Getting to Pécs
Pécs is the largest city of Transdanubia with an impact on the areas of the South Transdanubian Region, geographically speaking that is the whole area lying to the south of Lake Balaton.
Travelling by road
Travelling by road
Hungary is characterised by an extensive public road network with Budapest as the central point for all motorway level roads.
From the South
The fastest way to access Pécs is from the direction of Zagreb on the Bjelovar - Virovitica route. There is a motorway access until Osijek. (A3/A5), from there on Pécs can be reached via Drávaszabolcs, Beremend or Udvar.
The fastest way to access Pécs is from the direction of Zagreb on the Bjelovar - Virovitica route. There is a motorway access until Osijek. (A3/A5), from there on Pécs can be reached via Drávaszabolcs, Beremend or Udvar.
From the West
From the direction of Graz take the Road 57 and from the Hungarian border take Road 8 until Körmend, then follow the signs to Zalaegerszeg, Nagykanizsa, Böhönye, and Szigetvár until Pécs.
From the direction of Vienna one possibility is the route Sopron, Keszthely, Böhönye, Szigetvár, but from April 2010 the journey on the motorway M1/M6 will take shorter.
Pécs is located at the crossroads of the M60, Road 6, Road 57, Road 58 and Road 66.
From the direction of Vienna one possibility is the route Sopron, Keszthely, Böhönye, Szigetvár, but from April 2010 the journey on the motorway M1/M6 will take shorter.
Pécs is located at the crossroads of the M60, Road 6, Road 57, Road 58 and Road 66.
Travelling by air
Distance from Pécs: 210 km
Airport Transfer to Pécs: Travel 4 You
Distance from Pécs: 11 km
Distance from Pécs: 95 km
Travelling by train
There is a direct Intercity train service to Budapest with trains departing nine times a day.
There is a direct Intercity train service to Budapest with trains departing nine times a day.
Pécs is linked by train with Vienna and Sarajevo on a daily basis.
Travelling by boat
The Danube, the largest river of Europe is 40 km far away from the city. The port of Mohács, a border crossing port for the territory of the European Union at the same time, can be reached on the M60 motorway from Pécs.
The Danube, the largest river of Europe is 40 km far away from the city. The port of Mohács, a border crossing port for the territory of the European Union at the same time, can be reached on the M60 motorway from Pécs.
Travelling by car
Vienna
Distance from Pécs: 423 km, 4h 30min
Bratislava
Distance from Pécs: 310 km, 4h
Kraków
Distance from Pécs: 750 km, 8h51min
Uzhgorod
Distance from Pécs: 533 km, 6h9min
Arad
Distance from Pécs: 305 km, 5h 4min
Belgrade
Distance from Pécs: 307 km, 3h 41min
Tuzla
Distance from Pécs: 251 km, 4h
Distance from Pécs: 251 km, 4h
Zagreb
Distance from Pécs: 238 km, 3h30min
Trieste
Distance from Pécs: 465 km, 5h30min
Ljubljana
Distance from Pécs: 377 km, 4h40min
The motorway M6 to be inaugurated in March 2010 will reduce the time of the journey between Pécs and Budapest to around two hours.
Distance from Pécs: 423 km, 4h30minFurther development plans
Pécs-Pogány Airport
The Pécs-Pogány Airport is located 9 km south-west of the city. The 1,500 m long runway was inaugurated in autumn 2003 and the airport itself was opened to the public in March 2006. Austrian Airlines ran scheduled flights to Vienna until 2006, when the service was halted. Over this period of operation the airline carried 3074 passengers. In the summer 2007 daily direct flights with a capacity of carrying 30 passengers departed to Corfu, Greece three times a week with maximum enplanements.
The size of the asphalt runway (heading 16/34) is 1,500m by 30 m, and is adequate for 46 tons of aircraft weights. It is situated at 198 m above sea level. The runway is equipped with a full-range lighting system and with a Category-1 ILS. Developments are targeted at expanding the capacities of the airport for the landing of larger size planes. The European Capital of Culture Programme may be an excellent occasion to start scheduled flights again.
Hungary’s high voltage electrical power network
The reform of the electrical power industry was launched in 1994 when Act XLVIII of 1994 on regulating the generation, transmission and supply of electrical energy was passed, and the Hungarian Energy Office was established followed by the first wave of the energy sector privatization.
Privatisation was carried out in several steps. At present most power stations and 100% of electrical energy suppliers, which are now operating as network and supplier companies due to deregulation processes, are in private ownership.
The attempts of the European Union to create a single market contributed to the deregulation of the energy sector, which resulted in enforcing Act CX of 2001 on electrical energy supply on 1 January 2003.
The city of Pécs is directly linked with the Paks Nuclear Power Plant, the largest generator of electricity in Hungary, as well as with the national transmission network. The 400-kV system can satisfy the entire need of the region. The security of supply is increased by the fact that the system is linked with the grid of Croatia, which enables a two-way transmission.
Natural gas supply
Pécs and its surrounding area are directly linked with the Hungarian South Great Plain gas production and storing facility, which provides the system with the necessary amount of energy through its pipelines. The energy supply of the region is secure, the only risk involved, depending on the volume of security reserves, is the cut-offs of international supplies.
Pan-European corridors
At the First Pan-European Transport Conference in Prague in 1991 the European Commission and the representatives of the European countries concerned in the developments decided to launch a common concept on transport infrastructure. This was how the idea of the Pan-European Transport Corridors was born. Originally the representatives agreed upon a network covering Eastern and Western Europe. At the subsequent conferences, namely in Crete in 1994 and in Helsinki in 1997, an agreement to expand the network was signed, involving the appointment of ten later referred to as Helsinki-corridors. These routes are to create an integrated network and cover the entire area of the European Community, the Balkans and Eastern Europe.
Transport Corridor 8 is the Danube, which promotes inland waterway navigation from Germany to the Black Sea. The project makes the northern European sea ports also accessible through the Rhine- Main-Danube Canal. In Mohács, a town 40 km away from Pécs, the border crossing port of the European Union is operating and the project of the public port providing goods transport services has been completed.