Istanbul to Mecca flight

Flights from Istanbul to Mecca start at €221.39 and take 7h 22m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Istanbul to Mecca starts at €221.39 and takes 7h 22m door to door, run by 3 operators over 2,523 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked 23 September 2026Priced for 13 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 7h 22mDoor to door
  • 4h 26mMoving
  • €233.78 to €543.53From
  • 07:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 2Per day
  • 487.3 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 13 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€233.78 to €543.53 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €543.53Thu24
  2. about €504.59Fri25
  3. about €417.86Sat26
  4. about €433.20Sun27
  5. about €358.27Mon28
  6. about €314.61Tue29
  7. about €348.83Wed30
  8. about €344.11Thu1
  9. about €280.98Fri2
  10. about €289.83Sat3
  11. about €348.83Sun4
  12. about €280.39Mon5
  13. about €305.76Tue6
  14. about €233.78Wed7

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 13 October 2026

Cheapest€221.39
  1. Pegasus Airlines PA704607:303h 17m10:47İstanbul Airport ISTPrince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz Airport MED
  2. Saudi Arabia Railways SA200612:082h 32m14:40Madinah StationMakkah Railway Station

Changes at Madinah, with 81 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 9h 7mCO2 460.7 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€254.42
  1. flyadeal AI235107:303h 46m11:16İstanbul Airport ISTKing Abdulaziz International Airport JED
  2. Saudi Arabia Railways SA231412:1540m12:55Jeddah Railway StationMakkah Railway Station

Changes at Jeddah, with 59 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 7h 22mCO2 513.8 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Pegasus Airlines740 km/hFixed fareNot published
Saudi Arabia Railways140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi
flyadeal740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Pegasus Airlines
  • Saudi Arabia Railways
  • flyadeal

The flight gets you into Mecca. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Mecca for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Makkah Railway Station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Istanbul to Mecca

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €226.6990 days
  2. €207.2260 days
  3. €219.6145 days
  4. €203.6830 days
  5. €254.4321 days
  6. €233.7814 days
  7. €348.837 days
  8. €417.863 days
  9. €543.531 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €203.68.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 167 percent. The dearest point is €543.53, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €348.83Sun
  2. €280.39Mon
  3. €305.76Tue
  4. €254.43Wed
  5. €350.60Thu
  6. €280.98Fri
  7. €299.26Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Istanbul

Air
  • IST
  • SAW
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 2,523 km against 2,406 km in a straight line, a detour of 4 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Jeddah, Madinah. The gap between arriving and leaving is 59 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Istanbul at 07:30 and the last at 07:30, across 2 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Istanbul to Mecca

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Flight from Istanbul to Mecca take?

The Flight from Istanbul to Mecca takes 7h 22m door to door, of which 4h 26m is spent moving. The route runs 2,523 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Flight from Istanbul to Mecca cost?

The Flight from Istanbul to Mecca starts at €221.39 for one passenger, as of 23 September 2026. A typical fare is €237.91. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Istanbul to Mecca?

3 operators run the Flight from Istanbul to Mecca: Pegasus Airlines, Saudi Arabia Railways, flyadeal. Between them they file around 2 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Flight from Istanbul to Mecca use?

The Flight from Istanbul to Mecca leaves from İstanbul Airport IST and arrives at Makkah Railway Station. Allow about 1h 57m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Flight from Istanbul to Mecca?

Fares for the Flight from Istanbul to Mecca bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €203.68. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 167 percent, measured on 23 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Istanbul to Mecca produce?

The Flight from Istanbul to Mecca produces about 487.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 2523 km, which works out at roughly 193 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Flight from Istanbul to Mecca?

Operators on the Flight from Istanbul to Mecca publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 3 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 7h 22m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Istanbul to Mecca on 23 September 2026: 2523 km of route against 2406 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 3 operators a cheapest fare of €221.39, and 7h 22m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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