Our Hungary Travel Guide

The Hungarian forint is the official currency of Hungary. Its name stems from the city of Florence, where gold coins called florentinus were minted from 1252. The currency's issuing authority is the Hungarian National Bank. It is abbreviated to HUF and its symbol is Ft.

Hungarian language, Hungarian Magyar, member of the Finno-Ugric group of the Uralic language family, spoken primarily in Hungary but also in Slovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia, as well as in scattered groups elsewhere in the world.

Hungary has a continental climate, with hot summers with low overall humidity levels but frequent showers and frigid to cold snowy winters. The average annual temperature is between 10 and 11°C (50-52 °F). Recorded temperature extremes are about 42°C (107.6°F) in the summer and −34°C (−20.2 °F) in the winter.

For Hungary there are two associated plug types, types C and F. Plug type C is the plug which has two round pins and plug type F is the plug which has two round pins with two earth clips on the side. Hungary operates on a 230V supply voltage and 50Hz.

The current population of Hungary is 9,615,007 as of Tuesday, May 10, 2022, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data.

Did you know ? 70 million liters of thermal water rise to the surface of the earth daily. Hungary has public bathing practices that go back to Roman times.