Latency · Europe to Asia
Round trips from European cities to Asia's three hosting hubs, from Microsoft's published medians and WonderNetwork's hourly pings, with the physical floor and the cables in between.
Quick answer
What is the ping from Europe to servers in Asia?
The ping from Europe to servers in Asia is 145 to 190 ms to Singapore in Microsoft's July 2026 medians, 171 to 219 ms to Hong Kong and 223 to 253 ms to Tokyo. Singapore is closest from every European region listed. Copperstrait rents servers in all three at one price, from $143.25 per 30 days, crypto, no KYC.
| From | To Singapore | To Hong Kong | To Tokyo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marseille | 145 | 171 | 223 |
| Paris | 162 | 193 | 229 |
| Zurich | 162 | 183 | 235 |
| Frankfurt | 166 | 192 | 235 |
| Madrid | 166 | 186 | 226 |
| London | 167 | 200 | 229 |
| Milan | 167 | 186 | 238 |
| Netherlands | 169 | 201 | 233 |
| Ireland | 176 | 215 | 225 |
| Warsaw | 184 | 205 | 249 |
| Gävle, Sweden | 190 | 219 | 253 |
Microsoft Azure: P50 round trip, 30 days ending 30 July 2026. It runs from each European region to the Southeast Asia (Singapore), East Asia (Hong Kong) and Japan East (Tokyo, Saitama) regions. Cities are the physical locations Microsoft gives for each region. Not Copperstrait measurements: We publish no latency or speed figures of our own: we have not measured them. Test from where your users are once the server is yours.
Close to Microsoft's figures, and a little lower to Singapore. WonderNetwork pings between its own servers every hour. Over two weeks to 2 November 2026, its medians were:
From Europe, a round trip to Asia costs about a sixth of a second, and Tokyo costs more than either southern hub.
About 90 to 106 ms, for a straight fibre that does not exist. We take the great-circle distance between city centres, double it, and divide by the speed of light in fibre. That speed is 299,792 km/s ÷ 1.4682, the group index of Corning SMF-28e+ fibre: about 204,000 km/s.
Frankfurt to Singapore is 10,258 km, so its floor is 100.5 ms. Frankfurt to Hong Kong is 9,158 km (89.7 ms) and Frankfurt to Tokyo 9,331 km (91.4 ms). London to Singapore is 10,848 km (106.3 ms).
These are calculations, not measurements. In Microsoft's figures, real round trips run 1.4 to 2.6 times the floor.
| Route | Great-circle distance | Fibre floor | Microsoft Azure | WonderNetwork |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frankfurt – Singapore | 10,258 km | 100.5 | 166 | 158.3 |
| Frankfurt – Hong Kong | 9,158 km | 89.7 | 192 | — |
| Frankfurt – Tokyo | 9,331 km | 91.4 | 235 | 230.8 |
| London – Singapore | 10,848 km | 106.3 | 167 | 163.5 |
| Netherlands – Hong Kong | 9,277 km (Amsterdam) | 90.9 | 201 | 191.4 |
| Marseille – Singapore | 10,586 km | 103.7 | 145 | — |
Fibre floor: 2 × distance ÷ 204,190 km/s, our calculation. Microsoft: P50, 30 days ending 30 July 2026. WonderNetwork: median of 336 hourly runs, 19 October to 2 November 2026.
Because the cables from Europe end in Singapore and Hong Kong. Frankfurt is 927 km closer to Tokyo than to Singapore along the great circle. Yet Microsoft's median is 235 ms to Tokyo and 166 ms to Singapore.
The main Europe–Asia cables cross Egypt and the Red Sea. TeleGeography lists SeaMeWe-5 (20,000 km, Toulon to Singapore, in service since December 2016). It lists AAE-1 (25,000 km, Marseille to Hong Kong, since June 2017) and PEACE (25,000 km, Marseille to Singapore, since March 2022). SeaMeWe-6 (21,700 km, Marseille to Singapore) is planned for 2027.
None of them lands in Japan. Traffic to Tokyo goes on from Singapore or Hong Kong, so it pays for both legs. From North America the order flips, with Tokyo first: see the ping from the US to servers in Asia. Japan's own case is on whether Japan is a good location for dedicated server hosting.
Because the cables land there. AAE-1, PEACE and the planned SeaMeWe-6 all land in Marseille, per TeleGeography. Microsoft's median from its Marseille region is 145 ms to Singapore, the lowest in Europe.
From Paris it is 162 ms, and from Frankfurt or Madrid 166 ms. A European office far from the south coast pays the trip to Marseille first.
For managing it, rarely. For serving European users from Asia, yes. Typing over SSH at 165 ms feels a little slow but works. File transfers lose little if the window is large enough.
A web page is different. A new HTTPS connection needs at least three round trips before the first byte (TCP, then TLS 1.3, then the request). At Frankfurt to Singapore's 166 ms, that is about half a second of waiting.
Put the server where the users are, and accept the lag on the admin side. If your users are in Asia, host in Asia. If they are in Europe, host in Europe. If both, see whether to use a CDN or a server in Asia.
Singapore, unless the users are in North-East Asia. It is the nearest hub from every European region in Microsoft's table. It is also close to Southeast Asia and India.
Pick Hong Kong for Taiwan or the Philippines, and Tokyo for Japan or Korea. The audience map is on the best server location for users across Asia. The matrix between hubs is on the latency between Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
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WonderNetwork's median was 158.3 ms over two weeks to 2 November 2026. Microsoft's median from Frankfurt to its Singapore region is 166 ms. The fibre floor is 100.5 ms.
Microsoft's median from London to its Hong Kong region is 200 ms, from July 2026 data. The fibre floor for 9,623 km is 94.3 ms.
223 to 253 ms in Microsoft's medians from eleven European regions. WonderNetwork's Frankfurt to Tokyo median was 230.8 ms.
Singapore has the lowest ping from Europe of the three hubs. But for European users, a server in Europe is shorter still.
No. We publish no latency or speed figures of our own: we have not measured them. Test from where your users are once the server is yours.
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