Hong Kong to Frankfurt ping and RTT: 152.9 ms, 4.28 ms jitter, 89.87 ms fiber floor, and 58.8% efficiency across AS203314. Updated 2026-08-09.

🇭🇰 This page compares the published ping and round-trip time (RTT) from Hong Kong (HKG) to 🇩🇪 Frankfurt (FRA) with vacuum and optical-fiber physical limits.

As of August 9, 2026, the Hong Kong → Frankfurt route on Hats Network averages 152.9 ms RTT across a 50-sample daily ICMP echo measurement round (source: RETN), 1.7× the theoretical fiber-floor limit of 89.87 ms.

Among the 19 measured routes departing Hong Kong, this route ranks 10th fastest by average RTT.

With a stdev-to-average ratio of 2.7%, this route is more stable than the network median of 3.4%. Across the round, per-probe RTT ranged from 146.56 ms to 164.97 ms with a standard deviation of 4.1 ms.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	152.9 ms
Jitter	4.28 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	89.87 ms
Fiber Efficiency	58.8%
Latency Tier	Fair
Source Region	Asia Pacific
Destination Region	Europe

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: HKG → FRA

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-09 · avg 152.9 ± 0.58 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (150.3–154.3 ms), median 152.0 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 (89.9 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	146.56
2	100	150.16
3	200	161.79
4	300	163.08
5	400	155.25
6	500	149.88
7	600	151.11
8	700	148.45
9	800	151.87
10	900	149.43
11	1000	148.52
12	1100	147.60
13	1200	152.87
14	1300	160.23
15	1400	152.57
16	1500	157.01
17	1600	152.56
18	1700	150.55
19	1800	149.03
20	1900	152.49
21	2000	159.15
22	2100	151.37
23	2200	149.43
24	2300	164.97
25	2400	154.83
26	2500	152.83
27	2600	161.56
28	2700	152.43
29	2800	155.57
30	2900	151.04
31	3000	158.72
32	3100	152.43
33	3200	150.63
34	3300	154.58
35	3400	152.51
36	3500	148.68
37	3600	151.32
38	3700	151.00
39	3800	153.40
40	3900	149.73
41	4000	149.35
42	4100	150.70
43	4200	156.86
44	4300	150.23
45	4400	153.55
46	4500	150.49
47	4600	153.14
48	4700	150.53
49	4800	150.76
50	4900	152.20

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 Hong Kong (22.27832, 114.17469) and Frankfurt am Main (50.11552, 8.68417). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	9,177.1 km
Vacuum RTT floor	61.22 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	89.87 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	89.51 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	94.37 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	119.53 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	1927.2 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	121 / 120
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.7×

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 (2026-08-09) collected 50 ICMP echo samples on this route. Distribution statistics from that round:

Round Statistic	Value
Minimum RTT	146.56 ms
Average RTT	152.9 ms
Maximum RTT	164.97 ms
Standard deviation	4.1 ms
Stdev / average	2.7%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 153.0 ms
Minimum: 151.8 ms
Maximum: 154.2 ms
Average loss: 0.01%

Route Context

Departure PoP: Hong Kong (HKG)
Destination PoP: Frankfurt (FRA)
Region overview: Asia Pacific → Europe
Full global matrix: Backbone Latency Matrix
Physical methodology: Theoretical Fiber Latency

Reverse direction

Frankfurt to Hong Kong latency and RTT — 150.6 ms

Fastest routes departing Hong Kong (HKG)

Hong Kong to Taipei latency and RTT — 14.8 ms
Hong Kong to Singapore latency and RTT — 31.6 ms
Hong Kong to Tokyo latency and RTT — 44.9 ms
Hong Kong to Moscow latency and RTT — 119.5 ms
Hong Kong to Melbourne latency and RTT — 126.8 ms

Fastest routes arriving at Frankfurt (FRA)

Amsterdam to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 5.9 ms
Berlin to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 6.1 ms
Paris to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 7.6 ms
London to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 12.8 ms
Marseille to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 16.8 ms

Same corridor (Asia Pacific → Europe)

Taipei to Moscow latency and RTT — 134.7 ms
Singapore to Marseille latency and RTT — 139.8 ms
Hong Kong to Berlin latency and RTT — 144.3 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/hkg-fra.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. When citing, include the route, the measurement round date, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Hong Kong → Frankfurt round 2026-08-09, CC BY 4.0".

Data auto-generated on August 9, 2026. Explore the full interactive latency matrix or browse more city-pair routes.

Hong Kong to Frankfurt Latency, Ping & RTT | AS203314