Frankfurt, Germany to New York, USA: ICMP RTT latency measurements from the 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z round, including average, min/max, jitter, and packet loss.

🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Germany (FRA) → 🇺🇸 New York, USA (NYC)

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

Round 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z showed Frankfurt-to-New York ICMP echo RTT averaging 73.6 ms, with a 69.67 ms minimum, an 82.96 ms maximum, and zero packet loss on all 50 samples.

The 6,219.3 km geodesic reference gives a 60.9 ms fiber floor, so the observed average is just 1.21x the floor, an 82.8% line-efficiency result that keeps the route close to the theoretical minimum for the distance.

New York placed 7th among Frankfurt's 19 outbound routes for the round. Its 3.28 ms standard deviation is about 4.5% of the mean, above the 3.08% median ratio across those routes, so the fast average comes with a bit more variation around it than the typical route.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	73.6 ms
Jitter	2.76 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	60.9 ms
Fiber Efficiency	82.8%
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: FRA → NYC

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z · avg 73.6 ± 0.46 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (71.0–75.0 ms), median 72.8 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 (60.9 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	69.67
2	100	70.08
3	200	70.75
4	300	71.60
5	400	70.80
6	500	72.90
7	600	74.43
8	700	76.69
9	800	78.87
10	900	73.09
11	1000	71.49
12	1100	70.47
13	1200	81.40
14	1300	74.65
15	1400	75.42
16	1500	71.74
17	1600	71.44
18	1700	71.05
19	1800	74.74
20	1900	71.41
21	2000	71.95
22	2100	70.82
23	2200	70.28
24	2300	71.01
25	2400	70.72
26	2500	70.15
27	2600	73.45
28	2700	75.82
29	2800	74.81
30	2900	73.52
31	3000	71.98
32	3100	82.96
33	3200	74.82
34	3300	71.43
35	3400	71.49
36	3500	70.82
37	3600	78.10
38	3700	72.65
39	3800	70.76
40	3900	70.48
41	4000	73.25
42	4100	74.13
43	4200	72.46
44	4300	75.05
45	4400	75.08
46	4500	78.95
47	4600	79.49
48	4700	73.30
49	4800	82.44
50	4900	75.14

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

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	6,219.3 km
Vacuum RTT floor	41.49 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	60.9 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	60.66 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	63.96 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	81 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	1306 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	82 / 81
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.21×

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	69.67 ms
Average RTT	73.6 ms
Maximum RTT	82.96 ms
Standard deviation	3.28 ms
Stdev / average	4.5%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 73.6 ms
Minimum: 72.8 ms
Maximum: 74.3 ms
Average loss: 0.03%

Route Context

Departure PoP: Frankfurt (FRA)
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 Frankfurt latency and RTT — 74.2 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 — 12.6 ms
Frankfurt to Marseille latency and RTT — 17.2 ms

Fastest routes arriving at New York (NYC)

Ashburn to New York latency and RTT — 6 ms
Miami to New York latency and RTT — 34 ms
Los Angeles to New York latency and RTT — 59 ms
Seattle to New York latency and RTT — 59 ms
London to New York latency and RTT — 63.5 ms

Same corridor (Europe → North America)

Amsterdam to New York latency and RTT — 68.2 ms
Paris to New York latency and RTT — 68.6 ms
London to Ashburn latency and RTT — 71.3 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-nyc.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. When citing, include the route, the measurement round timestamp, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Frankfurt → New York 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 → New York, USA RTT