# Frankfurt, Germany → New York, USA RTT

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

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

In the 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z measurement round, ICMP echo probes from Frankfurt, Germany to New York, USA averaged 74.4 ms across 50 samples at 100 ms intervals, with a minimum of 72.04 ms, a maximum of 80.52 ms, and no packet loss. The 6,219.3 km great-circle route has a vacuum floor of 41.49 ms and a straight-fiber floor of 60.9 ms, placing the average 1.22 times the fiber floor with 81.9% fiber efficiency.

That efficiency means only 13.5 ms of overhead separate the measured average from the theoretical straight-fiber floor. It ranked 7th among the 19 Frankfurt-origin routes measured this round, while the set's median relative deviation was 3.28%; the route's 2.09 ms standard deviation is about 2.8% of its average, slightly below that midpoint.

New York anchors the US end of the transatlantic corridor, with carrier hotels such as 60 Hudson Street central to that role. The excellent-tier result from Frankfurt to New York is therefore a strong baseline for the core Europe-to-US pathway, with near-theoretical efficiency and no loss in this sample.

## Latency Summary

| Metric               | Value                                                        |
| -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| RTT                  | **74.4 ms**                                                  |
| Jitter               | **1.69 ms**                                                  |
| Packet Loss          | **0%**                                                       |
| Standard Fiber Floor | **60.9 ms**                                                  |
| Fiber Efficiency     | **81.9%**                                                    |
| Latency Tier         | Excellent                                                    |
| Source Region        | [Europe](/docs/network/latency/regions/europe)               |
| Destination Region   | [North America](/docs/network/latency/regions/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.

## 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](#about-this-measurement) for citation guidance.

## Theoretical Fiber Latency

The public physical reference uses the GeoNames city centres for [Frankfurt am Main](https://www.geonames.org/2925533) (50.11552, 8.68417) and [New York City](https://www.geonames.org/5128581) (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      | **1.22×**      |

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](/docs/network/latency/theoretical-fiber-latency).

## 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        | **72.04 ms** |
| Average RTT        | **74.4 ms**  |
| Maximum RTT        | **80.52 ms** |
| Standard deviation | **2.09 ms**  |
| Stdev / average    | **2.8%**     |

## Route Context

* Departure PoP: [Frankfurt (FRA)](/docs/network/latency/fra-frankfurt)
* Destination PoP: [New York (NYC)](/docs/network/latency/nyc-new-york)
* Region overview: [Europe](/docs/network/latency/regions/europe) → [North America](/docs/network/latency/regions/north-america)
* Corridor overview: [Europe to North America](/docs/network/latency/regions/europe-to-north-america)
* Full global matrix: [Backbone Latency Matrix](/docs/network/latency)
* Physical methodology: [Theoretical Fiber Latency](/docs/network/latency/theoretical-fiber-latency)

## Related City-Pair Routes

**Reverse direction**

* [New York to Frankfurt latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/nyc-fra-rtt) — 73.9 ms

**Fastest routes departing Frankfurt (FRA)**

* [Frankfurt to Amsterdam latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/fra-ams-rtt) — 5.9 ms
* [Frankfurt to Berlin latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/fra-ber-rtt) — 6.1 ms
* [Frankfurt to Paris latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/fra-par-rtt) — 7.6 ms
* [Frankfurt to London latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/fra-lon-rtt) — 12.9 ms
* [Frankfurt to Marseille latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/fra-mrs-rtt) — 16.4 ms

**Fastest routes arriving at New York (NYC)**

* [Ashburn to New York latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/iad-nyc-rtt) — 6 ms
* [Miami to New York latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/mia-nyc-rtt) — 33.3 ms
* [Los Angeles to New York latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/lax-nyc-rtt) — 57.9 ms
* [Seattle to New York latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/sea-nyc-rtt) — 59.5 ms
* [London to New York latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/lon-nyc-rtt) — 63.8 ms

**Same corridor (Europe → North America)**

* [Amsterdam to New York latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/ams-nyc-rtt) — 68.6 ms
* [Paris to New York latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/par-nyc-rtt) — 68.9 ms
* [London to Ashburn latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/lon-iad-rtt) — 71 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](/opendata/latency/). 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 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z, CC BY 4.0".

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*Data auto-generated on August 16, 2026. Explore the [full interactive latency matrix](/docs/network/latency) or browse more [city-pair routes](/docs/network/latency/pairs).*

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