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 → OSL
Istanbul to Oslo
Best fare, round trip
$172
−18%
below its usual $210
you keep $38
Found
- Depart
- Wed 30 Jun
- Return
- Thu 26 Aug
- Stay
- 57 nights
- Flight
- Nonstop · 3.5h
- Airline
Norwegian Air Shuttle
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $189 and $222. The drop beats 50% of measured fares on the board, over 8 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
NorwayOsloExpensive once you land, cheap to reach — and the fjords are a train ride, not another flight.Best windowJun–AugAirportsGardermoen (OSL) · Torp (TRF)Every route into OsloFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in June around $172 and peak in October near $308, 79% dearer, across the 8 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Norwegian Air Shuttle nonstop and takes about 3.5 hours outbound, on a 57-night trip. At $172 for 2,448 km each way, that works out to about $35 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $41 per 1,000 km typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 6 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Oslo, this fare ranks 4th — 2.0× the $84 we hold from Rome. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 20 routes of similar length we watch out of Istanbul, where the middle fare is $174. The best time to be in Oslo: Jun–Aug.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 39% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $235 then versus $326 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 $168, on 19 Dec.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 20 of 109 days priced, from 101 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
151617Sunday 18 October: $343. Compare fares from this day.19202122Friday 23 October: $332. Compare fares from this day.24Sunday 25 October: $308. Compare fares from this day.Monday 26 October: $457. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 27 October: $546. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 28 October: $522. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 29 October: $491. Compare fares from this day.Friday 30 October: $508. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 31 October: $558. Compare fares from this day.
November 2026
123456Saturday 7 November: $191. Compare fares from this day.8Monday 9 November: $217. Compare fares from this day.101112131415161718192021222324252627282930
December 2026
1Wednesday 2 December: $205. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 3 December: $217. Compare fares from this day.45678910111213141516Thursday 17 December: $254. Compare fares from this day.1819202122232425262728Tuesday 29 December: $232. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 30 December: $256. Compare fares from this day.31
January 2027
1Saturday 2 January: $439. Compare fares from this day.3456789101112131415161718192021222324Monday 25 January: $188. Compare fares from this day.262728293031
Cached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Jun, around $172
18% below the $210 typical fare
$308Oct, above the usual price. Compare October fares.$191Nov, below the usual price. Compare November fares.$205Dec, around the usual price. Compare December fares.$188Jan ’27, below the usual price. Compare January fares.$189Feb, below the usual price. Compare February fares.$222Mar, above the usual price. Compare March fares.$228May, above the usual price. Compare May fares.$172Jun, the cheapest month. Compare June fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Istanbul to Oslo, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) ↔ Gardermoen (OSL) · Torp (TRF)
- Flight time
- ≈3.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈2,448 km each way
- Typical price
- $210 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Norwegian Air Shuttle
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Aug
Good to know
IST → OSL, answered.
Is $172 a good price for Istanbul to Oslo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $210 round-trip and this fare is 18% 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 Oslo?
Across 8 months of cached-fare history, Jun comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Oslo are Jun–Aug — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book IST → Oslo?
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, Jun 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 Oslo?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Norwegian Air Shuttle). The outbound leg runs around 3.5 hours.
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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