Route brief · IST → LIS
Istanbul → Lisbon
$181
−20% vs typical
seasonal median $225 · difference $44
Jan 26 '27 – Feb 7 '27 · 12 nights
LOT Polish1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $200–$271
- Board rank
- Stronger than 55%
- Route sample
- 11 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefLISLisbonTiled hills, custard tarts, Atlantic light — TAP’s hub wars keep this Europe’s cheapest gateway.Best windowMar–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsHumberto Delgado (LIS)All routes into LisbonWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 11 months, Jan is the cheapest for IST → LIS. Best time to be there: Mar–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in January around $181 and peak in July near $289 — a $108 spread across the 11 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 7 hours outbound, on a 12-night trip — ticketed under LOT Polish, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $181 for 3,237 km each way, that works out to about $28 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 5 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Lisbon, this fare ranks 5th — 55% above the $117 from Copenhagen. It is also the 3rd cheapest of the 12 routes of similar length we watch out of Istanbul.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Nov 6 · $203 (30% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $288 then versus $282 now, across 7 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 $203, on Nov 6.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Jan · around $181
20% below the $225 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Istanbul → Lisbon · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) ↔ Humberto Delgado (LIS)
- Flight time
- ~7 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~3,237 km each way
- Typical price
- $225 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- LOT Polish
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–Jun · Sep–Oct
IST → LIS, answered.
Is $181 a good price for Istanbul to Lisbon?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $225 round-trip. At $181 you're 20% below that, saving about $44, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Istanbul to Lisbon?
Across 11 months of cached-fare history, Jan comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Lisbon are Mar–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book IST → Lisbon?
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, Jan 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 Lisbon?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under LOT Polish. 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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