Explore New York, USA to Los Angeles, USA ICMP RTT, jitter, packet loss and fiber latency limits on the AS203314 network.

🇺🇸 New York, USA (NYC) → 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, USA (LAX)

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

New York to Los Angeles averaged 58.9 ms across 50 replies. The observed range was 56.67 to 64.24 ms; these figures describe one probe round, not a long-term service target.

This is number 4 of 19 outgoing routes by average RTT. That ranking compares different destinations and is not adjusted for distance.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	58.9 ms
Jitter	1.55 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	38.63 ms
Fiber Efficiency	65.6%
Latency Tier	Excellent
Source Region	North America
Destination Region	North America

Ping Measurement Series

50 ICMP echo probes were recorded in this round. Individual replies and their distribution are shown below.

Ping series: NYC → LAX

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z · avg 58.9 ± 0.29 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (57.4–59.9 ms), median 58.3 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 (38.6 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	60.35
2	100	64.24
3	200	63.52
4	300	58.83
5	400	57.57
6	500	57.35
7	600	63.27
8	700	61.67
9	800	58.43
10	900	59.62
11	1000	59.98
12	1100	58.22
13	1200	59.93
14	1300	57.74
15	1400	57.31
16	1500	56.89
17	1600	56.78
18	1700	57.09
19	1800	58.17
20	1900	61.43
21	2000	58.60
22	2100	60.09
23	2200	58.94
24	2300	58.35
25	2400	57.88
26	2500	57.56
27	2600	63.68
28	2700	60.56
29	2800	63.94
30	2900	60.03
31	3000	58.98
32	3100	58.93
33	3200	57.29
34	3300	59.58
35	3400	59.61
36	3500	57.68
37	3600	56.97
38	3700	57.39
39	3800	56.73
40	3900	56.67
41	4000	58.41
42	4100	57.30
43	4200	56.98
44	4300	57.97
45	4400	57.82
46	4500	58.91
47	4600	57.40
48	4700	56.88
49	4800	58.05
50	4900	57.43

Download This Route's Data

Download the probe round as CSV, JSON or YAML under CC BY 4.0. Citation details include the route and round timestamp.

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Theoretical Fiber Latency

The propagation model uses public city-centre coordinates from GeoNames: New York City (40.71427, -74.00597) and Los Angeles (34.05223, -118.24368). These are not facility coordinates or a surveyed cable path.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	3,944.4 km
Vacuum RTT floor	26.31 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	38.63 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	38.47 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	40.56 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	51.37 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	828.3 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	52 / 51
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.52×

The span count assumes 80 km optical spans. Attenuation is a power-loss term, not a propagation delay. See the model assumptions and equations.

Stability & Trend

Statistics from the same 50 replies. They describe this probe round, not continuous historical monitoring.

Round Statistic	Value
Minimum RTT	56.67 ms
Average RTT	58.9 ms
Maximum RTT	64.24 ms
Standard deviation	2.02 ms
Stdev / average	3.4%

Estimated RTT trend

Modeled comparison, not historical probe measurements.

Average: 58.9 ms
Minimum: 58.4 ms
Maximum: 59.4 ms
Average loss: 0.02%

Route Context

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

Reverse direction

Los Angeles to New York latency and RTT: 57.9 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 London latency and RTT: 63.5 ms
New York to Amsterdam latency and RTT: 68.7 ms

Fastest routes arriving at Los Angeles (LAX)

Seattle to Los Angeles latency and RTT: 25.9 ms
Miami to Los Angeles latency and RTT: 56.8 ms
Ashburn to Los Angeles latency and RTT: 60.7 ms
Tokyo to Los Angeles latency and RTT: 101.2 ms
London to Los Angeles latency and RTT: 127.5 ms

Same corridor (North America → North America)

Ashburn to New York latency and RTT: 6 ms
Los Angeles to Seattle latency and RTT: 26.9 ms
Miami to Ashburn latency and RTT: 27.3 ms

About This Measurement

These ICMP measurements cover the two backbone endpoints. Access networks, routing policy and load can change an end user's result. A probe round is not an SLA.

The underlying replies are available under CC BY 4.0 in the Hats Network latency dataset. Per-pair files are available at /opendata/latency/latest/pairs/nyc-lax.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. Cite the route, round timestamp and dataset version. Example: "Hats Network latency dataset, New York → Los Angeles round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z, CC BY 4.0".

Round published August 16, 2026. See the full interactive latency matrix or browse more city-pair routes.

New York, USA → Los Angeles, USA RTT