Route brief · ROM → IST
Rome → Istanbul
$153
−10% vs typical
seasonal median $170 · difference $17
Sep 16 – Sep 29 · 13 nights
Wizz Air Malta1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $163–$196
- Board rank
- Stronger than 20%
- 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, Sep is the cheapest for ROM → IST. Best time to be there: Apr–May · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in September around $153 and peak in July near $208 — a $55 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 13-night trip — ticketed under Wizz Air Malta, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $153 for 1,375 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 4 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Istanbul, this fare ranks 4th — 27% above the $120 from Vienna. For context, the middle fare among the 13 routes of similar length we watch out of Rome is $67.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Sep 22 · $139 (25% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $184 then versus $180 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 $139, on Sep 22.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $153
10% below the $170 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Rome → Istanbul · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Fiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA) ↔ Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW)
- Flight time
- ~3.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,375 km each way
- Typical price
- $170 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Wizz Air Malta
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Sep–Oct
ROM → IST, answered.
Is $153 a good price for Rome to Istanbul?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $170 round-trip and this fare is 10% under it, about $17. 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 Rome to Istanbul?
Across 9 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 ROM → 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, Sep comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Rome 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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