Route brief · IST → ROM
Istanbul → Rome
$150
−14% vs typical
seasonal median $175 · difference $25
Sep 29 – Oct 3 · 4 nights
Turkish Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $166–$193
- Board rank
- Stronger than 35%
- Route sample
- 12 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefROMRomeTwenty-eight centuries of showing off. Shoulder-season fares make the Colosseum a weekend idea.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsFiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA)All routes into RomeWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 12 months, Sep is the cheapest for IST → ROM. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in September around $150 and peak in August near $203 — a $53 spread across the 12 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 3.5 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip — ticketed under Turkish Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $150 for 1,375 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 9 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Rome, this fare ranks 8th — 3.8× the $40 we hold from Brussels. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 8 routes of similar length we watch out of Istanbul, where the middle fare is $150.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Sep 22 · $147 (18% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 1% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $177 then versus $175 now, across 7 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 $147, on Sep 22.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $150
14% below the $175 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Istanbul → Rome · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) ↔ Fiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA)
- Flight time
- ~3.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,375 km each way
- Typical price
- $175 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Turkish Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
IST → ROM, answered.
Is $150 a good price for Istanbul to Rome?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $175 round-trip and this fare is 14% under it, about $25. 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 Rome?
Across 12 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Rome are Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book IST → Rome?
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 12 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 Rome?
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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