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$470 Find Cheap Flights from Istanbul to San Diego

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These are the airlines KAYAK users have selected most often from within our search results in flight searches from Istanbul to San Diego, as well as popular online travel agencies
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Cheapest round-trip
$692
Overall average: $753
British Airways
Fri 12/26Thu 1/15
IST - SAN • 1 stop
Cheapest one-way
$470
Typical prices: $804-$824
Multiple Airlines
Wed 12/10
IST - SAN • 2 stops
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British Airways
Cheapest • from $692 (round-trip)
Delta
Best reviews • 7.9 score
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May
Cheapest • 13% price drop
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Cheap Flights from Istanbul to San Diego (IST-SAN)

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Istanbul to San Diego that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
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Recent round-trip flight deals from Istanbul to San Diego

Fri, Dec 26 - Thu, Jan 15
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2:55 pm - 4:10 pmIST-SAN
36h 15m1 stop
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6:00 pm - 1:10 amSAN-IST
20h 10m1 stop
$692British Airways
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Sat, Nov 15 - Sat, Dec 6
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6:40 pm - 4:05 pmIST-SAN
32h 25m1 stop
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10:47 am - 8:15 pmSAN-IST
22h 28m2 stops
$693British Airways
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Mon, Nov 17 - Wed, Dec 3
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8:15 am - 4:10 pmIST-SAN
18h 55m1 stop
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8:25 am - 5:25 pmSAN-IST
22h 00m2 stops
$694British Airways
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Thu, Dec 25 - Sat, Jan 17
American Airlines Logo
7:35 am - 9:02 pmIST-SAN
24h 27m2 stops
American Airlines Logo
6:00 pm - 1:10 amSAN-IST
20h 10m1 stop
$701American Airlines
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Thu, Dec 25 - Sat, Jan 17
American Airlines Logo
7:35 am - 9:02 pmIST-SAN
24h 27m2 stops
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9:24 am - 5:25 pmSAN-IST
21h 01m2 stops
$706American Airlines
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Fri, Nov 14 - Fri, Dec 5
Delta Logo
5:55 pm - 6:20 pmIST-SAN
35h 25m2 stops
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6:25 am - 4:55 pmSAN-IST
23h 30m2 stops
$721Delta
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Sun, Nov 16 - Tue, Dec 2
Delta Logo
5:55 pm - 6:30 pmIST-SAN
35h 35m2 stops
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7:06 am - 4:55 pmSAN-IST
22h 49m2 stops
$722Delta
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Mon, Nov 17 - Wed, Dec 3
United Airlines Logo
6:30 am - 6:34 pmIST-SAN
23h 04m2 stops
United Airlines Logo
10:52 am - 10:45 pmSAN-IST
24h 53m3 stops
$844United Airlines
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Mon, Nov 17 - Wed, Dec 3
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2:50 pm - 11:31 amIST-SAN
31h 41m3 stops
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6:10 pm - 6:05 pmSAN-IST
36h 55m2 stops
$870Air Canada
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Thu, Dec 25 - Sat, Jan 17
United Airlines Logo
6:30 am - 6:41 pmIST-SAN
23h 11m2 stops
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6:15 am - 6:05 pmSAN-IST
24h 50m3 stops
$879United Airlines
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Istanbul to San Diego flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Istanbul to San Diego to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Istanbul to San Diego?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Istanbul Airport to San Diego clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

When flying from Istanbul to San Diego, you should consider leaving on a Wednesday and avoid Mondays if you are looking for the best rates. For your return to Istanbul, you’ll find the best rates on Wednesdays and the most expensive ones on Mondays.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Istanbul Airport to San Diego?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Istanbul Airport to San Diego, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.

The cheapest month for flights from Istanbul Airport to San Diego is May, where tickets cost $734 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are July and October, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $996 and $917 respectively.

Good to know

Low seasonApril
Cheapest flight$470
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 2% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 12% lower on average.
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When to book flights from Istanbul to San Diego

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Istanbul to San Diego based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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FAQs for booking Istanbul to San Diego flights

  • What is the cheapest flight from Istanbul Airport to San Diego?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Istanbul Airport to San Diego was $470 for a one-way ticket and $692 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between Istanbul and San Diego?

    A passport is required to fly from Istanbul to San Diego.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Istanbul to San Diego?

    We unfortunately don’t have that data for this specific route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Istanbul to San Diego?

    SkyTeam, and oneworld are the airline alliances operating flights between Istanbul and San Diego, with SkyTeam being the most commonly used for this route.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from Istanbul to San Diego, Delta or KLM?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from Istanbul to San Diego are Delta and KLM. With an average price for the route of $748 and an overall rating of 7.9, Delta is the most popular choice. KLM is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $791 and an overall rating of 7.7.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Istanbul to San Diego?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from Istanbul to San Diego.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Istanbul to San Diego?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to San Diego from Istanbul is likely to change within 7 days, so travelers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Istanbul to San Diego?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly to San Diego with an airline and back to Istanbul with another airline. Booking your flights between Istanbul and SAN can sometimes prove cheaper using this method.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Istanbul to San Diego?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to San Diego from Istanbul up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

Reviews of the top 4 airlines serving from Istanbul to San Diego

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Istanbul to San Diego. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
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7.9
DeltaOverall score based on 7973 reviews
7.3Food
8.5Crew
7.9Entertainment
7.9Comfort
8.2Boarding
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The crew took good care of us. The flight from ATL to SFO is a longer one, and there were multiple beverage offerings. I like the 757's that Delta uses. Good airplane that is comfortable. I do wish Delta would separate Priority boarding from the better seats. I would gladly take a smaller seat in an open row than be jammed into Comfort just to get priority boarding, just to make sure I don't have to check a bag.

10.0 ExcellentMatthew, Oct 2025ATL - SFO
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The crew took good care of us. The flight from ATL to SFO is a longer one, and there were multiple beverage offerings. I like the 757's that Delta uses. Good airplane that is comfortable. I do wish Delta would separate Priority boarding from the better seats. I would gladly take a smaller seat in an open row than be jammed into Comfort just to get priority boarding, just to make sure I don't have to check a bag.

The crew was not very visible. This might be a good thing for people who wanted to sleep but seemed odd when compared to the Atlantic crossing where they are more present in the cabin. The Food (beef) was not good. Tough and tasteless. Would love to see more choices on a long flight like that.

Gate agent rushed to fill hot jetway with crowd so it took over 12 minutes to go from gate to plane. Just like a discount airline Pooly prepared cabin and third time that claim of rough air prevented any cabin service. Friends on a Southwest flight at similar time had service.

The flight crew was friendly. I tried to adjust my seat online ahead of time but no option existed without additional fees. My friend asked at the gate about a seat change and was able to make it happen. That was great! The flight crew moved a very tall gentleman and his companion which allowed us to have more space which was nice. Overall, good experience. Appreciated the blanket and pillow.

I was uncomfortably cold on the plane. Other than that it was uneventful and therefore as enjoyable as a plane ride can be.

Food was surprisingly good but the WiFi was not great

My flight was extremely cold. I had a jacket and a cover was left in each seat. The cover was extremely thin and I have a disability, fibromyalgia and arthrithis and AC air is the worst. I closed my vent and my husbands vent and it still was frigid. I asked the attendant if I could get another cover and she quickly almost dismissively and totally unconcerned stating, (I quote) (one per chair) and walked off so quickly that I didn't get a chance to explain to her that I literally have adisability. I didnt want to make a seen so I set on that flight for over 5 hours in pain, joints locking up and extremely uncomfortable. When my fibromyalgia flares up my joints not only ache but they will lock up also and it takes me days to get back to my regular self even though I take medication for it. I felt like it would not have hurt anyone at all for her to just give me an extra cover because I'm sure they have all types of medical issues in people that fly every day.

Not a "Delta" issue, but a JFK issue: We booked a connecting flight with 3 1/2 hours between to clearn immigration and customs. Our inbound flight (BCN to JFK) was on the taxiway 45 minutes which ate into our layover time. Immigtration was insanely quick with the CBP MPC app; however, clearing TSA (again, after we were ALREADY cleared in Spain on the inbound international flight) took over 95 minutes. This left us with 10 minutes before boarding the connecting flight (JFK to SAN) to walk to the far end of Terminal 4 and try to find food. We didn't find any food that could promise to serve us in under 10 minutes so we boarded the Delta flight after coming off a plance and an 8-hour flight knowing that we wouldn't be served any food on the next 5 1/2 hour flight. I feel like Delta needs to put pressure on the JFK TSA to open more screening stations (by our count, we saw only 5 scanners open and a line of - as we said - over 90 minutes. The insult is that we WERE ALREADY SCREENED through TSA, but as you come off one flight into the USA, you have to go through the whole process again. It seems like if you have a connecting flight, there should be a way to pass through immigration and customs without needing to return through TSA.

There are 4 flights in consecutive gates with about the same departure time. Two flights were boarding at the same time. One was delayed or boarding would be happening at the same time. I am not sure what Delta and LAX need to do to have a better layout at the end of Terminal 2

5 hours of delay that could've been much shorter if Delta had taken the 1 hour delay they imposed on the flight before boarding to run any of the plane checks required for flight to find the hydraulic issue that required nearly 3 hours to fix. $24 of meal credit buys a sandwich and a soft drink. Poor communication within the terminal about what gate we'd be re-boarding from and when we'd be re-boarding.

At the airport, terrible, I do not want to even remember it. It was too humiliating for a business class passenger.

They forgot to serve food and the crew was very unfriendly. Never experienced such a bad KLM flight. Usually fly from Toronto. New York was different.

Over 1 Hr delay. No APU so no AC on ground. Plane was hot during boarding and then they closed the doors over 20 minutes before engine start so interior of plane was steamy hot and stuffy. Could have been helped by opening doors until ready to depart.

Ad experience - been flying many years with them but they are losing out to other carriers with their service and bagage / seating policy. My 2 12-yo kids were not placed with the parent. Absurdity.

Short flight so it was okay. Nice crew, all very pleasant and professional. We were near the back in row 27 so just as we got our drinks, we started our descent so had to drink very quickly!

The baggage drop-off in Stuttgart is bad: after online check-in you cannot use the automated baggage drop off as indicated on the website. You can use the terminals but have to cue to 1 of three open and slowly working counters to drop the bags. took about 45 minutes wait time.

Our first flight was delayed so we missed our connecting flight. However it was easy to book a later flight on their app.

My flight was delayed by 6 hours then I missed BOTH of my connecting flights, I then had to stay in the AIRPORT at JFK because soooooo many people also suffered from missing flights and there was no hotels available. I would like to be compensated for this experience! I had to stay in the airport for over 16 hours!

I appreciate that KLM was proactive in informing me of the 2 hour delay which enabled me to replan my travel. It was a bit stressful not knowing whether my connection from Montreal to Ottawa was happening. But the ground and air crew did a good job at comforting and assuring me.

Cabin crew professional, polite and friendly, boarding was seemless, but come on KLM surely you can do better than a pack of cheesy biscuits as an inflight snack

The flight crew was rude. We were in first class and no one even offered water until an hour after we were in the air. Horrible experience

Great. Quick and quiet and east. The breakfast choices were a welcome surprise!

The stewardess hit me with the food kart twice on the head and didn't say I'm sorry once. The same stewardess gave me a warm Apple Juice with No ice. The Flight was delayed for Departure 6 times, starting from 2:36pm, finally taking off 7:50pm. I was late picking up my child from the sitter by 3 hours.

Did not get the seat I selected and paid for.

My flight was delayed for several hours. Sitting at gate 16 for several hours, I got a text from Kayak the gate changed to 9 before it was announced. Very bad communication at each gate from American Airlines employees. I received 10 notifications of delay from Kayak. My vacation started off horrible! I will write to American Airlines corporate office also.

Delayed flight that lead to a missed connection and a 5-hour trip became a 12-hour flight 🙄

There is no room, no gluten free options, or any free internet/entertainment. You have to bring your own tablet or smartphone because there are no screens.

American Airlines is a mediocre airlines: they do not maintain the highest standard of cleanliness in the cabins, and the food is not well thought out. Service is not at top of mind compared to other international airlines such as Singapore Airlines, JAL or others.

Amazing food, great staff, with one noticable detail missing ...but no seat entertainment in any of aircraft ...I am not a fan

Boarding gate in Honolulu was staffed with a great clerk with a soothing voice despite the flight delay of over an hour. Flight attendants in the plane were all grumpy, not pleasant looking bunch. Their sour attitude showed throughout the flight. Inly able to get a select few movies started. Most of the movie links in the “free entertainment” did not work.

It was good although our flight to the UK was cancelled and rescheduled for two days later. This was after we were already seated on the plane. We missed the first leg of our trip. BA did put us up at a hotel and paid for our meals but we lost our hotel costs in Glasgow.

The crew was very nice and pleasant. We were very reluctant to book our flight with British Airlines because we had bad experience with their flight attendants on the previous trips, they were rude and not helpful.

I am a 25+ years American Airlines member. British Airways is simply above and beyond in every customer satisfaction category.

The seat pads are past there sell by date now and are uncomfotable. Also, with screens in the back of the seat, the seats shouldnt be able to recline as this puts rhe screen in your face.

1. The website didn’t allow me to checkin from London as I have Bangladesh passport with US permanent resident card. This pushed me to sit with my wife in the middle of two aisle seats, terrible experience! 2. BA should allow within 24 hours to checkin with other passport holders to choose better seats. A 2nd verification of travel documents can be done at the desk about immigration status. 3. Food options were poor for vegetarian passengers, try to introduce healthy options avoiding carb-dense food ingredients.

Cabin crew lovely and accommodating and I'll always fly BA in the future

It was perfect. The service was exceptional. I would never want to cross the Atlantic in anyone else's sardine tins.

As I have said it sucked, the ticket counter to have to find and pay for another airline to get home. Now I understand this happened over the weekend but they should have someone there to talk to us instead of throwing the regular crew under the bus.

Everything excellent except for bag drop off. We started at the D area and that was so slow that it was eventually closed just as we were about to go to a station. We then went to F. We got one suitcase checked and then the screen showed that the station was no longer operable. There were long lines everywhere so we had to ask if we could butt in to the next station to finish. Again, this was the only incident, otherwise it was an excellent flying experience

Adequate to good experience. Comfort was mediocre but everything else was good..

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