Çukur Hamam stands on the southern skirt of Kahramanmaraş castle, inside the urban conservation area.
It has been repaired many times and, the provincial directorate says, has kept its original character through them. From written sources it estimates the bath was built in the second half of the fifteenth century, under the Dulkadiroğlu principality.
In plan it belongs to the group of baths with four iwans and corner cells serving as private washing rooms.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Kahramanmaraş as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 4.9 °C in January to 28.5 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in April, May, June, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (131 mm) and lightest in August (2 mm). Long-term means for 1930-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
