Route brief · IST → DPS
Istanbul → Bali
$656
−4% vs typical
seasonal median $680 · difference $24
Nov 16 – Nov 28 · 12 nights
AirAsia X1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $671–$760
- Board rank
- Stronger than 4%
- Route sample
- 11 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefDPSBaliRice terraces, surf breaks and volcano sunrises — long-haul fares here swing wildly, which is our favorite kind of route.Best windowApr–OctAirportsDenpasar (DPS)All routes into BaliWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 11 months, Nov is the cheapest for IST → DPS. Best time to be there: Apr–Oct.
Fares bottom out in November around $656 and peak in August near $1,030 — a $374 spread across the 11 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13.5 hours outbound, on a 12-night trip — ticketed under AirAsia X, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $656 for 10,326 km each way, that works out to about $32 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 18 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Bali, this fare ranks 2nd — 10% above the $599 from London. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 31 routes of similar length we watch out of Istanbul, where the middle fare is $720.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: Nov 16 · $656 (18% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 1% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $795 then versus $789 now, across 6 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 $654, on Oct 12.
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Cheapest in Nov · around $656
4% below the $680 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Istanbul → Bali · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) ↔ Denpasar (DPS)
- Flight time
- ~13.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~10,326 km each way
- Typical price
- $680 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- AirAsia X
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Oct
IST → DPS, answered.
Is $656 a good price for Istanbul to Bali?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $680 round-trip and this fare is 4% under it, about $24. 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 Bali?
Across 11 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Bali are Apr–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book IST → Bali?
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 11 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 Bali?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under AirAsia X. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
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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