Convert HUF to AUD Hungarian forint ↔ Australian dollar Free Online Secure
Type an amount in Hungarian forint and read it in Australian dollar at once. The page uses the European Central Bank's reference rate, and tells you which day that rate is from.
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Where these codes and rates come from
The three letters in EUR, USD or JPY are not an abbreviation someone invented for a website: they are ISO 4217, a standard in which the first two letters are the country's own code and the third is usually the initial of the currency. The figures on this page come from the European Central Bank, which publishes one set of reference rates each working day, around 16:00 Central European time, agreed between the central banks of the Eurosystem. They are a daily snapshot meant for statistics and accounting, not a live trading feed — which is exactly why they are the same number for everyone, rather than whatever one bank happened to quote at one moment.
Where you meet an exchange rate
You meet an exchange rate four or five times a year without thinking about it: booking a trip, paying an invoice issued abroad, buying from a foreign shop, reading a salary offer in another currency, or checking what a card charge really cost. In all of these the reference rate is the honest middle, and the price you actually pay sits a little to one side of it. Knowing the middle is what lets you see how wide that margin is.
Questions people ask
Is this the rate my bank will give me?
No, and no page can promise one. This is the European Central Bank's reference rate: the midpoint published once a day for statistics. A bank, a card scheme or an exchange office adds its own margin on top — usually between half a percent and three percent, sometimes more at an airport counter. Use this figure to judge the offer you are given, not to predict it.
How often does the figure change, and what happens at weekends?
The European Central Bank publishes once each working day, in the afternoon, Central European time. There is no publication on Saturdays, Sundays or TARGET holidays, so on those days the page shows the last working day's rate and says which day it belongs to. The chart alongside is one year of the same daily series.
Is the answer exact?
Where both units are defined in terms of one another by whole numbers, yes — the page says so above the figure, and the only rounding is in how many digits are shown. Where the ratio has no finite decimal, the page shows twelve significant digits and says the relation is approximate rather than pretending otherwise.
Does anything I type leave my device?
No. The arithmetic runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded and there is no server to upload it to. Load the page once and it keeps working with the network switched off.
Blood in the water: the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, the Hungarian team that did not go home and what a forint buys in Australia today
On 6 December 1956, in a swimming stadium in Melbourne, the Hungarian and Soviet water-polo teams faced each other in the semi-final of the Olympic Games. A month earlier, Soviet tanks had rolled into Budapest to crush the Hungarian uprising, and the players, who had left home before the fighting began, had learned the news in the Olympic village. The match turned violent, and Hungary's Ervin Zádor left the pool with blood streaming from a cut above his eye. Hungary won 4–0 and went on to take the gold medal, and the match is remembered as "the Blood in the Water". When the Games ended, about forty of the roughly one hundred Hungarian athletes and officials chose not to return; many went to the United States, and a number settled in Australia, adding to a community that grew with other refugees from 1956. Today, tens of thousands of Australians have Hungarian roots, and Hungarians visit, study and work in Australia. The first practical question for anyone connecting the two countries is how many Australian dollars a forint buys. This page answers it. Use it to Convert HUF to AUD with the daily reference rates published by the European Central Bank, in which the forint and the Australian dollar are quoted against the euro; the page combines them into a forint-dollar figure and prints the date under the result. The amount you type never leaves your browser.
Using the converter
Type, read, check
Before booking a flight, Convert HUF to AUD for your whole budget and keep the figure with your plan.
Three things happen on this page whenever you type: the amount in forints is converted, the result appears in Australian dollars and cents, and the date of the rate is shown beside it. An Australian dollar is worth well over a hundred forints, so the figure that comes back is a small one. Fixings are published once per working day, and when you open the page on a weekend or a public holiday it tells you that it is repeating the previous one. The table of round sums and the thirty-day graph below the box are there for quick comparisons. For dollars into forints, use Convert AUD to HUF.
A benchmark for offers
When a bank offers a rate, Convert HUF to AUD here and see what part of the difference is the commission.
Consider the displayed number as the middle of the market on a working day, before any bank has added its fee. Whatever a bank, a booth or an app quotes is somewhat worse, and the gap in per cent is the price of the service. Under one per cent is very good, two or three is the usual level, above four deserves a second quote. Let each Convert HUF to AUD be your yardstick. The sums below rely on an invented, round rate of two hundred forints to the dollar; it is not a forecast or today's price, so swap in the real figure.
Melbourne, 1956
The Games under the southern sky
The XVI Olympiad was the first to be held in the southern hemisphere, in November and December 1956, in the Australian spring. Melbourne built a stadium, the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which hosted the athletics and the ceremonies, and a swimming centre. Because Australian quarantine rules were strict, the equestrian events were held in Stockholm in June. The Games introduced the tradition, still used, of the closing ceremony in which athletes march together rather than by country, an idea suggested by a young Australian-Chinese apprentice. The stadium can still be seen, and tours of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which include a museum of sport, cost about 30 to 40 dollars.
The team and the news
The Hungarian athletes left home in October 1956, days before the uprising began. News reached them in Melbourne by radio and by letters from relatives, and many struggled to concentrate on competition. The team members were divided: some wanted to return to their families, others feared repression. Hungary's team won nine gold medals in Melbourne, a remarkable result for a small country. In the final days, the decision of dozens of athletes to stay abroad was widely reported, and relatives at home faced hard questions.
Remembering the match
Several documentaries and a feature film have retold the water-polo semi-final. The Melbourne swimming stadium was demolished and replaced, but a plaque and an exhibition at the sports museum tell the story. Visitors can see photographs of Zádor with the cut above his eye and of the players hugging in the pool. The match has become a symbol of resistance in sport.
Hungarian Australia
Waves of arrival
Hungarians have come to Australia in several waves: a few thousand before the Second World War, about 14,000 after 1956 and others in the following decades. They settled mostly in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Perth, and founded churches, clubs and newspapers. Hungarian is spoken by tens of thousands of Australians. Hungarian-Australians include scientists, doctors, architects and sportspeople, and community dinners are held on 15 March and 23 October.
Hungarian clubs and cafés
A club meal is a nice taste of home, so Convert HUF to AUD for the dish and compare it with a plate in Budapest.
Melbourne's Hungarian community centres have restaurants that serve goulash, chicken paprikash and strudel at 15 to 28 dollars a dish. In Sydney, the Hungarian club and cafés in the suburbs serve similar food. Delicatessens sell salami, paprika, cakes and pickles. Prices are about double those in Hungary. When you Convert HUF to AUD for a plate of paprikash, you will see the difference at a glance.
Studying and working
Tuition is quoted per year and wages per hour, so Convert HUF to AUD for each and compare on the same scale.
Hungarian students can apply for study visas to Australian universities, which charge international tuition of 25,000 to 50,000 dollars a year. Working holiday visas are available to young Hungarians under certain conditions. Wages are high: the national minimum wage is above 23 dollars an hour, and casual workers receive a loading. Rent in a shared flat in a large city is 250 to 450 dollars a week. These numbers translate into big sums in forints, so Convert HUF to AUD with the real rate before planning.
Four days in Melbourne, laneways, trams and a coast road
Day one: the centre on foot and by tram
Tram rides in the centre are free, but meals are not; Convert HUF to AUD for a day of brunch, lunch and dinner and budget accordingly.
Melbourne is built on a grid, with the Yarra river bending through it. Start in the central business district, where Flinders Street Station, a yellow Edwardian building with a clock tower, faces Federation Square, a complex of galleries and cafés. Trams within the central zone are free, which saves a daily fare of about 10 dollars. Walk through the laneways, narrow alleys covered with street art and lined with cafés, bookshops and small bars. A flat white costs 4.5 to 5.5 dollars, brunch 20 to 30. The city's coffee culture is a point of pride: baristas take care, and Hungarians who love their own coffee houses usually find a favourite. Convert HUF to AUD for a brunch and a coffee, and you will see how a Melbourne morning compares with a Budapest one.
Day two: markets, gardens and the Cricket Ground
A match ticket and a market snack add up; Convert HUF to AUD for both and add the travel.
The Queen Victoria Market, open since 1878, sells fruit, vegetables, meat, cheese and souvenirs under iron sheds; a bag of local cherries in summer costs about 12 dollars. Afterwards, the Royal Botanic Gardens offer a calm stroll by a lake, and the Shrine of Remembrance gives a view of the skyline. In the afternoon visit the Melbourne Cricket Ground, a vast stadium where the 1956 Games opened and where Australian football and cricket are played to crowds of tens of thousands. The National Sport Museum there has an exhibition on the Olympics. An Australian football match ticket costs 30 to 60 dollars, a seat at the cricket 30 to 120.
The rules of Aussie football
Australian football, "footy", is a fast, high-scoring game played on an oval field with eighteen players per side, an oval ball and no offside. Players leap to catch the ball in a move called a mark. To an outsider, the game looks like a mix of rugby, Gaelic football and basketball, but the passion of the fans is unmistakable. Wear your team's scarf, and do not boo the umpire too loudly.
Day three: the Great Ocean Road
A rental car, fuel and a night on the coast are the big items, so Convert HUF to AUD for each and compare with a coach tour.
The Great Ocean Road, built by returned soldiers after the First World War, runs for 243 kilometres along the south-west coast, from Torquay to Allansford, with limestone cliffs, beaches, surf breaks and rainforest. The best-known landmark is the Twelve Apostles, a group of limestone stacks rising from the sea, of which only a few remain after centuries of erosion. A day tour from Melbourne by coach costs 100 to 180 dollars, a rental car 60 to 120 plus fuel. The drive takes four hours one way, so many travellers stay overnight in Apollo Bay or Port Campbell. Fuel is sold by the litre, and Convert L to gal turns the price into gallons.
Day four: Phillip Island and the penguins
An hour and a half south-east of Melbourne, Phillip Island is famous for its nightly penguin parade, when little penguins, the smallest in the world, waddle up the beach after a day at sea. The viewing stands cost about 30 to 40 dollars; photography is forbidden. The island also has a koala sanctuary, a surf beach and the Grand Prix circuit. Take a warm jacket, because the wind off the sea is cold even in summer.
Practical rules for visitors
Swimming and the sun
Australian beaches are beautiful, but currents can be strong. Swim between the red and yellow flags on patrolled beaches, never swim alone and heed warning signs. The sun is intense, with a high ultraviolet level, so wear a hat, cover up and apply sunscreen every two hours. Heat waves occur in summer, and bushfires in dry periods; follow local warnings and check fire danger ratings.
Wildlife
Kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, wombats and echidnas are native, and encounters can be delightful. Keep your distance, do not feed animals and drive carefully at dusk, when kangaroos jump onto roads. Spiders and snakes are less common than rumours suggest, but wear closed shoes on bush trails and look before you put a hand in a crevice.
Words you will hear
Australians use many abbreviations: "arvo" for afternoon, "brekkie" for breakfast, "servo" for service station, "thongs" for flip-flops, "no worries" for you are welcome. A friendly "g'day" greets a stranger. Do not be surprised by dry humour and teasing; it is a sign of friendliness. Tipping is not expected, but rounding up is appreciated.
Getting to Australia
Flights and visas
There are no direct flights from Budapest to Australia. Routes go through the Gulf, Singapore or Hong Kong, and the journey takes between 22 and 30 hours. Australia is eight to ten hours ahead of Hungary, depending on the season. Hungarian citizens need an electronic visa or authorisation before travelling, applied for online through the official government website. Beware of imitation sites that charge more. Convert CET to EET shows the one-hour step between Central and Eastern European time, a useful reference when you call relatives across several zones.
Seasons, distances and units
Seasons are reversed: summer runs from December to February. Distances are huge: Melbourne to Sydney is about 880 kilometres by road, and Convert km to mi converts such distances to miles. Fuel is sold by the litre, and Convert L to gal relates it to the gallon. Summer temperatures often exceed 35 degrees, and Convert °C to °F gives Fahrenheit.
Prices
Make a list of the five items you buy most often and Convert HUF to AUD for each, then multiply by the number of days.
A coffee costs 4.5 to 6 dollars, a lunch 15 to 25, a dinner in a restaurant 35 to 70, a beer 9 to 14, a day of public transport in Melbourne about 10. A mid-range hotel is 180 to 320 per night. At the invented rate, a dinner of 50 dollars is 10,000 forints. The goods and services tax is included in the posted price, and tipping is not required.
Money in Australia
Cards and cash
Cards convert for you, but you should Convert HUF to AUD at the till to see whether the statement shows a fair amount.
Australians use cards and phones for almost everything, and cash is rare. Notes are made of polymer. Cash machines are widespread. Decline the offer to be charged in forints at a terminal, because the rate offered is worse than your bank's. Keep a small reserve of dollars for emergencies.
Insurance and health
Medical care is expensive for visitors, and travel insurance with medical and evacuation cover is essential. Keep the policy number and emergency phone line with you. The emergency number in Australia is 000.
Souvenirs and gifts to bring home
What Australians recommend
Typical presents from Australia include macadamia nuts and honey, Tim Tam biscuits, opals set in silver, merino wool socks and scarves, Aboriginal-designed textiles and prints, and small boomerangs, which must be bought from reputable shops that credit the artists. A box of macadamias costs 10 to 20 dollars, a pair of merino socks 20 to 35, a small opal pendant 80 to 300. For authenticity, look for the label of authenticity on Indigenous artworks and buy from art centres owned by communities. Prices are set in dollars, and a quick Convert HUF to AUD tells you what you pay in forints.
What you cannot bring back
Strict biosecurity rules apply when you leave and return. Animal products, honey of unknown origin, plants, seeds and wooden items may need to be declared or are banned in the European Union. Check the customs rules of Hungary and of the European Union before filling the suitcase, and keep receipts for valuable items. Boomerangs and carved wood must be free of insects and bark. If in doubt, ask the shop how it ships items abroad.
Sending a parcel
If your luggage is full, a parcel by sea mail costs less than by air but takes six to ten weeks. A box of 5 kilograms to Europe by air costs 80 to 150 dollars. Insure the contents and keep the tracking number. Customs may charge duties on items above a certain value in the destination country.
Other forint conversions
If your trip continues
Travellers who go on to New Zealand or Asia can use Convert HUF to JPY for Japan, Convert HUF to USD for the United States and Convert HUF to CAD for Canada. The euro page is Convert HUF to EUR.
A habit worth keeping
Write down the rate and date of each exchange, and compare them later with the statement. It takes seconds.
Mistakes to avoid
Underestimating distances
A map of Australia makes cities look close. Check driving times and book domestic flights.
Forgetting the sun
The ultraviolet level is among the highest in the world. Wear a hat, use sunscreen and avoid the midday sun.
Using an old rate
A rate from last month can be wrong by several per cent. The date shown beside the result protects you each time you Convert HUF to AUD.
In short
The only thing fetched from the network is the table of daily rates, while your amount stays in the browser and no account is needed. From a pool in Melbourne to a café in Sydney, the routine is the same: Convert HUF to AUD, read the date and compare every offer with the number on this page.