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Istanbul decorates for 31 December, not 25 December. If you are sending flowers here this winter, that one fact decides your delivery date.
December in Istanbul looks festive, but not for the reason most senders assume. The lights along İstiklal, the trees in hotel lobbies, the decorated shop windows, nearly all of it goes up for 31 December. Christmas Day is an ordinary working day in Turkey. New Year's Eve, yılbaşı, is the night families gather, cook, stay up together and exchange gifts. If you are ordering flowers for someone in Istanbul this winter, that single fact usually changes the date you should choose.
If you are spending New Year in Istanbul, flowers can be delivered to your hotel, see send flowers to a hotel in Istanbul. For a home address, use our same-day flower delivery in Istanbul page.
For a Turkish recipient, 31 December is almost always the right delivery date. The evening window, 18:00 to 22:00, puts the arrangement on the table before guests arrive, while an afternoon delivery gives the household time to place it. For an expatriate, a foreign colleague or a mixed family, 24 or 25 December may still be the meaningful date, and because those are normal working days in Turkey, we deliver then exactly as on any other day, including Sundays. 1 January is a public holiday in Turkey, and we deliver then too, on the same nine windows. After a late night most households wake up slowly, so a midday or afternoon window suits that day better than the first morning slot.
A Turkish New Year table is a full one, so an arrangement that competes with the food rarely works. Compact vase pieces, red and white roses, and white orchids all sit well on a laid table. If the gift is meant to last past the night itself, a potted plant is the better call, our plants and orchids stay presentable long after cut stems have gone over, which matters when the recipient goes straight into a week of visits.
Our same-day cutoff is 18:00 Istanbul time, which is 15:00 in London and 16:00 in Paris or Berlin, and the cutoff guide explains why that catches out so many evening orders. Late December is the one stretch of the year when we would push you further than that: book a fixed date two or three days ahead rather than relying on same day, because florists and couriers across the city are at their busiest. Give the full address with apartment and floor, as covered in our neighbourhood guide, since a building door in December is a slower thing to solve than any distance across the city.
Prices are shown in euros, pounds or dollars as well as lira, and you pay in the currency you see, as explained in paying in euros or lira. For what a typical arrangement costs at each budget, see our Istanbul flower price guide. Before the arrangement leaves the workshop we photograph it and send you the photo on WhatsApp, so you see what will arrive on the New Year table even from another country.
Browse the current collection and set your delivery date at checkout, any of the nine daily windows, seven days a week.
New Year is the one that matters for gift giving. 25 December is a normal working day in Turkey, and the decorations you see around Istanbul in December are almost all for 31 December, yılbaşı, when families gather and exchange gifts.
Yes. Christmas Day is a regular working day in Turkey, so our usual nine delivery windows apply, the same as any other day of the week including Sundays. For 31 December, the busiest evening of the year, book two or three days ahead.
Yes. New Year's Day is a public holiday in Turkey, but we deliver as on any other day, on the usual nine windows between 09:00 and 22:00. A midday or afternoon window usually suits a household that celebrated late the night before.
Compact vase arrangements, red and white roses and white orchids all work on a laid New Year table without crowding it. If you want the gift to outlast the evening, a potted plant or orchid is the better choice.
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