# Los Angeles, USA → London, UK RTT

🇺🇸 **Los Angeles, USA (LAX)** → 🇬🇧 **London, UK (LON)**

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

In the 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z measurement round, the Los Angeles-to-London path delivered an average ICMP round-trip time of 129.2 ms, with a minimum of 123.19 ms and a maximum of 146.01 ms across 50 echo samples.

Packet loss was zero, though the 3.99 ms jitter and 4.9 ms standard deviation indicate a wider response spread than the 3.28% median relative spread for the 19 routes in this round; the standard deviation is about 3.8% of the average.

London's average is 1.50 times the 85.95 ms fiber-floor estimate for the 8,776.7 km great-circle distance, a fiber efficiency of 66.5%. The route ranked 6th among the 19 paths by average latency, so the lower round-trip time comes with a slightly broader distribution around the central value.

## Latency Summary

| Metric               | Value                                                        |
| -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| RTT                  | **129.2 ms**                                                 |
| Jitter               | **3.99 ms**                                                  |
| Packet Loss          | **0%**                                                       |
| Standard Fiber Floor | **85.95 ms**                                                 |
| Fiber Efficiency     | **66.5%**                                                    |
| 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 [London](https://www.geonames.org/2643743) (51.50853, -0.12574). It does not disclose either facility address.

| Physical Reference                            | Value          |
| --------------------------------------------- | -------------- |
| WGS-84 geodesic distance                      | **8,776.7 km** |
| Vacuum RTT floor                              | **58.55 ms**   |
| Standard fiber RTT floor ($n_g=1.4679$)       | **85.95 ms**   |
| Low-latency fiber material floor              | **85.6 ms**    |
| Engineering floor (5% path allowance)         | **90.26 ms**   |
| Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference         | **114.31 ms**  |
| Estimated unamplified path loss               | **1843.1 dB**  |
| Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers | **116 / 115**  |
| Published RTT inflation over fiber floor      | **1.5×**       |

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        | **123.19 ms** |
| Average RTT        | **129.2 ms**  |
| Maximum RTT        | **146.01 ms** |
| Standard deviation | **4.9 ms**    |
| Stdev / average    | **3.8%**      |

## Route Context

* Departure PoP: [Los Angeles (LAX)](/docs/network/latency/lax-los-angeles)
* Destination PoP: [London (LON)](/docs/network/latency/lon-london)
* 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**

* [London to Los Angeles latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/lon-lax-rtt) — 127.5 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 London (LON)**

* [Amsterdam to London latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/ams-lon-rtt) — 5.2 ms
* [Paris to London latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/par-lon-rtt) — 6.4 ms
* [Frankfurt to London latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/fra-lon-rtt) — 12.9 ms
* [Berlin to London latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/ber-lon-rtt) — 15.2 ms
* [Marseille to London latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/mrs-lon-rtt) — 18.9 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-lon.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 → London 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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