Route brief · OSL → BUD
Oslo → Budapest
$102
−27% vs typical
seasonal median $140 · difference $38
Mar 19 '27 – Mar 22 '27 · 3 nights
Wizz AirNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $120–$139
- Board rank
- Stronger than 73%
- 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, Mar is the cheapest for OSL → BUD. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in March around $102 and peak in December near $161 — a $59 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Wizz Air nonstop and takes about 2.5 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip. At $102 for 1,482 km each way, that works out to about $34 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 8 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Budapest, this fare ranks 7th — 2.3× the $44 we hold from Brussels. It is also the 3rd cheapest of the 9 routes of similar length we watch out of Oslo.
The 6 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 1% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $151 then versus $153 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 $117, on Oct 5.
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.
Cheapest in Mar · around $102
27% below the $140 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Oslo → Budapest · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Gardermoen (OSL) · Torp (TRF) ↔ Ferenc Liszt (BUD)
- Flight time
- ~2.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,482 km each way
- Typical price
- $140 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Wizz Air
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
OSL → BUD, answered.
Is $102 a good price for Oslo to Budapest?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $140 round-trip. At $102 you're 27% below that, saving about $38, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Oslo to Budapest?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Mar 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 OSL → 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, Mar comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Oslo to Budapest?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Wizz Air). The outbound leg runs around 2.5 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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