# What is the ping from the US to servers in Asia?

> US to Asia ping: Microsoft's July 2026 medians from 12 North American regions to Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore, with the fibre floor. No KYC, crypto.

- URL: https://copperstrait.com/us-to-asia-ping/
- Last updated: 2026-11-02
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Round trips from twelve North American cloud regions to Asia's three hosting hubs, from Microsoft's published medians, set beside the physical floor and the Pacific cables that carry the traffic.

**Quick answer — What is the ping from the US to servers in Asia?**

The ping from the US to servers in Asia is 101 to 162 ms to Tokyo in Microsoft's July 2026 medians, 141 to 204 ms to Hong Kong and 162 to 228 ms to Singapore. Tokyo is closest from every US region listed. **Copperstrait** rents servers in all three at one price, from $143.25 per 30 days, crypto, no KYC.

## Round trip from North America to each Asian hub, in milliseconds

| From | Azure region | To Tokyo | To Hong Kong | To Singapore |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Washington state | West US 2 | 101 | 141 | 162 |
| California | West US | 108 | 148 | 170 |
| Phoenix, Arizona | West US 3 | 112 | 156 | 183 |
| Wyoming | West Central US | 122 | 162 | 184 |
| Texas | South Central US | 129 | 173 | 202 |
| Iowa | Central US | 136 | 176 | 198 |
| Querétaro State, Mexico | Mexico Central | 145 | 189 | 218 |
| Illinois | North Central US | 148 | 188 | 209 |
| Virginia | East US 2 | 161 | 204 | 228 |
| Toronto, Canada | Canada Central | 161 | 201 | 223 |
| Virginia | East US | 162 | 203 | 224 |
| Quebec, Canada | Canada East | 170 | 210 | 231 |

Microsoft Azure: P50 round trip over the 30 days ending 30 July 2026, from each North American region to Japan East (Tokyo, Saitama), East Asia (Hong Kong) and Southeast Asia (Singapore). Places are the physical locations Microsoft lists for each region. These are not Copperstrait figures: 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.

## Which Asian hub is closest to the United States?

Tokyo, from every region in the table. **From the United States, Asia starts in Tokyo: each US region in Microsoft's table reaches Tokyo about 40 ms sooner than Hong Kong and 60 to 70 ms sooner than Singapore.**

From Washington state, the medians are 101 ms to Tokyo, 141 ms to Hong Kong and 162 ms to Singapore. From Virginia, they are 162, 203 and 224 ms. The gaps hardly move across the country: Hong Kong adds 40 to 44 ms over Tokyo, and Singapore 61 to 73 ms.

Europe sees the opposite order, with Singapore first and Tokyo last. Those figures are on [the ping from Europe to servers in Asia](https://copperstrait.com/europe-to-asia-ping/ "Round trips from European regions to Asian hubs, dated").

## How much does the coast you start from change the ping?

About 60 ms. In Microsoft's medians, Virginia sits 61 ms further from Tokyo than Washington state (162 against 101 ms). It is 62 ms further from Hong Kong and 62 ms further from Singapore.

The interior falls in between. Texas reaches Tokyo in 129 ms, Iowa in 136 ms and Illinois in 148 ms. Toronto (161 ms) lines up with Virginia, and Querétaro in Mexico (145 ms) with Illinois.

**A US team on the Pacific coast is about a tenth of a second from Tokyo; on the Atlantic coast, about a sixth.**

## What is the physical minimum from the US to Asia?

About 75 ms to Tokyo from Seattle, for a straight fibre that nobody has laid. The method: take the great-circle distance between two city centres, double it for the return leg, and divide by the speed of light in glass. Light covers 299,792 km/s in a vacuum; in Corning SMF-28e+ fibre, with a group index of 1.4682, that drops to about 204,190 km/s.

Microsoft names states, not cities. Each pair below therefore uses a city we chose inside that state, so the comparison is approximate. Measured medians run 1.23 to 1.58 times the floor: cables bend around coasts and pass through landing stations and routers.

### Fibre floor against Microsoft's medians, in milliseconds

| Route | Great-circle distance | Fibre floor | Microsoft median | Median ÷ floor |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Seattle – Tokyo (West US 2) | 7,700 km | 75.4 | 101 | 1.34 |
| Los Angeles – Tokyo (West US) | 8,819 km | 86.4 | 108 | 1.25 |
| Dallas – Tokyo (South Central US) | 10,401 km | 101.9 | 129 | 1.27 |
| Chicago – Tokyo (North Central US) | 10,141 km | 99.3 | 148 | 1.49 |
| Ashburn, Virginia – Tokyo (East US) | 10,874 km | 106.5 | 162 | 1.52 |
| Los Angeles – Hong Kong (West US) | 11,649 km | 114.1 | 148 | 1.30 |
| Ashburn, Virginia – Singapore (East US) | 15,521 km | 152.0 | 224 | 1.47 |

Fibre floor: 2 × distance ÷ 204,190 km/s, our calculation from city-centre coordinates. Microsoft: P50, 30 days ending 30 July 2026, from the Azure region in brackets.

## Which cables carry US traffic to Asia?

The shortest ones land in Japan. TeleGeography's cable map lists, among others:

- **FASTER** (11,629 km, in service since June 2016): Bandon, Oregon, to Chikura and Shima in Japan, plus Tanshui in Taiwan.
- **JUPITER** (14,557 km, 2020): Hermosa Beach, California, and Cloverdale, Oregon, to Maruyama and Shima in Japan, plus Daet in the Philippines.
- **Pacific Light Cable Network** (11,806 km, January 2022): El Segundo, California, to Toucheng in Taiwan and Baler in the Philippines. It lists no Hong Kong landing.
- **Echo** (17,184 km, 2025) and **Bifrost** (19,888 km, December 2025): California and Oregon to Singapore, by way of Guam and Indonesia.
- **Asia-America Gateway** (20,000 km, November 2009): Morro Bay, California, through Hawaii and Guam to Lantau Island in Hong Kong, Singapore and other Southeast Asian landings.

The direct routes to Singapore are recent and long. With both in service, Microsoft's July 2026 medians still put Singapore 61 to 73 ms behind Tokyo from every US region.

## Does a US–Asia ping matter for my server?

It matters for the people who use the server more than for the people who run it. Managing a Tokyo machine from Virginia at 162 ms works: each keystroke over SSH echoes about a sixth of a second late.

Serving US visitors from Asia costs more. Before the first byte of a page, a browser spends one round trip on the TCP handshake, one on the TLS 1.3 handshake and one on the request itself. From Virginia to Singapore, three times 224 ms is close to 0.7 seconds.

**Put the server near its users: an Asian audience on an Asian server, a US audience on a US one.** For an audience on both sides of the Pacific, read [whether to use a CDN or a server in Asia](https://copperstrait.com/cdn-or-server-in-asia/ "What a CDN caches and what still reaches the origin").

## Which Asian hub should a US company pick?

Pick by the users first, then by the people running the machine. Tokyo serves Japan and Korea and is also the closest hub to every US office. Singapore serves Southeast Asia and India; Hong Kong serves Taiwan and the Philippines. The audience map is on [the best server location for users across Asia](https://copperstrait.com/best-server-location-asia/ "Server location in Asia by audience"), and the round trips between the hubs on [the latency between Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo](https://copperstrait.com/asia-server-latency/ "Asian hub latency, dated").

Tokyo often costs more. **In Copperstrait's survey of 2 November 2026, MonoVM charged $478 a month for its AMD EPYC 7302 server in Tokyo, against $191 in Singapore.** Copperstrait charges one price in every city: Strait 16 $143.25, Strait 32 $356.25, Strait 32F $828.68 per 30 days. See [renting a dedicated server in Tokyo, Japan](https://copperstrait.com/japan-dedicated-server-tokyo/ "Tokyo servers, prices and specs") and [how much a Copperstrait server costs](https://copperstrait.com/pricing/ "Copperstrait prices and terms").

## One price in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore

| Plan | Quantity | 30 days | 3 months | 6 months | 1 year |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Strait 16 | 16 cores · 64 GB | $143.25 | $386.77 (−10%) | $687.60 (−20%) | $1,203.30 (−30%) |
| Strait 32 | 32 cores · 384 GB | $356.25 | $961.87 (−10%) | $1,710 (−20%) | $2,992.50 (−30%) |
| Strait 32F | 32 cores · 384 GB | $828.68 | $2,237.43 (−10%) | $3,977.66 (−20%) | $6,960.91 (−30%) |

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## US to Asia ping: common questions

### What is the ping from California to Tokyo?

Microsoft's median from its California region (West US) to Tokyo was 108 ms over the 30 days to 30 July 2026. The fibre floor from Los Angeles is 86.4 ms.

### What is the ping from the US East Coast to Singapore?

224 ms from Microsoft's Virginia region (East US) and 228 ms from East US 2, in July 2026 medians. The fibre floor from Ashburn, Virginia, is 152.0 ms.

### What is the ping from the US to Hong Kong?

141 to 204 ms in Microsoft's July 2026 medians: 141 ms from Washington state and 203 ms from Virginia. Hong Kong sits 40 to 44 ms behind Tokyo from every US region.

### Is Tokyo or Singapore better for a US company?

For reaching the server from the US, Tokyo: it is 61 to 73 ms closer. For users in Southeast Asia or India, Singapore still wins, because their round trip matters more than the admin's.

### Has Copperstrait measured these pings?

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.

## Sources

1. [Azure network round-trip latency statistics (P50, 30 days ending 30 July 2026)](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/networking/azure-network-latency) — Microsoft Learn (read 2026-11-02)
2. [List of Azure regions (physical locations)](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/regions-list) — Microsoft Learn (read 2026-11-02)
3. [Submarine Cable Map: FASTER](https://www.submarinecablemap.com/submarine-cable/faster) — TeleGeography (read 2026-11-02)
4. [Submarine Cable Map: JUPITER](https://www.submarinecablemap.com/submarine-cable/jupiter) — TeleGeography (read 2026-11-02)
5. [Submarine Cable Map: Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN)](https://www.submarinecablemap.com/submarine-cable/pacific-light-cable-network-plcn) — TeleGeography (read 2026-11-02)
6. [Submarine Cable Map: Echo](https://www.submarinecablemap.com/submarine-cable/echo) — TeleGeography (read 2026-11-02)
7. [Submarine Cable Map: Bifrost](https://www.submarinecablemap.com/submarine-cable/bifrost) — TeleGeography (read 2026-11-02)
8. [Submarine Cable Map: Asia-America Gateway (AAG) Cable System](https://www.submarinecablemap.com/submarine-cable/asia-america-gateway-aag-cable-system) — TeleGeography (read 2026-11-02)
9. [AMD EPYC 7302 dedicated server, order page (location prices)](https://dashboard.monovm.com/order/dedicated/all-servers/947) — MonoVM (read 2026-11-02)
10. [Speed of light in vacuum](https://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Value?c) — NIST (read 2026-11-02)
11. [Corning SMF-28e+ optical fiber, product information (effective group index 1.4682 at 1550 nm)](https://img-en.fs.com/file/datasheet/corning-smf-28eplus-33175.pdf) — Corning Incorporated (copy hosted by FS.com) (read 2026-11-02)
12. [RFC 8446: The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8446) — IETF (August 2018)

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