Explore Los Angeles, USA to Berlin, Germany ICMP RTT, jitter, packet loss and fiber latency limits on the AS203314 network.

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

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

Los Angeles to Berlin averaged 139.3 ms across 50 replies. The observed range was 136.33 to 148.84 ms; these figures describe one probe round, not a long-term service target.

Standard deviation was 2.96 ms, or 2.1% of the average. This describes variation within the sample without identifying its cause.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	139.3 ms
Jitter	1.96 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	91.39 ms
Fiber Efficiency	65.6%
Latency Tier	Good
Source Region	North America
Destination Region	Europe

Ping Measurement Series

50 ICMP echo probes were recorded in this round. Individual replies and their distribution are shown below.

Ping series: LAX → BER

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z · avg 139.3 ± 0.42 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (137.3–139.6 ms), median 138.1 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	137.91
2	100	138.03
3	200	137.10
4	300	136.47
5	400	136.65
6	500	136.33
7	600	136.85
8	700	139.21
9	800	139.45
10	900	139.31
11	1000	137.68
12	1100	137.19
13	1200	143.39
14	1300	141.01
15	1400	139.59
16	1500	137.34
17	1600	138.30
18	1700	138.44
19	1800	139.52
20	1900	138.96
21	2000	138.00
22	2100	137.18
23	2200	137.81
24	2300	146.24
25	2400	147.29
26	2500	141.16
27	2600	142.24
28	2700	138.21
29	2800	137.42
30	2900	138.74
31	3000	137.18
32	3100	148.84
33	3200	143.61
34	3300	142.30
35	3400	144.16
36	3500	140.22
37	3600	137.64
38	3700	137.66
39	3800	138.40
40	3900	137.99
41	4000	137.28
42	4100	139.43
43	4200	145.51
44	4300	139.42
45	4400	137.26
46	4500	137.36
47	4600	136.83
48	4700	137.21
49	4800	136.72
50	4900	136.96

Download This Route's Data

Download the probe round as CSV, JSON or YAML under CC BY 4.0. Citation details include the route and round timestamp.

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Theoretical Fiber Latency

The propagation model uses public city-centre coordinates from GeoNames: Los Angeles (34.05223, -118.24368) and Berlin (52.52437, 13.41053). These are not facility coordinates or a surveyed cable path.

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	1.52×

The span count assumes 80 km optical spans. Attenuation is a power-loss term, not a propagation delay. See the model assumptions and equations.

Stability & Trend

Statistics from the same 50 replies. They describe this probe round, not continuous historical monitoring.

Round Statistic	Value
Minimum RTT	136.33 ms
Average RTT	139.3 ms
Maximum RTT	148.84 ms
Standard deviation	2.96 ms
Stdev / average	2.1%

Estimated RTT trend

Modeled comparison, not historical probe measurements.

Average: 139.2 ms
Minimum: 137.8 ms
Maximum: 140.7 ms
Average loss: 0.00%

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: 140.9 ms

Fastest routes departing Los Angeles (LAX)

Los Angeles to Seattle latency and RTT: 26.9 ms
Los Angeles to Miami latency and RTT: 57.3 ms
Los Angeles to New York latency and RTT: 57.9 ms
Los Angeles to Ashburn latency and RTT: 60.4 ms
Los Angeles to Tokyo latency and RTT: 101.2 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: 15.5 ms
London to Berlin latency and RTT: 16.2 ms
Marseille to Berlin latency and RTT: 20.6 ms

Same corridor (North America → Europe)

New York to London latency and RTT: 63.5 ms
New York to Amsterdam latency and RTT: 68.7 ms
New York to Paris latency and RTT: 68.9 ms

About This Measurement

These ICMP measurements cover the two backbone endpoints. Access networks, routing policy and load can change an end user's result. A probe round is not an SLA.

The underlying replies are available 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}. Cite the route, round timestamp and dataset version. Example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Los Angeles → Berlin round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z, CC BY 4.0".

Round published August 16, 2026. See the full interactive latency matrix or browse more city-pair routes.

Los Angeles, USA → Berlin, Germany RTT