Route brief · IST → YUL
Istanbul → Montreal
$617
−15% vs typical
seasonal median $730 · difference $113
Nov 17 – Nov 27 · 10 nights
Turkish Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $621–$742
- Board rank
- Stronger than 38%
- Route sample
- 8 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefYULMontrealFrench North America — cheap transatlantic fares in, and a summer festival calendar that never stops.Best windowJun–SepAirportsTrudeau (YUL)All routes into MontrealWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 8 months, Nov is the cheapest for IST → YUL. Best time to be there: Jun–Sep.
Fares bottom out in November around $617 and peak in October near $810 — a $193 spread across the 8 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 11.5 hours outbound, on a 10-night trip — ticketed under Turkish Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $617 for 7,722 km each way, that works out to about $40 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 13 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Montreal, this fare ranks 3rd — 19% above the $520 from Barcelona. For context, the middle fare among the 26 routes of similar length we watch out of Istanbul is $580.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is unchanged since tracking began on Aug 8 — $791 then versus $788 now, across 5 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 $591, on Nov 5.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 19 of 122 days priced, from 85 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Nov · around $617
15% below the $730 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Istanbul → Montreal · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) ↔ Trudeau (YUL)
- Flight time
- ~11.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~7,722 km each way
- Typical price
- $730 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Turkish Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Sep
IST → YUL, answered.
Is $617 a good price for Istanbul to Montreal?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $730 round-trip and this fare is 15% under it, about $113. 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 Montreal?
Across 8 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Montreal are Jun–Sep — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book IST → Montreal?
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 8 months of cached fares, Nov 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 Montreal?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Turkish Airlines. 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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