New York to Hong Kong ping and RTT: 193.1 ms, 5.92 ms jitter, 127.11 ms fiber floor, and 65.8% efficiency across AS203314. Updated 2026-08-09.

🇺🇸 This page compares the published ping and round-trip time (RTT) from New York (NYC) to 🇭🇰 Hong Kong (HKG) with vacuum and optical-fiber physical limits.

As of August 9, 2026, the New York → Hong Kong route on Hats Network averages 193.1 ms RTT across a 50-sample daily ICMP echo measurement round (source: GSL), 1.52× the theoretical fiber-floor limit of 127.11 ms.

Among the 19 measured routes departing New York, this route ranks 15th fastest by average RTT.

With a stdev-to-average ratio of 2.9%, this route sits close to the network-wide stability median of 3.4%. Across the round, per-probe RTT ranged from 185.26 ms to 209.54 ms with a standard deviation of 5.63 ms.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	193.1 ms
Jitter	5.92 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	127.11 ms
Fiber Efficiency	65.8%
Latency Tier	Fair
Source Region	North America
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: NYC → HKG

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-09 · avg 193.1 ± 0.80 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (189.0–195.7 ms), median 192.2 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 (127.1 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	185.26
2	100	185.62
3	200	189.00
4	300	194.73
5	400	191.81
6	500	188.33
7	600	196.14
8	700	189.00
9	800	186.77
10	900	186.09
11	1000	188.93
12	1100	206.87
13	1200	199.76
14	1300	191.26
15	1400	187.26
16	1500	189.30
17	1600	186.54
18	1700	192.06
19	1800	188.20
20	1900	193.25
21	2000	203.88
22	2100	192.57
23	2200	193.71
24	2300	202.27
25	2400	193.06
26	2500	196.74
27	2600	189.20
28	2700	209.54
29	2800	199.56
30	2900	195.16
31	3000	195.93
32	3100	189.29
33	3200	200.94
34	3300	192.35
35	3400	189.37
36	3500	186.38
37	3600	193.82
38	3700	202.26
39	3800	191.20
40	3900	190.01
41	4000	202.20
42	4100	192.28
43	4200	189.07
44	4300	187.54
45	4400	194.74
46	4500	191.11
47	4600	192.37
48	4700	193.87
49	4800	196.63
50	4900	191.77

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 Hong Kong (22.27832, 114.17469). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	12,979.6 km
Vacuum RTT floor	86.59 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	127.11 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	126.6 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	133.48 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	169.05 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	2725.7 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	171 / 170
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.52×

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 (2026-08-09) collected 50 ICMP echo samples on this route. Distribution statistics from that round:

Round Statistic	Value
Minimum RTT	185.26 ms
Average RTT	193.1 ms
Maximum RTT	209.54 ms
Standard deviation	5.63 ms
Stdev / average	2.9%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 192.9 ms
Minimum: 191.2 ms
Maximum: 195.1 ms
Average loss: 0.02%

Route Context

Departure PoP: New York (NYC)
Destination PoP: Hong Kong (HKG)
Region overview: North America → Asia Pacific
Corridor overview: North America to Asia Pacific
Full global matrix: Backbone Latency Matrix
Physical methodology: Theoretical Fiber Latency

Reverse direction

Hong Kong to New York latency and RTT — 192.4 ms

Fastest routes departing New York (NYC)

New York to Ashburn latency and RTT — 6.1 ms
New York to Miami latency and RTT — 33.2 ms
New York to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 58.9 ms
New York to Seattle latency and RTT — 59.2 ms
New York to London latency and RTT — 64.3 ms

Fastest routes arriving at Hong Kong (HKG)

Taipei to Hong Kong latency and RTT — 14.7 ms
Singapore to Hong Kong latency and RTT — 31.1 ms
Tokyo to Hong Kong latency and RTT — 46.5 ms
Moscow to Hong Kong latency and RTT — 122.1 ms
Melbourne to Hong Kong latency and RTT — 126.1 ms

Same corridor (North America → Asia Pacific)

Seattle to Tokyo latency and RTT — 84.6 ms
Los Angeles to Tokyo latency and RTT — 100.8 ms
Seattle to Taipei latency and RTT — 117.1 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-hkg.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. When citing, include the route, the measurement round date, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, New York → Hong Kong round 2026-08-09, CC BY 4.0".

Data auto-generated on August 9, 2026. Explore the full interactive latency matrix or browse more city-pair routes.

New York to Hong Kong Latency, Ping & RTT | AS203314