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 → HOU
Istanbul to Houston
Best fare, round trip
$704
−6%
below its usual $745
you keep $41
Found
- Depart
- Sat 31 Oct
- Return
- Sat 7 Nov
- Stay
- 7 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 14h
- Airline
KLM
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $705 and $761. The drop beats 8% of measured fares on the board, over 5 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
United StatesHoustonUnited’s Latin America gateway, the best Vietnamese food in the country, and NASA on the edge of town.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsBush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU)Every route into HoustonFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares on this route stay within about $82 across the 5 months we track — season matters less here than timing the drop. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 14 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under KLM, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $704 for 10,288 km each way, that works out to about $34 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 20 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Houston, this fare ranks 2nd — 10% above the $641 from Milan. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 32 routes of similar length we watch out of Istanbul, where the middle fare is $749. The best time to be in Houston: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 12% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $785 then versus $881 now, across 21 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 $677, on 13 Dec.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 14 of 107 days priced, from 110 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
Saturday 17 October: $1.5k. Compare fares from this day.Sunday 18 October: $1.8k. Compare fares from this day.Monday 19 October: $892. Compare fares from this day.20Wednesday 21 October: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 22 October: $886. Compare fares from this day.2324252627282930Saturday 31 October: $704. Compare fares from this day.
November 2026
1234567Sunday 8 November: $875. Compare fares from this day.910Wednesday 11 November: $705. Compare fares from this day.12Friday 13 November: $786. Compare fares from this day.1415Monday 16 November: $804. Compare fares from this day.17181920212223242526Friday 27 November: $1k. Compare fares from this day.282930
December 2026
12345678Wednesday 9 December: $744. Compare fares from this day.1011121314151617181920212223242526272829Wednesday 30 December: $949. Compare fares from this day.31
January 2027
123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930Sunday 31 January: $761. Compare fares from this day.
Cached fares · checked 17 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Oct, around $704
6% below the $745 typical fare
$704Oct, the cheapest month. Compare October fares.$705Nov, below the usual price. Compare November fares.$744Dec, around the usual price. Compare December fares.$761Jan ’27, around the usual price. Compare January fares.$786Feb, above the usual price. Compare February fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Istanbul to Houston, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) ↔ Bush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU)
- Flight time
- ≈14 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈10,288 km each way
- Typical price
- $745 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- KLM
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
Good to know
IST → HOU, answered.
Is $704 a good price for Istanbul to Houston?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $745 round-trip and this fare is 6% 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.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Istanbul to Houston?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Houston are Mar–May · Oct–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book IST → Houston?
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 5 months of cached fares, Oct 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 Houston?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under KLM. 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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