Route brief · CHI → BUD
Chicago → Budapest
$642
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Nov 27 – Dec 5 · 8 nights
SAS1 stop
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.
Best time to be in Budapest: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 10 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under SAS, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $642 for 7,744 km each way, that works out to about $41 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 14 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Budapest, this fare ranks 6th — 19% above the $541 from Seoul. For context, the middle fare among the 35 routes of similar length we watch out of Chicago is $630. We have 1 month of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
Route facts
- Airports
- O’Hare (ORD) · Midway (MDW) ↔ Ferenc Liszt (BUD)
- Flight time
- ~10 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~7,744 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- SAS
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
CHI → BUD, answered.
How far in advance should I book CHI → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Chicago to Budapest?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under SAS. 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 August 30). 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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