Route brief · OSL → IST
Oslo → Istanbul
$205
−7% vs typical
seasonal median $220 · difference $15
Nov 15 – Nov 27 · 12 nights
Wizz Air Malta1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $206–$221
- Board rank
- Stronger than 11%
- Route sample
- 5 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 5 months, Nov is the cheapest for OSL → IST. Best time to be there: Apr–May · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in November around $205 and peak in May near $252 — a $47 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 5 hours outbound, on a 12-night trip — ticketed under Wizz Air Malta, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $205 for 2,448 km each way, that works out to about $42 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 13 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Istanbul, this fare ranks 13th — 1.9× the $110 we hold from London. For context, the middle fare among the 12 routes of similar length we watch out of Oslo is $140.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 13% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $220 then versus $249 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 $172, on Oct 28.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 18 of 101 days priced, from 49 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Cheapest in Nov · around $205
7% below the $220 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Oslo → Istanbul · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Gardermoen (OSL) · Torp (TRF) ↔ Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW)
- Flight time
- ~5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,448 km each way
- Typical price
- $220 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Wizz Air Malta
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Sep–Oct
OSL → IST, answered.
Is $205 a good price for Oslo to Istanbul?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $220 round-trip and this fare is 7% under it, about $15. 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 Oslo to Istanbul?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Nov 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 OSL → 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, 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 Oslo to Istanbul?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Wizz Air Malta. 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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