Route brief · BCN → BUD
Barcelona → Budapest
$95
−14% vs typical
seasonal median $110 · difference $15
Sep 30 – Oct 4 · 4 nights
RyanairNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $95–$113
- Board rank
- Stronger than 35%
- Route sample
- 6 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 6 months, Sep is the cheapest for BCN → BUD. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in September around $95 and peak in February near $116 — a $21 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Ryanair nonstop and takes about 2.5 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip. At $95 for 1,497 km each way, that works out to about $32 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 8 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Budapest, this fare ranks 6th — 2.2× the $44 we hold from Brussels. For context, the middle fare among the 8 routes of similar length we watch out of Barcelona is $83.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 25% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $167 then versus $125 now, across 5 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 $66, on Oct 21.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 23 of 122 days priced, from 75 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Sep · around $95
14% below the $110 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Barcelona → Budapest · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- El Prat (BCN) ↔ Ferenc Liszt (BUD)
- Flight time
- ~2.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,497 km each way
- Typical price
- $110 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Ryanair
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
BCN → BUD, answered.
Is $95 a good price for Barcelona to Budapest?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $110 round-trip and this fare is 14% 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 Barcelona to Budapest?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Sep 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 BCN → 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 6 months of cached fares, Sep comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Barcelona to Budapest?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Ryanair). The outbound leg runs around 2.5 hours.
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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