Moscow, Russia to Paris, France: ICMP RTT measurement showing 44 ms average, 1.37 ms jitter, and zero packet loss over 50 samples.

🇷🇺 Moscow, Russia (MOW) → 🇫🇷 Paris, France (PAR)

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

In the 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z round, ICMP echo RTT from Moscow to Paris averaged 44 ms over 50 samples, with values between 42.02 ms and 49.11 ms. Packet loss was zero, and jitter measured 1.37 ms, keeping the route in the excellent latency tier.

The average is 1.8 times the 24.42 ms theoretical fiber floor for a 2,494.1 km straight-line path, a 55.5% efficiency ratio. Among the 19 Moscow-origin routes in this round, this pair ranks fifth by average RTT; its 1.64 ms standard deviation is about 3.7% of the mean, slightly above the 3.28% median variability ratio for the route set.

The maximum sample was 5.11 ms above the average, so the measured spread is modest even though the variability ratio edges past the route-set median. The route therefore combines a sub-50 ms average with a consistent, loss-free RTT profile across the sample window.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	44 ms
Jitter	1.37 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	24.42 ms
Fiber Efficiency	55.5%
Latency Tier	Excellent
Source Region	Europe
Destination Region	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.

Ping series: MOW → PAR

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z · avg 44.0 ± 0.23 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (43.0–44.8 ms), median 43.4 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 (24.4 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	42.37
2	100	49.11
3	200	44.41
4	300	44.61
5	400	48.09
6	500	44.29
7	600	47.74
8	700	47.65
9	800	44.95
10	900	43.10
11	1000	42.54
12	1100	44.88
13	1200	44.23
14	1300	45.04
15	1400	42.99
16	1500	45.02
17	1600	44.00
18	1700	43.29
19	1800	43.52
20	1900	43.18
21	2000	43.90
22	2100	43.10
23	2200	43.43
24	2300	42.36
25	2400	42.24
26	2500	42.97
27	2600	42.57
28	2700	42.30
29	2800	42.02
30	2900	45.61
31	3000	43.12
32	3100	43.07
33	3200	43.28
34	3300	42.85
35	3400	43.34
36	3500	44.14
37	3600	43.75
38	3700	43.31
39	3800	42.46
40	3900	42.58
41	4000	45.01
42	4100	44.36
43	4200	43.02
44	4300	42.46
45	4400	43.35
46	4500	42.44
47	4600	43.46
48	4700	47.20
49	4800	45.09
50	4900	46.20

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.

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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 Paris (48.85341, 2.34880). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	2,494.1 km
Vacuum RTT floor	16.64 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	24.42 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	24.33 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	25.65 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	32.48 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	523.8 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	33 / 32
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.8×

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 (2026-08-16T04:07:28Z) collected 50 ICMP echo samples on this route. Distribution statistics from that round:

Round Statistic	Value
Minimum RTT	42.02 ms
Average RTT	44 ms
Maximum RTT	49.11 ms
Standard deviation	1.64 ms
Stdev / average	3.7%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 44.0 ms
Minimum: 43.5 ms
Maximum: 44.4 ms
Average loss: 0.03%

Route Context

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

Reverse direction

Paris to Moscow latency and RTT — 44.7 ms

Fastest routes departing Moscow (MOW)

Moscow to Berlin latency and RTT — 27.5 ms
Moscow to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 35.9 ms
Moscow to Amsterdam latency and RTT — 37.6 ms
Moscow to London latency and RTT — 42.4 ms
Moscow to Marseille latency and RTT — 49.9 ms

Fastest routes arriving at Paris (PAR)

London to Paris latency and RTT — 6.4 ms
Amsterdam to Paris latency and RTT — 7 ms
Frankfurt to Paris latency and RTT — 7.6 ms
Marseille to Paris latency and RTT — 8.9 ms
Berlin to Paris latency and RTT — 15.6 ms

Same corridor (Europe → Europe)

Amsterdam to London latency and RTT — 5.2 ms
London to Amsterdam latency and RTT — 5.2 ms
Amsterdam to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 5.9 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. Per-pair files are available at /opendata/latency/latest/pairs/mow-par.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. When citing, include the route, the measurement round timestamp, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Moscow → Paris round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z, CC BY 4.0".

Data auto-generated on August 16, 2026. Explore the full interactive latency matrix or browse more city-pair routes.

Moscow, Russia → Paris, France RTT