# New York, USA → Los Angeles, USA RTT

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

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

In round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z, the New York-to-Los Angeles ICMP echo path averaged 58.9 ms, with a minimum of 56.67 ms, a maximum of 64.24 ms, and zero packet loss across 50 samples. The 2.02 ms standard deviation and 1.55 ms jitter kept the route inside the excellent latency tier, with no lost probes.

Relative to the 3,944.4 km great-circle distance, the vacuum floor would be 26.31 ms and a realistic fiber floor about 38.63 ms; the observed average sits 1.52 times above that fiber floor, implying a fiber efficiency of 65.6%. This suggests the path follows a fairly direct cross-country alignment despite the span.

The route placed 4th among 19 outbound routes from New York for the round, and its per-sample variability was slightly above the network's median ratio of 3.28%. With jitter under 2 ms and no loss, the transatlantic corridor endpoint shows stable path characteristics for cross-country monitoring.

## 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](/docs/network/latency/regions/north-america) |
| Destination Region   | [North America](/docs/network/latency/regions/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.

## 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 [Los Angeles](https://www.geonames.org/5368361) (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      | **1.52×**      |

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](/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        | **56.67 ms** |
| Average RTT        | **58.9 ms**  |
| Maximum RTT        | **64.24 ms** |
| Standard deviation | **2.02 ms**  |
| Stdev / average    | **3.4%**     |

## Route Context

* Departure PoP: [New York (NYC)](/docs/network/latency/nyc-new-york)
* Destination PoP: [Los Angeles (LAX)](/docs/network/latency/lax-los-angeles)
* Region overview: [North America](/docs/network/latency/regions/north-america) → [North America](/docs/network/latency/regions/north-america)
* 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**

* [Los Angeles to New York latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/lax-nyc-rtt) — 57.9 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 London latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/nyc-lon-rtt) — 63.5 ms
* [New York to Amsterdam latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/nyc-ams-rtt) — 68.7 ms

**Fastest routes arriving at Los Angeles (LAX)**

* [Seattle to Los Angeles latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/sea-lax-rtt) — 25.9 ms
* [Miami to Los Angeles latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/mia-lax-rtt) — 56.8 ms
* [Ashburn to Los Angeles latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/iad-lax-rtt) — 60.7 ms
* [Tokyo to Los Angeles latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/tyo-lax-rtt) — 101.2 ms
* [London to Los Angeles latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/lon-lax-rtt) — 127.5 ms

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

* [Ashburn to New York latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/iad-nyc-rtt) — 6 ms
* [Los Angeles to Seattle latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/lax-sea-rtt) — 26.9 ms
* [Miami to Ashburn latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/mia-iad-rtt) — 27.3 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](/opendata/latency/). 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 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z, 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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