ICMP round-trip time measurements between New York, USA and Berlin, Germany: average 78.9 ms, zero packet loss, and latency stability details.

🇺🇸 New York, USA (NYC) → 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany (BER)

Measurement round: 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z.

For measurement round 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z, ICMP echo requests from New York, USA to Berlin, Germany averaged 78.9 ms round-trip time, with a minimum of 75.01 ms and a maximum of 91.25 ms across 50 samples. The standard deviation was 3.36 ms, jitter was 2.63 ms, and packet loss was 0%.

The direct great-circle distance is 6,402.4 km, and the theoretical direct-fiber round-trip floor is about 62.7 ms. At 78.9 ms average, the route is at roughly 79.5% fiber-path efficiency, or 1.26 times the direct-fiber floor, indicating a generally efficient transatlantic path.

This route is ranked 9th out of 19 outbound routes in the network. Its variation as a share of average latency is above the network's typical value of about 3.08 percent, and the maximum sample of 91.25 ms sits about 12.4 ms above the average; the overall latency is in the Excellent tier, but the tail is the main feature to watch.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	78.9 ms
Jitter	2.63 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	62.7 ms
Fiber Efficiency	79.5%
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 → BER

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z · avg 78.9 ± 0.48 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (76.8–80.5 ms), median 77.6 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 (62.7 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	78.89
2	100	78.92
3	200	80.54
4	300	76.98
5	400	79.61
6	500	76.94
7	600	76.59
8	700	80.77
9	800	76.81
10	900	80.40
11	1000	77.57
12	1100	84.38
13	1200	79.45
14	1300	77.47
15	1400	76.75
16	1500	77.68
17	1600	77.70
18	1700	76.69
19	1800	76.53
20	1900	75.40
21	2000	76.92
22	2100	76.90
23	2200	81.58
24	2300	80.90
25	2400	77.69
26	2500	75.92
27	2600	81.55
28	2700	77.96
29	2800	77.13
30	2900	76.07
31	3000	77.73
32	3100	80.16
33	3200	80.83
34	3300	86.67
35	3400	83.29
36	3500	82.64
37	3600	77.38
38	3700	76.66
39	3800	76.08
40	3900	76.03
41	4000	75.01
42	4100	75.69
43	4200	77.16
44	4300	88.19
45	4400	83.26
46	4500	78.14
47	4600	76.80
48	4700	75.96
49	4800	77.38
50	4900	91.25

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 New York City (40.71427, -74.00597) and Berlin (52.52437, 13.41053). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	6,402.4 km
Vacuum RTT floor	42.71 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	62.7 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	62.45 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	65.84 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	83.39 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	1344.5 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	85 / 84
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.26×

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 (2026-08-15T04:03:13Z) collected 50 ICMP echo samples on this route. Distribution statistics from that round:

Round Statistic	Value
Minimum RTT	75.01 ms
Average RTT	78.9 ms
Maximum RTT	91.25 ms
Standard deviation	3.36 ms
Stdev / average	4.3%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 78.9 ms
Minimum: 78.1 ms
Maximum: 79.7 ms
Average loss: 0.02%

Route Context

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

Reverse direction

Berlin to New York latency and RTT — 79.7 ms

Fastest routes departing New York (NYC)

New York to Ashburn latency and RTT — 6 ms
New York to Miami latency and RTT — 34.3 ms
New York to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 58 ms
New York to Seattle latency and RTT — 59 ms
New York to London latency and RTT — 64.3 ms

Fastest routes arriving at Berlin (BER)

Frankfurt to Berlin latency and RTT — 6.1 ms
Amsterdam to Berlin latency and RTT — 7.2 ms
Paris to Berlin latency and RTT — 14.8 ms
London to Berlin latency and RTT — 16.2 ms
Marseille to Berlin latency and RTT — 21.5 ms

Same corridor (North America → Europe)

New York to Paris latency and RTT — 68.4 ms
New York to Amsterdam latency and RTT — 68.5 ms
Ashburn to London latency and RTT — 70.4 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-ber.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 → Berlin round 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z, CC BY 4.0".

Data auto-generated on August 15, 2026. Explore the full interactive latency matrix or browse more city-pair routes.

New York, USA → Berlin, Germany RTT