Indexed entity
Budapest is the budapest-HU record in Hungary: country slug hungary, city slug budapest, ISO HU, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Budapest.
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Live local time
Budapest, Hungary
12:39:50 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Europe/Budapest
Quick answer
It is currently 12:39:50 PM (CEST, UTC+02:00) in Budapest, Hungary — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
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In 79 days
Az államalapítás ünnepe (State Foundation Day)
Thu, Aug 20, 2026
PublicIn 143 days
Nemzeti ünnep (1956 Revolution Memorial Day)
Fri, Oct 23, 2026
PublicIn 152 days
Mindenszentek (All Saints Day)
Sun, Nov 1, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Hungarian Forint
1 USD = 309.69 HUF
Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
04:49 AM
Sunset
08:33 PM
Day length
15h 44m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Civil twilight (–6°)
Nautical twilight (–12°)
Astronomical twilight (–18°)
Computed from latitude, longitude and date using the NOAA Solar Position Algorithm.
Reviewed by WorldClockTools editorial · Updated
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. City facts are content-reviewed separately from the live clock and from the generated city datasets. The current-time, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots for Budapest, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:39 AM UTC.
Current local time
12:39:50 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
CEST
Europe/Budapest · UTC+02:00
Next holiday
State Foundation Day
Thursday, August 20, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Budapest right now
Nearest airport
BUD
Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport · 18 km
Indexed airports
1
Curated airport references available for Hungary
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Budapest, Hungary.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 12:39 GMT+2
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Budapest is currently inside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
In window
Offset now
UTC+02:00
Zone label
GMT+2
London
11:39 AM / -1h
Dubai
02:39 PM / +2h
Schedule risk
State Foundation Day on Thursday, August 20, 2026
Travel cue
BUD Budapest, 18 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 04:49 AM to 08:33 PM, with solar noon around 12:41 PM and total daylight of 15h 44m.
Mapped location
47.50°N, 19.04°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:39 AM / -1h
Good live-call window with Budapest right now.
New York
06:39 AM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:39 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:39 PM / +2h
Good live-call window with Budapest right now.
Singapore
06:39 PM / +6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Good for travel-day timing, hotel check-ins, and same-day arrival calls around Budapest.
BUD · Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport
Budapest
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Europe/Budapest for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+02:00; seasonal offset, UTC+01:00 in January and UTC+02:00 in July.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with London, Dubai because they overlap with Budapest right now.
Check local interruptions
State Foundation Day on Thursday, August 20, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: BUD Budapest, 18 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
Next detected clock change: October 25, 2026, moving back from 2026-10-25 02:59 (GMT+2) to 2026-10-25 02:00 (GMT+1).
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Budapest has a detected clock-change edge. Re-check recurring meetings within two weeks of October 25, 2026, especially if the other city does not change clocks on the same weekend.
These values are planning context from the live clock, IANA timezone rules, curated city and airport records, and holiday calendars when available. Confirm official office, aviation, market, legal, or compliance decisions with the relevant source.
Local planning context
Route, catalog identity, coordinates, population record, timezone snapshot, nearby cities, and travel anchors for Budapest.
Canonical route
/time/hungary/budapest/
Catalog identity
budapest-HU · HU · Europe
Coordinate cell
47.50°N, 19.04°E · lat 47.498 · lon 19.040 · cell 4750:1904
Population record
1,741,041 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Europe/Budapest · GMT+2 · UTC+02:00
January / July offsets
UTC+01:00 / UTC+02:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Nitra, Slovakia · 115 km
Nearest world hub
London · 1,449 km
Closest airport references
BUD Budapest 18 km
Zone peer roster
Debrecen, Hungary · Szeged, Hungary · Miskolc, Hungary
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Budapest: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Budapest is the budapest-HU record in Hungary: country slug hungary, city slug budapest, ISO HU, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Budapest.
47.50°N, 19.04°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 47 and longitude band 19; exact decimal pair 47.49835, 19.04045.
Hungary: official name Hungary; capital Budapest; region Europe; subregion Central Europe; country population 9,539,502; area 93,028 km²; languages Hungarian; currencies HUF Hungarian forint. This is the country layer behind the Budapest clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Hungary: Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, both Croatia and Slovenia to the southwest, and Austria to the west. Hungary lies within the Danube River's drainage basin, and is dominated by great lowland plains. It has a population of over 9.5 million, consisting mostly of ethnic Hungarians (Magyars) and a significant Romani minority. Hungarian is the official language, and among the few in Europe outside the Indo-European family. Budapest is the country's capital and its largest city, and the dominant cultural and economic centre. Source: Wikipedia.
Nitra [nitra-SK, SK, Europe/Bratislava, 115 km]; Miskolc [miskolc-HU, HU, Europe/Budapest, 146 km]; Petržalka [petrzalka-SK, SK, Europe/Bratislava, 159 km]; Bratislava [bratislava-SK, SK, Europe/Bratislava, 161 km]; Szeged [szeged-HU, HU, Europe/Budapest, 162 km]; Debrecen [debrecen-HU, HU, Europe/Budapest, 194 km]; Favoriten [favoriten-AT, AT, Europe/Vienna, 212 km]; Košice [kosice-SK, SK, Europe/Bratislava, 213 km]
Budapest is part of this indexed country cluster: Budapest [budapest-HU, Europe/Budapest, pop 1,741,041]; Debrecen [debrecen-HU, Europe/Budapest, pop 202,402]; Szeged [szeged-HU, Europe/Budapest, pop 160,766]; Miskolc [miskolc-HU, Europe/Budapest, pop 154,521].
London 1,449 km; Dubai 4,024 km; New York 7,008 km; Tokyo 9,045 km; Singapore 9,505 km; Los Angeles 9,998 km; São Paulo 10,259 km; Sydney 15,784 km
BUD Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport in Budapest [HU, 18 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include BUD Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport in Budapest [HU].
Budapest renders Jun 2, 2026 · 12:39 GMT+2; GMT+2 at UTC+02:00; January UTC+01:00; July UTC+02:00; next holiday State Foundation Day on 2026-08-20.
This evidence pack keeps the manual city dossier tied to the concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Budapest.
Budapest is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 4 retained Hungary city pages. The route is /time/hungary/budapest/ and the city id is budapest-HU.
Budapest has 16 of 17 factual signals available on this render. Missing long-form editorial is not treated as missing time data when route, zone, coordinates, country, nearby-city, and planning signals are present.
Budapest is pinned at 47.50°N, 19.04°E; Nitra (115 km); London (1,449 km).
Europe/Budapest resolves to seasonal offset split: UTC+01:00 in January and UTC+02:00 in July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Hungary.
BUD Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (18 km) · State Foundation Day (Thursday, August 20, 2026) · 1 country airport reference · 13 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Budapest uses IANA timezone math, curated GeoNames-derived city records, a city reference summary, a country reference summary, OurAirports links where mapped, Nager.Date holiday rows where available, and local solar/weather snapshots where coordinates are present.
These notes are pulled from the city-context and reference-summary snapshots, so same-timezone cities do not rely only on shared UTC offset text.
Budapest: Budapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is Hungary's primate city with 1.7 million inhabitants and its greater metro area has a population of about 3.3 million, representing one-third of the country's population and producing above 40% of the country's economic output. Budapest is the political, economic, and cultural center of the country, among the ten largest cities in the European Union and the second largest urban area in Central and Eastern Europe. Budapest stands on the River Danube and is strategically located at the center of the Pannonian Basin, lying on ancient trade routes linking the hills of Transdanubia with the Great Plain.
Observes daylight saving time. Civil clocks shift forward by one hour during the local summer, swinging between standard UTC+01:00 and summer UTC+02:00. Transitions follow the IANA zone Europe/Budapest.
Budapest is listed in the dataset snapshot as 2 hours ahead of UTC (offset +02:00). 1 hour ahead of London, 7 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 19.04°, Budapest's mean solar noon falls about 44 minutes after civil 12:00 under the sampled +02:00 civil offset; during the alternate seasonal offset this shifts by about one hour on the clock — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Budapest sits at 47.50°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 46 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 14 minutes on the December solstice.
Budapest sits at 47.50°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 46 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 14 minutes on the December solstice.
Computed from the city coordinates using the NOAA solar position model across 2026. These values are mechanical and identical for every year-relative render, so two cities at different latitudes always produce distinct numbers.
Longest day
Jun 17 (15h 58m)
Shortest day
Dec 19 (8h 26m)
Year-round average
12h 15m
Annual swing
7h 32m
See the full daylight curve for Budapest at /sun/budapest/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Budapest local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Budapest |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 15:00 - 23:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 10:00 - 18:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 09:00 - 17:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 07:00 - 15:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 05:30 - 13:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 03:00 - 11:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 03:00 - 11:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 02:00 - 10:00 |
Public holidays in 2026
13
Capital status
National capital of Hungary
Budapest is the capital and largest city of Hungary, with a population of roughly 1.7 million, formed in 1873 by the union of Buda and Óbuda on the west bank of the Danube with Pest on the east. It observes Central European Time (CET, UTC+1) in winter and Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+2) from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October, under EU daylight saving rules. Budapest is the political, cultural, and economic centre of Hungary, hosting the national government and the neo-Gothic Hungarian Parliament Building. The banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter, and Andrássy Avenue are inscribed together as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Budapest's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 12:39:50 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Budapest (UTC+02:00, CEST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
04:49 AM to 08:33 PM
Day length 15h 44m · Solar noon 12:41 PM
Next country holiday
State Foundation Day
Thursday, August 20, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Budapest local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
Mobile World Congress 2027
keynoteMonday, March 1, 2027
272 days to go
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5 days to go
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8 days to go
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34 days to go
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85 days to go
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keynoteFriday, September 4, 2026
94 days to go
Population
1.7M
Coordinates
47.50, 19.04
Timezone
Europe/Budapest
Indexed airports
1
Capital
Budapest
Languages
Hungarian
Currency
HUF (Ft)
Country area
93,028 km²
Budapest, Hungary (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Europe/Budapest (CEST, UTC+02:00); population ~1.7M.
Coordinates: 47.50°N, 19.04°E. Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, ~5272 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 04:49 AM and sets around 08:33 PM in Budapest — about 15h 44m of daylight. Hungary observes daylight saving time on this zone, so the offset shifts seasonally.
Nitra (115 km from Budapest) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Hungary.
Next national holiday: State Foundation Day, 2026-08-20.
Budapest is indexed as a Europe city in the HU country record, using Europe/Budapest as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/hungary/budapest/.
Location context: 47.50°N, 19.04°E; population 1,741,041; nearest indexed city Nitra is about 115 km away; closest reference hub is London, about 1,449 km away.
Country planning context: capital Budapest; subregion Central Europe; languages Hungarian; currency HUF (Ft); area 93,028 km²; 1 curated airport references; next holiday State Foundation Day on 2026-08-20.
Observes daylight saving time. Civil clocks shift forward by one hour during the local summer, swinging between standard UTC+01:00 and summer UTC+02:00. Transitions follow the IANA zone Europe/Budapest.
Budapest is listed in the dataset snapshot as 2 hours ahead of UTC (offset +02:00). 1 hour ahead of London, 7 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 19.04°, Budapest's mean solar noon falls about 44 minutes after civil 12:00 under the sampled +02:00 civil offset; during the alternate seasonal offset this shifts by about one hour on the clock — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Budapest sits at 47.50°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 46 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 14 minutes on the December solstice.
Major metropolitan area with around 1.7 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Budapest: Debrecen (same time), San Francisco (−9h), Los Angeles (−9h), Paris (same time), London (−1h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
hungary
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
CEST
IANA Zone
Europe/Budapest
UTC Offset
UTC+02:00
DST Status
Observing DST
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
London
-1h
New York
-6h
Los Angeles
-9h
Dubai
+2h
Singapore
+6h
Tokyo
+7h
Sydney
+8h
São Paulo
-5h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Budapest.
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City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Budapest: closest hubs London (~1,449 km), Dubai (~4,024 km), New York (~7,008 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~15,784 km).
Budapest sits inside Hungary — the Central Europe subregion, capital Budapest, languages Hungarian, currency HUF (Ft).
Closest indexed cities to Budapest: Nitra (115 km), Miskolc (146 km), Petržalka (159 km), Bratislava (161 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Budapest: State Foundation Day, 1956 Revolution Memorial Day, All Saints Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Hungary.
Closest curated airport references from Budapest: BUD Budapest (18 km).
Budapest Liszt Ferenc International AirportBUD
Budapest · 18 km from Budapest
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
2 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:39 AM | -1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:39 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:39 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:39 PM | +2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:39 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:39 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:39 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:39 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Budapest is in the Europe/Budapest timezone (CEST), with a UTC offset of +02:00.
Budapest uses seasonal daylight saving rules in Europe/Budapest. The current offset is UTC+02:00; January resolves to UTC+01:00 and July resolves to UTC+02:00.
The current UTC offset for Budapest is UTC+02:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Budapest, plus live comparisons with reference cities. Confirm office, market, legal, or holiday-sensitive hours with the relevant official source.
The live clock, offset, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots from Jun 2, 2026 · 12:39 GMT+2. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Budapest sits at 47.50°N, 19.04°E in Hungary, with about 1.7M residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Budapest is London, about 1,449 km away as the crow flies.
Nitra is the closest indexed city, roughly 115 km from Budapest.
Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD) is the closest curated airport reference, about 18 km from Budapest.
State Foundation Day is the next upcoming holiday in Hungary, on Thursday, August 20, 2026.
Budapest uses Hungarian forint (HUF, symbol Ft) as the local currency of Hungary.
The longest day of 2026 in Budapest falls on Jun 17 with about 15h 58m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 19 with 8h 26m; the year-round average is 12h 15m.
In Budapest local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 15:00-23:00; London 10:00-18:00; Frankfurt 09:00-17:00; Dubai 07:00-15:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.