Trabzon: a city next to the water — Photo by Youssef Mohamed on Unsplash

Best time to visit Trabzon

Turkey · Middle East

All twelve months scored on daily temperature, rainfall, humidity and holiday crowding.

The year in Trabzon

Tap a month for its page

Sweet spot
Good
OK
Avoid
Busy

Go in Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug or Nov — these months score within a whisker of each other; 17C max, 9 rainy days. Oct is the next best.

Plan this trip

Each site opens on its own search: choose your dates there. A few open on their home page, where you type the place too.

Links marked Ad pay us a commission if you book, at no extra cost to you; most pay nothing, and what a site pays never decides whether it is listed or where. How we rank

Flights

Choose where you fly from

Where to stay

Things to do

Car hire

Rent direct

Travel insurance

SafetyWing Ad

Mobile data (eSIM)

Each opens in a new tab, on the site's own pages.

Things to do in Trabzon

Sümela Monastery A spectacular monastery hewn into a cliff.
Hagia Sophia The city's top sight, a Byzantine church built in the 1250s, with beautiful frescoes, arches and friezes.
Fatih Mosque Mosque in Trabzon, northeastern Turkey
Girls Monastery The only nunnery in the city was built in the 1360s around one of the holy cave springs at Boztepe.
St Anne's Church Dinky little Greek Orthodox basilica from 6th / 7th century AD, one of the oldest buildings in the city.
Kaymaklı Monastery The Armenian Monastery of the All-Saviour is on a hill southeast of town.
Archaeology Museum This fine mansion was built for the banker Kostaki Teophylaktos in 1889.

Tours and tickets in Trabzon

Each site opens on its own search: choose your dates there. A few open on their home page, where you type the place too. Links marked Ad pay us a commission if you book, at no extra cost to you; most pay nothing, and what a site pays never decides whether it is listed or where. How we rank

Sights and their lines from Wikivoyage (Trabzon), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata; in order of how often each one's Wikipedia article was read on phones in the last 12 months.

Month by month

No fare history for this route yet, so this ranking is climate and crowds only — the price column will fill in as the scanner collects.

Month	Max °C	Rain days	Humidity	Sun h/day	Verdict	Why
Jan	12°	10d	67%	5.5h	ok	12C max, 10 rainy days
Feb	12°	9d	70%	6.3h	ok	12C max, 9 rainy days
Mar	13°	12d	76%	7.0h	ok	13C max, 12 rainy days
Apr	17°	9d	78%	8.7h	sweet spot	17C max, 9 rainy days
May	20°	11d	82%	9.9h	sweet spot	20C max, 11 rainy days
Jun	24°	8d	82%	11.3h	sweet spot	24C max, 8 rainy days
Jul	26°	7d	81%	10.4h	sweet spot busy	busier than usual
Aug	27°	7d	81%	9.7h	sweet spot busy	busier than usual
Sep	24°	10d	81%	8.7h	okbusy	busier than usual
Oct	21°	11d	78%	7.6h	good	21C max, 11 rainy days
Nov	17°	8d	71%	7.0h	sweet spot	17C max, 8 rainy days
Dec	14°	8d	68%	6.0h	ok	14C max, 8 rainy days

Rain days are the days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them.

Weather read at the centre (Meydan), 6 km from the airport (TZX): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one — usually it is crowded because the weather is good. It is flagged rather than scored down, and crowds alone never make a month “avoid”: that is reserved for weather worth skipping.

How busy it gets

Busiest from July to September; quietest from January to April.

Then and now

Trabzon's December days now average 14.2°C, 3.8°C warmer than in 1981–1990. 11 of 12 months are clearly warmer.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1981–90	8.1°	8.1°	10.2°	15.3°	18.1°	21.6°	23.5°	23.7°	21.8°	18.1°	13.8°	10.4°
2017–26	11.5°	11.6°	13.3°	16.6°	19.9°	23.9°	25.9°	26.7°	24.2°	20.7°	17.4°	14.2°
Change	+3.5°	+3.5°	+3.1°	+1.3°	+1.8°	+2.3°	+2.4°	+2.9°	+2.4°	+2.6°	+3.5°	+3.8°

The average daily high, month by month, for the nearest ERA5 grid cell. Bold is a clear change; grey is within the ordinary spread between years. Every destination, ranked.

Getting there

How far Trabzon is, and what it costs, depends on where you set off from — the months above do not.

Before you go

Type C and F plugs at 230 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Turkish lira. UK Foreign Office: avoid all travel to parts. Everything for Turkey: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

Being there

On arrival

Paying — Cards are widely accepted in cities, often with a PIN; carry lira for dolmuş minibuses, street food, markets, small shops and tips.
UPI, for visitors from India — Not accepted for paying here; bring a card that works abroad.
Tipping — About 5-10% in restaurants, left in cash because tips cannot go on a card; let taxi drivers keep the change.

Getting around Trabzon

Apps — Rides: BiTaksi, Uber. Maps: Google Maps, Apple Maps. Messages: WhatsApp. Uber and BiTaksi book licensed taxis.

Distances are less than 1 km but there's a lot of up and down, as the old city was built on a ridge between the ravines of Zagnos west and Kuzgun east. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Trabzon, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Help

Emergency — 112 (any emergency).
TravelCharika is not an emergency service: we cannot call for help or send anyone. Numbers can change; if one fails, ask someone local or your hotel.

Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 3 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.

Sources (10)

Trabzon in pictures

Trabzon,harbour — i

Bertramz, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sera Gölü Akçaabat Trabzon — i

Hamdigumus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

What Trabzon is like

Trabzon is the largest city in the Eastern Karadeniz region of Turkey, with a population of 323,000 in 2023, and another 500,000 in the outlying towns. It's now a lively place with good visitor facilities and attractions. More on Wikivoyage

Worth seeing: Pace yourself if you aim to tick off the city's scores of religious sites. When the Romans became Christian in the 4th century the pagan temples were replaced by churches, of which the oldest survivor is St Anne's. More on Wikivoyage
Worth doing: Football Trabzonspor (Papara Park), Şenol Güneş Stadium (bus to Akyazı). They play soccer in Süper Lig, the top tier. More on Wikivoyage
Getting in: Not by train: Trabzon is the largest city in Turkey to entirely lack a railway, which it needs for its Black Sea freight. They've been talking about building one for over a century and look set to continue. More on Wikivoyage
Staying safe: In the city beware traffic, safeguard valuables and avoid lowlife, same as anywhere else. Those rules also apply to remote areas, along with harsh weather, and the risk of slips and strains far from assistance. More on Wikivoyage

From the Wikivoyage article on Trabzon, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the full article has far more. The numbers above are measured; this is experience.

Around Trabzon

Also in Turkey

Nearby

Kind of place

Trabzon is in Turkey, Middle East. Distances are great-circle, so a short one can still be a long way round.

Links marked Ad pay us a commission if you book through one, at no extra cost to you. That does not affect the scores on this page, which are computed from climate and fare data before any link is built.