ICMP RTT measurement from New York, USA to Amsterdam, Netherlands: average 68.7 ms, min/max latency, jitter, packet loss, and route efficiency.

🇺🇸 New York, USA (NYC) → 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, Netherlands (AMS)

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

The 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z ICMP echo RTT run from New York, USA to Amsterdam, Netherlands averaged 68.7 ms over 50 samples, with a minimum of 66.97 ms and a maximum of 74.13 ms. Packet loss was zero, while the 1.38 ms standard deviation and 1.26 ms jitter place the route in the excellent latency tier.

The geodesic distance of 5,877.8 km gives a theoretical fiber-floor RTT of 57.56 ms, so the measured average is just 1.19x that floor. Fiber efficiency reaches 83.8%, meaning the route extracts most of the speed-of-light budget available across the Atlantic.

This route ranked 6th of 19 outbound routes in the network's measurement set. Its standard deviation relative to average RTT was 2.01%, below the 3.28% median for that set, so the low average is matched by unusually consistent behavior.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	68.7 ms
Jitter	1.26 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	57.56 ms
Fiber Efficiency	83.8%
Latency Tier	Excellent
Source Region	North America
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: NYC → AMS

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z · avg 68.7 ± 0.20 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (67.7–69.1 ms), median 68.5 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 (57.6 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	69.05
2	100	67.71
3	200	67.23
4	300	69.10
5	400	68.13
6	500	68.90
7	600	70.38
8	700	68.68
9	800	68.10
10	900	67.50
11	1000	67.79
12	1100	67.60
13	1200	67.23
14	1300	66.97
15	1400	70.20
16	1500	74.13
17	1600	70.24
18	1700	68.67
19	1800	67.83
20	1900	67.50
21	2000	67.17
22	2100	66.99
23	2200	67.41
24	2300	68.19
25	2400	71.04
26	2500	69.13
27	2600	67.92
28	2700	68.57
29	2800	68.23
30	2900	70.74
31	3000	69.67
32	3100	68.41
33	3200	68.53
34	3300	67.43
35	3400	69.07
36	3500	68.20
37	3600	70.40
38	3700	68.23
39	3800	67.32
40	3900	69.22
41	4000	68.66
42	4100	67.95
43	4200	68.84
44	4300	67.68
45	4400	67.49
46	4500	71.94
47	4600	68.66
48	4700	69.09
49	4800	69.64
50	4900	70.24

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 New York City (40.71427, -74.00597) and Amsterdam (52.37403, 4.88969). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	5,877.8 km
Vacuum RTT floor	39.21 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	57.56 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	57.33 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	60.45 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	76.56 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	1234.3 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	78 / 77
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.19×

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	66.97 ms
Average RTT	68.7 ms
Maximum RTT	74.13 ms
Standard deviation	1.38 ms
Stdev / average	2.0%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 68.8 ms
Minimum: 68.1 ms
Maximum: 69.4 ms
Average loss: 0.01%

Route Context

Departure PoP: New York (NYC)
Destination PoP: Amsterdam (AMS)
Region overview: North America → Europe
Full global matrix: Backbone Latency Matrix
Physical methodology: Theoretical Fiber Latency

Reverse direction

Amsterdam to New York latency and RTT — 68.6 ms

Fastest routes departing New York (NYC)

New York to Ashburn latency and RTT — 6 ms
New York to Miami latency and RTT — 32.9 ms
New York to Seattle latency and RTT — 58.7 ms
New York to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 58.9 ms
New York to London latency and RTT — 63.5 ms

Fastest routes arriving at Amsterdam (AMS)

London to Amsterdam latency and RTT — 5.2 ms
Frankfurt to Amsterdam latency and RTT — 5.9 ms
Paris to Amsterdam latency and RTT — 7 ms
Berlin to Amsterdam latency and RTT — 7.2 ms
Marseille to Amsterdam latency and RTT — 20.3 ms

Same corridor (North America → Europe)

New York to Paris latency and RTT — 68.9 ms
Ashburn to London latency and RTT — 70.3 ms
New York to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 73.9 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/nyc-ams.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. When citing, include the route, the measurement round timestamp, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, New York → Amsterdam 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.

New York, USA → Amsterdam, Netherlands RTT