Route brief · IST → AMS
Istanbul → Amsterdam
$157
−19% vs typical
seasonal median $195 · difference $38
Nov 18 – Nov 24 · 6 nights
PegasusNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $177–$230
- Board rank
- Stronger than 52%
- Route sample
- 9 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefAMSAmsterdamCanals, Vermeers and bicycles with right of way. KLM’s network makes it a deal-alert regular.Best windowApr–May · SepAirportsSchiphol (AMS)All routes into AmsterdamWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 9 months, Nov is the cheapest for IST → AMS. Best time to be there: Apr–May · Sep.
Fares bottom out in November around $157 and peak in July near $285 — a $128 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Pegasus nonstop and takes about 4 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip. At $157 for 2,213 km each way, that works out to about $35 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Of the 3 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Amsterdam, this is the cheapest right now — though Athens is within a few dollars. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 16 routes of similar length we watch out of Istanbul, where the middle fare is $162.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Nov 24 · $164 (25% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $222 then versus $215 now, across 4 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 $164, on Nov 24.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Nov · around $157
19% below the $195 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Istanbul → Amsterdam · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) ↔ Schiphol (AMS)
- Flight time
- ~4 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,213 km each way
- Typical price
- $195 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Pegasus
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Sep
IST → AMS, answered.
Is $157 a good price for Istanbul to Amsterdam?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $195 round-trip and this fare is 19% under it, about $38. 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 Istanbul to Amsterdam?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Amsterdam are Apr–May · Sep — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book IST → Amsterdam?
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 9 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Istanbul to Amsterdam?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Pegasus). The outbound leg runs around 4 hours.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). 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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