GCP europe-west8 latency

Milan. How long a round trip from your machine to this region takes — and how much of that distance alone demands.

The region

Cloud	Google Cloud
Region code	europe-west8
Region name	Milan
Datacentre city	Milan, Italy, IT
Coordinates	45.46, 9.19
Published IPv4 prefixes	15
Probe endpoint	https://storage.europe-west8.rep.googleapis.com/
Probe style	timed blind — the endpoint sends no CORS headers
Verification	Probed on this region’s dedicated regional storage endpoint — one address per region, no wildcard DNS — with identity confirmed by a single gcping call per sweep. The recorded range-check predates this endpoint and covered an earlier host. Checked 2026-08-21.

Coordinates are the real datacentre city rather than the marketing region name, because they feed the distance maths below.

Distance, and the floor it sets

Light in fibre covers about 100 km per millisecond of round trip. These are the great-circle distances to Milan, Italy and the latency no network can beat — not a measurement, a limit. What you actually measure is this plus routing.

From	Distance	Floor
New York	6,465 km	65 ms
Los Angeles	9,715 km	97 ms
São Paulo	9,520 km	95 ms
London	960 km	9.6 ms
Frankfurt	518 km	5.2 ms
Johannesburg	8,194 km	82 ms
Dubai	4,665 km	47 ms
Mumbai	6,473 km	65 ms
Singapore	10,261 km	103 ms
Tokyo	9,714 km	97 ms
Sydney	16,557 km	166 ms

Other regions in this metro

Within 75 km of Milan, Italy — near enough that distance sets no meaningful floor between them. When several sit in one city, the fastest is the city’s real floor; a slower neighbour is usually the endpoint’s own server time.

Measure it yourself

These figures are geometry. Your own round trip to europe-west8 depends on your connection and the route it takes — open the instrument, pick GCP, and sweep. Every region is timed from your browser against the endpoint listed above, and the result is split into the part physics demands and the part the network added.

See every GCP region on the GCP latency page.