Route brief · LIS → BUD
Lisbon → Budapest
$90
−38% vs typical
seasonal median $145 · difference $55
Jan 8 '27 – Jan 13 '27 · 5 nights
Wizz AirNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $135–$149
- Board rank
- Stronger than 87%
- 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, Jan is the cheapest for LIS → BUD. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in January around $90 and peak in December near $194 — a $104 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Wizz Air nonstop and takes about 4 hours outbound, on a 5-night trip. At $90 for 2,469 km each way, that works out to about $18 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $41 that short-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 3 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Budapest, this fare ranks 2nd — 13% above the $80 from Madrid. It is also the 2nd cheapest of the 17 routes of similar length we watch out of Lisbon.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Oct 7 · $99 (50% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 15% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $234 then versus $199 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 $99, on Oct 7.
September 2026
Cheapest in Jan · around $90
38% below the $145 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Lisbon → Budapest · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Humberto Delgado (LIS) ↔ Ferenc Liszt (BUD)
- Flight time
- ~4 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,469 km each way
- Typical price
- $145 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Wizz Air
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
LIS → BUD, answered.
Is $90 a good price for Lisbon to Budapest?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $145 round-trip. At $90 you're 38% below that, saving about $55, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Lisbon to Budapest?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Jan 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 LIS → 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, Jan comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Lisbon to Budapest?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Wizz Air). The outbound leg runs around 4 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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