Los Angeles to New York ping and RTT: 59 ms, 0.93 ms jitter, 38.63 ms fiber floor, and 65.5% efficiency across AS203314. Updated 2026-08-09.

🇺🇸 This page compares the published ping and round-trip time (RTT) from Los Angeles (LAX) to 🇺🇸 New York (NYC) with vacuum and optical-fiber physical limits.

As of August 9, 2026, the Los Angeles → New York route on Hats Network averages 59 ms RTT across a 50-sample daily ICMP echo measurement round (source: GSL), 1.53× the theoretical fiber-floor limit of 38.63 ms.

Among the 19 measured routes departing Los Angeles, this route ranks 3rd fastest by average RTT.

With a stdev-to-average ratio of 1.9%, this route is more stable than the network median of 3.4%. Across the round, per-probe RTT ranged from 57.93 ms to 62.48 ms with a standard deviation of 1.13 ms.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	59 ms
Jitter	0.93 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	38.63 ms
Fiber Efficiency	65.5%
Latency Tier	Excellent
Source Region	North America
Destination Region	North America

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 → NYC

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-09 · avg 59.0 ± 0.16 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (58.3–59.2 ms), median 58.5 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 (38.6 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	58.02
2	100	58.17
3	200	58.52
4	300	58.44
5	400	58.31
6	500	59.02
7	600	58.43
8	700	61.18
9	800	59.61
10	900	58.39
11	1000	57.98
12	1100	58.71
13	1200	58.42
14	1300	62.48
15	1400	61.75
16	1500	59.30
17	1600	58.78
18	1700	60.96
19	1800	61.95
20	1900	59.27
21	2000	58.27
22	2100	59.62
23	2200	58.50
24	2300	58.09
25	2400	58.98
26	2500	58.51
27	2600	58.91
28	2700	59.64
29	2800	58.90
30	2900	58.39
31	3000	61.36
32	3100	59.01
33	3200	58.30
34	3300	58.94
35	3400	58.27
36	3500	58.14
37	3600	57.93
38	3700	59.01
39	3800	58.46
40	3900	58.44
41	4000	58.35
42	4100	60.85
43	4200	59.81
44	4300	58.64
45	4400	58.16
46	4500	58.27
47	4600	58.11
48	4700	58.06
49	4800	58.02
50	4900	58.37

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 New York City (40.71427, -74.00597). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	3,944.4 km
Vacuum RTT floor	26.31 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	38.63 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	38.47 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	40.56 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	51.37 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	828.3 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	52 / 51
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.53×

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 (2026-08-09) collected 50 ICMP echo samples on this route. Distribution statistics from that round:

Round Statistic	Value
Minimum RTT	57.93 ms
Average RTT	59 ms
Maximum RTT	62.48 ms
Standard deviation	1.13 ms
Stdev / average	1.9%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 59.0 ms
Minimum: 58.4 ms
Maximum: 59.6 ms
Average loss: 0.01%

Route Context

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

Reverse direction

New York to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 58.9 ms

Fastest routes departing Los Angeles (LAX)

Los Angeles to Seattle latency and RTT — 27 ms
Los Angeles to Miami latency and RTT — 57.5 ms
Los Angeles to Ashburn latency and RTT — 59.2 ms
Los Angeles to Tokyo latency and RTT — 100.8 ms
Los Angeles to London latency and RTT — 124.7 ms

Fastest routes arriving at New York (NYC)

Ashburn to New York latency and RTT — 6.1 ms
Miami to New York latency and RTT — 33.5 ms
Seattle to New York latency and RTT — 58.7 ms
London to New York latency and RTT — 64 ms
Amsterdam to New York latency and RTT — 69.3 ms

Same corridor (North America → North America)

New York to Ashburn latency and RTT — 6.1 ms
Seattle to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 26.8 ms
Miami to Ashburn latency and RTT — 27 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-nyc.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. When citing, include the route, the measurement round date, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Los Angeles → New York round 2026-08-09, CC BY 4.0".

Data auto-generated on August 9, 2026. Explore the full interactive latency matrix or browse more city-pair routes.

Los Angeles to New York Latency, Ping & RTT | AS203314