Average Internet Speed in Germany

Internet in Germany: what the data shows

At a median 60.3 Mbps download, Germany sits comfortably in the top quarter of the table: #23 of 119 ranked countries, 78% above the global median of 33.9 Mbps. The world's fastest median belongs to the United States at 144 Mbps, about 2.4× faster.

The median upload is 29.3 Mbps, about 49% of the download rate: the balance typical of a market mixing fibre with cable or DSL plans. Median latency is 28 ms. That is low enough for responsive video calls and online gaming on a typical connection.

The provider table stretches wide: TNG leads the measured ISPs at 251 Mbps, 4.2× the national median. A spread like that opens up where full-fibre networks compete against legacy copper and cable, so which network serves your address changes more than any plan upgrade.

Desktops test faster than phones here (69 vs 44 Mbps): home Wi-Fi and wired links outrun the mobile networks that carry 32% of tests. By operating system, Mac OS devices record the quickest median (84 Mbps) while Chromium OS sits at 40 Mbps, usually a proxy for the networks and hardware each platform rides on rather than the software itself.

Tests from Germany most often reached the Frankfurt test server (73% of the top-server mix), so the figures reflect the routes everyday traffic actually takes. Every number on this page is a median of single-stream browser tests from the H1 2026 window: Real-World Speed, measured on the open internet rather than inside an ISP's own network. It reads lower than peak-rate tests by design, and every country is measured with the same ruler.