United States travel tips

Internet speed in United States

Median speeds from Ookla's Speedtest Global Index, June 2026 — what a rental's line and your phone actually get, not what the listing says.

Home broadband302 Mbpsmedian download in New York0world median 130300+Fast — Several people on calls at once, large uploads, 4K42 Mbps upload · 9 ms latency
Mobile data235 Mbpsmedian download in New York0world median 109300+22 Mbps upload · 22 ms latency

By city

under 30 basic · fair · 100+ good · 150+ fast — the tick is the world median.

PlaceHome broadbandMobile dataWork from it?
New Yorkmeasured in New York302 MbpsFast · 42 up · 9 ms235 MbpsFast · 22 up · 22 msNot at the median
Los Angelesmeasured in Los Angeles290 MbpsFast · 31 up · 12 ms208 MbpsFast · 14 up · 20 msNot at the median
United States as a wholeOokla publishes no separate figure for Miami, Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, San Francisco, New Orleans, Anchorage, Juneau, Oahu, Chicago, Boston, Seattle, Yellowstone, Nashville, Maui, Hawaiʻi Island (the Big Island), Kauaʻi, Washington, DC, San Diego, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Savannah, Charleston, Santa Fe, Key West, Palm Springs, Yosemite, Zion, Bryce Canyon, Moab, Sedona, Joshua Tree, Death Valley, Glacier National Park, Grand Teton, Big Sur, Napa Valley, Lake Tahoe; the national median stands for them.307 MbpsFast · 64 up · 12 ms187 MbpsFast · 10 up · 27 ms Yes

A median is the middle of every test run in the place that quarter: half the lines are faster, half slower. Cities usually beat the national number; islands and hill towns usually do not. "Work from it" is this site's own line — 150 Mbps down, 50 up, under 30 ms — for a household on calls all day; one person needs far less.

The guides in United States

wide angle photo of Brooklyn Bridge under cloudy skyNew YorkUnited StatesThe city that never sleepsbird’s eye view photography of coconut trees under blue skyLos AngelesUnited StatesBeaches, canyons, and a city built for drivingaerial photo of buildings beside beachMiamiUnited StatesArt deco, ocean heat, and a Latin American pulseThe Colorado river winding through the layered walls of the Grand CanyonGrand CanyonUnited StatesA mile deep, and no photograph has ever conveyed itcity with lights turned on during night timeLas VegasUnited StatesA city built to take your money, and extremely good at its jobGolden Gate Bridge during daytimeSan FranciscoUnited StatesSeven square miles of hills, fog and other people’s ideasThe red Canal Street streetcars lined up at the end of the lineNew OrleansUnited StatesThe least American city in America, and the best-fedAnchorage along the shore of Knik Arm, under the snow-covered Chugach mountainsAnchorageUnited StatesA city with moose in the gardens and the whole of Alaska out the back doora green bus driving over a bridge in the mountainsDenaliUnited StatesSix million acres, one road, and a mountain that makes its own weatherAn aerial view of a city with a bridgeJuneauUnited StatesA state capital with no road out, a glacier at the edge of town, and rainWaikiki and the Honolulu skyline along the shore, seen from Diamond Head on OahuOahuUnited StatesWaikiki on one coast, the North Shore on the other, and a volcanic ridge in betweenThe Chicago skyline across Lake Michigan on a clear dayChicagoUnited StatesThe city that invented the skyscraper, on a lake with a horizonThe Boston skyline across the Charles RiverBostonUnited StatesFour hundred years of American history in a city you can cross on footThe Space Needle and the Seattle skyline with Mount Rainier behind themSeattleUnited StatesWater on both sides, a volcano on the horizon, and the coffee that changed how the world drinks itA hot spring ringed with orange bacterial mats in a Yellowstone geyser basinYellowstoneUnited StatesThe first national park anywhere, sitting on top of a supervolcanoThe neon signs of Broadway in Nashville at nightNashvilleUnited StatesLive music in every bar on the street, from ten in the morningWhite parasols along the sand at a Maui beach, the headland beyondMauiUnited StatesA volcano you drive up for sunrise above the clouds, a coast road of waterfalls and one-lane bridges, and whales in the channel all winterLava running in bright orange channels over black rock on Hawaiʻi IslandHawaiʻi Island (the Big Island)United StatesAn island with eleven of the world’s thirteen climate zones, a volcano that has erupted in most recent years, and the best stargazing on earth from the top of Mauna KeaKauaʻi from the air, buildings along a curve of green coastKauaʻiUnited StatesThe oldest and greenest Hawaiian island: a canyon Mark Twain called the Grand Canyon of the Pacific, a coast with no road along it, and rain that made all of itThe dome of the United States Capitol against a clear skyWashington, DCUnited StatesA capital of free museums on a two-mile lawn, cherry blossom for two weeks a year, and a metro that actually goes where you wantA palm-lined street of high-rises in downtown San DiegoSan DiegoUnited StatesThe most comfortable weather in the United States, a park bigger than Central Park with fifteen museums in it, and the Mexican border twenty minutes southThe towers of downtown Austin from aboveAustinUnited StatesLive music every night of the week, barbecue worth queueing three hours for, and a river full of swimmers in a city that hits 38°CThe Portland sign over Broadway in downtown Portland, OregonPortlandUnited StatesA city of bookshops, food carts and bridges under a volcano, with the Columbia gorge and the Pacific each an hour awayThe Philadelphia skyline lit gold at sunsetPhiladelphiaUnited StatesWhere the country was declared, with the art museum steps Rocky ran up, a covered market since 1893, and the best cheesesteak argument in AmericaA horse carriage on a street under the live oaks in SavannahSavannahUnited StatesTwenty-two garden squares under live oaks hung with Spanish moss, a river of cargo ships at the end of the street, and open containers allowed on itThe columns and steps of the old Custom House in CharlestonCharlestonUnited StatesPastel houses on a peninsula between two rivers, the best restaurant town in the American south, and the fort where the civil war started in the harbourTurquoise window frames set into an adobe wall in Santa FeSanta FeUnited StatesThe oldest capital in the country, built of adobe at 2,100 metres, with the light that brought the painters and green chile on everythingA corner building of shops and awnings at dusk in Key WestKey WestUnited StatesThe end of the road: 160 kilometres of bridges to an island nearer Havana than Miami, where the sunset is a nightly performance and Hemingway’s cats still have six toesA mid-century motel and palm trees under the mountains at Palm SpringsPalm SpringsUnited StatesMid-century modern houses under a 3,000-metre mountain, a tram to the snow at the top of it, and two hundred days of sun a yearThe Yosemite valley at sunrise, El Capitan on the left and Half Dome behindYosemiteUnited StatesA granite valley with waterfalls down both walls, the biggest cliff face in North America at one end, and sequoias older than most countriesThe red walls of Zion canyon seen from the trail above itZionUnited StatesA canyon of red sandstone you walk up the middle of, in the river, with a cliff route so exposed it has chains bolted to itThe orange hoodoos of the Bryce amphitheatre under a blue skyBryce CanyonUnited StatesAn amphitheatre of orange rock spires at 2,500 metres, best at sunrise, and some of the darkest skies left in the country after itDelicate Arch on its slickrock bowl at sunset, near MoabMoabUnited StatesA desert town between two national parks, with two thousand stone arches on one side, a canyon labyrinth on the other, and the Colorado river through the middleRed sandstone buttes under a blue sky at SedonaSedonaUnited StatesRed sandstone buttes around a small town of galleries and trailheads, with the Grand Canyon two hours north and a vortex on every hill according to someA Joshua tree in the desert scrub under a wide blue skyJoshua TreeUnited StatesWhere two deserts meet: spiked trees out of a children’s book, granite piles climbers come from everywhere for, and a sky with the Milky Way in itThe folded badlands of Death Valley in low lightDeath ValleyUnited StatesThe hottest and lowest place in North America: salt flats below sea level, dunes, a crater and a painted canyon, all within an hour of each otherA snow-streaked peak above a green valley in Glacier National ParkGlacier National ParkUnited StatesA road over the top of the Rockies past hanging valleys and waterfalls, with grizzly bears in the bottom of them and glaciers that will be gone within a generationThe Teton range rising straight out of the flat valley floorGrand TetonUnited StatesMountains that rise four thousand metres straight out of a flat valley with no foothills, a river of moose and beavers under them, and Yellowstone an hour northThe Big Sur coast from above, a cove of turquoise water under the cliffsBig SurUnited StatesNinety miles of cliff road between the mountains and the Pacific, with redwoods in the canyons and nowhere to stay that is not booked months aheadVineyard country under the hills of the Napa ValleyNapa ValleyUnited StatesThirty miles of vineyards between two ranges, four hundred wineries on them, and a train and a balloon to see it fromLake Tahoe at sunrise, an island in the bay and the pines in silhouetteLake TahoeUnited StatesA lake of startling blue at 1,900 metres with mountains all round it, a dozen ski resorts on them, and a casino strip where the state line crosses the shore

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