✈ YVR → IST
VANCOUVER → ISTANBUL IN 12H 10M. CONSIDER BUSINESS CLASS. NO, REALLY.
Flight from Vancouver to Istanbul
From YVR (YVR), Canada North America → Istanbul Airport (IST), Turkey Europe
↔ Flying the other way? Istanbul → Vancouver
How long is the flight from Vancouver to Istanbul?
A nonstop flight from Vancouver (YVR) to Istanbul (IST) takes about 12 hours 10 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 5,957 miles (9,587 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
12h 10m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
5,957 mi
9,587 km · great-circle
Avg speed
788 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Vancouver timezone
UTC-7
America/Vancouver
Istanbul timezone
UTC+3
Europe/Istanbul
Time difference
+10h
10 hours ahead
Jet lag (rough)
~10d
Eastward — worse
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 Vancouver
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Long-haul from Vancouver
- Vancouver → Cape Town
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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