# Ashburn, USA → Miami, USA RTT

🇺🇸 **Ashburn, USA (IAD)** → 🇺🇸 **Miami, USA (MIA)**

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

In the 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z measurement round, the Ashburn-to-Miami route averaged 27.4 ms ICMP RTT across 50 samples, with a minimum of 26.09 ms and a maximum of 30.01 ms; no packets were lost and jitter stayed at 0.98 ms.

Against the geodesic reference for 1,493.2 km, the vacuum floor is 9.96 ms and the direct fiber floor is 14.62 ms. The observed average is 1.87 times the fiber floor, giving a fiber efficiency of 53.4 percent—a useful baseline for judging how close this route's round-trip time is to the direct-fiber reference for that distance.

This pair is the second-ranked outbound route among the 19 Ashburn routes captured in the same round. Its standard deviation of 1.06 ms represents roughly 3.9 percent of the average, slightly above the 3.28 percent median relative variation seen across the route set, so the route is stable but not the most consistent in comparative terms.

## Latency Summary

| Metric               | Value                                                        |
| -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| RTT                  | **27.4 ms**                                                  |
| Jitter               | **0.98 ms**                                                  |
| Packet Loss          | **0%**                                                       |
| Standard Fiber Floor | **14.62 ms**                                                 |
| Fiber Efficiency     | **53.4%**                                                    |
| Latency Tier         | Ultra-Low                                                    |
| Source Region        | [North America](/docs/network/latency/regions/north-america) |
| 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 [Ashburn](https://www.geonames.org/4744870) (39.04372, -77.48749) and [Miami](https://www.geonames.org/4164138) (25.77427, -80.19366). It does not disclose either facility address.

| Physical Reference                            | Value          |
| --------------------------------------------- | -------------- |
| WGS-84 geodesic distance                      | **1,493.2 km** |
| Vacuum RTT floor                              | **9.96 ms**    |
| Standard fiber RTT floor ($n_g=1.4679$)       | **14.62 ms**   |
| Low-latency fiber material floor              | **14.56 ms**   |
| Engineering floor (5% path allowance)         | **15.36 ms**   |
| Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference         | **19.45 ms**   |
| Estimated unamplified path loss               | **313.6 dB**   |
| Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers | **20 / 19**    |
| Published RTT inflation over fiber floor      | **1.87×**      |

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        | **26.09 ms** |
| Average RTT        | **27.4 ms**  |
| Maximum RTT        | **30.01 ms** |
| Standard deviation | **1.06 ms**  |
| Stdev / average    | **3.9%**     |

## Route Context

* Departure PoP: [Ashburn (IAD)](/docs/network/latency/iad-ashburn)
* Destination PoP: [Miami (MIA)](/docs/network/latency/mia-miami)
* Region overview: [North America](/docs/network/latency/regions/north-america) → [North America](/docs/network/latency/regions/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**

* [Miami to Ashburn latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/mia-iad-rtt) — 27.3 ms

**Fastest routes departing Ashburn (IAD)**

* [Ashburn to New York latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/iad-nyc-rtt) — 6 ms
* [Ashburn to Los Angeles latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/iad-lax-rtt) — 60.7 ms
* [Ashburn to Seattle latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/iad-sea-rtt) — 62.3 ms
* [Ashburn to London latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/iad-lon-rtt) — 70.3 ms
* [Ashburn to Amsterdam latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/iad-ams-rtt) — 75.2 ms

**Fastest routes arriving at Miami (MIA)**

* [New York to Miami latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/nyc-mia-rtt) — 32.9 ms
* [Los Angeles to Miami latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/lax-mia-rtt) — 57.3 ms
* [São Paulo to Miami latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/gru-mia-rtt) — 74 ms
* [Seattle to Miami latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/sea-mia-rtt) — 81.7 ms
* [London to Miami latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/lon-mia-rtt) — 101.9 ms

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

* [New York to Ashburn latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/nyc-iad-rtt) — 6 ms
* [Seattle to Los Angeles latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/sea-lax-rtt) — 25.9 ms
* [Los Angeles to Seattle latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/lax-sea-rtt) — 26.9 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/iad-mia.pings.{csv,json,yaml}`. When citing, include the route, the measurement round timestamp, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Ashburn → Miami 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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