ICMP RTT measurement between New York, USA and Frankfurt, Germany: average, jitter, packet loss, and route stability for the 2026-08-16 round.

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

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

The 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z round from New York to Frankfurt returned a 73.9 ms average ICMP echo RTT, with 0.0% packet loss across 50 samples. The minimum of 71.94 ms and maximum of 81.47 ms produce a 1.98 ms standard deviation and 1.42 ms jitter, so the delay spread was narrow.

Relative to the 60.9 ms fiber-floor estimate for a 6,219 km crossing, the measured average is 21% higher, putting fiber efficiency at 82.4%. The route ranked 8th among 19 outbound routes from New York in this round, and its variability is comfortably below the 3.28% median relative variability for that outbound group.

The absence of loss combined with a sub-2 ms standard deviation points to a stable path at the time of measurement. The 73.9 ms figure is a useful ICMP latency baseline for this route, not a predictor of end-user application performance.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	73.9 ms
Jitter	1.42 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	60.9 ms
Fiber Efficiency	82.4%
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 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z · avg 73.9 ± 0.28 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (72.8–74.2 ms), median 73.2 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	71.94
2	100	72.44
3	200	73.75
4	300	73.12
5	400	73.51
6	500	73.38
7	600	73.43
8	700	72.61
9	800	73.07
10	900	80.10
11	1000	75.49
12	1100	76.92
13	1200	74.79
14	1300	72.93
15	1400	72.33
16	1500	73.18
17	1600	74.74
18	1700	81.47
19	1800	76.25
20	1900	75.01
21	2000	73.13
22	2100	72.73
23	2200	72.40
24	2300	72.60
25	2400	73.07
26	2500	73.55
27	2600	72.59
28	2700	73.13
29	2800	74.10
30	2900	73.13
31	3000	72.93
32	3100	73.81
33	3200	74.27
34	3300	75.41
35	3400	73.49
36	3500	72.84
37	3600	73.00
38	3700	73.28
39	3800	72.42
40	3900	73.62
41	4000	72.88
42	4100	72.29
43	4200	72.14
44	4300	79.56
45	4400	75.91
46	4500	74.92
47	4600	73.01
48	4700	72.73
49	4800	72.30
50	4900	73.30

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 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	1.21×

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	71.94 ms
Average RTT	73.9 ms
Maximum RTT	81.47 ms
Standard deviation	1.98 ms
Stdev / average	2.7%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 73.8 ms
Minimum: 73.2 ms
Maximum: 74.7 ms
Average loss: 0.04%

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 — 74.4 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 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 — 13.6 ms
Marseille to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 16 ms

Same corridor (North America → Europe)

New York to Amsterdam latency and RTT — 68.7 ms
New York to Paris latency and RTT — 68.9 ms
Ashburn to London latency and RTT — 70.3 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 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z, 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 → Frankfurt, Germany RTT