Hungary honey

Production and trade in numbers

FAOSTAT, extracted 2026-09-29. Values not received as official national figures are marked as estimated or imputed. A year with no figure is a dash, never a zero. Trade values are customs declarations — not producer prices and not profit. Open it in the country tool, or read how countries compare.

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The flavour families that recur across this origin’s honeys, counted from their sensory profiles rather than asserted.

• Floral · 2
• Fruity · 2

Honeys from Hungary

• Acacia honeyWater white · DelicateClean, light and sweet with almost nothing in the way. The honey to reach for when you want sweetness without a flavour opinion.
• Plum blossom honeyExtra white · MildLight, sweet and gently almondy, with a soft fruit note behind it. An easy honey and a short-lived one.

When these honeys are typically harvested

Sourced periods for this place

Read from a source for the place named, and kept apart from the typical windows elsewhere on HoneyHQ, which are synthesis. Flowering, nectar flow and harvest are different periods.

• Flowering: Black locust — April–May

  Isaszeg, Debrecen and Kecskemét stands, Hungary · northern hemisphere · Measured in named years (2023, 2024) · Peer-reviewed study

  Average flowering periods of 14 to 27 days. At Isaszeg in 2024, flowering began on 14–20 April and, in one stand, ran in two phases to 18–20 May.

  Lower rainfall and lower soil temperature delayed the onset; the number of chill and heat days also moved it.

  Source: Soil temperature and weather factors as key drivers of flowering phenology and nectar production in black locust. Checked 2026-10-31.

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Plants behind these honeys

• Black locustRobinia pseudoacaciaAn exceptional nectar source for a very short period. Pollen is useful but secondary — this is a nectar tree above all.
• PlumPrunus domesticaA useful early nectar source and a generous pollen source when colonies most need pollen for brood rearing.

Bees associated with this origin

• Western honey beeApis melliferaThe bee behind essentially all the world's honey, and the one most people mean when they say 'bee'. Apis mellifera is a perennial eusocial insect that overwinters as a living cluster rather than dying back each year — which is the whole reason it stores honey in quantity, and therefore the reason it was ever domesticated. It is native to Europe, Africa and western Asia and has been carried by people to every continent except Antarctica.
• Mason beesOsmiaSolitary spring bees that build their nests out of mud, and the best orchard pollinators most gardeners have never noticed. A female mason bee works entirely alone: she finds a hollow tube, provisions a cell with pollen, lays an egg, walls it off with mud, and repeats until the tube is full. She will pollinate an apple tree several times more effectively than a honey bee while doing it, and she is almost incapable of stinging anyone.
• Red mason beeOsmia bicornisThe bee in your bee hotel. Osmia bicornis is the commonest cavity-nesting solitary bee in northwest Europe, the one most gardeners actually manage to attract, and one of the most effective fruit pollinators known — a few hundred females will pollinate an orchard acre as thoroughly as a honey bee colony of tens of thousands. It is also, for practical purposes, incapable of stinging anyone.
• Mining beesAndrenaSolitary ground-nesting bees, and the small volcano-shaped mounds of fine soil that appear on lawns and bare paths in April are theirs. Mining bees are the classic spring solitary bees of the northern hemisphere: short-lived, entirely harmless, often nesting in dense aggregations that look like a colony but are not, and a great many of them are specialists that visit only one kind of flower.