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Type an amount in Swedish krona and read it in Hungarian forint 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.
Swedish medical students in Budapest: the white-coat route, the tuition bill and what a krona buys in forints
Every September, the lecture halls of a university on the Pest side of Budapest fill with young people who speak Hungarian badly or not at all. Many of them come from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Germany, countries where it is very hard to get a place at medical school, and where the cut-off marks for entry sit at the very top of the scale. In Hungary, several universities, among them Semmelweis in Budapest, Szeged, Pécs and Debrecen, run the entire six-year medical degree in English for foreign students, and they accept applicants through an entrance exam instead of school grades. After graduation the diploma is recognised across the European Union, and a Swedish graduate can apply for a Swedish licence after the required checks and a language assessment. The route is neither cheap nor easy, but it has made Hungary one of the places where a good share of Scandinavian doctors have trained. For anyone planning the move, or for a parent paying the bills, the first practical question is how many Hungarian forints a Swedish krona buys. This page answers it. Use it to Convert SEK to HUF with the daily reference rates published by the European Central Bank, in which both currencies are quoted against the euro; the page combines them into a krona-forint figure and prints its date under the result. The amount you type never leaves your browser.
Using the converter
Kronor in, forints out
Whenever a Hungarian price looks big, Convert SEK to HUF and read the answer in kronor before you decide.
Write an amount in Swedish kronor and read the value in forints underneath, together with the date of the fixing used. A krona is worth about thirty-three to thirty-eight forints, so the result is many times larger than the number you typed. The forint has no practical subunit in daily life, so every price is a whole number. Fixings come out once on each working day; on weekends and public holidays the page repeats the last one and says so. A table of round sums and a graph of the past thirty days sit below the box. For the opposite direction, from forints into kronor, open Convert HUF to SEK.
The reference and the quote
What you see is a wholesale mid-market figure, which no consumer ever quite gets. Every provider shaves a little off, and the shaving is what you really pay. Measure it by dividing what you receive by what this page shows: a ratio of 0.99 is excellent, 0.97 is common for cards, and anything below 0.96 is worth a second quote. In the worked examples, the page uses a made-up rate of thirty-five forints per krona so that the sums come out round. Treat it as scaffolding, not as a forecast, and put the live number in its place.
Why Hungary, why medicine
The entrance exam
The exam fee and the travel to sit it are costs too, so Convert SEK to HUF for each and add them to your plan.
Swedish medical schools admit only a few hundred students each year, and the competition is fierce: applicants usually need top marks and a high score on the national aptitude test. The Hungarian universities offer an alternative based on an entrance examination in biology and chemistry, sometimes with a physics component and an interview. Applications open in winter, exams are held in spring, and places are allocated before the summer. Preparation takes months. Tuition is charged for the whole programme, so every stage must be planned.
The six years
Over six years small differences in the rate add up, so Convert SEK to HUF for the year, not just for the month.
The programme is built on the same pattern as in Sweden: two years of basic sciences with anatomy, physiology and biochemistry, then clinical subjects and hospital placements, with the final year spent on rotations. Classes are small, teachers are accustomed to international groups and the dissecting rooms are well equipped. Students report that the first two years are the hardest, with frequent oral examinations. Those who pass go on to practise in Hungary, Sweden, Britain, Germany or elsewhere, depending on recognition rules and language skills.
The man on the building
The main university in Budapest carries the name of Ignác Semmelweis, a Hungarian doctor born in 1818, who worked in a Vienna hospital in the 1840s. He noticed that women who gave birth in the ward run by doctors died of childbed fever far more often than those in the ward run by midwives, and he guessed that the doctors were carrying something from the autopsy room on their hands. In 1847 he ordered his staff to wash with a chlorinated solution, and the death rate fell sharply. His colleagues rejected the idea, and he died in 1865 in an asylum. Only later, with the germ theory of Pasteur and Lister, was he vindicated. Today his birthplace in Buda is a museum, and every medical student in Hungary knows his story.
The bill, line by line
Tuition
Because the tuition is quoted in euros, Convert SEK to HUF only for the part you pay in forints and keep the rest in euros.
Tuition for the English-language medical programme at Hungarian state universities is of the order of fifteen to twenty thousand euros per year, and varies between schools and from year to year. Dentistry and pharmacy cost somewhat less, and veterinary medicine somewhat more. Payment is usually made in euros or in forints in two instalments. The Swedish state student aid agency, CSN, offers loans and grants to Swedish citizens who study abroad, with rules and amounts that change from year to year, so check the current terms on its website before you plan. When the tuition is quoted in euros and your income is in kronor, a Convert SEK to EUR gives the first estimate, and Convert SEK to HUF the second.
Living in Budapest
Rent, transport and food are cheaper than in Stockholm, but Convert SEK to HUF for each and compare.
Rent for a room in a shared flat runs from 120,000 to 220,000 forints a month, a studio flat 200,000 to 350,000, and a place in a student dormitory much less. A monthly pass for the metro, trams and buses costs about 9,500 forints for students, a lunch in a canteen 2,000 to 3,500, a dinner in a restaurant 5,000 to 9,000 and a cup of coffee 700 to 1,200. At the invented rate of thirty-five forints to the krona, a room of 160,000 forints costs 4,571 kronor, a lunch of 2,800 forints 80 kronor.
A sample year
Take a student in the first year. Tuition is paid in euros and converted at the bank. Rent is 160,000 a month, 1,920,000 a year; food at 70,000 a month, 840,000; transport, phone and leisure at 40,000, 480,000; books and materials at 200,000 a year. The total in forints, apart from tuition, is 3,440,000, which is 98,286 kronor at the invented rate, or about 8,200 a month. Convert SEK to HUF for each line to build your own budget, and add a reserve of at least ten per cent for the unexpected.
A city on a river
Buda and Pest
Budapest was created in 1873 from three towns, Buda, Óbuda and Pest, and the Danube still divides it into a hilly western side and a flat eastern one. On the Buda side stand the castle, the Fisherman's Bastion and the Gellért hill; on the Pest side are the Parliament, the opera house, the great synagogue and the busy streets of the nightlife district. Seven bridges, among them the Chain Bridge opened in 1849, connect the two banks. A walk from one end to the other takes a few hours, and the tram along the river bank is considered one of the most scenic in Europe.
The thermal baths
A bath ticket looks large in forints, so Convert SEK to HUF and see that it is a modest evening out.
Budapest sits on a network of hot springs, and the city has some two dozen baths, from Roman-era ruins to grand neo-baroque palaces. The Széchenyi Baths in the City Park are the largest in Europe, with outdoor pools where people play chess in the water. Entry costs 12,000 to 14,000 forints, the Gellért Baths 11,000 to 13,000, while smaller local baths cost much less. Students and residents get discounts, and a visit on a winter evening, with snow falling on the steaming pools, is something that many alumni describe as the best memory of their studies.
The ruin bars
In the old Jewish quarter, empty buildings and courtyards were turned into bars with mismatched furniture, bathtubs as sofas and walls of graffiti. The first, Szimpla Kert, opened in 2002. A beer costs 1,200 to 1,800 forints, a glass of wine 1,500 to 2,500. Students come on weekday evenings, and tourists crowd in on weekends. For a quiet evening, go early.
Money in Hungary
The forint and its history
The forint was introduced in 1946, after the worst hyperinflation ever recorded. In the summer of that year, prices in the old currency, the pengő, were doubling every fifteen hours, and banknotes were printed with values in trillions. The new forint stabilised the economy within weeks. Hungary joined the European Union in 2004 but kept its own currency, and the central bank has no firm date for adopting the euro. As a result, the forint moves against the krona every day, and its swings can be wider than those of the other regional currencies.
Cash, cards and bureaus
Before any bureau, Convert SEK to HUF with the reference and demand the final amount on paper.
Cards are accepted in shops, restaurants and public transport, and contactless is common. Cash machines owned by independent companies can charge high fees and offer conversion at a poor rate, so use a bank's machine and choose forints. Bureaus in the centre of Budapest show appealing rates in the window, but some add a fee or buy and sell at wide margins; compare their offer with the figure above before you exchange.
Units, time and temperature
Hungary uses metric units and the same time zone as Sweden. For comparison with the English-speaking world, Convert km to mi and Convert °C to °F are enough; winter temperatures often fall below freezing, and summers are hot. If you plan calls to Eastern Europe, Convert CET to EET shows the one-hour step.
After the degree
Coming home with a diploma
A graduate of a Hungarian medical school who wants to work in Sweden applies to the national board of health and welfare for a licence. Under European rules a medical degree earned in another member state is recognised automatically, but the board also checks language skills, and for a doctor from outside the Nordic countries this means a Swedish test. Swedish-speaking graduates have an easier path, which is why many Swedes who study in Budapest keep up their language by reading Swedish medical journals and doing a summer placement at home. After the licence comes the compulsory period of general practice, then specialist training, each with its own waiting list.
Staying and working in Hungary
Some graduates stay. Hungarian doctors are paid far less than Swedish ones, but foreign graduates often join private clinics or international hospitals, where pay is better. Others go to Germany, Britain or Norway, where salaries are high and demand is great. Talk to older students before you decide, since they know which hospitals offer training in English and which require Hungarian.
Money after graduation
A newly licensed doctor in Sweden earns somewhere around 40,000 to 50,000 kronor a month before tax in the first years. A student loan taken for tuition and living costs is repaid in instalments over decades, with interest. If you took a loan in kronor, nothing in the exchange rate affects the repayment; if you borrowed in euros from a family member, do a fresh Convert SEK to EUR before each instalment.
Learning an unrelated language
Why Hungarian sounds so different
Hungarian belongs to the Finno-Ugric family, together with Finnish and Estonian, and has nothing in common with Swedish, which is Germanic. Words that foreigners recognise in Swedish, such as hus for house or bok for book, have no counterpart: house is ház, book is könyv. The language has eighteen cases, a rich system of endings and a rule called vowel harmony that makes suffixes change to match the stem. Learners say the pronunciation is easy but the grammar takes years.
Words that help
Even a few words win goodwill. Köszönöm is thank you, szia is hello and goodbye among friends, egészségedre is cheers, and the bill is called a számla. A shop assistant who hears you try will almost always answer in English, sometimes with a smile. Pharmacies display a green cross, and a patient can ask for a doctor who speaks English at most larger clinics.
The cost of lessons
A group course for foreigners at a language school costs 40,000 to 80,000 forints a month, a private lesson 5,000 to 8,000 an hour. Convert SEK to HUF for the course and compare it with a similar offer at home. Most universities include a Hungarian course for medical students, because patient contact in hospital requires at least basic communication.
Eating well on a student budget
Goulash, lángos and chimney cake
Goulash in Hungary is a soup with beef, onion, potato and paprika, not the thick stew of other countries. A bowl costs 2,000 to 3,500 forints. Lángos, a fried flatbread topped with sour cream and cheese, is a market-stall classic for 1,500 to 2,500, and kürtőskalács, the spiral chimney cake rolled in sugar and cinnamon, comes from Transylvania and costs 1,500 to 2,500. A student can eat well for 3,000 to 5,000 forints a day if he or she avoids the tourist centre.
Markets and canteens
The Great Market Hall near the Liberty Bridge is a large nineteenth-century building with produce on the ground floor and food stalls upstairs. Locals shop in smaller neighbourhood markets, where paprika, cured sausages and cheese are cheaper. University canteens serve a fixed lunch for 1,500 to 2,500 forints. At the invented rate, the canteen lunch is 43 to 71 kronor.
Wine from the hills
Hungary makes wine in twenty-two regions. The sweet Tokaji, from the north-east, was called the wine of kings and the king of wines by a French monarch, and the red Egri Bikavér, or Bull's Blood, comes from Eger. A bottle of good local wine in a shop costs 2,500 to 5,000 forints, and a glass in a bar 900 to 1,500. Hungary has strict laws on drink-driving, and there is a zero limit.
Other krona conversions
If the trip goes on
Travellers who continue to Poland can use Convert SEK to PLN, those who head to Czechia Convert SEK to CZK, and those who pay tuition in euros Convert SEK to EUR. For forints against the euro, see Convert EUR to HUF.
A small habit
Write down the rate and the date every time you convert. A month later, the note will show how much the rate has moved.
Mistakes to avoid
Paying tuition at a bad rate
A large transfer is the place where a small difference matters most. Convert SEK to HUF or to EUR with the reference and ask the bank for the final amount before you send.
Choosing the machine's conversion
Refuse the machine's offer, then Convert SEK to HUF at home and see what its rate would have cost you.
A machine that offers to charge you in kronor uses its own rate. Choose forints.
Relying on an old figure
The forint can move several per cent in a month. The date next to the result is there to protect you.
In short
The only thing fetched from the network is the table of daily rates; your amount stays in the browser and no account is needed. From a lecture hall to a thermal pool, one habit pays: Convert SEK to HUF, read the date and weigh every offer against the figure on this page.