Ping Test to Singapore
Almost every "Southeast Asia" server you have ever queued into is physically in Singapore. The island sits on top of the region's densest cable landing point, so Riot, Valve, Garena, Moonton and half the CDNs serving Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines terminate there rather than in the country you actually live in. This test measures the round-trip time from your browser to the Singapore data-center region, which is the closest honest answer to "what ping will I get on an SEA server?"
Measured alongside Singapore so you can tell distance apart from a bad route
Browsers cannot send ICMP packets, so this is the warm HTTPS round-trip time to the Singapore data-centre region — a close proxy for game ping, not a raw ping command.
What ping to Singapore should you expect?
Typical browser round-trip times measured to the Singapore region. These are ranges, not promises — access technology and ISP routing move the number as much as distance does.
| Testing from | Typical | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Singapore | 5–25 ms | Domestic fibre with direct peering. Anything above 40 ms points at Wi-Fi or a congested uplink. |
| Malaysia | 15–40 ms | Short hop across the strait; most Malaysian ISPs peer directly in Singapore. |
| Indonesia | 25–60 ms | Jakarta is close, but routing from outer islands can add a lot of overland distance. |
| Thailand / Vietnam | 35–70 ms | Mixed subsea and terrestrial routes; varies noticeably between providers. |
| Philippines | 45–90 ms | Physically near, but Philippine international routing is often indirect. |
| India | 70–120 ms | Across the Bay of Bengal, usually via the SEA-ME-WE path. |
| Australia | 100–150 ms | Long subsea leg from the east coast; Perth does noticeably better. |
Why your traffic ends up in Singapore even when you are not there
Singapore is where the SEA-ME-WE cable family, the Asia Pacific Gateway and the Southeast Asia–Japan cables all come ashore, and it hosts the Equinix SG1/SG2/SG3 exchange campus. That concentration means an ISP in Jakarta or Manila often finds it cheaper and faster to hand traffic to a peer in Singapore than to route it domestically. The practical consequence for gamers is that a "local" server frequently is not local at all.
It also explains a common complaint: two players in the same Indonesian city can see very different ping to the same match. If one ISP peers directly at an Singapore exchange and the other backhauls through Hong Kong or Tokyo first, the physical distance is identical but the route is not. Running this test on each connection is the fastest way to prove which of the two is taking the detour.
What good looks like from around the region
Malaysia and southern Indonesia should sit in the low tens of milliseconds — the distance is trivial and the peering is direct. Thailand and Vietnam usually land a little higher because more of the path runs overland. The Philippines is the outlier: physically close, but Philippine routing has historically been messy, and it is common to see values closer to what India gets despite being a third of the distance.
If your number is far above the range in the table below, the problem is almost never the Singapore end. Check whether you are on Wi-Fi, whether another device is saturating your uplink, and whether your ISP offers a "gaming" or direct-peering route. Compare the Singapore figure against Tokyo and Mumbai in the list underneath the test — if all three are equally bad, the bottleneck is on your side of the connection.
How this measurement works
A browser cannot send the ICMP packets the ping command uses, or the UDP packets games use. Instead we open a connection to a real endpoint inside the Singapore data-centre region, warm it up so the TCP and TLS handshakes are not counted, then keep the best of several samples. The result is a genuine network round trip to Singapore — usually a little higher than a raw ICMP ping, and a close, consistent proxy for the latency a game server in the same city would give you.
Singapore ping FAQ
Is this the same ping I will see on a Singapore game server?
It is a close proxy, not an identical number. Browsers cannot send the ICMP or UDP packets games use, so we measure HTTPS round-trip time to the Singapore cloud region. Game servers in the same city typically report a slightly lower figure than this test, but the relationship holds: if Singapore is your fastest region here, it will be your fastest region in-game.
Why is my ping to Singapore worse than a friend in the same city?
Different ISPs take different international routes. One provider may peer directly at a Singapore exchange while another backhauls your traffic through Hong Kong or Tokyo first. The physical distance is the same; the path length is not. Comparing your Singapore, Tokyo and Mumbai numbers side by side usually makes the detour obvious.
Which games actually run on Singapore servers?
Valorant's Singapore data centre, Dota 2's SEA region, PUBG SEA, Mobile Legends, Free Fire and most Garena-published titles serve the region from Singapore or from a facility that peers there. If you play on an "SEA" shard, this is almost certainly the city you are connecting to.