Suicide Hotlines and Crisis Lines in Hungary

A helpline is a place to talk to someone when you are struggling, before or instead of a crisis. The lines on this page are answered by trained volunteers or professionals, depending on the service. If you are not in Hungary, the worldwide list is organised by country.

What you share is kept private in almost all cases; if a counsellor believes a life is in immediate danger, they may arrange urgent help. What each service costs is set out beside it below, because some of these numbers are free within Hungary and others are charged, especially when called from abroad.

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CRISIS LINES, SUICIDE HOTLINES, AND HELPLINES IN HUNGARY

Each number below was checked in August 2026 at the operating organisation's own website, or at the page of the national communications regulator that designates the number to it. Quotations from Hungarian pages are given in English translation.

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The emergency number 112, and how to reach it without a voice call

116-123, the national psychological first-aid line

Kék Vonal, 116 111, for children and young people up to 24

OKIT, for relationship violence and human trafficking

NANE Egyesület, for women subjected to violence

Háttér Társaság, LGBTQI information and emotional support

DélUtán Alapítvány, for people over 40

While you are waiting to be answered

If you are worried about someone else

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The emergency number 112, and how to reach it without a voice call

Hungary uses the single EU emergency number. Calls are routed by call-taking centres in Szombathely and Miskolc to the fire and civil protection service, the ambulance service and the police.

Tel: 112

The police describe it as callable "free of charge from every public, landline and mobile telephone", and the civil protection service states it answers 24 hours a day in Hungarian, English and German.

If you cannot make a voice call, the civil protection service publishes an SMS route to the same centres: send a text to 112. It notes that "sending the message is not free, it is a standard-rate service". A free app for people with hearing impairment, named 112SOS, is published on the same page.

116-123, the national psychological first-aid line

The Magyar Lelki Elsősegély Telefonszolgálatok Szövetsége (LESZ) is the national association of psychological first-aid telephone services. The national regulator designates 116-123 to it as Hungary's psychological helpline. It describes its work as suicide prevention, crisis intervention and mental-health prevention.

In its own words, translated: "The first telephone service in Hungary was formed in 1970. It started with one duty worker and one telephone; today 22 services operate with more than 500 volunteers, reachable from any part of the country, callable from a mobile too." Calls are answered by trained volunteers.

Tel: 116-123

Hours: the association publishes the line as answering 0-24h, and its banner reads, translated, "Callable free of charge from every network, 24 hours a day!"

Cost: in the association's own words, translated, "callable free of charge from every domestic network". From abroad it publishes charged numbers: +36 62 436 570, and +36 66 441 300 from Wednesday 13:00 to Friday 19:00.

Email: nemvagyegyedul116123@gmail.com in Hungarian, or englishhelp@gmail.com in English. The association says it replies within 72 hours, so email is not a route for tonight.

Languages: Hungarian by telephone. English is published for email only.

Kék Vonal, 116 111, for children and young people up to 24

The Kék Vonal Gyermekkrízis Alapítvány runs the 116 111 helpline for children and young people, and the regulator designates the number to it. The foundation states it takes calls up to the age of 24, so many readers in their early twenties are eligible too. Calls are answered by trained professionals and volunteers.

The foundation says plainly, translated: "Many people call us in a very difficult situation, in danger, before big decisions, or even struggling with suicidal thoughts."

On privacy, its own wording, translated, is that information leaves the Kék Vonal "only if you agree to it, or if you or another child are in such serious danger that an adult's rapid and personal help is needed regardless".

Tel: 116 111

Hours: day and night for the phone line, in its words, translated: "You can call us on 116 111 free of charge, day and night, from the whole country, from any landline or mobile network!" Chat is separate, every day between 13:00 and 21:00.

Cost: free, in the foundation's own words above. It notes the number works only from within Hungary.

Chat: interaktiv.kek-vonal.hu, registration required. Email is answered within three days via the foundation's website.

OKIT, for relationship violence and human trafficking

The Országos Kríziskezelő és Információs Telefonszolgálat (OKIT) is the state-commissioned crisis line for people affected by relationship violence and by human trafficking. It also arranges emergency accommodation where needed, and names lawyers, psychologists, mental-health professionals and social workers among the specialists it can bring in.

Tel: +36 80 20 55 20

Email: okit@segelyszervezet.hu

Hours: in the service's own words, translated, "on 365 days of the year, 24 hours a day".

Cost: the service states, translated, that it "can be called from the territory of Hungary, from landline and mobile alike, free of charge and anonymously". It also publishes that no audio recording is made of the conversations.

Languages: in its own words, translated: "The primary language of help is Hungarian, though at certain times we can also take calls in English." The English times are not published.

NANE Egyesület, for women subjected to violence

The NANE Egyesület helpline is a themed line for women subjected to men's violence, and for the child abuse and sexual violence connected to it. It takes calls from those affected, from people close to them, and from professionals. It has run since February 1994 and is staffed by trained volunteers of the association.

Tel: 06 80 505 101

Hours: Monday, Thursday and Friday 18:00 to 22:00, Tuesday 10:00 to 22:00, and Wednesday 12:00 to 16:00, with chat support 16:00 to 18:00 on Wednesdays, as published on its site.

Cost: the association publishes the line as, translated, "callable free from mobile too (within Hungary)". It explains, translated: "NANE Association covers the cost of incoming calls from grant and other funds received for running the helpline (donations, for example), so it costs callers nothing." The from-abroad line, +36 1 267 4900, is published as not free.

Chat: via nane.hu.

Háttér Társaság, LGBTQI information and emotional support

The Háttér Társaság information and psychological support service is an anonymous line running since 1996, staffed by volunteer operators trained under professional leadership. It is primarily for questions on LGBTQI themes, including self-acceptance, identity, discrimination, relationship difficulties including abuse, legal questions, and HIV and STI questions. It adds, translated, that you can also call "on any other subject, or just to talk while keeping your anonymity".

Tel: 137-37, which the organisation publishes as, translated, a "freephone number reachable free from mobile and from most operators". Its standard-rate line is +36 1 329 33 80.

Hours: in its own words, translated, "our anonymous service takes calls every day (including weekends and public holidays) from 18:00 to 23:00". For chat, the same page gives the days in two forms, once as Monday, Wednesday and Friday and once as Mondays and Wednesdays, from 18:00 to 23:00, so check the chat page before relying on a Friday.

Chat: lelkisegely.hatter.hu. Email: lelkisegely@hatter.hu.

Languages: not published.

DélUtán Alapítvány, for people over 40

The DélUtán Alapítvány runs an anonymous emotional-support telephone service for people over 40. Its page names anxiety, family problems, lack of self-confidence and suicidal thoughts among what callers bring, and it states that 7,000 people ask for help there each year. Younger callers are directed to its chat and email routes.

Tel: 13777 or 06 80 200 866

Hours: every day between 18:00 and 21:00, weekends and public holidays included, as the foundation publishes.

Cost: in the foundation's own words, translated: "Callable free of charge from every settlement in the country every day from 18:00 to 21:00 on the numbers 13777 and 06 80 200 866."

Chat: delutan.hu, on named dates only, 18:00 to 21:00, with registration. A fantasy name may be used.

While you are waiting to be answered

Some of these lines keep evening hours, and a line that is open can still be busy. If you are waiting, try to stay with someone you trust, or ask someone to sit with you until the call connects.

If you have anything near you that you could use to harm yourself, put it somewhere harder to reach, or ask someone else to hold it for you. Distance and time both help.

If waiting is not possible, dial 112 or go to a hospital emergency department. You do not need an appointment and you do not need to explain yourself well.

If you are worried about someone else

Ask them directly. Asking someone whether they are thinking of suicide does not put the idea there, and it often comes as a relief to be asked plainly.

Listen more than you advise. You do not need the right words, and you are not expected to fix anything.

If they are willing, offer to sit with them while they call one of the numbers above, or to make the call together. If they are in immediate danger, treat it as you would any medical emergency.

Supporting someone through this is heavy, and it is reasonable to want support of your own. The same lines are open to you.

For services in other countries, see the list of helplines and suicide hotlines worldwide.

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