# New York, USA → Hong Kong RTT

🇺🇸 **New York, USA (NYC)** → 🇭🇰 **Hong Kong (HKG)**

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

For the 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z round, 50 ICMP echo samples from New York to Hong Kong averaged 187.1 ms, with a 178.46 ms minimum and a 215.39 ms maximum. No packets were lost, and jitter was 6.29 ms.

The great-circle distance of 12,979.6 km sets a vacuum round-trip floor of 86.59 ms and a fiber floor of 127.11 ms. At 1.47 times the fiber floor, the measured average corresponds to 67.9 percent fiber efficiency.

Within the measured set of 19 routes from New York, this pairing ranked 15th. Its standard-deviation-to-average ratio is about 3.94 percent, above the 3.28 percent network median, so a short series of samples gives a more reliable latency picture than any single measurement.

## Latency Summary

| Metric               | Value                                                        |
| -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| RTT                  | **187.1 ms**                                                 |
| Jitter               | **6.29 ms**                                                  |
| Packet Loss          | **0%**                                                       |
| Standard Fiber Floor | **127.11 ms**                                                |
| Fiber Efficiency     | **67.9%**                                                    |
| Latency Tier         | Fair                                                         |
| Source Region        | [North America](/docs/network/latency/regions/north-america) |
| Destination Region   | [Asia Pacific](/docs/network/latency/regions/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.

## 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](#about-this-measurement) for citation guidance.

## Theoretical Fiber Latency

The public physical reference uses the GeoNames city centres for [New York City](https://www.geonames.org/5128581) (40.71427, -74.00597) and [Hong Kong](https://www.geonames.org/1819729) (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      | **1.47×**       |

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](/docs/network/latency/theoretical-fiber-latency).

## 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        | **178.46 ms** |
| Average RTT        | **187.1 ms**  |
| Maximum RTT        | **215.39 ms** |
| Standard deviation | **7.38 ms**   |
| Stdev / average    | **3.9%**      |

## Route Context

* Departure PoP: [New York (NYC)](/docs/network/latency/nyc-new-york)
* Destination PoP: [Hong Kong (HKG)](/docs/network/latency/hkg-hong-kong)
* Region overview: [North America](/docs/network/latency/regions/north-america) → [Asia Pacific](/docs/network/latency/regions/asia-pacific)
* Corridor overview: [North America to Asia Pacific](/docs/network/latency/regions/north-america-to-asia-pacific)
* Full global matrix: [Backbone Latency Matrix](/docs/network/latency)
* Physical methodology: [Theoretical Fiber Latency](/docs/network/latency/theoretical-fiber-latency)

## Related City-Pair Routes

**Reverse direction**

* [Hong Kong to New York latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/hkg-nyc-rtt) — 184.7 ms

**Fastest routes departing New York (NYC)**

* [New York to Ashburn latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/nyc-iad-rtt) — 6 ms
* [New York to Miami latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/nyc-mia-rtt) — 32.9 ms
* [New York to Seattle latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/nyc-sea-rtt) — 58.7 ms
* [New York to Los Angeles latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/nyc-lax-rtt) — 58.9 ms
* [New York to London latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/nyc-lon-rtt) — 63.5 ms

**Fastest routes arriving at Hong Kong (HKG)**

* [Taipei to Hong Kong latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/tpe-hkg-rtt) — 15.5 ms
* [Singapore to Hong Kong latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/sin-hkg-rtt) — 30.8 ms
* [Tokyo to Hong Kong latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/tyo-hkg-rtt) — 44.8 ms
* [Moscow to Hong Kong latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/mow-hkg-rtt) — 118.6 ms
* [Seattle to Hong Kong latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/sea-hkg-rtt) — 130.4 ms

**Same corridor (North America → Asia Pacific)**

* [Seattle to Tokyo latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/sea-tyo-rtt) — 85 ms
* [Los Angeles to Tokyo latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/lax-tyo-rtt) — 101.2 ms
* [Seattle to Taipei latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/sea-tpe-rtt) — 114.7 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](/opendata/latency/). Per-pair files are available at `/opendata/latency/latest/pairs/nyc-hkg.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 → Hong Kong round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z, CC BY 4.0".

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*Data auto-generated on August 16, 2026. Explore the [full interactive latency matrix](/docs/network/latency) or browse more [city-pair routes](/docs/network/latency/pairs).*

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