ICMP RTT measurements between Paris, France and Hong Kong, Hong Kong: average latency, jitter, packet loss and route efficiency for this Asia-Pacific path.

🇫🇷 Paris, France (PAR) → 🇭🇰 Hong Kong (HKG)

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

Measurement round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z collected 50 ICMP echo samples from Paris to Hong Kong, yielding an average round-trip time of 160.1 ms and a minimum of 155.89 ms. The maximum observed RTT was 182.08 ms, with a standard deviation of 4.45 ms and jitter of 2.89 ms; no packets were lost.

The geodesic distance of 9,647.6 km implies a theoretical fiber-floor RTT near 94.48 ms, so the measured average sits 1.69 times above that floor. The route is running at 59% fiber efficiency, meaning the gap over the straight-line fiber ideal is substantial but the low jitter and zero loss indicate the delay profile is consistent rather than erratic.

Within this round, the Paris-to-Hong Kong route ranked 13th among 19 outbound paths, and its relative variability of about 2.8% sits below the 3.28% median stability ratio for the round. For capacity planning, the route offers a stable delay profile with a clear propagation floor that dominates the observed RTT.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	160.1 ms
Jitter	2.89 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	94.48 ms
Fiber Efficiency	59%
Latency Tier	Fair
Source Region	Europe
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: PAR → HKG

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z · avg 160.1 ± 0.63 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (157.4–160.5 ms), median 158.9 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 (94.5 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	164.40
2	100	164.53
3	200	182.08
4	300	165.22
5	400	171.97
6	500	167.42
7	600	159.42
8	700	156.61
9	800	159.19
10	900	157.08
11	1000	156.77
12	1100	155.89
13	1200	157.66
14	1300	159.14
15	1400	157.63
16	1500	156.87
17	1600	158.81
18	1700	159.12
19	1800	158.59
20	1900	159.69
21	2000	158.90
22	2100	157.47
23	2200	157.39
24	2300	160.35
25	2400	157.72
26	2500	161.65
27	2600	157.40
28	2700	159.32
29	2800	160.51
30	2900	161.29
31	3000	158.50
32	3100	156.80
33	3200	157.96
34	3300	160.52
35	3400	166.47
36	3500	164.34
37	3600	158.44
38	3700	157.13
39	3800	160.88
40	3900	157.02
41	4000	157.39
42	4100	159.88
43	4200	157.94
44	4300	160.49
45	4400	160.57
46	4500	156.99
47	4600	159.62
48	4700	156.63
49	4800	158.49
50	4900	158.85

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 Paris (48.85341, 2.34880) and Hong Kong (22.27832, 114.17469). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	9,647.6 km
Vacuum RTT floor	64.36 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	94.48 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	94.1 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	99.21 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	125.65 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	2026 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	127 / 126
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.69×

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 (2026-08-16T04:07:28Z) collected 50 ICMP echo samples on this route. Distribution statistics from that round:

Round Statistic	Value
Minimum RTT	155.89 ms
Average RTT	160.1 ms
Maximum RTT	182.08 ms
Standard deviation	4.45 ms
Stdev / average	2.8%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 160.0 ms
Minimum: 158.4 ms
Maximum: 161.7 ms
Average loss: 0.02%

Route Context

Departure PoP: Paris (PAR)
Destination PoP: Hong Kong (HKG)
Region overview: Europe → Asia Pacific
Corridor overview: Europe to Asia Pacific
Full global matrix: Backbone Latency Matrix
Physical methodology: Theoretical Fiber Latency

Reverse direction

Hong Kong to Paris latency and RTT — 159.4 ms

Fastest routes departing Paris (PAR)

Paris to London latency and RTT — 6.4 ms
Paris to Amsterdam latency and RTT — 7 ms
Paris to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 7.6 ms
Paris to Marseille latency and RTT — 8.9 ms
Paris to Berlin latency and RTT — 15.5 ms

Fastest routes arriving at Hong Kong (HKG)

Taipei to Hong Kong latency and RTT — 15.5 ms
Singapore to Hong Kong latency and RTT — 30.8 ms
Tokyo to Hong Kong latency and RTT — 44.8 ms
Moscow to Hong Kong latency and RTT — 118.6 ms
Seattle to Hong Kong latency and RTT — 130.4 ms

Same corridor (Europe → Asia Pacific)

Moscow to Taipei latency and RTT — 132.1 ms
Marseille to Singapore latency and RTT — 139.6 ms
Berlin to Hong Kong latency and RTT — 144.9 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/par-hkg.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. When citing, include the route, the measurement round timestamp, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Paris → Hong Kong round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z, CC BY 4.0".

Data auto-generated on August 16, 2026. Explore the full interactive latency matrix or browse more city-pair routes.

Paris, France → Hong Kong RTT