Moscow to Los Angeles ping and RTT: 171.2 ms, 5.09 ms jitter, 95.9 ms fiber floor, and 56% efficiency across AS203314. Updated 2026-08-09.

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

As of August 9, 2026, the Moscow → Los Angeles route on Hats Network averages 171.2 ms RTT across a 50-sample daily ICMP echo measurement round, 1.79× the theoretical fiber-floor limit of 95.9 ms.

Among the 19 measured routes departing Moscow, this route ranks 15th fastest by average RTT.

With a stdev-to-average ratio of 3.7%, this route sits close to the network-wide stability median of 3.4%. Across the round, per-probe RTT ranged from 163.87 ms to 202.2 ms with a standard deviation of 6.39 ms.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	171.2 ms
Jitter	5.09 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	95.9 ms
Fiber Efficiency	56%
Latency Tier	Fair
Source Region	Europe
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: MOW → LAX

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-09 · avg 171.2 ± 0.90 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (166.9–173.9 ms), median 168.6 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 (95.9 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	176.41
2	100	176.59
3	200	168.32
4	300	179.51
5	400	168.90
6	500	176.39
7	600	168.09
8	700	171.90
9	800	167.44
10	900	202.20
11	1000	178.18
12	1100	169.91
13	1200	166.72
14	1300	168.19
15	1400	164.97
16	1500	166.18
17	1600	172.63
18	1700	171.22
19	1800	179.77
20	1900	174.07
21	2000	168.19
22	2100	165.50
23	2200	166.58
24	2300	166.31
25	2400	165.22
26	2500	163.87
27	2600	164.84
28	2700	168.58
29	2800	173.15
30	2900	171.57
31	3000	166.93
32	3100	167.75
33	3200	168.62
34	3300	173.59
35	3400	174.94
36	3500	175.34
37	3600	167.90
38	3700	168.20
39	3800	172.51
40	3900	170.72
41	4000	168.54
42	4100	166.86
43	4200	166.97
44	4300	165.44
45	4400	166.33
46	4500	175.27
47	4600	168.02
48	4700	176.96
49	4800	173.22
50	4900	184.49

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 Moscow (55.75204, 37.61781) and Los Angeles (34.05223, -118.24368). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	9,793.2 km
Vacuum RTT floor	65.33 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	95.9 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	95.52 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	100.71 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	127.55 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	2056.6 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	129 / 128
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.79×

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	163.87 ms
Average RTT	171.2 ms
Maximum RTT	202.2 ms
Standard deviation	6.39 ms
Stdev / average	3.7%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 171.0 ms
Minimum: 169.6 ms
Maximum: 172.6 ms
Average loss: 0.03%

Route Context

Departure PoP: Moscow (MOW)
Destination PoP: Los Angeles (LAX)
Region overview: Europe → North America
Corridor overview: Europe to North America
Full global matrix: Backbone Latency Matrix
Physical methodology: Theoretical Fiber Latency

Reverse direction

Los Angeles to Moscow latency and RTT — 171.9 ms

Fastest routes departing Moscow (MOW)

Moscow to Berlin latency and RTT — 28.6 ms
Moscow to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 35.4 ms
Moscow to Amsterdam latency and RTT — 37.9 ms
Moscow to London latency and RTT — 43 ms
Moscow to Paris latency and RTT — 44.2 ms

Fastest routes arriving at Los Angeles (LAX)

Seattle to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 26.8 ms
Miami to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 57.3 ms
New York to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 58.9 ms
Ashburn to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 59.8 ms
Tokyo to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 101.3 ms

Same corridor (Europe → North America)

London to New York latency and RTT — 64 ms
Amsterdam to New York latency and RTT — 69.3 ms
Paris to New York latency and RTT — 69.3 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/mow-lax.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. When citing, include the route, the measurement round date, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Moscow → Los Angeles 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.

Moscow to Los Angeles Latency, Ping & RTT | AS203314