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M3 · M4 · 2 · 4 · 6
4.3 / km²
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City average
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Mixed after dark
Inner Ferencváros around Ráday utca is fine at any hour. Wikivoyage groups the outer streets south of the Grand Boulevard with District VIII as places locals avoid walking alone at night.
Staying in Ferencváros
Inner Ferencváros is the best-value central address in Budapest. Kálvin tér is one metro stop from Deák Ferenc tér and fifteen minutes on foot, the Great Market Hall is at the end of the street, and Ráday utca is a pedestrian run of restaurants and terraces that fills with locals rather than stag parties. Rooms cost roughly half of District V.
It is also the flattest, easiest district for anyone with a suitcase or a pram: M3 and M4 both stop here, trams 4 and 6 cover the boulevard, tram 2 runs the riverbank past the Parliament, and Liberty Bridge puts the Gellért baths eight minutes away on foot.
The district is long. South of the Grand Boulevard it turns into Középső- and Külső-Ferencváros: renovated in parts, industrial in others, and Wikivoyage groups its outer streets with District VIII as somewhere locals avoid walking alone at night. Nothing there is worth the twenty-five extra minutes, so keep your address between Kálvin tér and Boráros tér.
What works
- Roughly half the District V rate for a 15-minute walk to the centre
- The Great Market Hall and Ráday utca are both inside the district
- M3, M4, trams 4, 6 and the riverside tram 2 all stop here
- Liberty Bridge puts the Gellért baths eight minutes away on foot
- Bakáts tér and the university quarter keep it lively without being loud
What does not
- Only the strip inside the Grand Boulevard is worth booking
- Outer Ferencváros is industrial and Wikivoyage flags it after dark
- Ráday utca is a restaurant street, so the flats above it hear the terraces
- Üllői út is a six-lane road cutting the district in half
- Fewer sights than Districts V to VII - you walk to everything
Most locals avoid walking alone by night in outer zones of districts 8th and 9th in Pest, as these are shady, though not particularly dangerous, areas.