Turkey Show cave
Oylat Cave
13 °C inside, all year.
Madrox · CC BY-SA 4.0
The descent
The entrance, at 519 m.
The real relief above Oylat Cave, measured on the Copernicus model every 30 m, and the cave going down at the same vertical scale.
The depth is the one published by those who explored it; the shape of the galleries is a sketch, not a survey. No depth has been published for this cave yet.
519m
Entrance altitude
from the 30 m relief model
13°C
Inside, all year
the yearly average outside, at the entrance
444m
Rock above
the highest point within 1.5 km
Inside and outside
13 °C inside, all year.
Deep inside, a cave keeps the average temperature of the year outside: about 13 °C here, in January and in August. In August the afternoon reaches 31 °C at the entrance, 17 °C warmer than inside: take a jacket. The best months to escape the heat are from July to August.
- 7°-1°Jan
- 9°0°Feb
- 13°2°Mar
- 17°6°Apr
- 22°11°May
- 27°15°Jun
- 30°17°Jul
- 31°17°Aug
- 26°14°Sep
- 21°9°Oct
- 15°4°Nov
- 9°0°Dec
Outside: afternoon and night averages for 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) brought to the altitude of the entrance. Inside: the yearly average, which deep parts of a cave keep. Near the entrance it follows the weather a little.
Show cave in Turkey
Oylat Cave is a show cave in Turkey. The entrance is at 519 m. It has stalactites and stalagmites. It is open to visitors.
Getting there.
- Show cave: open to visitorsticket required
- Tahtaköprünearest town · 5.1 km in a straight line
- Parking 1,690 m awaynearest car park in OpenStreetMap, straight line
- Bursa Yenişehir Airport (YEI)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 35 km in a straight lineCar hire at SAW airport (Pendik, Istanbul)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
Guided tours, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above.
The ground above the cave, with the relief shaded, the line of the section and what people have mapped around the entrance.
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1.5 km
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6.0 × 6.0 km, north up. The line is the section above. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Around the entrance.
- 1other cave entrances within 3 kmOylat Mağarası
- 1springs within 2 km
- 1named waterfalls within 4 kmOylat Şelalesi
- 2car parks within 2 km
- 3hotels and guesthouses within 8 kmGüven Otel, Asiyan Otel, Çağlayan Otel
- sinkholes within 3 km
- caving clubs and spots within 15 km
- viewpoints within 3 km
- marked hiking routes within 3 km
- climbing crags within 3 km
- information boards and visitor centres within 3 km
- bus stops within 2 km
- campsites within 8 km
- restaurants and cafés within 3 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, around the entrance. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet. © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
Towns nearby
- Tahtaköprü5.1 km in a straight line
- Kurşunlu12 km in a straight line
- Domaniç16 km in a straight line
- İnegol16 km in a straight line
- Cerrah19 km in a straight line
- Alanyurt19 km in a straight line
- Yenice22 km in a straight line
- Hamzabey22 km in a straight line
In our other atlases
What else is around Oylat Cave.
The river at the entrance, the waterfalls, the lakes, the mountains and volcanoes above, the canyons, beaches and islands nearby — from our other atlases.
Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, NOAA, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Month by month
The weather outside, at the entrance.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afternoon | 7 | 9 | 13 | 17 | 22 | 27 | 30 | 31 | 26 | 21 | 15 | 9 |
| Afternoon | 7 | 9 | 13 | 17 | 22 | 27 | 30 | 31 | 26 | 21 | 15 | 9 |
| Night | -1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 17 | 17 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 0 |
| Rain (mm) | 75 | 63 | 56 | 50 | 45 | 45 | 16 | 16 | 44 | 63 | 55 | 82 |
| Rainy days | 12 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 12 |
| Sun hours/day | 2.7 | 3.5 | 5.0 | 6.9 | 8.7 | 10.6 | 11.5 | 10.4 | 7.9 | 5.5 | 4.4 | 2.8 |
| Snow on the ground (cm) | 13 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| Afternoon | Afternoon | Night | Rain (mm) | Sun hours/day | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 7 | 7 | -1 | 75 | 2.7 |
| Feb | 9 | 9 | 0 | 63 | 3.5 |
| Mar | 13 | 13 | 2 | 56 | 5.0 |
| Apr | 17 | 17 | 6 | 50 | 6.9 |
| May | 22 | 22 | 11 | 45 | 8.7 |
| Jun | 27 | 27 | 15 | 45 | 10.6 |
| Jul | 30 | 30 | 17 | 16 | 11.5 |
| Aug | 31 | 31 | 17 | 16 | 10.4 |
| Sep | 26 | 26 | 14 | 44 | 7.9 |
| Oct | 21 | 21 | 9 | 63 | 5.5 |
| Nov | 15 | 15 | 4 | 55 | 4.4 |
| Dec | 9 | 9 | 0 | 82 | 2.8 |
Averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, brought to the altitude of the entrance (519 m) with the standard lapse rate. Not a forecast.
Photographs
Inside and around.


Recent years
Wet years, dry years.
Rain of each month as a share of the 1991–2020 average. A dry year means a lower river and hotter rock; a wet one, more water in the gorge.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 97% | 125% | 84% | 58% | 140% | 207% | 24% | 28% | 37% | 98% | 38% | 25% |
| 2021 | 236% | 85% | 166% | 116% | 77% | 147% | 166% | 36% | 52% | 60% | 96% | 95% |
| 2022 | 73% | 149% | 71% | 65% | 44% | 171% | 146% | 380% | 38% | 42% | 40% | 36% |
| 2023 | 31% | 87% | 162% | 173% | 127% | 99% | 112% | 32% | 45% | 62% | 367% | 74% |
| 2024 | 146% | 35% | 92% | 41% | 99% | 5% | 295% | 20% | 95% | 21% | 154% | 104% |
| 2025 | 91% | 81% | 68% | 82% | 72% | 3% | 4% | 44% | 40% | 130% | 72% | 77% |
130% or more: wet month 70% or less: dry month
Where these figures come from
| Name, type, published depth and length, visitors | Wikidata (Q20988496) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| The relief above, the entrance altitude, the section and the 3D model | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Climate | NASA POWER, 1991–2020 |
| Entrances, springs, sinkholes, opening hours and what is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Rivers, waterfalls, lakes, mountains, canyons, beaches and islands nearby | Coastya, Lakeyas, Peakyas, Cascadyas, Islandyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
The family
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