Ho Chi Minh City (SGN) to Istanbul (IST): 5,102 miles (8,211 km) great-circle, about 10h 40m nonstop by our estimate. Cheapest fare observed: $593 round-trip on Air China, with 2 stops, departing May 19, 2026.
$593 round-trip, Air China CA408, departing 2026-05-19 at 23:20, returning 2026-05-28. The recorded itinerary left on a Tuesday, returning on a Thursday 9 nights later; the fare was observed 24 days before departure. "Book this flight" opens Kiwi.com with the same airline and dates.
At $593, it ranked 22nd of the 30 round-trip fares we recorded from SGN (median $257). That is 11.6 cents per great-circle mile (round-trip price over one-way distance), below the SGN median of 21.2 cents across 30 round-trip routes.
Routes from SGN of similar length: St. Petersburg (5,101 mi) at $884 and Minsk (5,153 mi) at $892.
Air China had the cheapest fare on 4 of 30 SGN routes. It is the 3rd longest of the 30 routes we track from SGN.
Of 117 departure airports with a fare to Istanbul, Ho Chi Minh City (SGN) ranked 60th at $593. Lowest: $60 from Antalya (AYT); highest: $1639 from Wellington (WLG); 29 nonstop. Cheapest-fare airlines (routes): Pegasus Airlines (13), Qatar (7), WestJet (6), Wizz Air (6), Gulf Air (5) and Turkish (5), plus 51 more.
Travelpayouts fares (cheapest per route, observed April 25, 2026); OurAirports coordinates and elevations; IANA zones Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh, Europe/Istanbul; flight time is our estimate.