Guide
In Ilısu, a small town in Aksaray province at the head of the Ihlara Valley, people have bathed in the hot springs since Roman times: the Romans, who discovered the water, hollowed a bathhouse out of the rock, and that rock-cut bath is still used today. The provincial directorate of culture and tourism points out that the town stands on soft tuff, which is what made it possible to carve such a large bath here.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Aksaray as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 0.6 °C in January to 23.6 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in December (46 mm) and lightest in August (6 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
