Istanbul to Lisbon flight

Flights from Istanbul to Lisbon start at €325.23 and take 8h 16m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Istanbul to Lisbon starts at €325.23 and takes 8h 16m door to door, run by 1 operator over 3,333 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked September 12, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 8h 16mDoor to door
  • 5h 6mMoving
  • €325.23From
  • 493.3 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 29, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€280.98
  1. Pegasus Airlines PA933507:303h 19m10:49Istanbul SAWBarcelona BCN
  2. easyJet Europe JE593611:351h 47m13:22Barcelona GROLisbon LIS

Changes at Barcelona, with 46 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 9h 2mCO2 820.7 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€321.69
  1. Turkish Airlines TA850514:115h 6m19:17Istanbul SAWLisbon LIS

Door to door 8h 16mCO2 493.3 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Turkish Airlines€321.697h 46m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Turkish Airlines

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A hotel room

A room in Lisbon for the night the flight gets in

Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.

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Booking window

When to book Istanbul to Lisbon

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

  1. €360.0490 days
  2. €239.6860 days
  3. €240.8645 days
  4. €211.3630 days
  5. €323.4621 days
  6. €346.4714 days
  7. €421.997 days
  8. €455.623 days
  9. €656.811 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €211.36.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 211 percent. The most expensive point is €656.81, 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. €410.19Sun
  2. €325.23Mon
  3. €351.78Tue
  4. €348.83Wed
  5. €436.74Thu
  6. €404.88Fri
  7. €346.47Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Istanbul

Air
  • IST
  • SAW

Lisbon

Air
  • LIS
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 3,333 km against 3,236 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Tirana. The gap between arriving and leaving is 46 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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 06:52 and the last at 14:11, across 6 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Istanbul to Lisbon

The questions people actually ask about this trip, 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 Lisbon take?

The Flight from Istanbul to Lisbon takes 8h 16m door to door, of which 5h 6m is spent moving. The route runs 3,333 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 Lisbon cost?

The Flight from Istanbul to Lisbon starts at €325.23 for one passenger, checked on September 12, 2026. A typical fare is €316.38. 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 Lisbon?

1 operators run the Flight from Istanbul to Lisbon: Turkish Airlines. Between them they file around 6 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 Lisbon use?

The Flight from Istanbul to Lisbon leaves from Istanbul SAW and arrives at Lisbon LIS. Allow about 3h 10m 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 Lisbon?

Fares for the Flight from Istanbul to Lisbon bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €211.36. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 211 percent, measured on September 12, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Flight from Istanbul to Lisbon produces about 493.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 3333 km, which works out at roughly 148 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Istanbul to Lisbon on September 12, 2026: 3333 km of route against 3236 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €325.23, and 8h 16m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

The fare from LIS into Lisbon is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.

A taxi stand outside an airport terminal

Getting from LIS into Lisbon?

Settled in advance, so the ride into Lisbon costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.

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