At 1,650 metres and 15 kilometres west of Maçka, Kulindağı Yaylası is the first link, on the Maçka side, in the chain of yaylas that make up the Şolma Tourism Centre. Its slopes are covered with spruce, cedar and hornbeam, purple rhododendron and the yellow flowers known locally as zifin. There is electricity and water, and the people of Yeşilyurt and Örnekalan villages use it as a mezra, a seasonal outlying settlement.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Trabzon as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 7.3 °C in February to 23.5 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in October (113 mm) and lightest in July (37 mm). Long-term means for 1927-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
