Driving times between Cappadocia’s towns and sights

Driving times between Cappadocia’s 5 towns, and from each of them to 21 places, from road routes on OpenStreetMap data: the driving part only, not parking or the walk in. From Göreme, the nearest place by car is Göreme Open-Air Museum (about 3 min) and the farthest is Ihlara Valley walk (about 1 h 23 min).

Between the towns

Driving time from the town in the row to the town in the column

From	To Göreme	To Uçhisar	To Ürgüp	To Ortahisar	To Avanos
Göreme	–	6 min	10 min	8 min	11 min
Uçhisar	6 min	–	13 min	10 min	16 min
Ürgüp	12 min	13 min	–	7 min	16 min
Ortahisar	9 min	10 min	6 min	–	18 min
Avanos	11 min	16 min	15 min	17 min	–

Each time is for one direction; the way back can take a little more or less. Road routes computed from OpenStreetMap data: © OpenStreetMap contributors. Drive times are the driving part of a road route (map points: secondary source; © OpenStreetMap contributors).

From each town to each place

Driving time from each town (columns) to each place (rows), nearest to Göreme first

Place	From Göreme	From Uçhisar	From Ürgüp	From Ortahisar	From Avanos
Göreme Sunset Point (Lovers' Hill)	in town	7 min	13 min	9 min	11 min
Pigeon Valley walk (Güvercinlik)	in town	7 min	14 min	10 min	12 min
Zemi Valley walk	in town	7 min	13 min	9 min	11 min
Göreme Open-Air Museum	3 min	8 min	10 min	7 min	12 min
Çavuşin old village	6 min	11 min	16 min	13 min	7 min
Uçhisar Castle	6 min	in town	14 min	11 min	16 min
Meskendir Valley walk	7 min	9 min	6 min	3 min	16 min
Paşabağ (Monks Valley)	7 min	13 min	15 min	14 min	8 min
Three Graces (Üç Güzeller)	8 min	10 min	4 min	4 min	15 min
Ortahisar Castle	9 min	10 min	8 min	in town	18 min
Zelve Open-Air Museum	9 min	14 min	14 min	16 min	8 min
Ürgüp centre & Temenni Hill	11 min	13 min	in town	7 min	15 min
Devrent (Imagination) Valley	14 min	17 min	8 min	11 min	9 min
Sarıhan Caravanserai	15 min	20 min	12 min	15 min	7 min
Mustafapaşa	17 min	20 min	9 min	13 min	22 min
Gülşehir Open Palace (Açık Saray)	22 min	18 min	27 min	24 min	26 min
Kaymaklı Underground City	26 min	22 min	31 min	28 min	30 min
Özkonak Underground City	31 min	36 min	35 min	38 min	21 min
Derinkuyu Underground City	34 min	30 min	39 min	35 min	38 min
Selime Monastery	1 h 22 min	1 h 18 min	1 h 27 min	1 h 23 min	1 h 26 min
Ihlara Valley walk	1 h 23 min	1 h 19 min	1 h 27 min	1 h 24 min	1 h 27 min

“In town”: under a kilometre from the town’s centre point in a straight line; no drive is given. Each time is for one direction; the way back can take a little more or less. Road routes computed from OpenStreetMap data: © OpenStreetMap contributors. Drive times are the driving part of a road route (map points: secondary source and official; © OpenStreetMap contributors).

The data

Compiled by cappadocia.ai from road routes on OpenStreetMap data between the map points of our dataset. Not an official record.

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One line per drive shown above, with its method and the status of both map points.

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Sources

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Drafted with AI from our dataset and the sources named on this page, then checked by Caner on 16 Oct 2026.

Last updated 16 Oct 2026

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