ICMP RTT measurement from Los Angeles, USA to Frankfurt, Germany: average 142.3 ms, jitter 3.06 ms, zero packet loss over 50 echo samples.

🇺🇸 Los Angeles, USA (LAX) → 🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Germany (FRA)

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

For the 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z measurement round, the Los Angeles-to-Frankfurt path produced an average ICMP round-trip time of 142.3 ms, with a minimum of 137.29 ms and a maximum of 154.07 ms over 50 echo samples.

There was no packet loss, and jitter of 3.06 ms held the path to a fairly steady response. The 3.29 ms standard deviation equals about 2.3% of the average, slightly tighter than the 3.28% median relative spread across the 19 routes in the same round.

Frankfurt's average is 1.56 times the 91.31 ms fiber-floor estimate for the 9,324.5 km great-circle distance, giving a fiber efficiency of 64.2%. Among the 19 paths in this round, the route ranked 13th by average latency, with a small upward tail reflected by a maximum about 12 ms above the mean.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	142.3 ms
Jitter	3.06 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	91.31 ms
Fiber Efficiency	64.2%
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 → FRA

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z · avg 142.3 ± 0.47 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (139.9–143.4 ms), median 141.4 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 (91.3 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	137.29
2	100	140.22
3	200	144.68
4	300	139.98
5	400	139.63
6	500	138.09
7	600	143.15
8	700	141.33
9	800	148.69
10	900	143.48
11	1000	142.10
12	1100	141.45
13	1200	140.85
14	1300	138.49
15	1400	140.67
16	1500	139.63
17	1600	139.47
18	1700	139.33
19	1800	143.36
20	1900	145.51
21	2000	141.38
22	2100	141.35
23	2200	140.74
24	2300	143.04
25	2400	142.05
26	2500	139.89
27	2600	154.07
28	2700	149.43
29	2800	143.12
30	2900	146.73
31	3000	141.17
32	3100	142.67
33	3200	139.89
34	3300	146.51
35	3400	147.00
36	3500	142.56
37	3600	139.60
38	3700	139.24
39	3800	138.63
40	3900	147.62
41	4000	141.97
42	4100	142.25
43	4200	144.23
44	4300	143.30
45	4400	145.56
46	4500	140.32
47	4600	139.79
48	4700	138.86
49	4800	144.76
50	4900	139.87

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 Frankfurt am Main (50.11552, 8.68417). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	9,324.5 km
Vacuum RTT floor	62.21 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	91.31 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	90.95 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	95.89 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	121.45 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	1958.1 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	123 / 122
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.56×

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 (2026-08-16T04:07:28Z) collected 50 ICMP echo samples on this route. Distribution statistics from that round:

Round Statistic	Value
Minimum RTT	137.29 ms
Average RTT	142.3 ms
Maximum RTT	154.07 ms
Standard deviation	3.29 ms
Stdev / average	2.3%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 142.3 ms
Minimum: 140.8 ms
Maximum: 143.6 ms
Average loss: 0.01%

Route Context

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

Reverse direction

Frankfurt to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 141.8 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 Frankfurt (FRA)

Amsterdam to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 5.9 ms
Berlin to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 6.1 ms
Paris to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 7.6 ms
London to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 13.6 ms
Marseille to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 16 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

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-fra.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 → Frankfurt round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z, CC BY 4.0".

Data auto-generated on August 16, 2026. Explore the full interactive latency matrix or browse more city-pair routes.

Los Angeles, USA → Frankfurt, Germany RTT