Best Cloud Regions for Northern America — September 2026

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Cloud regions ranked by lowest median latency to Northern America, based on all of September 2026's measurements across 1000+ cities worldwide. Published on the 1st of each month for the previous month. Compare AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, Tencent, Huawei and Alibaba to pick the fastest region for Northern America.

Rank	Provider	Region Name	Avg Latency	Median Latency	Loss	Cities	ASN Count	Samples
1	AWS	Ohio (US)	38.5ms	34.3ms	0.1%	109	82	575
2	GCP	Toronto (CA)	37.8ms	35.5ms	0.1%	110	84	580
3	Azure	Toronto (CA)	41.1ms	36.0ms	0.2%	110	85	581
4	Alibaba	Virginia (US)	41.7ms	36.6ms	0.1%	109	84	574
5	AWS	N. Virginia (US)	40.9ms	37.0ms	0.1%	109	83	573
6	Oracle	Ashburn (US)	43.1ms	38.0ms	0.1%	110	84	575
7	Oracle	Toronto (CA)	38.6ms	38.0ms	0.1%	109	83	592
8	Azure	Virginia (US)	43.6ms	38.4ms	0.1%	109	84	578
9	Tencent	Virginia (US)	48.5ms	39.0ms	0.4%	108	83	573
10	GCP	Ashburn (US)	43.6ms	39.1ms	0.2%	110	84	577
11	AWS	Montreal (CA)	43.0ms	40.5ms	0.1%	110	83	574
12	GCP	Columbus (US)	41.8ms	40.8ms	0.1%	110	84	578
13	GCP	Montreal (CA)	43.3ms	41.3ms	0.1%	110	84	579
14	GCP	Council Bluffs (US)	45.4ms	41.9ms	0.1%	109	83	574
15	Azure	Iowa (US)	42.0ms	42.8ms	0.0%	109	84	578
16	Oracle	Montreal (CA)	45.8ms	43.3ms	0.2%	110	84	577
17	GCP	Dallas (US)	46.4ms	45.4ms	0.1%	110	85	577
18	GCP	Moncks Corner (US)	53.9ms	47.5ms	0.2%	110	84	578
19	AWS	Calgary (CA)	51.4ms	50.0ms	0.1%	110	83	576
20	AWS	Oregon (US)	54.8ms	55.8ms	0.1%	109	82	572

Ranking month: September 2026 · Updated: 2026-11-03arrow_backBack to global leaderboards