ICMP RTT from New York, USA to Frankfurt, Germany: latency, packet loss, jitter, and route efficiency for the 2026-08-15 measurement round.

🇺🇸 New York, USA (NYC) → 🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Germany (FRA)

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

In the 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z round, the average ICMP echo RTT from New York, USA to Frankfurt, Germany was 74.2 ms, with a minimum of 71.94 ms, a maximum of 81.12 ms, and zero packet loss across 50 samples.

That average is 1.22 times the direct fiber round-trip floor of 60.9 ms, yielding an 82.1% fiber-efficiency value against the 6,219 km great-circle distance. The route ranked 8th among 19 outbound routes, and its 2.22 ms standard deviation is about 3.0% of the average—slightly steadier than the 3.08% median across the same route set.

Frankfurt's role as a central European interconnection point and New York's transatlantic carrier-hotel density make this a particularly important corridor; the measured stability and near-floor latency suggest the path is following a consistent, direct alignment with few detours.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	74.2 ms
Jitter	1.53 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	60.9 ms
Fiber Efficiency	82.1%
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 → FRA

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z · avg 74.2 ± 0.31 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (72.8–74.7 ms), median 73.6 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 (60.9 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	73.10
2	100	73.15
3	200	72.57
4	300	72.79
5	400	72.43
6	500	72.48
7	600	72.03
8	700	72.86
9	800	72.20
10	900	72.30
11	1000	74.28
12	1100	73.14
13	1200	74.72
14	1300	80.97
15	1400	75.97
16	1500	74.63
17	1600	74.68
18	1700	75.33
19	1800	73.92
20	1900	75.29
21	2000	74.31
22	2100	73.00
23	2200	75.27
24	2300	73.93
25	2400	72.75
26	2500	74.71
27	2600	73.73
28	2700	76.26
29	2800	80.17
30	2900	75.06
31	3000	73.27
32	3100	72.91
33	3200	76.29
34	3300	73.71
35	3400	73.62
36	3500	73.83
37	3600	74.50
38	3700	73.28
39	3800	72.67
40	3900	80.24
41	4000	81.12
42	4100	75.66
43	4200	73.56
44	4300	73.00
45	4400	72.56
46	4500	72.91
47	4600	72.61
48	4700	72.17
49	4800	71.94
50	4900	72.12

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 Frankfurt am Main (50.11552, 8.68417). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	6,219.3 km
Vacuum RTT floor	41.49 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	60.9 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	60.66 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	63.96 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	81 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	1306 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	82 / 81
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.22×

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	71.94 ms
Average RTT	74.2 ms
Maximum RTT	81.12 ms
Standard deviation	2.22 ms
Stdev / average	3.0%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 74.2 ms
Minimum: 73.4 ms
Maximum: 74.9 ms
Average loss: 0.01%

Route Context

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

Reverse direction

Frankfurt to New York latency and RTT — 73.6 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 Frankfurt (FRA)

Amsterdam to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 5.9 ms
Berlin to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 6.1 ms
Paris to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 7.6 ms
London to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 12.3 ms
Marseille to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 17.5 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-fra.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 → Frankfurt 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 → Frankfurt, Germany RTT