Route brief · LIS → IST
Lisbon → Istanbul
$116
−53% vs typical
seasonal median $245 · difference $129
Oct 20 – Oct 29 · 9 nights
Air Europa1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $198–$302
- Board rank
- Stronger than 97%
- Route sample
- 9 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefISTIstanbulTwo continents, one skyline of minarets. Turkish Airlines’ mega-hub means constant fare battles.Best windowApr–May · Sep–OctAirportsIstanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW)All routes into IstanbulWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 9 months, Oct is the cheapest for LIS → IST. Best time to be there: Apr–May · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in October around $116 and peak in July near $324 — a $208 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 5 hours outbound, on a 9-night trip — ticketed under Air Europa, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $116 for 3,237 km each way, that works out to about $18 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $39 that medium-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Istanbul, this fare ranks 2nd — 5% above the $110 from London. It is also the 2nd cheapest of the 13 routes of similar length we watch out of Lisbon.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Nov 6 · $198 (34% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 10% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $317 then versus $285 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 $198, on Nov 6.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $116
53% below the $245 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Lisbon → Istanbul · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Humberto Delgado (LIS) ↔ Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW)
- Flight time
- ~5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~3,237 km each way
- Typical price
- $245 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air Europa
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Sep–Oct
LIS → IST, answered.
Is $116 a good price for Lisbon to Istanbul?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $245 round-trip. At $116 you're 53% below that, saving about $129, which we rate rare for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Lisbon to Istanbul?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Istanbul are Apr–May · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book LIS → Istanbul?
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, 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 Lisbon to Istanbul?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air Europa. 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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