Measured ICMP round-trip times from Paris, France to Moscow, Russia: 44.7 ms average latency, zero packet loss, and full route statistics.

🇫🇷 Paris, France (PAR) → 🇷🇺 Moscow, Russia (MOW)

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

In the 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z round, ICMP echo RTT from Paris to Moscow averaged 44.7 ms across 50 samples, with a minimum of 43.04 ms and a maximum of 51.46 ms. No packets were lost, and jitter was 1.18 ms.

This route ranked sixth among the 19 outbound routes from Paris measured in the same round. The 1.56 ms standard deviation on the 44.7 ms average is a relative spread of about 3.5%, close to the 3.3% median for that route set.

For the 2,494 km great-circle distance, the theoretical fiber floor is 24.42 ms; the measured average is about 1.83 times that floor, or 54.6% fiber efficiency. The zero-loss result and the bounded 43.04 to 51.46 ms range indicate a stable long-haul path, consistent with Moscow's role as an eastward backbone transit corridor toward Asia-Pacific networks.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	44.7 ms
Jitter	1.18 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	24.42 ms
Fiber Efficiency	54.6%
Latency Tier	Excellent
Source Region	Europe
Destination Region	Europe

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 → MOW

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z · avg 44.7 ± 0.22 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (43.8–45.1 ms), median 44.2 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 (24.4 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	51.46
2	100	45.77
3	200	44.54
4	300	43.80
5	400	46.97
6	500	44.34
7	600	45.04
8	700	43.82
9	800	43.96
10	900	44.04
11	1000	44.20
12	1100	43.50
13	1200	43.49
14	1300	44.21
15	1400	44.33
16	1500	44.48
17	1600	44.31
18	1700	43.37
19	1800	44.61
20	1900	43.85
21	2000	44.14
22	2100	43.53
23	2200	43.04
24	2300	43.48
25	2400	43.92
26	2500	43.15
27	2600	43.29
28	2700	43.33
29	2800	48.84
30	2900	45.87
31	3000	44.58
32	3100	45.15
33	3200	43.60
34	3300	43.95
35	3400	46.84
36	3500	45.84
37	3600	46.73
38	3700	44.30
39	3800	44.59
40	3900	44.75
41	4000	45.12
42	4100	44.00
43	4200	43.28
44	4300	48.24
45	4400	45.20
46	4500	44.18
47	4600	45.47
48	4700	44.23
49	4800	44.22
50	4900	44.05

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.

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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 Moscow (55.75204, 37.61781). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	2,494.1 km
Vacuum RTT floor	16.64 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	24.42 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	24.33 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	25.65 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	32.48 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	523.8 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	33 / 32
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.83×

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	43.04 ms
Average RTT	44.7 ms
Maximum RTT	51.46 ms
Standard deviation	1.56 ms
Stdev / average	3.5%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 44.6 ms
Minimum: 44.2 ms
Maximum: 45.2 ms
Average loss: 0.02%

Route Context

Departure PoP: Paris (PAR)
Destination PoP: Moscow (MOW)
Region overview: Europe → Europe
Full global matrix: Backbone Latency Matrix
Physical methodology: Theoretical Fiber Latency

Reverse direction

Moscow to Paris latency and RTT — 44 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 Moscow (MOW)

Berlin to Moscow latency and RTT — 28.6 ms
Frankfurt to Moscow latency and RTT — 34.7 ms
Amsterdam to Moscow latency and RTT — 38.1 ms
London to Moscow latency and RTT — 43.5 ms
Marseille to Moscow latency and RTT — 49.6 ms

Same corridor (Europe → Europe)

Amsterdam to London latency and RTT — 5.2 ms
London to Amsterdam latency and RTT — 5.2 ms
Amsterdam to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 5.9 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-mow.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. When citing, include the route, the measurement round timestamp, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Paris → Moscow 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 → Moscow, Russia RTT