
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 → MEX
Best fare, round trip
$898
−6%
below its usual $955
you keep $57
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $911 and $961. The drop beats 8% of measured fares on the board, over 12 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
MexicoMexico CityAltitude, murals, and arguably the best food city in the hemisphere at street prices.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsBenito Juárez (MEX) · Felipe Ángeles (NLU)Every route into Mexico CityFare seasonality
Fares bottom out in January around $898 and peak in October near $1,168, 30% dearer, across the 12 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 18 hours outbound, on a 11-night trip — ticketed under British Airways, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $898 for 11,427 km each way, that works out to about $39 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $42 per 1,000 km typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 24 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Mexico City, this fare ranks 8th — 21% above the $743 from Madrid. For context, the middle fare among the 25 routes of similar length we watch out of Istanbul is $857. The best time to be in Mexico City: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: 14 Jan '27, $898
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $1,140 then versus $1,172 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 $821, on 23 Nov.
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January 2027
Cheapest in Jan, around $898
6% below the $955 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Istanbul to Mexico City, from cached prices.
Route facts
Good to know
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $955 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.
Across 12 months of cached-fare history, Jan comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Mexico City are Mar–May · Oct–Nov — 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 British Airways. 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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