Travelling to Konya from Ankara Esenboğa Airport (ESB)? Begin your journey in comfort with our professional Ankara Airport to Konya transfer service. We provide direct private transportation from Ankara Airport to Konya — 258 kilometres in approximately 175 minutes — with a professional driver confirmed and waiting at arrivals.
Ankara Esenboğa Airport sits at the centre of Anatolia — the gateway to Turkey's capital, to the fairy chimneys and underground cities of Cappadocia, to the Seljuk heritage and Whirling Dervishes of Konya, to the gastronomic capital of Bolu and to the ancient Phrygian landscape of Eskişehir. Our Ankara Airport to Konya private transfer provides a confirmed driver at arrivals, fixed pricing, and direct door-to-door delivery anywhere across central Anatolia and the Marmara region.
Several transport alternatives exist for reaching Konya from Ankara Airport:
Our private transfer from Ankara Airport to Konya provides the most direct, comfortable and reliable connection — door to door, fixed price, no connections.
Konya is one of the most historically and spiritually significant cities in Turkey — a city of 2.3 million inhabitants on the Central Anatolian plateau, the former capital of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum (the most powerful Seljuk Turkish state of the 12th–13th centuries) and the city most associated with Mevlâna Jalâluddîn Rumi (1207–1273), the Persian Sufi mystic and poet whose Masnavi (the most important work of Persian poetry after the Shahnameh) and whose founding of the Mevlevi Order (the 'Whirling Dervishes') made him one of the most widely read poets in the world. The Mevlâna Müzesi (the Mausoleum and Museum of Rumi, the most visited museum in Turkey after the Topkapı Palace and the Sultanahmet mosque complex) is the spiritual heart of the city.
Konya's Seljuk heritage — the Karatay Medresesi (1251, with the finest medieval Anatolian tilework in Turkey, its interior dome of turquoise and dark blue geometric tiles one of the most beautiful interiors in Islamic architecture), the İnce Minareli Medresesi (the Slender Minaret Medresesi, 1265, now the Stone and Wood Works Museum, its carved portal the finest example of Anatolian Seljuk stone carving), the Alaeddin Mosque (on the Alaeddin Hill, the oldest standing mosque in Konya, begun 1116) and the numerous hans, türbes and caravanserais of the Seljuk period give Konya an architectural heritage of the very highest quality. The nearby Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük (50km southeast of Konya, the world's oldest known urban settlement, c.7500–5700 BCE, UNESCO World Heritage) gives the Konya region a prehistoric significance of global importance.
Mevlâna Müzesi — Most Visited Museum in Turkey After Topkapı: The Mevlâna Müzesi (the Mausoleum of Rumi, in the former Mevlevi lodge) — with Rumi's tomb surmounted by its famous fluted turquoise dome, the museum's extraordinary collection of Mevlevi ceremonial objects, manuscripts and musical instruments, and the sema ceremony (whirling dervish performance, held regularly in Konya) — is the most visited museum in Turkey after the Topkapı Palace, drawing over 3 million visitors annually.
Çatalhöyük — World's Oldest Urban Settlement: Çatalhöyük (50km southeast of Konya, UNESCO World Heritage) — the world's oldest known urban settlement (c.7500–5700 BCE, approximately 8,000 people living in densely packed mudbrick houses with no streets, entered through roof holes) — is one of the most significant archaeological sites in the world, its wall paintings, goddess figurines and densely interconnected housing the earliest evidence of urban social organisation in human history.
Estimated Distance — Approximately 258km, 2h55m: The distance and duration for this route are estimated at approximately 258km and 175 minutes via the E90/O-21 motorway south from Ankara through Aksaray to Konya. The route crosses the central Anatolian plateau through the salt lake basin.
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