Inflation Calculator Istanbul

Inflation Calculator for Istanbul

Prices paid by households in Istanbul follow the national consumer price index for Turkey, because official inflation is measured country-wide rather than city by city. In the latest month available, September 2026, annual consumer price inflation was 29.73% according to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) series compiled from the national statistics office.

Facts that change the answer

• Latest annual inflation: 29.73% (September 2026)
• National CPI change, calendar years 2000 to 2025: prices up 8825.0% in total (index 20.0 to 1784.3)
• Ten years, 2015 to 2025: prices up 1121.6%, so TRY 100 of 2025 buys what about TRY 8.2 bought in 2015
• Highest calendar-year inflation since 2001: 72.3% in 2022; lowest: 6.3% in 2009
• Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey policy rate: 37% (September 2026), which is above the latest national inflation rate of 29.73%
• Year by year: 2016 7.8%, 2017 11.1%, 2018 16.3%, 2019 15.2%, 2020 12.3%, 2021 19.6%, 2022 72.3%, 2023 53.9%, 2024 58.5%, 2025 34.9%
• Earlier years: 2001 54.5%, 2002 44.9%, 2003 25.3%, 2004 8.6%, 2005 8.2%, 2006 9.6%, 2007 8.8%, 2008 10.4%, 2009 6.3%, 2010 8.6%, 2011 6.5%, 2012 8.9%, 2013 7.5%, 2014 8.9%, 2015 7.7%
• Last 12 monthly readings: Oct 25 32.9%, Nov 25 31.1%, Dec 25 30.9%, Jan 26 30.7%, Feb 26 31.5%, Mar 26 30.9%, Apr 26 32.4%, May 26 32.6%, Jun 26 32.1%, Jul 26 31.8%, Aug 26 31.5%, Sep 26 29.7%

Worked example for Istanbul

Enter TRY 20,000 as today's cost, 29.73% as the inflation rate and 10 years. If prices in Istanbul kept rising at that pace, the same basket would cost TRY 270,044 in 2036, and TRY 20,000 left in cash would buy only what TRY 1,481 buys now. The figure of TRY 20,000 is just an example amount in Turkish lira; type your own rent, school fee or grocery bill instead.

The average of the ten calendar-year rates from 2016 to 2025 for Turkey works out at 30.2%. Try that figure as well as the latest 29.73% reading: the gap between the two shows how sensitive a long-range plan in Istanbul is to which rate you pick. For a 20-year horizon the difference between 30.2% and 29.73% changes the future cost of TRY 20,000 from TRY 3,911,119 to TRY 3,646,182.

Sources: BIS consumer price statistics · BIS central bank policy rates. Checked 5 November 2026. For how the maths works, see the Inflation Calculator guide.