Marseille, France to Melbourne, Australia ICMP RTT measurements: average, minimum, maximum, jitter, packet loss, standard deviation, and route efficiency.

🇫🇷 Marseille, France (MRS) → 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Australia (MEL)

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

In the 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z round, ICMP echo requests from Marseille, France to Melbourne, Australia averaged 234.2 ms, with a minimum of 225.73 ms and a maximum of 253.61 ms. The 50-probe sample had no packet loss, jitter of 5.82 ms, and a standard deviation of 7.53 ms.

This Fair-tier route's geodesic distance is roughly 16,580 km and it measures 1.44 times the theoretical fiber floor of 162.36 ms, giving it a route efficiency of 69.3%. Although it ranks 18th among the 19 outbound routes in this round by absolute round-trip time, its variability relative to the average is about 3.2%, essentially matching the 3.28% median across the 19 outbound paths.

The key insight is that high absolute latency is expected for a route of this distance, but the measured path is relatively efficient: an inflation factor of 1.44 means it stays closer to the shortest conceivable fiber route than its raw milliseconds suggest. The route is stable, loss-free, and predictable despite its long geographic span.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	234.2 ms
Jitter	5.82 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	162.36 ms
Fiber Efficiency	69.3%
Latency Tier	Fair
Source Region	Europe
Destination Region	Asia Pacific

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: MRS → MEL

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z · avg 234.2 ± 1.06 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (228.7–237.0 ms), median 231.5 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 (162.4 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	231.13
2	100	229.08
3	200	234.72
4	300	236.69
5	400	251.82
6	500	236.55
7	600	234.78
8	700	237.88
9	800	234.79
10	900	248.37
11	1000	233.79
12	1100	230.54
13	1200	237.12
14	1300	252.95
15	1400	237.75
16	1500	238.03
17	1600	231.58
18	1700	228.23
19	1800	249.53
20	1900	233.50
21	2000	228.50
22	2100	227.66
23	2200	230.29
24	2300	233.15
25	2400	228.38
26	2500	226.12
27	2600	230.93
28	2700	249.20
29	2800	240.79
30	2900	241.35
31	3000	253.61
32	3100	245.78
33	3200	232.19
34	3300	228.70
35	3400	229.21
36	3500	231.97
37	3600	227.98
38	3700	227.38
39	3800	229.49
40	3900	230.97
41	4000	227.92
42	4100	228.80
43	4200	228.92
44	4300	229.45
45	4400	226.53
46	4500	225.73
47	4600	226.59
48	4700	227.03
49	4800	235.18
50	4900	231.37

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 Marseille (43.29695, 5.38107) and Melbourne (-37.81400, 144.96332). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	16,579.2 km
Vacuum RTT floor	110.6 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	162.36 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	161.7 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	170.5 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	215.93 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	3481.6 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	218 / 217
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.44×

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	225.73 ms
Average RTT	234.2 ms
Maximum RTT	253.61 ms
Standard deviation	7.53 ms
Stdev / average	3.2%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 234.6 ms
Minimum: 232.6 ms
Maximum: 236.3 ms
Average loss: 0.03%

Route Context

Departure PoP: Marseille (MRS)
Destination PoP: Melbourne (MEL)
Region overview: Europe → Asia Pacific
Corridor overview: Europe to Asia Pacific
Full global matrix: Backbone Latency Matrix
Physical methodology: Theoretical Fiber Latency

Reverse direction

Melbourne to Marseille latency and RTT — 233.5 ms

Fastest routes departing Marseille (MRS)

Marseille to Paris latency and RTT — 8.9 ms
Marseille to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 16 ms
Marseille to London latency and RTT — 18.9 ms
Marseille to Amsterdam latency and RTT — 20.3 ms
Marseille to Berlin latency and RTT — 20.6 ms

Fastest routes arriving at Melbourne (MEL)

Sydney to Melbourne latency and RTT — 9.8 ms
Singapore to Melbourne latency and RTT — 88.6 ms
Tokyo to Melbourne latency and RTT — 113.9 ms
Hong Kong to Melbourne latency and RTT — 138.4 ms
Taipei to Melbourne latency and RTT — 142 ms

Same corridor (Europe → Asia Pacific)

Moscow to Hong Kong latency and RTT — 118.6 ms
Moscow to Taipei latency and RTT — 132.1 ms
Marseille to Singapore latency and RTT — 139.6 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/mrs-mel.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. When citing, include the route, the measurement round timestamp, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Marseille → Melbourne 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.

Marseille, France → Melbourne, Australia RTT