The water at Sıcak Çermik comes out between 46 and 50 degrees, at a spa 31 kilometres from the centre of Sivas on the Ankara road. The provincial directorate gives its composition as sodium, sulphate, hydrocarbonate, magnesium and carbonate, and lists rheumatism, the nervous system, the respiratory tract, metabolic disorders, the kidneys and urinary tract, circulation and heart conditions among the complaints it is used for.
There is a rehabilitation centre on the site, attached to Cumhuriyet University. The spa is reached by road.
Getting there
- Access
- The spa is 31 km from the centre of Sivas and is reached by road.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Sivas as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -3.3 °C in January to 20.3 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in May (60 mm) and lightest in August (7 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
