Great1 stop · 6h
MNL to SGNVietnam
Ho Chi Minh City
$178
usually $255
−30%
Most monthly lows $193–$255. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · MNL → IST
Manila to Istanbul
Best fare, round trip
$590
−5%
below its usual $620
you keep $30
Found
- Depart
- Wed 1 Sep
- Return
- Thu 30 Sep
- Stay
- 29 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 14.5h
- Airline
Saudia
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $600 and $632. The drop beats 5% of measured fares on the board, over 5 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
TürkiyeIstanbulTwo continents, one skyline of minarets. Turkish Airlines’ mega-hub means constant fare battles.Best windowApr–May · Sep–OctAirportsIstanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW)Every route into IstanbulFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in September around $590 and peak in January near $773, 31% dearer, across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 14.5 hours outbound, on a 29-night trip — ticketed under Saudia, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $590 for 9,114 km each way, that works out to about $32 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 21 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Istanbul, this fare ranks 10th — 51% above the $390 from Seoul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 32 routes of similar length we watch out of Manila, where the middle fare is $827. The best time to be in Istanbul: Apr–May · Sep–Oct.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 26% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $585 then versus $737 now, across 21 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 $487, on 22 Oct.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 11 of 107 days priced, from 68 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
November 2026
1Monday 2 November: $720. Compare fares from this day.345678Monday 9 November: $600. Compare fares from this day.1011121314151617181920Saturday 21 November: $619. Compare fares from this day.222324252627282930
December 2026
January 2027
12345678910111213Thursday 14 January: $773. Compare fares from this day.1516171819Wednesday 20 January: $778. Compare fares from this day.2122232425262728293031
Cached fares · checked 17 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Sep, around $590
5% below the $620 typical fare
$632Oct, around the usual price. Compare October fares.$600Nov, around the usual price. Compare November fares.$622Dec, around the usual price. Compare December fares.$773Jan ’27, above the usual price. Compare January fares.$590Sep, the cheapest month. Compare September fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Manila to Istanbul, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Ninoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK) ↔ Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW)
- Flight time
- ≈14.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈9,114 km each way
- Typical price
- $620 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Saudia
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Sep–Oct
Good to know
MNL → IST, answered.
Is $590 a good price for Manila to Istanbul?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $620 round-trip and this fare is 5% under it. 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 Manila to Istanbul?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Sep 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 MNL → 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 5 months of cached fares, Sep comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Manila to Istanbul?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Saudia. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). 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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