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Hungary, month by month

Where in Hungary is at its best each month, and where to skip. Each verdict comes from the place's stated best season and the closures, weather warnings and festivals Tourisma has for it: in the middle of the season is a great month, its first or last month a good one; a weather warning (monsoon seas, smoke) moves a month down, a closure (a park shut, the boats stopped) moves it down to mixed at most, and a shut place is better avoided.

Hungary in January

Plan January

At their best

No place is in the middle of its season this month.

Mixed: Budapest, Eger, Esztergom, Hévíz & Keszthely, Hortobágy, Pécs, Szentendre, Tihany & Balatonfüred, Visegrád.

Can fall this month

  • Budapest Christmas markets

Hungary in February

Plan February

At their best

No place is in the middle of its season this month.

Mixed: Budapest, Eger, Esztergom, Hévíz & Keszthely, Hortobágy, Pécs, Szentendre, Tihany & Balatonfüred, Visegrád.

Can fall this month

  • Busójárás (Mohács carnival) (dates shift yearly)

Hungary in March

Plan March

At their best

No place is in the middle of its season this month.

Mixed: Budapest, Eger, Esztergom, Hévíz & Keszthely, Hortobágy, Pécs, Szentendre, Tihany & Balatonfüred, Visegrád.

Can fall this month

  • Busójárás (Mohács carnival) (dates shift yearly)
  • National Day (1848 Revolution)

Hungary in April

Plan April

At their best

No place is in the middle of its season this month.

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Eger, Esztergom, Hévíz & Keszthely, Szentendre, Tihany & Balatonfüred, Visegrád.

Hungary in May

Plan May

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Tihany & Balatonfüred.

Hungary in June

Plan June

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Can fall this month

  • Lavender season

Hungary in July

Plan July

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Budapest.

Can fall this month

  • Lavender season
  • Visegrád Palace Games
  • Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix

Hungary in August

Plan August

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Budapest.

Can fall this month

  • Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix
  • Sziget Festival
  • St Stephen's Day
  • Hortobágy Bridge Fair

Hungary in September

Plan September

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Tihany & Balatonfüred.

Hungary in October

Plan October

At their best

No place is in the middle of its season this month.

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Esztergom, Hévíz & Keszthely, Szentendre, Tihany & Balatonfüred, Visegrád.

Can fall this month

  • Crane migration
  • National Day (1956 Revolution)

Hungary in November

Plan November

At their best

No place is in the middle of its season this month.

Mixed: Budapest, Eger, Esztergom, Hévíz & Keszthely, Hortobágy, Pécs, Szentendre, Tihany & Balatonfüred, Visegrád.

Can fall this month

  • Crane migration
  • Budapest Christmas markets

Hungary in December

Plan December

At their best

No place is in the middle of its season this month.

Mixed: Budapest, Eger, Esztergom, Hévíz & Keszthely, Hortobágy, Pécs, Szentendre, Tihany & Balatonfüred, Visegrád.

Can fall this month

  • Budapest Christmas markets
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