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Trabzon, Sümela & the Eastern Black Sea: 4-Day Plan You Can Actually Do
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The 4-day version for July: every day fits real transit, opening hours and daylight.
💡 Good to know for this plan
- ~14.7 hours of daylight in July.
- The reviewed summer baseline still requires same-day rain, fog, mountain-road, roadworks and site-access checks.
Before you go · check live details
This is a planning draft. Check these changing details for your dates before booking or travelling.
Some route advice is currently available in English.
- Check current road, rain, fog and mountain conditions.
Recheck the KGM daily bulletin and local weather immediately before every leg. Do not substitute unsigned highland roads when the reviewed corridor is disrupted.
Check source ↗ - The baseline includes no highland trek, remote yayla road or hot-spring session.
Pokut, Sal and other remote highland roads, trekking, guided outings and thermal facilities require separate current research and booking; they are not generated by default.
Check source ↗ - Check current Sümela admission and access.
Confirm dated opening hours, closure notices, admission, parking or shuttle arrangements and the return to Trabzon. A route selection is not a ticket.
Check source ↗
Day 1 Trabzon public Black Sea heritage day
- Transit
- none
- Finish
- ~15:00
- Temperature
- 21.6°C–25.8°C
- Rainy days
- ~5
- Daylight
- 14.7h
Day 2 Sümela prebooked public monastery return day
- Transit
- 0h01
- Finish
- ~15:05
- Temperature
- 21.6°C–25.8°C
- Rainy days
- ~5
- Daylight
- 14.7h
Day 3 Rize reserved coast-road and public tea-heritage day
- Transit
- 2h24
- Finish
- ~17:15
- Temperature
- 16.4°C–23.1°C
- Rainy days
- ~9
- Daylight
- 14.7h
Day 4 Ayder reserved mountain-road and public village day
- Transit
- 2h45
- Finish
- ~17:30
- Temperature
- 11.3°C–21.1°C
- Rainy days
- ~12
- Daylight
- 14.7h
🔍 Check before you book
Every stop is a real, sourced place, but opening hours change, roads close and businesses move. Check anything you're paying for before you book.
Sources (6)
- Trabzon public Black Sea heritage circuit — goturkiye.comOfficial public source; original paraphrase
- Wikivoyage — TrabzonCC BY-SA 4.0 (facts extracted; prose not redistributed)
- Sümela prebooked public monastery return circuit — dosim.ktb.gov.trOfficial public source; original paraphrase
- Rize reserved coast-road and public tea-heritage circuit — goturkiye.comOfficial public source; original paraphrase
- Wikivoyage — RizeCC BY-SA 4.0 (facts extracted; prose not redistributed)
- Wikivoyage — AyderCC BY-SA 4.0 (facts extracted; prose not redistributed)