Ashburn-to-Amsterdam ICMP RTT page: 50 echo samples from USA to Netherlands, with average, minimum, maximum, jitter, and packet loss.

🇺🇸 Ashburn, USA (IAD) → 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, Netherlands (AMS)

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

The 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z round captured 50 ICMP echo replies between Ashburn, USA and Amsterdam, Netherlands, with an average RTT of 75.7 ms and a narrow spread from 73.24 ms to 82.29 ms. Jitter was 1.85 ms, standard deviation 1.9 ms, and packet loss was zero, placing the route in the Excellent latency tier.

Against the 6,223.2 km separation, the vacuum-floor reference is 41.52 ms and the fiber floor is 60.94 ms. The measured average sits 1.24 times above the fiber floor, translating to 80.5% fiber efficiency — the path is using most of the straight-line fiber potential.

This route ranked 6th among the 19 outbound paths in the same round, well above the midpoint, while the median standard-deviation-to-average ratio across all outbound paths was 3.08%. Its own 2.51% ratio is tighter than that median, so both the low average and the low spread contribute to the Excellent tier.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	75.7 ms
Jitter	1.85 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	60.94 ms
Fiber Efficiency	80.5%
Latency Tier	Excellent
Source Region	North America
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: IAD → AMS

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z · avg 75.7 ± 0.27 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (74.1–77.0 ms), median 75.3 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	74.29
2	100	75.00
3	200	77.96
4	300	75.37
5	400	74.23
6	500	73.89
7	600	73.48
8	700	76.34
9	800	75.26
10	900	76.76
11	1000	74.75
12	1100	74.11
13	1200	74.39
14	1300	73.83
15	1400	75.07
16	1500	75.24
17	1600	79.05
18	1700	76.10
19	1800	74.15
20	1900	73.82
21	2000	78.89
22	2100	75.51
23	2200	79.32
24	2300	77.33
25	2400	77.15
26	2500	75.84
27	2600	74.12
28	2700	73.35
29	2800	76.46
30	2900	78.41
31	3000	75.01
32	3100	76.00
33	3200	74.46
34	3300	73.80
35	3400	73.81
36	3500	73.24
37	3600	77.54
38	3700	75.84
39	3800	73.98
40	3900	77.13
41	4000	75.20
42	4100	77.77
43	4200	77.54
44	4300	75.79
45	4400	74.07
46	4500	74.29
47	4600	73.72
48	4700	75.94
49	4800	82.29
50	4900	78.11

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.

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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 Ashburn (39.04372, -77.48749) and Amsterdam (52.37403, 4.88969). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	6,223.2 km
Vacuum RTT floor	41.52 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	60.94 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	60.7 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	64 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	81.05 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	1306.9 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	82 / 81
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.24×

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	73.24 ms
Average RTT	75.7 ms
Maximum RTT	82.29 ms
Standard deviation	1.9 ms
Stdev / average	2.5%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 75.8 ms
Minimum: 75.0 ms
Maximum: 76.4 ms
Average loss: 0.01%

Route Context

Departure PoP: Ashburn (IAD)
Destination PoP: Amsterdam (AMS)
Region overview: North America → Europe
Full global matrix: Backbone Latency Matrix
Physical methodology: Theoretical Fiber Latency

Reverse direction

Amsterdam to Ashburn latency and RTT — 75.7 ms

Fastest routes departing Ashburn (IAD)

Ashburn to New York latency and RTT — 6 ms
Ashburn to Miami latency and RTT — 28.6 ms
Ashburn to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 60 ms
Ashburn to Seattle latency and RTT — 61.3 ms
Ashburn to London latency and RTT — 70.4 ms

Fastest routes arriving at Amsterdam (AMS)

London to Amsterdam latency and RTT — 5.1 ms
Frankfurt to Amsterdam latency and RTT — 5.9 ms
Paris to Amsterdam latency and RTT — 7 ms
Berlin to Amsterdam latency and RTT — 7.2 ms
Marseille to Amsterdam latency and RTT — 19.6 ms

Same corridor (North America → Europe)

New York to London latency and RTT — 64.3 ms
New York to Paris latency and RTT — 68.4 ms
New York to Amsterdam latency and RTT — 68.5 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/iad-ams.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. When citing, include the route, the measurement round timestamp, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Ashburn → Amsterdam 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.

Ashburn, USA → Amsterdam, Netherlands RTT