Rare1 stop · 10.5h
WAS to LIMPeru
Lima
$347
usually $630
−45%
Most monthly lows $409–$630. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · WAS → IST
Washington to Istanbul
Best fare, round trip
$739
−2%
below its usual $755
you keep $16
Found
- Depart
- Thu 3 Dec
- Return
- Fri 11 Dec
- Stay
- 8 nights
- Flight
- Nonstop · 10h
- Airline
Turkish Airlines
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $745 and $806. The drop beats 0% of measured fares on the board, over 7 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 December around $739 and peak in June near $879, 19% dearer, across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Turkish Airlines nonstop and takes about 10 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip. At $739 for 8,398 km each way, that works out to about $44 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 18 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Istanbul, this fare ranks 15th — 1.9× the $390 we hold from Seoul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 23 routes of similar length we watch out of Washington, where the middle fare is $775. 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 8% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $819 then versus $882 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 $409, on 13 Oct.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 16 of 107 days priced, from 116 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
November 2026
Sunday 1 November: $885. Compare fares from this day.Monday 2 November: $795. Compare fares from this day.34Thursday 5 November: $814. Compare fares from this day.Friday 6 November: $745. Compare fares from this day.78Monday 9 November: $824. Compare fares from this day.1011Thursday 12 November: $807. Compare fares from this day.Friday 13 November: $887. Compare fares from this day.1415161718Thursday 19 November: $918. Compare fares from this day.2021222324252627282930
December 2026
12Thursday 3 December: $739. Compare fares from this day.45678910111213141516171819Sunday 20 December: $1.3k. Compare fares from this day.2122232425Saturday 26 December: $931. Compare fares from this day.2728293031
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Cached fares · checked 17 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Dec, around $739
2% below the $755 typical fare
$766Oct, around the usual price. Compare October fares.$745Nov, around the usual price. Compare November fares.$739Dec, the cheapest month. Compare December fares.$740Feb ’27, around the usual price. Compare February fares.$806Apr, above the usual price. Compare April fares.$757May, around the usual price. Compare May fares.$879Jun, above the usual price. Compare June fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Washington to Istanbul, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Dulles (IAD) · Reagan National (DCA) · Baltimore (BWI) ↔ Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW)
- Flight time
- ≈10 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈8,398 km each way
- Typical price
- $755 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Turkish Airlines
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Sep–Oct
Good to know
WAS → IST, answered.
Is $739 a good price for Washington to Istanbul?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $755 round-trip and this fare is 2% 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 Washington to Istanbul?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Dec 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 WAS → 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 7 months of cached fares, Dec comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Washington to Istanbul?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Turkish Airlines). The outbound leg runs around 10 hours.
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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