At 1,700 metres, Sazalan Yaylası (also written Sazalanı) lies 5 kilometres west of Erikbeli, which is itself 24 kilometres from Tonya. Its basic services are in place. The yayla is reached by an unsurfaced dirt road, and during the yayla season commercial vehicles carry passengers up.
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).
