# London, UK → Ashburn, USA RTT

🇬🇧 **London, UK (LON)** → 🇺🇸 **Ashburn, USA (IAD)**

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

At the 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z measurement round, London-to-Ashburn ICMP echo RTT averaged 71ms, with a minimum of 68.31ms, a maximum of 80.67ms, and no packet loss across 50 samples.

The 71ms average is 1.22 times the theoretical fiber-floor time for the 5,932.8km geodesic distance, corresponding to 81.8% fiber efficiency. The 2.3ms standard deviation and 1.76ms jitter indicate a steady window, and the route's standard deviation is about 3.2% of its average — slightly below the 3.28% median for the 19-route set. It ranked 8th among those routes in this cycle.

The Excellent latency tier, zero packet loss, and small gap between minimum and maximum RTT all point to a clean transatlantic measurement profile; the useful takeaway is that London-to-Ashburn RTT is already close to the fiber-floor estimate for this geography.

## Latency Summary

| Metric               | Value                                                        |
| -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| RTT                  | **71 ms**                                                    |
| Jitter               | **1.76 ms**                                                  |
| Packet Loss          | **0%**                                                       |
| Standard Fiber Floor | **58.1 ms**                                                  |
| Fiber Efficiency     | **81.8%**                                                    |
| Latency Tier         | Excellent                                                    |
| Source Region        | [Europe](/docs/network/latency/regions/europe)               |
| Destination Region   | [North America](/docs/network/latency/regions/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.

## 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 [London](https://www.geonames.org/2643743) (51.50853, -0.12574) and [Ashburn](https://www.geonames.org/4744870) (39.04372, -77.48749). It does not disclose either facility address.

| Physical Reference                            | Value          |
| --------------------------------------------- | -------------- |
| WGS-84 geodesic distance                      | **5,932.8 km** |
| Vacuum RTT floor                              | **39.58 ms**   |
| Standard fiber RTT floor ($n_g=1.4679$)       | **58.1 ms**    |
| Low-latency fiber material floor              | **57.87 ms**   |
| Engineering floor (5% path allowance)         | **61.01 ms**   |
| Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference         | **77.27 ms**   |
| Estimated unamplified path loss               | **1245.9 dB**  |
| Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers | **78 / 77**    |
| Published RTT inflation over fiber floor      | **1.22×**      |

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        | **68.31 ms** |
| Average RTT        | **71 ms**    |
| Maximum RTT        | **80.67 ms** |
| Standard deviation | **2.3 ms**   |
| Stdev / average    | **3.2%**     |

## Route Context

* Departure PoP: [London (LON)](/docs/network/latency/lon-london)
* Destination PoP: [Ashburn (IAD)](/docs/network/latency/iad-ashburn)
* Region overview: [Europe](/docs/network/latency/regions/europe) → [North America](/docs/network/latency/regions/north-america)
* Corridor overview: [Europe to North America](/docs/network/latency/regions/europe-to-north-america)
* 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**

* [Ashburn to London latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/iad-lon-rtt) — 70.3 ms

**Fastest routes departing London (LON)**

* [London to Amsterdam latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/lon-ams-rtt) — 5.2 ms
* [London to Paris latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/lon-par-rtt) — 6.4 ms
* [London to Frankfurt latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/lon-fra-rtt) — 13.6 ms
* [London to Berlin latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/lon-ber-rtt) — 16.2 ms
* [London to Marseille latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/lon-mrs-rtt) — 17.9 ms

**Fastest routes arriving at Ashburn (IAD)**

* [New York to Ashburn latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/nyc-iad-rtt) — 6 ms
* [Miami to Ashburn latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/mia-iad-rtt) — 27.3 ms
* [Los Angeles to Ashburn latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/lax-iad-rtt) — 60.4 ms
* [Seattle to Ashburn latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/sea-iad-rtt) — 61.5 ms
* [Paris to Ashburn latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/par-iad-rtt) — 75.5 ms

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

* [London to New York latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/lon-nyc-rtt) — 63.8 ms
* [Amsterdam to New York latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/ams-nyc-rtt) — 68.6 ms
* [Paris to New York latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/par-nyc-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/lon-iad.pings.{csv,json,yaml}`. When citing, include the route, the measurement round timestamp, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, London → Ashburn 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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