Good1 stop · 10h
HOU to HNLUnited States
Honolulu
$593
usually $825
−28%
Most monthly lows $726–$825. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · HOU → BUD
Houston to Budapest
Best fare, round trip
$783
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Thu 3 Dec
- Return
- Sun 13 Dec
- Stay
- 10 nights
- Flight
- 2 stops · 12h
- Airline
Air Canada
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
HungaryBudapestThermal baths, ruin bars and a river splitting two cities — still the best value capital in Europe.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsFerenc Liszt (BUD)Every route into BudapestFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 12 hours outbound, on a 10-night trip — ticketed under Air Canada, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $783 for 9,219 km each way, that works out to about $42 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 18 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Budapest, this fare ranks 11th — 45% above the $540 from Seoul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 35 routes of similar length we watch out of Houston, where the middle fare is $872. 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. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Budapest: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
We are still collecting this route's months — 1 month of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Bush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU) ↔ Ferenc Liszt (BUD)
- Flight time
- ≈12 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈9,219 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Air Canada
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
Good to know
HOU → BUD, answered.
How far in advance should I book HOU → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Houston to Budapest?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air Canada. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 20 September). 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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