Route brief · MAD → BUD
Madrid → Budapest
$80
−24% vs typical
seasonal median $105 · difference $25
Oct 2 – Oct 7 · 5 nights
RyanairNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $87–$103
- Board rank
- Stronger than 66%
- Route sample
- 4 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 4 months, Oct is the cheapest for MAD → BUD. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in October around $80 and peak in December near $116 — a $36 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Ryanair nonstop and takes about 3 hours outbound, on a 5-night trip. At $80 for 1,974 km each way, that works out to about $20 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $41 that short-haul fares on this board typically run. Of the 4 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Budapest, this is the cheapest right now — 16% under the next one, Barcelona. It is also the 2nd cheapest of the 10 routes of similar length we watch out of Madrid.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 14% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $120 then versus $137 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 $62, on Oct 22.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 16 of 122 days priced, from 47 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $80
24% below the $105 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Madrid → Budapest · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Barajas (MAD) ↔ Ferenc Liszt (BUD)
- Flight time
- ~3 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,974 km each way
- Typical price
- $105 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Ryanair
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
MAD → BUD, answered.
Is $80 a good price for Madrid to Budapest?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $105 round-trip. At $80 you're 24% below that, saving about $25, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Madrid to Budapest?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Oct 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 MAD → 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 4 months of cached fares, Oct comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Madrid to Budapest?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Ryanair). The outbound leg runs around 3 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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