Route brief · IST → WAW
Istanbul → Warsaw
$147
−16% vs typical
seasonal median $175 · difference $28
Nov 6 – Nov 8 · 2 nights
Wizz Air1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $167–$204
- Board rank
- Stronger than 42%
- Route sample
- 9 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefWAWWarsawRebuilt from nothing and unsentimental about it — cheap, green, and far more interesting than its reputation.Best windowMay–SepAirportsChopin (WAW) · Modlin (WMI)All routes into WarsawWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 9 months, Nov is the cheapest for IST → WAW. Best time to be there: May–Sep.
Fares bottom out in November around $147 and peak in March near $239 — a $92 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 3.5 hours outbound, on a 2-night trip — ticketed under Wizz Air, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $147 for 1,386 km each way, that works out to about $53 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 10 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Warsaw, this fare ranks 8th — 4.1× the $36 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: Nov 6 · $147 (32% below median)
Tap any day → live search
The median cached fare across this calendar is 6% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $206 then versus $193 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 $146, on Nov 4.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Nov · around $147
16% below the $175 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Istanbul → Warsaw · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) ↔ Chopin (WAW) · Modlin (WMI)
- Flight time
- ~3.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,386 km each way
- Typical price
- $175 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Wizz Air
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Sep
IST → WAW, answered.
Is $147 a good price for Istanbul to Warsaw?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $175 round-trip and this fare is 16% under it, about $28. 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 Warsaw?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Warsaw are May–Sep — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book IST → Warsaw?
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 9 months of cached fares, Nov 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 Warsaw?
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.
Next step
Sleeping in Warsaw?
Lock the flight first — then compare stays for Nov 6 – Nov 8 · 2 nights.
Browse hotels ↗
Missed it?
Cached fares expire. This route has a feed of its own — follow it and the next IST → WAW drop reaches you as soon as we find it.
Follow IST → WAW