Istanbul

Middle East

Istanbul

Two continents and twenty centuries on either side of a single waterway. Sultanahmet for the headline sights, Karaköy for the new restaurants, a long Bosphorus ferry for the city's real geography.

When to go

Best months: April, May, June, September, October.

What it runs on

city · history · bazaar · bosphorus

Through the chart

Pluto-rich. Charts on transformative transits often find Istanbul lands unusually deeply.

This is the general read. Istanbul is also scored against your own chart — Sun, Moon, rising, and the planet lines that cross the map here. See where it ranks for you.

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