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Internet speed in Turkey

Median speeds from Ookla's Speedtest Global Index, June 2026 — what a rental's line and your phone actually get, not what the listing says.

Home broadband95 Mbpsmedian download in Istanbul0world median 130300+Fair — Video calls and streaming for one or two people — fine for a holiday, thin for a household working32 Mbps upload · 5 ms latency
Mobile data249 Mbpsmedian download in Istanbul0world median 109300+29 Mbps upload · 19 ms latency

By city

under 30 basic · fair · 100+ good · 150+ fast — the tick is the world median.

PlaceHome broadbandMobile dataWork from it?
Istanbulmeasured in Istanbul95 MbpsFair · 32 up · 5 ms249 MbpsFast · 29 up · 19 msNot at the median
Ankarameasured in Ankara91 MbpsFair · 21 up · 7 ms186 MbpsFast · 27 up · 18 msNot at the median
Turkey as a wholeOokla publishes no separate figure for Cappadocia, Antalya, Bodrum, Pamukkale, İzmir, Ephesus & Selçuk, Çeşme & Alaçatı, Assos, Çanakkale, Bursa, Safranbolu, Amasya, Konya, Fethiye & Ölüdeniz, Kaş, Patara, Olympos & Çıralı, Side, Alanya, Marmaris, Datca & Knidos, Dalyan, Mardin, Şanlıurfa & Göbekli Tepe, Gaziantep, Mount Nemrut, Trabzon, Van; the national median stands for them.84 MbpsFair · 21 up · 7 ms133 MbpsGood · 22 up · 22 msNot at the median

A median is the middle of every test run in the place that quarter: half the lines are faster, half slower. Cities usually beat the national number; islands and hill towns usually do not. "Work from it" is this site's own line — 150 Mbps down, 50 up, under 30 ms — for a household on calls all day; one person needs far less.

The guides in Turkey

The New Mosque and Hagia Sophia above the Golden Horn ferry piers at sunsetIstanbulTurkeyTwo continents, three empires, one enormous cityhot air balloons on the sky during daytimeCappadociaTurkeyTwo hundred balloons at dawn over a landscape carved from volcanic asha harbor filled with lots of boats next to a cityAntalyaTurkeyA Roman old town on a cliff, with the Taurus mountains behind the beachaerial view of city buildings during daytimeBodrumTurkeyA white town around a crusader castle, and a gulet waiting in the bayan aerial view of a rock formation in the waterPamukkaleTurkeyA hillside of white mineral terraces, with a Roman spa city on top of itThe bay at İzmir with the Konak pier and the city around the waterİzmirTurkeyTurkey’s third city and its most relaxed: a seafront promenade that walks for kilometres, a bazaar older than the republic, and Ephesus an hour down the lineThe Library of Celsus at Ephesus, its facade rebuilt from its own stonesEphesus & SelçukTurkeyThe best-preserved classical city on the Mediterranean: a marble street down to a library facade, a theatre for twenty-five thousand, and a country town beside itA cobbled street of stone houses in AlaçatıÇeşme & AlaçatıTurkeyA windsurfing bay, a stone village of blue shutters and bougainvillea, thermal beaches and the smartest summer crowd in TurkeyStone houses along the still water of Assos harbourAssosTurkeyA temple to Athena on a cliff over the Aegean, a fishing harbour of stone houses underneath it, and Lesbos close enough to count the lightsSilhouettes on a pier at sunset over the Dardanelles at ÇanakkaleÇanakkaleTurkeyThe town on the Dardanelles where the ferries cross to Europe, with Troy on one side and the Gallipoli battlefields on the otherBursa spread below the wooded slopes of UludağBursaTurkeyThe first Ottoman capital under a mountain that skis in winter: green mosques, a silk bazaar, thermal baths, and the dish the whole country argues aboutSafranbolu’s white Ottoman houses stacked up the hillsideSafranboluTurkeyAn Ottoman merchant town kept whole: white timber houses down a gorge, a caravanserai to sleep in, and the saffron it is named forThe Ottoman houses along the Yeşilırmak at Amasya, under the cliffAmasyaTurkeyOttoman houses reflected in a green river, with the rock tombs of Pontic kings cut into the cliff above them and a castle on topThe colonnade of Anıtkabir, Atatürk’s mausoleum in AnkaraAnkaraTurkeyThe capital Atatürk built on the steppe: the museum that holds Anatolia’s whole prehistory, his mausoleum above the city, and a castle with a village inside itThe green dome and minaret over Rumi’s tomb in KonyaKonyaTurkeyThe city of Rumi: the green dome over his tomb, the whirling dervishes who still turn here, and a Seljuk capital under the modern oneThe Ölüdeniz lagoon from the air, the sand spit crowded with parasolsFethiye & ÖlüdenizTurkeyA working harbour town with Lycian tombs above the rooftops, the most photographed lagoon in Turkey next door, and paragliders coming off a 1,900-metre ridge all dayBoats in the bay below a castle on the hill near KaşKaşTurkeyA white town on a cliff over water clear enough to see the wreck below it: the diving capital of Turkey, a sunken city offshore, and Greece twenty minutes awayThe long empty sand of Patara beach, dunes and scrub behind itPataraTurkeyEighteen kilometres of empty sand behind a ruined Lycian capital, with loggerhead turtles nesting on it and a rule that keeps the beach closed at night because of themPines on the grass behind the beach at ÇıralıOlympos & ÇıralıTurkeyRuins in a river valley that comes out on a pebble beach, treehouse pensions in the orange groves, and a hillside that has been on fire since antiquityThe Roman theatre at Side, rows of seats above the ruined citySideTurkeyA Roman temple on a headland with the sea behind its columns, a theatre for fifteen thousand, and a beach either side of the ruinsAlanya’s castle rock above the town and the seaAlanyaTurkeyA Seljuk castle on a rock between two beaches, a red tower over the old dockyard, and the longest warm season on the Turkish coastBoats moored along the waterfront at MarmarisMarmarisTurkeyA yacht harbour in a pine-covered bay, the start of every blue cruise, and a bar street that is the loudest on the AegeanA harbour of small boats on the Datça peninsula, mountains behindDatca & KnidosTurkeyA long thin peninsula of almond trees between two seas, with an ancient city at the end of it where the Aegean meets the MediterraneanThe Lycian rock tombs cut into the cliff above the river at DalyanDalyanTurkeyA river town under Lycian tombs cut in the cliff, with mud baths upstream, a turtle beach downstream and boats instead of roads between themMardin’s stone city stacked above the Mesopotamian plain, the minaret over itMardinTurkeyA city of honey-coloured stone stacked up a hill over the Mesopotamian plain, with Syriac monasteries around it and Arabic, Kurdish and Turkish in the same streetThe excavated stone pillars of Göbekli Tepe under their canopyŞanlıurfa & Göbekli TepeTurkeyThe oldest temple in the world on a hill outside a pilgrimage city of carp pools, covered bazaars and the best kebab in TurkeyA lit arcade of shops in the Gaziantep bazaarGaziantepTurkeyThe food capital of Turkey: pistachio baklava by the kilo, a museum of Roman mosaics that stops people mid-sentence, and a bazaar of coppersmithsA carved stone head in the snow on the summit of Mount NemrutMount NemrutTurkeyStone heads of gods and a forgotten king on a 2,150-metre summit, watched at sunrise by everyone who made the drive up in the darkUzungöl, the lake under forested mountains inland from TrabzonTrabzonTurkeyA Black Sea port under tea plantations, with a monastery glued to a cliff face an hour inland and green hills that look like nowhere else in TurkeyThe Armenian church on Akdamar island in Lake Van, snow on the mountains beyondVanTurkeyA city on the biggest lake in Turkey, under a rock fortress with cuneiform on it, with an Armenian church on an island and a breakfast that runs to twenty plates

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