Route brief · AMS → BUD
Amsterdam → Budapest
$195
−7% vs typical
seasonal median $210 · difference $15
Oct 3 – Oct 4 · 1 night
easyJet1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $196–$211
- Board rank
- Stronger than 11%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefBUDBudapestThermal baths, ruin bars and a river splitting two cities — still the best value capital in Europe.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsFerenc Liszt (BUD)All routes into BudapestWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Oct is the cheapest for AMS → BUD. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in October around $195 and peak in September near $237 — a $42 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 3.5 hours outbound, on a 1-night trip — ticketed under easyJet, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $195 for 1,146 km each way, that works out to about $85 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Budapest, this fare ranks 7th — 4.4× the $44 we hold from Brussels. For context, the middle fare among the 9 routes of similar length we watch out of Amsterdam is $150.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 7% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $220 then versus $204 now, across 8 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $179, on Sep 18.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 9 of 93 days priced, from 42 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $195
7% below the $210 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Amsterdam → Budapest · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Schiphol (AMS) ↔ Ferenc Liszt (BUD)
- Flight time
- ~3.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,146 km each way
- Typical price
- $210 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- easyJet
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
AMS → BUD, answered.
Is $195 a good price for Amsterdam to Budapest?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $210 round-trip and this fare is 7% under it, about $15. We do not call a drop notable until 20%, so this is an ordinary price for the route rather than a reason to hurry.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Amsterdam to Budapest?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Budapest are Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book AMS → Budapest?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 4 months of cached fares, Oct comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Amsterdam to Budapest?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under easyJet. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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