Cappadocia eSIM
In Cappadocia you connect to Turkcell or Vodafone, whichever is performing better where you are standing. The typical speed across the country is 57 Mbps. Your data starts working the moment you land, before you reach the immigration hall.
- Networks
- Turkcell and Vodafone
- Typical speed in Türkiye
- 57 Mbps typical, 16 Mbps at busy times
- 5G
- 4G only
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans that cover Cappadocia
| Data | Validity | Price per GB | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | Never expires | $4.89 | $4.89 | |
| 3 GB | Never expires | $2.63 | $7.89 | |
| 5 GBMost travellers | Never expires | $1.98 | $9.89 | |
| 10 GB | Never expires | $1.19 | $11.89 | |
| 20 GB | Never expires | $0.99 | $19.89 | |
| 50 GB | Never expires | $0.84 | $41.89 |
How Türkiye compares across Middle East
- Regional typical speed
- 72 Mbps
- Upstream networks
- 2, Turkcell, Vodafone
- 5G
- 4G only
- Next fastest nearby
- Oman, 64 Mbps
- Next slowest nearby
- Jordan, 38 Mbps
- Cities with their own page
- 4: Istanbul, Antalya, Cappadocia, Izmir
Landing at Nevşehir Kapadokya Airport (NAV)
- Airport
- NAV / LTAZ
- Distance
- 30 km from the centre of Cappadocia
- Also serves
- Kayseri Airport (Erkilet) (ASR)
Getting into Cappadocia
- İpek Tur airport shuttle from Nevşehir Kapadokya Airport, scheduled to flight times (NAV)
- Kapadokya Motorlu Taşıyıcılar Kooperatifi taxi rank at Nevşehir Kapadokya Airport (NAV)
Worth knowing about Cappadocia
- Cappadocia is a historical region, not a city: it spans the Nevşehir, Aksaray, Kayseri, Niğde and Kırşehir provinces of central Anatolia, and Göreme is a district of Nevşehir Province.
- Nevşehir Kapadokya Airport is the closer of the two arrival airports and DHMİ, the state operator, puts it 30 km from the city; it is overwhelmingly a domestic airport, with 748,550 domestic against 5,939 international passengers in 2025.
- Kayseri Airport (ASR/LTAU) is the second gateway to Cappadocia, a joint civil-military field 5 km north of Kayseri that handles both domestic and international traffic.
- Neither Cappadocia airport has a rail link: DHMİ lists only İpek Tur shuttle buses timed to flights, a taxi cooperative rank and car hire desks at Nevşehir Kapadokya Airport, so every transfer to Göreme, Ürgüp or Avanos is by road.
- Göreme Open-Air Museum, on UNESCO's World Heritage List since 6 December 1985, is 13 km from Nevşehir. It is reached by Göreme town vehicles from central Nevşehir or on agency tours of the region.
- The Ministry of Culture lists the Göreme site as open every day from 08:00, with the ticket office closing at 18:45. Evening openings run from 19:00 to 23:00, last tickets at 22:30, and an audio guide is available.
- The Göreme site, opened to visitors in 1967, holds rock-cut churches including Tokalı, Elmalı, Saint Barbara, the Serpent Church and the Dark Church, painted with scenes from the Bible and the life of Jesus.
- The MüzeKart museum pass is valid only for Turkish citizens at Göreme and Derinkuyu, so foreign visitors buy a ticket per site. The ministry's muze.gov.tr store sells an e-ticket for the Göreme site in advance.
- Derinkuyu Underground City reaches about 85 metres below ground, and only around a tenth of it can be visited. It opened to the public in 1965, and its 55 metre ventilation shaft also served as a well.
- Derinkuyu opens daily from 08:00 with last tickets at 18:45, and also runs evening visits from 19:00 to 21:00, when the ticket office shuts at 20:15.
- Somewhere between 150 and 200 underground settlements are thought to lie across Cappadocia, carved into soft tuff as refuges from attack. They stay cool in summer and warm in winter.
- The ministry keeps Göreme, Zelve Paşabağlar, the Dark Church and the Kaymaklı, Derinkuyu and Özkonak underground cities open to foreign visitors at weekends too.
- Balloon flights over Cappadocia run in slots set by the civil aviation authority. The morning period starts 30 minutes before sunrise and ends at 11:00 local time, and the afternoon period runs from 14:00 until sunset.
- Each balloon take-off in the Nevşehir Cappadocia flight area needs clearance from a Slot Service Centre that weighs the requests against weather assessments, which is why flights can be called off on the morning itself.