6 ms
Minimum: 247.1 ms
Maximum: 252.2 ms
Average loss: 0.01%

Route Context

Departure PoP: Frankfurt (FRA)
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 Frankfurt latency and RTT — 250.5 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 — 12.6 ms
Frankfurt to Marseille latency and RTT — 17.2 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/fra-mel.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. When citing, include the route, the measurement round timestamp, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Frankfurt → 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.

Frankfurt, Germany → Melbourne, Australia RTT