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Flights to Istanbul: how far it is, and from where

Istanbul sits at 41.3°N, 28.7°E, served by İstanbul (IST). Below are 12 routes into it, with the great circle distance and an estimated flying time for each.

This page is about distance and geography — there are no fares or schedules on it. For tickets, use a booking site; for how far it actually is and what you fly over to get there, you’re in the right place.

Routes here
12
in the catalogue
Nearest
424 km
from Bucharest
Furthest
8,980 km
from Tokyo
Airports
1
IST

How far Istanbul is from everywhere else

Great circle distance between the airports, and an estimate of the time in the air. Every row links to the route in full.

FromDistanceEstimatedDirection
BucharestOTP424 km1h 02mbarely any time shift
AthensATH553 km1h 11mbarely any time shift
CairoCAI1,264 km2h 04mbarely any time shift
FrankfurtFRA1,837 km2h 47meastbound — the harder direction
ParisCDG2,212 km3h 15meastbound — the harder direction
LondonLHR2,487 km3h 35meastbound — the harder direction
DubaiDXB3,030 km4h 16mwestbound — the easier direction
JohannesburgJNB7,496 km9h 49mbarely any time shift
BangkokBKK7,514 km9h 50mwestbound — the easier direction
New YorkJFK8,026 km10h 28meastbound — the harder direction
SingaporeSIN8,681 km11h 17mwestbound — the easier direction
TokyoNRT8,980 km11h 40mwestbound — the easier direction

What Istanbul adds to a map

Istanbul puts a pin in Turkey, and Europe is one of the seven continents — the coarsest and most useful measure of how much of the world a flight map actually covers. The furthest route here, from Tokyo, is 8,980 km: 22.4% of one lap of the Earth in a single flight.

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