Internet conditions in Washington, United States

Measured as the district of District of ColumbiaLocal time America/New_YorkMeasured every hour since February 2019Data to 16 Jul 2026
Sites
Grade within United States
Atop fifth of 2,299 districts
High confidence · the district’s own measurement
Score
Connectivity score
84/ 100
97th percentile worldwide · 212th of 2,299 in United States
Conditions
Typical week
192ms latency
Jitter 59 ms · steadier than 77% of districts worldwide
Sites
Disruptions, last 12 months
0episodes
No episode recorded
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.

00061218
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
Steadiest Mon 04:00 (44% chance of a rough hour)Roughest Thu 20:00 (56%)Swing 1.6 points: the hour of the week barely changes the odds 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 United States.

Speed
88 · 47
Stability
85 · 44
Evening
69 · 68
Reliability
100 · 100
Trend
53 · 65
worldwide percentilewithin United StatesWeights 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.

1936019456Jul2025Jul2026
latency, msjitter, msConnectivity index -1.2% 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.

No disruption episode since July 2024.

Worst hours of a typical week: Thu 20:00, Tue 20:00, Mon 20:00. Chance of a rough hour at the peak: 56%.

Sites

Other cities in United States

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

AAtlanta177 ms
CBoston183 ms
AChicago177 ms
ADallas174 ms
BHouston174 ms
CLos Angeles177 ms
DMiami182 ms
CNew York185 ms
CPhiladelphia181 ms
CPhoenix185 ms
DSan Francisco178 ms
DSeattle189 ms

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What to do with this

Three ways in, one per product.

Check your own locations

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When to connect from Washington

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Monitor Washington

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 Washington good?
By world standards Washington sits in the 97th percentile of 15,460 scored districts, with 192 ms typical latency and 59 ms jitter. Within United States it ranks 212th of 2,299, in the top fifth.
When is the internet in Washington worst?
The roughest slot of a typical week is Thu 20:00, when the chance of a rough hour peaks at 56%. The steadiest is Mon 04:00 at 44%. Between them, the hour of the week barely changes the odds here.
Were there internet outages in Washington recently?
No disruption episode in the twelve months to the data vintage: responding addresses stayed within the district’s normal band every day.
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