Route brief · IST → OSL
Istanbul → Oslo
$205
−7% vs typical
seasonal median $220 · difference $15
Dec 7 – Dec 13 · 6 nights
Wizz Air1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $210–$225
- Board rank
- Stronger than 11%
- Route sample
- 6 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefOSLOsloExpensive once you land, cheap to reach — and the fjords are a train ride, not another flight.Best windowJun–AugAirportsGardermoen (OSL) · Torp (TRF)All routes into OsloWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 6 months, Dec is the cheapest for IST → OSL. Best time to be there: Jun–Aug.
Fares bottom out in December around $205 and peak in January near $257 — a $52 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 5 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under Wizz Air, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $205 for 2,448 km each way, that works out to about $42 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 6 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Oslo, this fare ranks 6th — 2.2× the $92 we hold from Rome. For context, the middle fare among the 20 routes of similar length we watch out of Istanbul is $182.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 1% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $235 then versus $238 now, across 4 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 $192, on Nov 19.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 10 of 101 days priced, from 50 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
November 2026
Cheapest in Dec · around $205
7% below the $220 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Istanbul → Oslo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) ↔ Gardermoen (OSL) · Torp (TRF)
- Flight time
- ~5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,448 km each way
- Typical price
- $220 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Wizz Air
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Aug
IST → OSL, answered.
Is $205 a good price for Istanbul to Oslo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $220 round-trip and this fare is 7% under it, about $15. 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 6 months of cached-fare history, Dec 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 6 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 Oslo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Wizz Air. 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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