Continue five centuries of haggling at the labyrinthine Grand Bazaar, where 4000 shops vie for your attention, then recover your sanity over grilled fish on the waterfront in Eminönü.
To the west, don´t miss tracing a stretch of the 6km-long city walls on whose ancient shoulders the fate of Istanbul once rested.
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| Avg. temp. |
Sunshine daily avg. |
Rainfall | Humidity | |
| Jan | 8.9 | 2.8 | 89 | 61 |
| Feb | 10 | 3.8 | 89 | 58 |
| Mar | 13.3 | 4.8 | 74 | 51 |
| Apr | 18.9 | 6.2 | 61 | 47 |
| May | 22.8 | 8.2 | 61 | 50 |
| Jun | 27.8 | 10.4 | 33 | 46 |
| Jul | 30.6 | 11.5 | 51 | 45 |
| Aug | 30.6 | 11 | 23 | 45 |
| Sep | 26.7 | 8.4 | 48 | 45 |
| Oct | 22.2 | 6 | 61 | 48 |
| Nov | 16.7 | 4.2 | 79 | 56 |
| Dec | 11.1 | 3.1 | 97 | 61 |
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