Route brief · LAX → BUD
Los Angeles → Budapest
$845
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Dec 23 – Dec 28 · 5 nights
United2 stops
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 2 stops and takes about 14 hours outbound, on a 5-night trip — ticketed under United, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $845 for 9,998 km each way, that works out to about $42 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 15 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Budapest, this fare ranks 10th — 56% above the $541 from Seoul. For context, the middle fare among the 46 routes of similar length we watch out of Los Angeles is $674. 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
- LAX · Burbank (BUR) · Long Beach (LGB) ↔ Ferenc Liszt (BUD)
- Flight time
- ~14 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,998 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- United
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Los Angeles to Budapest?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under United. 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 18). 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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