Rare1 stop · 5h
DFW to CUNMexico
Cancún
$228
usually $380
−40%
Most monthly lows $335–$380. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · DFW → IST
Dallas to Istanbul
Best fare, round trip
$739
−8%
below its usual $805
you keep $66
Found
- Depart
- Wed 17 Feb
- Return
- Wed 3 Mar
- Stay
- 14 nights
- Flight
- Nonstop · 12h
- Airline
Turkish Airlines
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $797 and $817. The drop beats 15% of measured fares on the board, over 6 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
TürkiyeIstanbulTwo continents, one skyline of minarets. Turkish Airlines’ mega-hub means constant fare battles.Best windowApr–May · Sep–OctAirportsIstanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW)Every route into IstanbulFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in February around $739 and peak in October near $964, 30% dearer, across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Turkish Airlines nonstop and takes about 12 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip. At $739 for 10,107 km each way, that works out to about $37 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 21 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Istanbul, this fare ranks 14th — 1.9× the $390 we hold from Seoul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 35 routes of similar length we watch out of Dallas, where the middle fare is $848. The best time to be in Istanbul: Apr–May · Sep–Oct.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 15% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $881 then versus $1,015 now, across 17 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $440, on 23 Sep.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 10 of 111 days priced, from 76 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
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Cached fares · checked 13 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Feb, around $739
8% below the $805 typical fare
$964Oct, above the usual price. Compare October fares.$817Nov, around the usual price. Compare November fares.$804Dec, around the usual price. Compare December fares.$803Jan ’27, around the usual price. Compare January fares.$739Feb, the cheapest month. Compare February fares.$797Mar, around the usual price. Compare March fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Dallas to Istanbul, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- DFW · Love Field (DAL) ↔ Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW)
- Flight time
- ≈12 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈10,107 km each way
- Typical price
- $805 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Turkish Airlines
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Sep–Oct
Good to know
DFW → IST, answered.
Is $739 a good price for Dallas to Istanbul?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $805 round-trip and this fare is 8% under it. We do not call a drop notable until 20%, so this is an ordinary price for the route rather than a reason to hurry.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Dallas to Istanbul?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Feb comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Istanbul are Apr–May · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book DFW → Istanbul?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 6 months of cached fares, Feb comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Dallas to Istanbul?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Turkish Airlines). The outbound leg runs around 12 hours.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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