Museums, music, and monuments - Pécs is home to some of Turkey's finest.

Pécs is blessed with an illustrious past, a mild climate, superb museums and some of the finest Turkish monuments in the country. Lying equidistant from the Danube and the Dráva rivers in Southern Transdanubia, Pécs is certainly one of the most interesting cities in Hungary.

Fast Facts

Population

159,794

Currency

Name: Forint
Code: HUF
Symbol: Ft

Electrical Plugs

European plug with two circular metal pins
230V 50Hz

Languages Spoken

Official: Hungarian

Time Zones

GMT/UTC +1 

Country Dialing Code

+36

Weights & Measures

Metric

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