Malatya
Malatya is a metropolitan municipality and the capital of Malatya Province in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. It is a major regional center for industry, healthcare, education, and agriculture, and is the global hub for apricot production and export. Wikipedia
Population 750 (Wikidata)
Before you go
Emergency numbers in Turkey
- January: 9 h 47 of daylight
- February: 10 h 46 of daylight
- March: 11 h 54 of daylight
- April: 13 h 11 of daylight
- May: 14 h 14 of daylight
- June: 14 h 49 of daylight
- July: 14 h 35 of daylight
- August: 13 h 41 of daylight
- September: 12 h 28 of daylight
- October: 11 h 15 of daylight
- November: 10 h 07 of daylight
- December: 9 h 31 of daylight
Getting there
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Best-documented sights
All of them in the guide- Tahtalı Hamamı Museum · 580 m
- Kaysı Heykeli Memorial · 450 m
- İsmet İnönü Heykeli Monument · 770 m
- Saat Kulesi Memorial · 890 m
Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.
Through the year
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Apricot Festival
July
Apricot Festival is in July, the harvest season
1 event here has no dates for this year yet. We can look them up on each event's own site.
Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Malatya); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.
Markets
Markets mapped on OpenStreetMap, with their hours where someone has added them. Check locally before you go.
Somewhere to run
Places © OpenStreetMap contributors, as of 17 October 2026. Description from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage, population from Wikidata.