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9–17 in Budapest vs UTC
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- Szent István ünnepe20 Aug 2026
- Az aradi vértanúk emléknapja6 Oct 2026
- 1956-os forradalom23 Oct 2026
- Mindenszentek1 Nov 2026
- Mikulás6 Dec 2026
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About Budapest
Home to roughly 1,752,286 residents, Budapest is a notable city in Hungary. The city sits at 102 m above sea level, close to sea level, with maritime influence on its weather.
Budapest keeps time on the Europe/Budapest IANA zone, an identifier the system uses to handle every historical and future offset change without ambiguity. Lying in the northern hemisphere within the temperate belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (47.50°).
This page exposes Budapest's exact local time alongside sunrise, sunset, public holidays, and a structured-data feed at the JSON link below — useful for spreadsheets, scheduling tools, and AI assistants alike.
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Questions about time in Budapest
The current local time in Budapest, Hungary is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Budapest uses the IANA time zone Europe/Budapest, currently UTC+2.
Whether Budapest observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Europe/Budapest) is the source of truth.
Budapest is currently 6 hours ahead of New York.
Budapest is currently 1 hour ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Budapest are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (47.4979, 19.0402).
Currency and dialing-code information is not available for this entry.
Budapest sits at 47.4979° N, 19.0402° E, 102 m above sea level, in Hungary.