--- title: "Tunceli – what to see, and every way to get there | Mixroutes" description: "How to get to Tunceli from Şanlıurfa, Gaziantep and Kayseri: every way compared, with today's quickest and its fare. Tunceli is a municipality (belde) in…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/places/tunceli" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/places/tunceli.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/D%C3%AArsim.jpg" --- ![Tunceli](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/D%C3%AArsim.jpg) # Tunceli Tunceli is a municipality (belde) in Tunceli District and capital of Tunceli Province, Turkey. [Plan a trip to Tunceli](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Tunceli) [From Şanlıurfa](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=%C5%9Eanl%C4%B1urfa&to=Tunceli) ## Every way there - Şanlıurfa → Tunceli 225 km · quickest by road, 5h 22m · ₺640–850 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/sanl-urfa-to-tunceli) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=%C5%9Eanl%C4%B1urfa&to=Tunceli) - Gaziantep → Tunceli 295 km · quickest by road, 6h 14m · ₺860–1,150 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/gaziantep-to-tunceli) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Gaziantep&to=Tunceli) - Kayseri → Tunceli 353 km · quickest by road, 7h 21m · ₺1,030–1,370 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kayseri-to-tunceli) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Kayseri&to=Tunceli) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. The field note What is in and around Tunceli, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move. [Read the note on Tunceli](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tunceli) What Tunceli has - N Scheduled flights nearest airport GNY is 193 km away - Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 23 timetable feeds for this country, 1 with real-time - N Ferries no crossing within 25 km - Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band - N Bike and scooter share no share feed known - N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Akçapınar, 55 km. 39.106°, 39.547° The city has a Kurdish majority. The population is predominantly Kurdish Alevi, a distinct ethno-religious community whose identity has been shaped by the region's history of autonomy and resistance to central state authority. It had a population of 35,161 in 2021. Get in ## Getting to Tunceli The nearest airports are Elazığ (EZS IATA) to the south and Erzincan (ERC IATA) to the north, both with daily flights from Istanbul. Those are also the nearest railway stations. Elazığ has a train twice a week from Ankara, heading to Tatvan for connections to Van, Tabriz and Tehran. Erzincan has a daily train from Ankara heading for Erzurum and Kars. 1. Tunceli bus station is central See ## Worth seeing Tunceli Museum is on Ali Demir Cd next to Grand Şaroğlu Hotel, in a former barracks. It's open daily 08:00-17:00. Mosques are modern though in trad style. The main ones are Paşalar Cami, Paşa Cami, Cem Evi and Yunus Emre Merkez Cami. Munzur Valley National Park is a scenic area in the side-valley 7 km northwest of town. Do ## Things to do Atatürk Stadyumu is the main sports venue, 2 km south of town centre along D885. Beaches are the last thing you'd expect here, but there are sandy beaches on Pülümür River, on D885 8 km east of town. Eat ## Where to eat A cluster of small eating places in town centre are open daily 07:00-21:00. How locals move ## Getting around Tunceli the local way - Get in Shorter is the old road from Elazığ, 77 km via the Pertek ferry crossing of Keban barrage lake. From [Wikivoyage: Tunceli](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Tunceli), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-01. Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunceli) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Tunceli), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons. --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/places/tunceli, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt