Karatay
Worth seeing in and around Karatay
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Karatay
- Airports
- Konya (KYA), 13 km · Antalya (AYT), 187 km · Nevşehir Kapadokya (NAV), 202 km
- Antalya → Karatay194 km · quickest by road, 4h 31m · ₺490–650
- Nevşehir → Karatay208 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · ₺405–540
- Tarsus → Karatay234 km · quickest by road, 4h 30m · ₺580–770
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Karatay
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Karatay. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThree trains continue east to Karaman (50 min), which has buses to Silifke for the Cyprus ferry.
- Get inThe Sufi Trail is a partly marked, 800-km hiking and cycling trail from Istanbul (with a ferry connection) through Yalova, İznik, Osmaneli, Bilecik, Söğüt, Eskişehir, Seyitgazi, Emirdağ, Akşehir, and Sille to Konya, with way-stops at various Sufi shrines and other ancient sites.
- Go nextAksaray – A laid-back city and great hub for the surrounding attractions near Güzelyurt, or like Tuz Gölü ("Salt Lake"), the second largest lake in Turkey is becoming a popular day trip from the Cappadocian towns, to wade across it shallow waters and to take a few pictures of its vivid, dreamlike views.
- Go nextIt's a stop-off on the way to Adana, and you change here for transport to the coast, for ferries to Cyprus.
From Wikivoyage: Konya, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Karatay – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Karatay
Karatay is 4 km from Konya, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.