Weekend trips from Istanbul
93 cities across 32 countries sit within a 3½-hour flight of Istanbul (Türkiye). 11 of them are under 90 minutes away, the closest being Varna at roughly 55m. Below is the full range by flight time, and above it, live prices for the next three weekends.
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Where you can get to from Istanbul
Flight times are estimated from the great-circle distance — a planning aid, not a timetable. Actual schedules and whether anyone flies the route at all show up in the live search above.
Under 1h 30m
Short enough to leave after work on Friday and still make dinner.
- Varna Bulgaria55m
- Izmir Türkiye1h
- Ankara Türkiye1h 02m
- Bucharest Romania1h 08m
- Antalya Türkiye1h 11m
- Sofia Bulgaria1h 11m
- Thessaloniki Greece1h 12m
- Rhodes Greece1h 13m
- Athens Greece1h 15m
- Skopje North Macedonia1h 20m
- Heraklion Greece1h 28m
1h 30m to 2h 30m
The sweet spot: far enough to feel elsewhere, back by Sunday night.
- Tirana Albania1h 32m
- Cluj Romania1h 32m
- Corfu Greece1h 33m
- Larnaca Cyprus1h 35m
- Belgrade Serbia1h 35m
- Timisoara Romania1h 35m
- Podgorica Montenegro1h 35m
- Dubrovnik Croatia1h 42m
- Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina1h 44m
- Bari Italy1h 50m
- Budapest Hungary1h 54m
- Split Croatia1h 55m
- Zagreb Croatia2h 02m
- Bratislava Slovakia2h 06m
- Naples Italy2h 06m
- Krakow Poland2h 07m
- Catania Italy2h 08m
- Graz Austria2h 09m
- Vienna Austria2h 10m
- Katowice Poland2h 11m
+ 13 more in this range
2h 30m to 3h 30m
Worth it for two nights if the flight times are kind.
- Pisa Italy2h 30m
- Vilnius Lithuania2h 30m
- Innsbruck Austria2h 31m
- Poznan Poland2h 32m
- Munich Germany2h 33m
- Kaunas Lithuania2h 34m
- Dresden Germany2h 36m
- Milan Italy2h 39m
- Nuremberg Germany2h 40m
- Gdansk Poland2h 40m
- Leipzig Germany2h 44m
- Berlin Germany2h 45m
- Zurich Switzerland2h 47m
- Stuttgart Germany2h 47m
- Turin Italy2h 48m
- Nice France2h 50m
- Riga Latvia2h 50m
- Strasbourg France2h 54m
- Basel Switzerland2h 54m
- Frankfurt Germany2h 55m
+ 29 more in this range