✈ ICN → IST
10H 11M IN ECONOMY. PACK MELATONIN. PACK A NECK PILLOW. PACK REGRETS.
Flight from Seoul to Istanbul
From Incheon (ICN), South Korea Asia → Istanbul Airport (IST), Turkey Europe
↔ Flying the other way? Istanbul → Seoul
How long is the flight from Seoul to Istanbul?
A nonstop flight from Seoul (ICN) to Istanbul (IST) takes about 10 hours 11 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 4,923 miles (7,923 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
10h 11m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
4,923 mi
7,923 km · great-circle
Avg speed
778 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Seoul timezone
UTC+9
Asia/Seoul
Istanbul timezone
UTC+3
Europe/Istanbul
Time difference
-6h
6 hours behind
Jet lag (rough)
~4.2d
Westward — easier
CO₂ footprint per passenger
Economy class, single passenger. Source: DEFRA 2024 averages.
This flight emits roughly 3.6× the CO₂ of an equivalent train trip and 0.9× a car driven alone over the same distance.
Flights from Seoul
Nearest destinations
- Seoul → Shanghai
- Seoul → Osaka
- Seoul → Beijing
- Seoul → Tokyo
- Seoul → Taipei
- Seoul → Hong Kong
- Seoul → Manila
- Seoul → Bangkok
- Seoul → Kuala Lumpur
- Seoul → Singapore
Long-haul from Seoul
- Seoul → Buenos Aires
- Seoul → Santiago
- Seoul → São Paulo
- Seoul → Rio de Janeiro
- Seoul → Cape Town
- Seoul → Cancun
- Seoul → Miami
- Seoul → Johannesburg
- Seoul → Mexico City
- Seoul → Atlanta
More flights to Europe
Flights to Istanbul
Nearest origins
- Bucharest → Istanbul
- Athens → Istanbul
- Budapest → Istanbul
- Tel Aviv → Istanbul
- Vienna → Istanbul
- Cairo → Istanbul
- Warsaw → Istanbul
- Rome → Istanbul
- Prague → Istanbul
- Munich → Istanbul
Long-haul to Istanbul
- Auckland → Istanbul
- Sydney → Istanbul
- Melbourne → Istanbul
- Santiago → Istanbul
- Buenos Aires → Istanbul
- Mexico City → Istanbul
- Los Angeles → Istanbul
- San Francisco → Istanbul
- Las Vegas → Istanbul
- São Paulo → Istanbul