Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Museums
are generally open Tuesday to Sunday 10am to 6pm, and in winter 9 or 10am to
4 or 5pm. Budapest's
thermal baths
are usually open daily from 6 or 7am to 8pm. Office
hours are usually Monday to Friday from 8am to 4pm.
Most things in Hungary shut down on the
public holidays
listed below. When these fall on
a Tuesday or Thursday, the Monday before or the Friday after may also become a holiday,
and the previous or next Saturday a working day to make up the lost day.
PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
January 1
New Year's Day
March 15
Independence Day
Easter Monday
May 1
Labour Day
Whitsun Monday
August 20
St Stephen's Day
October 23
National holiday
November 1
All Saints' Day
December 25
Christmas. (Since celebrations start on Christmas Eve, many shops will be
closed the whole day, and by the afternoon everything closes down.)
December 26
Phones
Telephone numbers in Budapest have seven digits, and the area code for all landline phone
numbers is 1. To make a call to another part of Hungary, dial 06, followed by the area code
and the subscriber's number. Hungarian mobile numbers have nine digits, and begin with 06
20, 06 30 or 06 70, depending upon the network.
If you want to use your home mobile phone in Budapest, check with your phone provider
whether it will work in Hungary, and what the call charges will be; US cell phones need to be
tri-band to work. If you plan on staying in Budapest for a while, you might want to consider
buying a Hungarian pay-as-you-go
SIMcard
; T-Mobile or Vodafone are the most ubiquitous
outlets. Both have pay-as-you-go offers.
To call Hungary
from abroad, dial your international access code, then 36 for Hungary,
then the area code (omitting the initial zero where present) and the number. If the Hungarian
number begins with 06, omit these two digits.
Within Hungary
, directory enquiries is on
198, international directory enquiries on 199.
