ExceptionalNonstop · 1.5h
LAX to LASUnited States
Las Vegas
$38
usually $125
−70%
Most monthly lows $67–$247. Cheaper than every other month on record (6).
Flights · LAX → BUD
Los Angeles to Budapest
Best fare, round trip
$748
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Tue 5 Jan
- Return
- Wed 13 Jan
- Stay
- 8 nights
- Flight
- 2 stops · 15.5h
- Airline
Finnair
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 15.5 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under Finnair, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $748 for 9,998 km each way, that works out to about $37 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 16 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Budapest, this fare ranks 7th — 39% above the $540 from Seoul. For context, the middle fare among the 49 routes of similar length we watch out of Los Angeles is $722. We have 3 months 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.
The 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 80% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $449 then versus $806 now, across 14 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 $438, on 14 Oct.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Cached fares · checked 17 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 3 months of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- LAX · Burbank (BUR) · Long Beach (LGB) ↔ Ferenc Liszt (BUD)
- Flight time
- ≈15.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈9,998 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Finnair
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
Good to know
LA → BUD, answered.
How far in advance should I book LA → 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 Los Angeles to Budapest?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Finnair. 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 17 October). 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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