Advance purchase rules
Travelcards and passes can be purchased in advance, but a 30-day pre-purchase restriction applies to the products listed below if their validity extends partially or fully to 2022.
If the start day of validity for the listed products is later than the dates shown below, then the products are purchasable only up to 30 days before the start of validity.
This means that if the start day of validity is not later than the dates below, then the product can be purchased in advance without any restriction:
| Quarterly Budapest-pass | 23 September 2021 |
| Monthly pass | 1 December 2021 |
| 5/30 BKK 24-hour travelcard | 2 December 2021 |
| 15-day pass | 17 December 2021 |
| 7-day travelcard | 25 December 2021 |
| 72-hour travelcard | 0:00 on 29 December 2021 |
| Pupil group travelcard | 0:00 on 31 December 2021 |
| 24-hour travelcard | 0:00 on 31 December 2021 |
The validity period of passes and 7-day travelcards expires at 2:00 in the morning after the indicated last day of validity. If only these 2 hours extend to 2022, the advance purchase restriction does not apply.
Semester passes valid from September go on sale in August and September, while passes valid from February are purchasable in January and February.
The variety of discounted annual Budapest-pass with an optional starting day and suburban railway tickets can be purchased up to 30 days in advance of the start of validity.
Advance purchase of the 24-hour, 72-hour, 7-day travelcard, 15-day Budapest-passes and Monthly Budapest-passes in the mobile app is possible up to 30 days before the start day of validity.