Route brief · IST → VCE
Istanbul → Venice
$160
−14% vs typical
seasonal median $185 · difference $25
Oct 1 – Oct 8 · 7 nights
Turkish Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $166–$190
- Board rank
- Stronger than 35%
- Route sample
- 10 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefVCEVeniceImpossible and overrun, and still worth it in the hours the day-trippers are not there.Best windowApr–May · Oct–NovAirportsMarco Polo (VCE) · Treviso (TSF)All routes into VeniceWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 10 months, Oct is the cheapest for IST → VCE. Best time to be there: Apr–May · Oct–Nov.
Fares bottom out in October around $160 and peak in June near $290 — a $130 spread across the 10 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 3.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Turkish Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $160 for 1,434 km each way, that works out to about $56 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 8 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Venice, this fare ranks 8th — 3.3× the $48 we hold from Madrid. For context, the middle fare among the 7 routes of similar length we watch out of Istanbul is $150.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Nov 4 · $146 (24% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 1% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $192 then versus $191 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 $146, on Nov 4.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $160
14% below the $185 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Istanbul → Venice · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) ↔ Marco Polo (VCE) · Treviso (TSF)
- Flight time
- ~3.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,434 km each way
- Typical price
- $185 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Turkish Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Oct–Nov
IST → VCE, answered.
Is $160 a good price for Istanbul to Venice?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $185 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 Venice?
Across 10 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Venice are Apr–May · Oct–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book IST → Venice?
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, Oct 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 Venice?
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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