Route brief · BRU → BUD
Brussels → Budapest
$44
−54% vs typical
seasonal median $95 · difference $51
Sep 26 – Sep 27 · 1 night
RyanairNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $46–$119
- Board rank
- Stronger than 97%
- 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 BRU → BUD. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in September around $44 and peak in December near $128 — a $84 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Ryanair nonstop and takes about 2 hours outbound, on a 1-night trip. At $44 for 1,129 km each way, that works out to about $19 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $41 that short-haul fares on this board typically run. Of the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Budapest, this is the cheapest right now — though Copenhagen is within a few dollars. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 10 routes of similar length we watch out of Brussels, where the middle fare is $61.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 9% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $77 then versus $70 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 $46, on Oct 8.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 14 of 93 days priced, from 39 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $44
54% below the $95 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Brussels → Budapest · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Zaventem (BRU) · Charleroi (CRL) ↔ Ferenc Liszt (BUD)
- Flight time
- ~2 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,129 km each way
- Typical price
- $95 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Ryanair
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
BRU → BUD, answered.
Is $44 a good price for Brussels to Budapest?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $95 round-trip. At $44 you're 54% below that, saving about $51, which we rate rare for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Brussels 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 BRU → 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 Brussels to Budapest?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Ryanair). The outbound leg runs around 2 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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