Explore Moscow, Russia to Frankfurt, Germany ICMP RTT, jitter, packet loss and fiber latency limits on the AS203314 network.

🇷🇺 Moscow, Russia (MOW) → 🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Germany (FRA)

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

Moscow to Frankfurt averaged 35.9 ms across 50 replies. The observed range was 33.56 to 42.93 ms; these figures describe one probe round, not a long-term service target.

This is number 2 of 19 outgoing routes by average RTT. That ranking compares different destinations and is not adjusted for distance.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	35.9 ms
Jitter	1.52 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	19.85 ms
Fiber Efficiency	55.3%
Latency Tier	Excellent
Source Region	Europe
Destination Region	Europe

Ping Measurement Series

50 ICMP echo probes were recorded in this round. Individual replies and their distribution are shown below.

Ping series: MOW → FRA

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z · avg 35.9 ± 0.25 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (34.6–36.9 ms), median 35.5 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 (19.9 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	36.69
2	100	34.89
3	200	35.19
4	300	37.35
5	400	35.10
6	500	37.08
7	600	36.77
8	700	34.72
9	800	35.44
10	900	37.59
11	1000	35.59
12	1100	36.79
13	1200	35.87
14	1300	38.70
15	1400	40.72
16	1500	37.19
17	1600	42.93
18	1700	37.19
19	1800	37.72
20	1900	35.50
21	2000	34.91
22	2100	38.04
23	2200	36.25
24	2300	34.93
25	2400	36.29
26	2500	36.14
27	2600	35.56
28	2700	34.14
29	2800	34.32
30	2900	36.67
31	3000	34.61
32	3100	34.78
33	3200	33.82
34	3300	34.55
35	3400	33.99
36	3500	34.41
37	3600	36.05
38	3700	34.45
39	3800	34.05
40	3900	33.56
41	4000	33.65
42	4100	37.64
43	4200	35.75
44	4300	34.16
45	4400	34.86
46	4500	34.64
47	4600	34.41
48	4700	35.16
49	4800	37.31
50	4900	36.88

Download This Route's Data

Download the probe round as CSV, JSON or YAML under CC BY 4.0. Citation details include the route and round timestamp.

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Theoretical Fiber Latency

The propagation model uses public city-centre coordinates from GeoNames: Moscow (55.75204, 37.61781) and Frankfurt am Main (50.11552, 8.68417). These are not facility coordinates or a surveyed cable path.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	2,026.8 km
Vacuum RTT floor	13.52 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	19.85 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	19.77 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	20.84 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	26.4 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	425.6 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	27 / 26
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.81×

The span count assumes 80 km optical spans. Attenuation is a power-loss term, not a propagation delay. See the model assumptions and equations.

Stability & Trend

Statistics from the same 50 replies. They describe this probe round, not continuous historical monitoring.

Round Statistic	Value
Minimum RTT	33.56 ms
Average RTT	35.9 ms
Maximum RTT	42.93 ms
Standard deviation	1.78 ms
Stdev / average	5.0%

Estimated RTT trend

Modeled comparison, not historical probe measurements.

Average: 35.9 ms
Minimum: 35.6 ms
Maximum: 36.2 ms
Average loss: 0.02%

Route Context

Departure PoP: Moscow (MOW)
Destination PoP: Frankfurt (FRA)
Region overview: Europe → Europe
Full global matrix: Backbone Latency Matrix
Physical methodology: Theoretical Fiber Latency

Reverse direction

Frankfurt to Moscow latency and RTT: 34.7 ms

Fastest routes departing Moscow (MOW)

Moscow to Berlin latency and RTT: 27.5 ms
Moscow to Amsterdam latency and RTT: 37.6 ms
Moscow to London latency and RTT: 42.4 ms
Moscow to Paris latency and RTT: 44 ms
Moscow to Marseille latency and RTT: 49.9 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 (Europe → Europe)

Amsterdam to London latency and RTT: 5.2 ms
London to Amsterdam latency and RTT: 5.2 ms
Frankfurt to Amsterdam latency and RTT: 5.9 ms

About This Measurement

These ICMP measurements cover the two backbone endpoints. Access networks, routing policy and load can change an end user's result. A probe round is not an SLA.

The underlying replies are available under CC BY 4.0 in the Hats Network latency dataset. Per-pair files are available at /opendata/latency/latest/pairs/mow-fra.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. Cite the route, round timestamp and dataset version. Example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Moscow → Frankfurt round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z, CC BY 4.0".

Round published August 16, 2026. See the full interactive latency matrix or browse more city-pair routes.

Moscow, Russia → Frankfurt, Germany RTT