St Stephen's Day: fireworks and national celebration
Thu 20 Aug, 00:00 · Banks of the Danube and more than 20 locations across Budapest · Budapest
Details & booking — Szent Istvan Nap (official festival site)
via Szent Istvan Nap (official festival site) · Checked 1 Aug 2026
About this event
Hungary's national day fills Budapest with ceremonies, folk programmes, food streets and an air parade over the Danube, closing with what the organisers bill as Europe's largest fireworks display, projected against the Parliament, Gellert Hill and the National Gallery. The wider programme runs 16 to 21 August across more than twenty city locations.
Why we picked it
The biggest free spectacle in Hungary's calendar, watched from the public riverbanks by hundreds of thousands.
Free entry
Free programmes (ingyenes) at over 20 locations across Budapest between 16 and 21 August; the fireworks are free to watch from public riverbanks. Grandstand seating, where offered, may be ticketed.
Registration
None
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