# Los Angeles, USA → Frankfurt, Germany RTT

🇺🇸 **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](/docs/network/latency/regions/north-america) |
| Destination Region   | [Europe](/docs/network/latency/regions/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.

## 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 [Los Angeles](https://www.geonames.org/5368361) (34.05223, -118.24368) and [Frankfurt am Main](https://www.geonames.org/2925533) (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](/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        | **137.29 ms** |
| Average RTT        | **142.3 ms**  |
| Maximum RTT        | **154.07 ms** |
| Standard deviation | **3.29 ms**   |
| Stdev / average    | **2.3%**      |

## Route Context

* Departure PoP: [Los Angeles (LAX)](/docs/network/latency/lax-los-angeles)
* Destination PoP: [Frankfurt (FRA)](/docs/network/latency/fra-frankfurt)
* Region overview: [North America](/docs/network/latency/regions/north-america) → [Europe](/docs/network/latency/regions/europe)
* 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**

* [Frankfurt to Los Angeles latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/fra-lax-rtt) — 141.8 ms

**Fastest routes departing Los Angeles (LAX)**

* [Los Angeles to Seattle latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/lax-sea-rtt) — 26.9 ms
* [Los Angeles to Miami latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/lax-mia-rtt) — 57.3 ms
* [Los Angeles to New York latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/lax-nyc-rtt) — 57.9 ms
* [Los Angeles to Ashburn latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/lax-iad-rtt) — 60.4 ms
* [Los Angeles to Tokyo latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/lax-tyo-rtt) — 101.2 ms

**Fastest routes arriving at Frankfurt (FRA)**

* [Amsterdam to Frankfurt latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/ams-fra-rtt) — 5.9 ms
* [Berlin to Frankfurt latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/ber-fra-rtt) — 6.1 ms
* [Paris to Frankfurt latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/par-fra-rtt) — 7.6 ms
* [London to Frankfurt latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/lon-fra-rtt) — 13.6 ms
* [Marseille to Frankfurt latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/mrs-fra-rtt) — 16 ms

**Same corridor (North America → Europe)**

* [New York to London latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/nyc-lon-rtt) — 63.5 ms
* [New York to Amsterdam latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/nyc-ams-rtt) — 68.7 ms
* [New York to Paris latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/nyc-par-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](/opendata/latency/). 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".

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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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