# Taipei, Taiwan → Los Angeles, USA RTT

🇹🇼 **Taipei, Taiwan (TPE)** → 🇺🇸 **Los Angeles, USA (LAX)**

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

For the 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z round, ICMP echo probes from Taipei, Taiwan, to Los Angeles, USA, averaged 132 ms, with replies ranging from 129.33 ms to 144.07 ms. The measurement completed with 0% packet loss, a jitter of 1.62 ms, and a standard deviation of 2.56 ms.

At a direct distance of 10,926.8 km, the average sits about 1.23 times the fiber floor of 107 ms, yielding an 81.1% fiber efficiency. This places the route in the good latency tier and ranks it 5th among the 19 routes in the measurement set.

The route's standard-deviation-to-average ratio is about 1.9%, well below the 3.28% median for the 19-route set, and the max-to-min gap is only 14.74 ms. Low jitter, zero loss, and stable round-trip times make this a notably consistent long-distance ICMP route.

## Latency Summary

| Metric               | Value                                                        |
| -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| RTT                  | **132 ms**                                                   |
| Jitter               | **1.62 ms**                                                  |
| Packet Loss          | **0%**                                                       |
| Standard Fiber Floor | **107 ms**                                                   |
| Fiber Efficiency     | **81.1%**                                                    |
| Latency Tier         | Good                                                         |
| Source Region        | [Asia Pacific](/docs/network/latency/regions/asia-pacific)   |
| 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 [Taipei](https://www.geonames.org/1668341) (25.05306, 121.52639) 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                      | **10,926.8 km** |
| Vacuum RTT floor                              | **72.9 ms**     |
| Standard fiber RTT floor ($n_g=1.4679$)       | **107 ms**      |
| Low-latency fiber material floor              | **106.57 ms**   |
| Engineering floor (5% path allowance)         | **112.37 ms**   |
| Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference         | **142.32 ms**   |
| Estimated unamplified path loss               | **2294.6 dB**   |
| Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers | **144 / 143**   |
| Published RTT inflation over fiber floor      | **1.23×**       |

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        | **129.33 ms** |
| Average RTT        | **132 ms**    |
| Maximum RTT        | **144.07 ms** |
| Standard deviation | **2.56 ms**   |
| Stdev / average    | **1.9%**      |

## Route Context

* Departure PoP: [Taipei (TPE)](/docs/network/latency/tpe-taipei)
* Destination PoP: [Los Angeles (LAX)](/docs/network/latency/lax-los-angeles)
* Region overview: [Asia Pacific](/docs/network/latency/regions/asia-pacific) → [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 Taipei latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/lax-tpe-rtt) — 132.9 ms

**Fastest routes departing Taipei (TPE)**

* [Taipei to Hong Kong latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/tpe-hkg-rtt) — 15.5 ms
* [Taipei to Tokyo latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/tpe-tyo-rtt) — 31.9 ms
* [Taipei to Singapore latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/tpe-sin-rtt) — 44.3 ms
* [Taipei to Seattle latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/tpe-sea-rtt) — 115.8 ms
* [Taipei to Moscow latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/tpe-mow-rtt) — 132.7 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
* [New York to Los Angeles latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/nyc-lax-rtt) — 58.9 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

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

* [Tokyo to Seattle latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/tyo-sea-rtt) — 84.8 ms
* [Hong Kong to Seattle latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/hkg-sea-rtt) — 131.6 ms
* [Sydney to Los Angeles latency and RTT](/docs/network/latency/pairs/syd-lax-rtt) — 136.5 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](/opendata/latency/). Per-pair files are available at `/opendata/latency/latest/pairs/tpe-lax.pings.{csv,json,yaml}`. When citing, include the route, the measurement round timestamp, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Taipei → 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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