
IST to YULCanada
Montreal
$462
usually $775
−40%
Most monthly lows $690–$798. Cheaper than every other month on record (8).
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Flights · IST → CUN
Best fare, round trip
$818
−8%
below its usual $885
you keep $67
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $818 and $1,032. The drop beats 15% of measured fares on the board, over 12 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
MexicoCancúnCaribbean blue, Mayan ruins, cenotes — the highest deal-frequency beach route in the Americas.Best windowDec–AprAirportsCancún (CUN)Every route into CancúnFare seasonality
Fares bottom out in January around $818 and peak in August near $1,436, 76% dearer, across the 12 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 15.5 hours outbound, on a 18-night trip — ticketed under Air Europa, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $818 for 10,452 km each way, that works out to about $39 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 19 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Cancún, this fare ranks 11th — 1.7× the $479 we hold from London. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 32 routes of similar length we watch out of Istanbul, where the middle fare is $818. The best time to be in Cancún: Dec–Apr.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: 20 Jan '27, $818
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $998 then versus $1,017 now, across 18 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 $736, on 9 Dec.
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Cheapest in Jan, around $818
8% below the $885 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Istanbul to Cancún, from cached prices.
Route facts
Good to know
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $885 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.
Across 12 months of cached-fare history, Jan comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Cancún are Dec–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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.
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air Europa. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
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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