Internet conditions in Shanghai, China

Measured as the district of ShanghaiLocal time Asia/ShanghaiMeasured every hour since February 2019Data to 16 Jul 2026
Sites
Grade within China
Ebottom fifth of 218 districts
High confidence · the district’s own measurement
Score
Connectivity score
26/ 100
10th percentile worldwide · 192nd of 218 in China
Conditions
Typical week
261ms latency
Jitter 71 ms · steadier than 55% of districts worldwide
Sites
Disruptions, last 12 months
1episode · 8 days
Latest ended 16 Jul 2026
Conditions

Where this is

The district the measurement describes.

District outline, KASPR boundary layer

Conditions

The week, hour by hour

Chance of a rough hour, local time. Darker is rougher.

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Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
Steadiest Thu 04:00 (16% chance of a rough hour)Roughest Fri 22:00 (86%)Swing 7.1 points: the hour of the week matters a little here
Score

What makes the score

Five parts, each a percentile among scored districts worldwide (100 = best). The second mark is the same part ranked within China.

Speed
21 · 22
Stability
52 · 95
Evening
21 · 40
Reliability
10 · 13
Trend
10 · 17
worldwide percentilewithin ChinaWeights 30 / 25 / 20 / 20 / 5
Score

Two years of months

Monthly mean latency and jitter. The connectivity index compares responding addresses with the district’s own norm.

2567225282Jul2025Jul2026
latency, msjitter, msConnectivity index +2.9% against a year earlier
Sites

Disruptions

Falls in responding addresses against the district’s own baseline. The record says when, where and how deep, not why.

9 Jul 2026 – 16 Jul 2026Collapse, 8 days, 52% below baselinelatest

Worst hours of a typical week: Fri 22:00, Wed 22:00, Thu 22:00. Chance of a rough hour at the peak: 86%.

Sites

Other cities in China

Grades within each country. Each links to its own page.

BBeijing254 ms
BChengdu246 ms
CChongqing243 ms
CGuangzhou257 ms
DHangzhou253 ms
BNanjing250 ms
BShenzhen263 ms
BTianjin256 ms
EWuhan255 ms
CXi'an257 ms

All 100 cities →

What to do with this

Three ways in, one per product.

Check your own locations

Paste your sites or offices and get a grade and a report for each. The first look is free.

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When to connect from Shanghai

Pick the people on a call or the audience for a post and see the steadier hours, on the web or in Slack.

Open KASPR Sense →

Monitor Shanghai

Alerts the moment the district breaks, the full history, and the data behind this page in the dashboard.

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Questions people ask

Is the internet in Shanghai good?
By world standards Shanghai sits in the 10th percentile of 15,460 scored districts, with 261 ms typical latency and 71 ms jitter. Within China it ranks 192nd of 218, in the bottom fifth.
When is the internet in Shanghai worst?
The roughest slot of a typical week is Fri 22:00, when the chance of a rough hour peaks at 86%. The steadiest is Thu 04:00 at 16%. Between them, the hour of the week matters a little here.
Were there internet outages in Shanghai recently?
One episode in the last twelve months, 8 days in all. The latest ran from 9 Jul 2026 to 16 Jul 2026, with responding addresses 52% below the district’s baseline.
How is this measured?
KASPR sends round-trip requests to geolocated IPv4 addresses from the outside, every hour since February 2019, and aggregates the answers by district. No apps, no speed tests, the same method everywhere. The figures describe the district a city centre falls in, at one data vintage.

Source: KASPR Datahaus (pulse.kasprdata.com) · Data to 2026-07-16 · the measurement records timing and depth, not cause · How KASPR measures