According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the best time to visit Hungary is April to May and September to October. Plan 7–10 days.
Best months for Hungary
- Best months
- April to May and September to October
- How long to stay
- 7–10 days
- Continent
- Europe
What Hungary is best for
Famous for Budapest's viewpoints and thermal baths, historic towns, and family attractions like Győr Zoo.
- Prices
- €€ · about the same as in Slovakia
Weather in Hungary by month
Monthly averages around Budapest; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January | about −2 °C | some rain (39 mm) |
| February | about 0 °C | some rain (42 mm) |
| March | about 5 °C | some rain (39 mm) |
| April best | about 11 °C | some rain (36 mm) |
| May best | about 16 °C | some rain (63 mm) |
| June | about 20 °C | some rain (69 mm) |
| July | about 23 °C | some rain (63 mm) |
| August | about 22 °C | some rain (60 mm) |
| September best | about 17 °C | some rain (57 mm) |
| October best | about 11 °C | some rain (48 mm) |
| November | about 5 °C | some rain (45 mm) |
| December | about 0 °C | some rain (42 mm) |
Sources: what a place is best for — our own travel guides and, for places we have not written about yet, research done with the help of AI (Google Gemini); weather — NASA POWER climate averages; prices — World Bank price levels (CC BY 4.0).
Good to know about Hungary
- Capital
- Budapest
- Language
- Hungarian
- Currency
- Hungarian Forint (HUF)
- Time
- UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
- Plugs
- Type C, F · 230 V
- Driving
- On the right
- Calling code
- +36
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
Our posts about Hungary
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