New York (USA) to Los Angeles (USA) ICMP round-trip time measurements: 58 ms average, 56.21 ms minimum, 64.37 ms maximum, 0% packet loss.

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

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

In the 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z round, 50 ICMP echo requests between New York and Los Angeles produced an average round-trip time of 58 ms, with a 56.21 ms minimum and a 64.37 ms maximum. No packets were lost, jitter was 1.19 ms, and the result falls in the excellent latency tier.

That average is 1.5 times the 38.63 ms fiber-floor estimate for the 3,944.4 km geodesic separation, so the path realizes about 66.6% of the direct-line ideal. The narrow 1.59 ms standard deviation and 8.16 ms spread between fastest and slowest replies show consistent transit throughout the sample window.

This route ranked third among the nineteen outbound routes measured from New York in this round. Its variability was lower than the network median of 3.08 percent, so this transcontinental leg is both quick and steady; the main remaining headroom lies in path directness rather than stability.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	58 ms
Jitter	1.19 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	38.63 ms
Fiber Efficiency	66.6%
Latency Tier	Excellent
Source Region	North America
Destination Region	North America

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 → LAX

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z · avg 58.0 ± 0.22 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (56.9–58.8 ms), median 57.5 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	56.21
2	100	56.97
3	200	56.63
4	300	56.61
5	400	57.85
6	500	56.80
7	600	57.87
8	700	57.42
9	800	56.80
10	900	57.86
11	1000	56.82
12	1100	56.44
13	1200	56.26
14	1300	57.03
15	1400	57.10
16	1500	56.52
17	1600	56.85
18	1700	56.50
19	1800	59.40
20	1900	58.89
21	2000	57.35
22	2100	59.19
23	2200	58.32
24	2300	58.38
25	2400	57.52
26	2500	59.38
27	2600	57.30
28	2700	57.17
29	2800	57.60
30	2900	57.40
31	3000	56.81
32	3100	57.69
33	3200	56.91
34	3300	60.15
35	3400	59.24
36	3500	57.47
37	3600	56.80
38	3700	58.23
39	3800	60.44
40	3900	60.02
41	4000	61.86
42	4100	60.17
43	4200	57.62
44	4300	60.59
45	4400	64.37
46	4500	59.31
47	4600	57.57
48	4700	58.27
49	4800	56.98
50	4900	57.06

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 Los Angeles (34.05223, -118.24368). It does not disclose either facility address.

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	1.5×

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	56.21 ms
Average RTT	58 ms
Maximum RTT	64.37 ms
Standard deviation	1.59 ms
Stdev / average	2.7%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 58.0 ms
Minimum: 57.5 ms
Maximum: 58.6 ms
Average loss: 0.01%

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 — 59 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 Seattle latency and RTT — 59 ms
New York to London latency and RTT — 64.3 ms
New York to Paris latency and RTT — 68.4 ms

Fastest routes arriving at Los Angeles (LAX)

Seattle to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 26.6 ms
Miami to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 56.8 ms
Ashburn to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 60 ms
Tokyo to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 101.5 ms
London to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 130.1 ms

Same corridor (North America → North America)

Ashburn to New York latency and RTT — 6 ms
Miami to Ashburn latency and RTT — 27.3 ms
Los Angeles to Seattle latency and RTT — 27.5 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-lax.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 → Los Angeles 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 → Los Angeles, USA RTT