Good1 stop · 10h
HOU to HNLUnited States
Honolulu
$593
usually $825
−28%
Most monthly lows $726–$825. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · HOU → IST
Houston to Istanbul
Best fare, round trip
$759
−3%
below its usual $785
you keep $26
Found
- Depart
- Mon 30 Nov
- Return
- Fri 25 Dec
- Stay
- 25 nights
- Flight
- Nonstop · 12h
- Airline
Turkish Airlines
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $759 and $802. The drop beats 1% of measured fares on the board, over 5 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 on this route stay within about $98 across the 5 months we track — season matters less here than timing the drop. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Turkish Airlines nonstop and takes about 12 hours outbound, on a 25-night trip. At $759 for 10,288 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 16th — 1.9× the $390 we hold from Seoul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 36 routes of similar length we watch out of Houston, where the middle fare is $894. 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 2% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $974 then versus $996 now, across 19 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 $504, on 5 Oct.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 9 of 109 days priced, from 95 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
1516171819202122232425Monday 26 October: $857. Compare fares from this day.27Wednesday 28 October: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.293031
November 2026
1234567891011Thursday 12 November: $874. Compare fares from this day.1314151617181920212223242526272829Monday 30 November: $759. Compare fares from this day.
December 2026
January 2027
1234Tuesday 5 January: $802. Compare fares from this day.678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031
Cached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Nov, around $759
3% below the $785 typical fare
$857Oct, above the usual price. Compare October fares.$759Nov, the cheapest month. Compare November fares.$759Dec, around the usual price. Compare December fares.$802Jan ’27, around the usual price. Compare January fares.$786Feb, around the usual price. Compare February fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Houston to Istanbul, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Bush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU) ↔ Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW)
- Flight time
- ≈12 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈10,288 km each way
- Typical price
- $785 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Turkish Airlines
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Sep–Oct
Good to know
HOU → IST, answered.
Is $759 a good price for Houston to Istanbul?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $785 round-trip and this fare is 3% 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 Houston to Istanbul?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Nov 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 HOU → 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 5 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Houston 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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