ICMP round-trip time between Ashburn, USA and Frankfurt, Germany: average 80.9 ms, 0% loss, with latency statistics and route context.

🇺🇸 Ashburn, USA (IAD) → 🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Germany (FRA)

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

In the 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z round, the Ashburn-to-Frankfurt route averaged 80.9 ms round-trip time, with a minimum of 78.26 ms and a maximum of 88.33 ms across 50 ICMP echo samples. No packets were lost, and jitter was only 1.87 ms.

At 80.9 ms, the route sits 1.26 times the theoretical fiber floor of 64.3 ms for the 6,566 km great-circle distance, yielding a fiber efficiency of 79.5%. The roughly 16.6 ms above that floor is consistent with a stable transatlantic crossing terminating in Frankfurt, the central switching point of the European fiber ring.

Among 19 outbound routes measured from Ashburn, this route ranked 8th by average latency. Its standard deviation of 2.03 ms is about 2.5% of the average, tighter than the network-wide median variability ratio of 3.08%, making it a comparatively steady choice for the round.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	80.9 ms
Jitter	1.87 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	64.3 ms
Fiber Efficiency	79.5%
Latency Tier	Good
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 → FRA

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z · avg 80.9 ± 0.29 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (79.3–81.6 ms), median 80.5 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 (64.3 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	78.26
2	100	78.66
3	200	81.66
4	300	80.54
5	400	82.87
6	500	80.47
7	600	79.27
8	700	79.30
9	800	80.27
10	900	81.23
11	1000	81.43
12	1100	84.25
13	1200	82.25
14	1300	80.26
15	1400	79.22
16	1500	80.49
17	1600	79.28
18	1700	82.30
19	1800	80.20
20	1900	80.82
21	2000	79.20
22	2100	78.58
23	2200	78.79
24	2300	79.55
25	2400	79.19
26	2500	88.33
27	2600	81.79
28	2700	86.52
29	2800	81.21
30	2900	80.46
31	3000	81.57
32	3100	80.50
33	3200	79.44
34	3300	78.85
35	3400	78.78
36	3500	79.61
37	3600	80.49
38	3700	80.71
39	3800	84.40
40	3900	84.18
41	4000	80.74
42	4100	79.26
43	4200	81.88
44	4300	81.24
45	4400	82.85
46	4500	80.03
47	4600	83.73
48	4700	80.29
49	4800	78.97
50	4900	80.83

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 Frankfurt am Main (50.11552, 8.68417). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	6,566 km
Vacuum RTT floor	43.8 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	64.3 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	64.04 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	67.52 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	85.52 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	1378.9 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	87 / 86
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.26×

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	78.26 ms
Average RTT	80.9 ms
Maximum RTT	88.33 ms
Standard deviation	2.03 ms
Stdev / average	2.5%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 80.9 ms
Minimum: 80.1 ms
Maximum: 81.7 ms
Average loss: 0.02%

Route Context

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

Reverse direction

Frankfurt to Ashburn latency and RTT — 81.5 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 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 — 12.3 ms
Marseille to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 17.5 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-fra.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. When citing, include the route, the measurement round timestamp, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Ashburn → Frankfurt 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 → Frankfurt, Germany RTT