Melbourne. How long a round trip from your machine to this region takes — and how much of that distance alone demands.
| Cloud | Vultr |
|---|---|
| Region code | mel-au |
| Region name | Melbourne |
| Datacentre city | Melbourne, AU |
| Coordinates | -37.81, 144.96 |
| Published IPv4 prefixes | 2 |
| Probe endpoint | https://mel-au-ping.vultr.com/vultr.com.100MB.bin |
| Probe style | a CORS request whose reply the page can read |
| Verification | Resolved to an address inside this region’s own published range, TCP 443 open. Checked 2026-08-21. |
Coordinates are the real datacentre city rather than the marketing region name, because they feed the distance maths below.
Light in fibre covers about 100 km per millisecond of round trip. These are the great-circle distances to Melbourne 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 | 16,672 km | 167 ms |
| Los Angeles | 12,774 km | 128 ms |
| São Paulo | 13,085 km | 131 ms |
| London | 16,904 km | 169 ms |
| Frankfurt | 16,321 km | 163 ms |
| Johannesburg | 10,327 km | 103 ms |
| Dubai | 11,665 km | 117 ms |
| Mumbai | 9,821 km | 98 ms |
| Singapore | 6,063 km | 61 ms |
| Tokyo | 8,190 km | 82 ms |
| Sydney | 713 km | 7.1 ms |
Within 75 km of Melbourne — 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.
These figures are geometry. Your own round trip to mel-au depends on your connection and the route it takes — open the instrument, pick Vultr, 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 Vultr region on the Vultr latency page.