# Ashburn, USA → Sydney, Australia RTT

🇺🇸 **Ashburn, USA (IAD)** → 🇦🇺 **Sydney, Australia (SYD)**

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

The 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z ICMP echo RTT measurement from Ashburn, USA, to Sydney, Australia, showed an average round trip of 193.6 ms over 50 samples, with a minimum of 185.3 ms and a maximum of 213.55 ms. Zero packet loss was observed, while the 6.56 ms standard deviation and 5.83 ms jitter place the route in the Fair latency tier.

Given the geodesic distance of 15,673.1 km, the theoretical fiber-floor RTT is 153.48 ms. The measured average is 1.26 times that floor, an efficiency of about 79.3%, which means the observed delay is relatively close to the physical lower bound for this distance.

The route ranked 16th of 19 outbound paths from this origin by average RTT. Its variability is slightly above the route set's median: the standard deviation is about 3.4% of the average, versus a median of 3.28%. With zero loss and a moderate spread between minimum and maximum, the path appears stable, though ICMP RTT alone is not a measure of application-level performance.

## Latency Summary

| Metric               | Value                                                        |
| -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| RTT                  | **193.6 ms**                                                 |
| Jitter               | **5.83 ms**                                                  |
| Packet Loss          | **0%**                                                       |
| Standard Fiber Floor | **153.48 ms**                                                |
| Fiber Efficiency     | **79.3%**                                                    |
| Latency Tier         | Fair                                                         |
| Source Region        | [North America](/docs/network/latency/regions/north-america) |
| Destination Region   | [Asia Pacific](/docs/network/latency/regions/asia-pacific)   |

## 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 [Sydney](https://www.geonames.org/2147714) (-33.86785, 151.20732). It does not disclose either facility address.

| Physical Reference                            | Value           |
| --------------------------------------------- | --------------- |
| WGS-84 geodesic distance                      | **15,673.1 km** |
| Vacuum RTT floor                              | **104.56 ms**   |
| Standard fiber RTT floor ($n_g=1.4679$)       | **153.48 ms**   |
| Low-latency fiber material floor              | **152.87 ms**   |
| Engineering floor (5% path allowance)         | **161.18 ms**   |
| Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference         | **204.13 ms**   |
| Estimated unamplified path loss               | **3291.4 dB**   |
| Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers | **206 / 205**   |
| 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](/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        | **185.3 ms**  |
| Average RTT        | **193.6 ms**  |
| Maximum RTT        | **213.55 ms** |
| Standard deviation | **6.56 ms**   |
| Stdev / average    | **3.4%**      |

## Route Context

* Departure PoP: [Ashburn (IAD)](/docs/network/latency/iad-ashburn)
* Destination PoP: [Sydney (SYD)](/docs/network/latency/syd-sydney)
* Region overview: [North America](/docs/network/latency/regions/north-america) → [Asia Pacific](/docs/network/latency/regions/asia-pacific)
* Corridor overview: [North America to Asia Pacific](/docs/network/latency/regions/north-america-to-asia-pacific)
* 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**

* [Sydney to Ashburn latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/syd-iad-rtt) — 195.3 ms

**Fastest routes departing Ashburn (IAD)**

* [Ashburn to New York latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/iad-nyc-rtt) — 6 ms
* [Ashburn to Miami latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/iad-mia-rtt) — 27.4 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

**Fastest routes arriving at Sydney (SYD)**

* [Melbourne to Sydney latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/mel-syd-rtt) — 9.8 ms
* [Singapore to Sydney latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/sin-syd-rtt) — 94.5 ms
* [Tokyo to Sydney latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/tyo-syd-rtt) — 101.9 ms
* [Taipei to Sydney latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/tpe-syd-rtt) — 133.2 ms
* [Hong Kong to Sydney latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/hkg-syd-rtt) — 137.2 ms

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

* [Seattle to Tokyo latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/sea-tyo-rtt) — 85 ms
* [Los Angeles to Tokyo latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/lax-tyo-rtt) — 101.2 ms
* [Seattle to Taipei latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/sea-tpe-rtt) — 114.7 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-syd.pings.{csv,json,yaml}`. When citing, include the route, the measurement round timestamp, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Ashburn → Sydney 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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