Route brief · IST → PRG
Istanbul → Prague
$105
−36% vs typical
seasonal median $165 · difference $60
Sep 16 – Sep 21 · 5 nights
Tarom1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $144–$178
- Board rank
- Stronger than 85%
- Route sample
- 10 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefPRGPragueA fairy-tale skyline priced like a spreadsheet error — Central Europe’s best value, full stop.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsVáclav Havel (PRG)All routes into PragueWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 10 months, Sep is the cheapest for IST → PRG. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in September around $105 and peak in July near $247 — a $142 spread across the 10 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 3 hours outbound, on a 5-night trip — ticketed under Tarom, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $105 for 1,511 km each way, that works out to about $35 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 5 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Prague, this fare ranks 3rd — 27% above the $83 from Barcelona. It is also the cheapest of the 8 routes of similar length we watch out of Istanbul.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Sep 24 · $135 (25% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 7% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $179 then versus $167 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 $132, on Sep 7.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $105
36% below the $165 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Istanbul → Prague · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) ↔ Václav Havel (PRG)
- Flight time
- ~3 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,511 km each way
- Typical price
- $165 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Tarom
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
IST → PRG, answered.
Is $105 a good price for Istanbul to Prague?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $165 round-trip. At $105 you're 36% below that, saving about $60, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Istanbul to Prague?
Across 10 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Prague are Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book IST → Prague?
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 10 months of cached fares, Sep 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 Prague?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Tarom. 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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