# Marseille, France → Ashburn, USA RTT

🇫🇷 **Marseille, France (MRS)** → 🇺🇸 **Ashburn, USA (IAD)**

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

Measurement round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z sent 50 ICMP echo probes from Marseille to Ashburn and recorded an average RTT of 85.7 ms, with a minimum of 82.1 ms and a maximum of 94.47 ms. The 2.63 ms standard deviation and 1.95 ms jitter sit in a narrow band for a route of this span, and all probes returned without packet loss.

At a geodesic distance of 6,672.7 km, the measured average is 1.31 times the fiber-floor estimate of 65.34 ms, corresponding to a fiber efficiency of 76.2 percent. That places the route in the Good latency tier and indicates the transatlantic path is operating close to its distance-limited floor.

Among the 19 outbound routes measured in this round, Marseille-Ashburn ranks 8th. Its standard-deviation-to-average ratio is about 3.1 percent, slightly below the network-median 3.28 percent, so the route is comparable to or a bit more stable than the typical route in the outbound set.

## Latency Summary

| Metric               | Value                                                        |
| -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| RTT                  | **85.7 ms**                                                  |
| Jitter               | **1.95 ms**                                                  |
| Packet Loss          | **0%**                                                       |
| Standard Fiber Floor | **65.34 ms**                                                 |
| Fiber Efficiency     | **76.2%**                                                    |
| Latency Tier         | Good                                                         |
| 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 [Marseille](https://www.geonames.org/2995469) (43.29695, 5.38107) 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                      | **6,672.7 km** |
| Vacuum RTT floor                              | **44.52 ms**   |
| Standard fiber RTT floor ($n_g=1.4679$)       | **65.34 ms**   |
| Low-latency fiber material floor              | **65.08 ms**   |
| Engineering floor (5% path allowance)         | **68.62 ms**   |
| Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference         | **86.91 ms**   |
| Estimated unamplified path loss               | **1401.3 dB**  |
| Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers | **88 / 87**    |
| Published RTT inflation over fiber floor      | **1.31×**      |

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        | **82.1 ms**  |
| Average RTT        | **85.7 ms**  |
| Maximum RTT        | **94.47 ms** |
| Standard deviation | **2.63 ms**  |
| Stdev / average    | **3.1%**     |

## Route Context

* Departure PoP: [Marseille (MRS)](/docs/network/latency/mrs-marseille)
* 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 Marseille latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/iad-mrs-rtt) — 86.5 ms

**Fastest routes departing Marseille (MRS)**

* [Marseille to Paris latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/mrs-par-rtt) — 8.9 ms
* [Marseille to Frankfurt latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/mrs-fra-rtt) — 16 ms
* [Marseille to London latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/mrs-lon-rtt) — 18.9 ms
* [Marseille to Amsterdam latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/mrs-ams-rtt) — 20.3 ms
* [Marseille to Berlin latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/mrs-ber-rtt) — 20.6 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
* [London to Ashburn latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/lon-iad-rtt) — 71 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/mrs-iad.pings.{csv,json,yaml}`. When citing, include the route, the measurement round timestamp, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Marseille → 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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