Rare1 stop · 12h
IST to YULCanada
Montreal
$462
usually $775
−40%
Most monthly lows $690–$798. Cheaper than every other month on record (8).
Flights · IST → ALC
Istanbul to Alicante
Best fare, round trip
$194
−25%
below its usual $260
you keep $66
GoodFound
- Depart
- Thu 21 Jan
- Return
- Mon 1 Feb
- Stay
- 11 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 5.5h
- Airline
Wizz Air
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $220 and $285. The drop beats 67% of measured fares on the board, over 12 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
SpainAlicanteA castle on a rock over a working Mediterranean city — and the cheapest fares on the Spanish coast.Best windowMay–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsAlicante–Elche (ALC)Every route into AlicanteFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in January around $194 and peak in August near $361, 86% dearer, across the 12 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 5.5 hours outbound, on a 11-night trip — ticketed under Wizz Air, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $194 for 2,526 km each way, that works out to about $38 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $43 per 1,000 km typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 6 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Alicante, this fare ranks 6th — 2.7× the $73 we hold from Copenhagen. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 20 routes of similar length we watch out of Istanbul, where the middle fare is $194. The best time to be in Alicante: May–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: 21 Jan '27, $194
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 7% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $256 then versus $237 now, across 20 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 $169, on 26 Nov.
October 2026
15161718Monday 19 October: $229, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 20 October: $237, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 21 October: $279, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 22 October: $222, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Friday 23 October: $246, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 24 October: $287, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.2526Tuesday 27 October: $238, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.2829Friday 30 October: $236, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 31 October: $230, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.
November 2026
Sunday 1 November: $231, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Monday 2 November: $219, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.3Wednesday 4 November: $219, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 5 November: $238, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Friday 6 November: $238, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 7 November: $245, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.8Monday 9 November: $238, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 10 November: $227, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.11121314Sunday 15 November: $228, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.1617181920Saturday 21 November: $229, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.22Monday 23 November: $224, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.24Wednesday 25 November: $239, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 26 November: $254, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.27Saturday 28 November: $278, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Sunday 29 November: $235, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.30
December 2026
Tuesday 1 December: $237, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.23456789Thursday 10 December: $241, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.1112131415Wednesday 16 December: $225, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.17181920Monday 21 December: $220, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 22 December: $225, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 23 December: $223, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 24 December: $222, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Friday 25 December: $224, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 26 December: $244, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.27Monday 28 December: $237, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 29 December: $227, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 30 December: $224, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 31 December: $294, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.
January 2027
123Monday 4 January: $275, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.5678Saturday 9 January: $243, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.10111213141516171819Wednesday 20 January: $197, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 21 January: $194, the cheapest day in view. Compare fares from this day.Friday 22 January: $241, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.232425262728293031
CheapestBelow usualUsualAbove usualCached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026 · bands from 142 tracked fares
Cheapest in Jan, around $194
25% below the $260 typical fare
$222Oct, below the usual price. Compare October fares.$214Nov, below the usual price. Compare November fares.$220Dec, below the usual price. Compare December fares.$194Jan ’27, the cheapest month. Compare January fares.$224Feb, below the usual price. Compare February fares.$220Mar, below the usual price. Compare March fares.$258Apr, around the usual price. Compare April fares.$262May, around the usual price. Compare May fares.$293Jun, above the usual price. Compare June fares.$285Jul, above the usual price. Compare July fares.$361Aug, above the usual price. Compare August fares.$333Sep, above the usual price. Compare September fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Istanbul to Alicante, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) ↔ Alicante–Elche (ALC)
- Flight time
- ≈5.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈2,526 km each way
- Typical price
- $260 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Wizz Air
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
Good to know
IST → ALC, answered.
Is $194 a good price for Istanbul to Alicante?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $260 round-trip. At $194 you're 25% below that, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Istanbul to Alicante?
Across 12 months of cached-fare history, Jan comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Alicante are May–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book IST → Alicante?
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 12 months of cached fares, Jan comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Istanbul to Alicante?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Wizz Air. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
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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