Hong Kong to Moscow ICMP RTT measurement page: average latency, packet loss, and route stability for the Hong Kong-Russia path (round 2026-08-15).

🇭🇰 Hong Kong (HKG) → 🇷🇺 Moscow, Russia (MOW)

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

In the 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z measurement round, the ICMP echo RTT from Hong Kong to Moscow averaged 116.6 ms, with a minimum of 113.74 ms and a maximum of 130.96 ms across 50 samples. No packets were lost, and the 2.93 ms standard deviation kept jitter at 1.89 ms, placing the route in the Good latency tier.

The geodesic separation is 7,153.6 km, giving a theoretical fiber-floor RTT of 70.05 ms; the observed average is 1.66 times that floor, or 60.1% fiber efficiency. That means the route retains a meaningful portion of the speed-of-light budget while still allowing for realistic network overhead on a transcontinental path.

Within the 19-route peer set, this outbound route ranked 4th, so most comparable paths had higher average RTTs in this round. Its standard-deviation-to-average ratio was 2.51%, below the peer-set median of 3.08%, and the spread between minimum and maximum was 17.22 ms — a sign that the route is both comparatively fast and consistent.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	116.6 ms
Jitter	1.89 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	70.05 ms
Fiber Efficiency	60.1%
Latency Tier	Good
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 → MOW

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z · avg 116.6 ± 0.41 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (114.9–117.2 ms), median 116.0 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 (70.0 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	117.55
2	100	117.08
3	200	115.20
4	300	116.41
5	400	115.05
6	500	113.96
7	600	113.81
8	700	113.74
9	800	115.96
10	900	114.46
11	1000	115.21
12	1100	115.02
13	1200	113.98
14	1300	116.27
15	1400	115.75
16	1500	117.15
17	1600	114.82
18	1700	116.00
19	1800	114.65
20	1900	115.88
21	2000	115.32
22	2100	114.79
23	2200	115.42
24	2300	118.32
25	2400	116.02
26	2500	119.80
27	2600	116.89
28	2700	117.51
29	2800	115.03
30	2900	115.48
31	3000	130.96
32	3100	126.07
33	3200	120.01
34	3300	119.07
35	3400	117.19
36	3500	115.72
37	3600	116.00
38	3700	118.52
39	3800	117.10
40	3900	114.76
41	4000	114.10
42	4100	114.09
43	4200	116.33
44	4300	114.46
45	4400	117.15
46	4500	114.79
47	4600	118.09
48	4700	117.65
49	4800	116.83
50	4900	118.58

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 Moscow (55.75204, 37.61781). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	7,153.6 km
Vacuum RTT floor	47.72 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	70.05 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	69.77 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	73.57 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	93.17 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	1502.3 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	94 / 93
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.66×

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	113.74 ms
Average RTT	116.6 ms
Maximum RTT	130.96 ms
Standard deviation	2.93 ms
Stdev / average	2.5%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 116.5 ms
Minimum: 115.3 ms
Maximum: 117.6 ms
Average loss: 0.03%

Route Context

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

Reverse direction

Moscow to Hong Kong latency and RTT — 118.5 ms

Fastest routes departing Hong Kong (HKG)

Hong Kong to Taipei latency and RTT — 15.2 ms
Hong Kong to Singapore latency and RTT — 31.2 ms
Hong Kong to Tokyo latency and RTT — 45 ms
Hong Kong to Seattle latency and RTT — 129.9 ms
Hong Kong to Sydney latency and RTT — 136.3 ms

Fastest routes arriving at Moscow (MOW)

Berlin to Moscow latency and RTT — 28 ms
Frankfurt to Moscow latency and RTT — 34.8 ms
Amsterdam to Moscow latency and RTT — 38.2 ms
London to Moscow latency and RTT — 44.1 ms
Paris to Moscow latency and RTT — 44.5 ms

Same corridor (Asia Pacific → Europe)

Taipei to Moscow latency and RTT — 131.7 ms
Singapore to Marseille latency and RTT — 138.8 ms
Hong Kong to Berlin latency and RTT — 143.6 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-mow.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. When citing, include the route, the measurement round timestamp, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Hong Kong → Moscow 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.

Hong Kong → Moscow, Russia RTT