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Debrecen

Debrecen is Hungary's second-largest city, after Budapest, the regional centre of the Northern Great Plain region and the seat of Hajdú-Bihar County. A city with county rights, it was the largest Hungarian city in the 18th century and it is one of the Hungarian people's most important cultural centres. Wikipedia

Population 202,331 (Wikidata)

Live guide From your hotel

Before you go

Emergency numbers in Hungary

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Hungary

Getting there

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Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. Flower Carnival

    February – March

    20 August, every year there's a whole day of celebrating the summer and national holidays, with moving pictures or statues made of flowers, and lots of other mardi gras

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Debrecen); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Markets

  • Nagypiac

    Covered hall
    1. Monday: 06:00–18:00
    2. Tuesday: 06:00–18:00
    3. Wednesday: 06:00–18:00
    4. Thursday: 06:00–18:00
    5. Friday: 06:00–18:00
    6. Saturday: 06:00–18:00
    7. Sunday: 06:00–18:00

    06:00–18:00

    920 m from the centre

  • Malomparki Kispiac

    A Kispiacon már nincs halárusítás csak Karácsony előtt. Egész évben kapható: zöldségfélék, gyümölcsök, virágok, mézek, savanyúságok, pékáruk, tejtermékek, húsáruk.

    1. Monday: 07:00–18:00
    2. Tuesday: 07:00–18:00
    3. Wednesday: 07:00–18:00
    4. Thursday: 07:00–18:00
    5. Friday: 07:00–18:00
    6. Saturday: 07:00–18:00
    7. Sunday: 07:00–18:00

    07:00–18:00

    2.1 km from the centre

  • Piactér

    No hours mapped

    370 m from the centre

  • Használt cikk és iparcikk piac (Zsibi)

    No hours mapped

    1.2 km from the centre

  • Vénkerti Kispiac

    No hours mapped

    2.0 km from the centre

  • Kispiac

    No hours mapped

    2.7 km from the centre

Markets mapped on OpenStreetMap, with their hours where someone has added them. Check locally before you go.

Eating nearby

All 6 places to eat

Somewhere to run

Getting around

More train stations: Debrecen-Csapókert 1.4 km, Debrecen 1.4 km, Debrecen-Szabadságtelep 1.5 km, Hétvezér utca 1.5 km, Tócóvölgy 3.8 km, Ballatanya 4.2 km, Fancsika 4.8 km, Kondoroskert 5.6 km

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Places © OpenStreetMap contributors, as of 9 October 2026. Description from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage, population from Wikidata.