Route brief · IST → TLV
Istanbul → Tel Aviv
$158
−21% vs typical
seasonal median $200 · difference $42
Dec 8 – Dec 10 · 2 nights
Tarom1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $163–$205
- Board rank
- Stronger than 58%
- Route sample
- 8 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefTLVTel AvivBauhaus blocks, a beach in the middle of the city, and Jerusalem an hour away.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsBen Gurion (TLV)All routes into Tel AvivWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 8 months, Dec is the cheapest for IST → TLV. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in December around $158 and peak in September near $298 — a $140 spread across the 8 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 4 hours outbound, on a 2-night trip — ticketed under Tarom, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $158 for 1,119 km each way, that works out to about $71 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Oct 29 · $202 (43% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 10% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $371 then versus $335 now, across 8 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 2.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Dec · around $158
21% below the $200 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Istanbul → Tel Aviv · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) ↔ Ben Gurion (TLV)
- Flight time
- ~4 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,119 km each way
- Typical price
- $200 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Tarom
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
IST → TLV, answered.
Is $158 a good price for Istanbul to Tel Aviv?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $200 round-trip. At $158 you're 21% below that, saving about $42, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Istanbul to Tel Aviv?
Across 8 months of cached-fare history, Dec comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Tel Aviv are Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book IST → Tel Aviv?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Tel Aviv?
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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