ICMP echo RTT measurements from Los Angeles, USA to Berlin, Germany: 140.6 ms average latency, 0% packet loss, and route variability context.

🇺🇸 Los Angeles, USA (LAX) → 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany (BER)

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

In the 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z ICMP echo session from Los Angeles to Berlin, 50 probes at 100 ms intervals produced an average round-trip time of 140.6 ms, with a minimum of 132.35 ms and a maximum of 166.03 ms. No packets were lost, and the latency tier was good.

A purely line-of-sight signal over the 9,331.9 km geodesic distance would take 62.26 ms round trip, while an ideal fiber path would take 91.39 ms. The measured average is 1.54 times that fiber floor, or 65% fiber-optical efficiency, meaning the observed path adds about 49 ms over the theoretical minimum.

This route ranked 13th among the 19 outbound routes in the network's measurement set. Its standard deviation of 6.92 ms is 4.92% of the average, above the network's median standard-deviation-to-average ratio of 3.08%, so operators should expect more variability than the typical route; nevertheless, the spread is modest in absolute terms and jitter was 5.54 ms.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	140.6 ms
Jitter	5.54 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	91.39 ms
Fiber Efficiency	65%
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 → BER

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z · avg 140.6 ± 0.98 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (135.2–144.3 ms), median 138.9 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 (91.4 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	133.82
2	100	134.64
3	200	137.62
4	300	139.17
5	400	136.40
6	500	134.33
7	600	143.52
8	700	135.64
9	800	152.94
10	900	140.70
11	1000	140.99
12	1100	140.15
13	1200	146.97
14	1300	143.25
15	1400	142.30
16	1500	138.47
17	1600	134.57
18	1700	134.88
19	1800	132.35
20	1900	132.53
21	2000	134.04
22	2100	150.40
23	2200	147.64
24	2300	141.72
25	2400	135.15
26	2500	136.23
27	2600	141.18
28	2700	166.03
29	2800	143.43
30	2900	138.63
31	3000	134.24
32	3100	139.09
33	3200	145.39
34	3300	156.08
35	3400	147.91
36	3500	147.76
37	3600	151.76
38	3700	146.41
39	3800	139.08
40	3900	148.54
41	4000	137.52
42	4100	135.49
43	4200	133.41
44	4300	133.33
45	4400	135.54
46	4500	136.50
47	4600	144.50
48	4700	136.68
49	4800	137.60
50	4900	133.48

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.

Download this dataset

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 Berlin (52.52437, 13.41053). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	9,331.9 km
Vacuum RTT floor	62.26 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	91.39 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	91.02 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	95.97 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	121.54 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	1959.7 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	123 / 122
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.54×

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	132.35 ms
Average RTT	140.6 ms
Maximum RTT	166.03 ms
Standard deviation	6.92 ms
Stdev / average	4.9%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 140.4 ms
Minimum: 139.3 ms
Maximum: 141.9 ms
Average loss: 0.02%

Route Context

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

Reverse direction

Berlin to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 141.8 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 Berlin (BER)

Frankfurt to Berlin latency and RTT — 6.1 ms
Amsterdam to Berlin latency and RTT — 7.2 ms
Paris to Berlin latency and RTT — 14.8 ms
London to Berlin latency and RTT — 16.2 ms
Marseille to Berlin latency and RTT — 21.5 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/lax-ber.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 → Berlin 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 → Berlin, Germany RTT