View ICMP round-trip latency measurements from Los Angeles, USA to Amsterdam, Netherlands, including packet loss, jitter, and route efficiency.

🇺🇸 Los Angeles, USA (LAX) → 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, Netherlands (AMS)

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

In round 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z, 50 ICMP echo probes were sent from Los Angeles, USA to Amsterdam, Netherlands at 100 ms intervals, returning an average round-trip time of 133.4 ms. The minimum was 129.72 ms, the maximum was 148.28 ms, and no packets were lost; measured jitter was 2.66 ms.

The absolute RTT is consistent with the 8,960 km geodesic separation: the theoretical vacuum-floor transit is 59.77 ms, while a direct fiber-floor path would be about 87.74 ms. Observed latency is 1.52 times the fiber floor, giving a fiber efficiency of 65.8%, which suggests the path is fairly direct relative to the straight-line fiber reference.

Among the 19 outbound routes on record for this network, this path ranks 9th, placing it near the middle of the set. Relative variation is also close to the network norm: the median variability relative to average RTT is 3.08%, while this route's own ratio is approximately 3.27%.

The tight 18.56 ms gap between minimum and maximum RTT, combined with zero loss, makes this a stable route for such a long distance. Consistency is the more useful signal here; ICMP RTT alone should not be treated as a proxy for end-user application performance.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	133.4 ms
Jitter	2.66 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	87.74 ms
Fiber Efficiency	65.8%
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: LAX → AMS

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z · avg 133.4 ± 0.62 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (130.8–133.8 ms), median 131.8 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 (87.7 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	133.46
2	100	130.87
3	200	130.21
4	300	131.51
5	400	130.38
6	500	130.99
7	600	136.16
8	700	131.81
9	800	130.89
10	900	130.08
11	1000	132.27
12	1100	130.95
13	1200	129.90
14	1300	133.55
15	1400	132.95
16	1500	130.86
17	1600	130.57
18	1700	131.02
19	1800	132.58
20	1900	140.46
21	2000	148.28
22	2100	136.25
23	2200	134.77
24	2300	133.19
25	2400	134.67
26	2500	133.84
27	2600	133.77
28	2700	135.95
29	2800	134.05
30	2900	131.66
31	3000	130.85
32	3100	129.72
33	3200	131.49
34	3300	129.94
35	3400	147.66
36	3500	148.00
37	3600	139.90
38	3700	133.39
39	3800	130.78
40	3900	133.27
41	4000	130.58
42	4100	130.54
43	4200	130.75
44	4300	131.21
45	4400	135.42
46	4500	132.01
47	4600	130.79
48	4700	130.62
49	4800	133.45
50	4900	131.73

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 Los Angeles (34.05223, -118.24368) and Amsterdam (52.37403, 4.88969). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	8,960 km
Vacuum RTT floor	59.77 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	87.74 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	87.39 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	92.14 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	116.7 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	1881.6 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	118 / 117
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.52×

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	129.72 ms
Average RTT	133.4 ms
Maximum RTT	148.28 ms
Standard deviation	4.36 ms
Stdev / average	3.3%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 133.2 ms
Minimum: 131.9 ms
Maximum: 134.7 ms
Average loss: 0.02%

Route Context

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

Reverse direction

Amsterdam to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 134.6 ms

Fastest routes departing Los Angeles (LAX)

Los Angeles to Seattle latency and RTT — 27.5 ms
Los Angeles to Miami latency and RTT — 57.1 ms
Los Angeles to New York latency and RTT — 59 ms
Los Angeles to Ashburn latency and RTT — 59.9 ms
Los Angeles to Tokyo latency and RTT — 100.9 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/lax-ams.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. When citing, include the route, the measurement round timestamp, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Los Angeles → 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.

Los Angeles, USA → Amsterdam, Netherlands RTT