Route brief · IST → NCE
Istanbul → Nice
$199
−17% vs typical
seasonal median $240 · difference $41
Dec 21 – Jan 8 '27 · 18 nights
PegasusNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $221–$239
- Board rank
- Stronger than 45%
- Route sample
- 8 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefNCENiceThe Riviera’s front door — Monaco, Antibes and Cannes all on a local train that costs a few euros.Best windowMay–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsCôte d’Azur (NCE)All routes into NiceWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 8 months, Dec is the cheapest for IST → NCE. Best time to be there: May–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in December around $199 and peak in March near $284 — a $85 spread across the 8 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Pegasus nonstop and takes about 3 hours outbound, on a 18-night trip. At $199 for 1,804 km each way, that works out to about $55 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Nice, this fare ranks 7th — 2.3× the $86 we hold from Lisbon. For context, the middle fare among the 14 routes of similar length we watch out of Istanbul is $147.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: Dec 21 · $199 (22% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 9% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $267 then versus $243 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 $169, on Nov 25.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Dec · around $199
17% below the $240 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Istanbul → Nice · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) ↔ Côte d’Azur (NCE)
- Flight time
- ~3 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,804 km each way
- Typical price
- $240 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Pegasus
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
IST → NCE, answered.
Is $199 a good price for Istanbul to Nice?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $240 round-trip and this fare is 17% under it, about $41. 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 Nice?
Across 8 months of cached-fare history, Dec comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Nice are May–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book IST → Nice?
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, Dec 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 Nice?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Pegasus). The outbound leg runs around 3 hours.
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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