Route brief · IST → EDI
Istanbul → Edinburgh
$192
−23% vs typical
seasonal median $250 · difference $58
Oct 8 – Oct 13 · 5 nights
Wizz Air UK1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $228–$269
- Board rank
- Stronger than 63%
- Route sample
- 9 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefEDIEdinburghA volcanic crag with a castle on it, a medieval old town below, and the Highlands within a morning.Best windowMay–SepAirportsEdinburgh (EDI)All routes into EdinburghWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 9 months, Oct is the cheapest for IST → EDI. Best time to be there: May–Sep.
Fares bottom out in October around $192 and peak in May near $336 — a $144 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 5.5 hours outbound, on a 5-night trip — ticketed under Wizz Air UK, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $192 for 2,854 km each way, that works out to about $34 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. For context, the middle fare among the 20 routes of similar length we watch out of Istanbul is $185.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: Oct 8 · $192 (24% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is unchanged since tracking began on Aug 8 — $241 then versus $241 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 $192, on Oct 8.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $192
23% below the $250 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Istanbul → Edinburgh · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) ↔ Edinburgh (EDI)
- Flight time
- ~5.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,854 km each way
- Typical price
- $250 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Wizz Air UK
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Sep
IST → EDI, answered.
Is $192 a good price for Istanbul to Edinburgh?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $250 round-trip. At $192 you're 23% below that, saving about $58, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Istanbul to Edinburgh?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Edinburgh are May–Sep — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book IST → Edinburgh?
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, Oct 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 Edinburgh?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Wizz Air UK. 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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