Route brief · PAR → BUD
Paris → Budapest
$77
−47% vs typical
seasonal median $145 · difference $68
Sep 15 – Sep 22 · 7 nights
RyanairNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $112–$191
- Board rank
- Stronger than 94%
- Route sample
- 7 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 7 months, Sep is the cheapest for PAR → BUD. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in September around $75 and peak in April near $198 — a $123 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Ryanair nonstop and takes about 2 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip. At $77 for 1,244 km each way, that works out to about $31 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 10 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Budapest, this fare ranks 6th — 1.8× the $44 we hold from Brussels. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 14 routes of similar length we watch out of Paris, where the middle fare is $77.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: Sep 2 · $75 (47% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 21% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $146 then versus $116 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 $64, on Sep 10.
September 2026
December 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $75
48% below the $145 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Paris → Budapest · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Charles de Gaulle (CDG) · Orly (ORY) ↔ Ferenc Liszt (BUD)
- Flight time
- ~2 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,244 km each way
- Typical price
- $145 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Ryanair
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
PAR → BUD, answered.
Is $77 a good price for Paris to Budapest?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $145 round-trip. At $77 you're 47% below that, saving about $68, which we rate rare for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Paris to Budapest?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Sep 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 PAR → 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 7 months of cached fares, Sep comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Paris to Budapest?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Ryanair). The outbound leg runs around 2 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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