Route brief · DUB → BUD
Dublin → Budapest
$127
−9% vs typical
seasonal median $140 · difference $13
Sep 9 – Sep 16 · 7 nights
Ryanair1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $128–$186
- Board rank
- Stronger than 17%
- Route sample
- 5 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 5 months, Sep is the cheapest for DUB → BUD. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in September around $127 and peak in December near $198 — a $71 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 3.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Ryanair, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $127 for 1,895 km each way, that works out to about $34 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 5 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Budapest, this fare ranks 5th — 2.2× the $58 we hold from London. For context, the middle fare among the 17 routes of similar length we watch out of Dublin is $103.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 60% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $356 then versus $142 now, across 6 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 $103, on Sep 21.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 14 of 93 days priced, from 33 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Sep · around $127
9% below the $140 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Dublin → Budapest · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Dublin (DUB) ↔ Ferenc Liszt (BUD)
- Flight time
- ~3.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,895 km each way
- Typical price
- $140 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Ryanair
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
DUB → BUD, answered.
Is $127 a good price for Dublin to Budapest?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $140 round-trip and this fare is 9% under it, about $13. 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 Dublin to Budapest?
Across 5 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 DUB → 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 5 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 Dublin to Budapest?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Ryanair. 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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