Great1 stop · 14h
SEL to ISTTürkiye
Istanbul
$390
usually $640
−39%
Most monthly lows $515–$679. Cheaper than every other month on record (8).
Flights · SEL → BUD
Seoul to Budapest
Best fare, round trip
$540
−10%
below its usual $600
you keep $60
Found
- Depart
- Sun 6 Dec
- Return
- Sat 12 Dec
- Stay
- 6 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 14h
- Airline
China Eastern
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $549 and $602. The drop beats 21% of measured fares on the board, over 4 observed months.
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.
Fares on this route stay within about $66 across the 4 months we track — season matters less here than timing the drop. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 14 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under China Eastern, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $540 for 8,169 km each way, that works out to about $33 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Of the 17 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Budapest, this is the cheapest right now — 8% under the next one, Toronto. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 43 routes of similar length we watch out of Seoul, where the middle fare is $655. The best time to be in Budapest: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
The 5 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 24% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $485 then versus $602 now, across 17 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 $441, on 18 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 15 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Dec, around $540
10% below the $600 typical fare
$549Oct, below the usual price. Compare October fares.$540Dec, the cheapest month. Compare December fares.$602Jan ’27, around the usual price. Compare January fares.$606Feb, around the usual price. Compare February fares.
CheapestBelow usualUsualAbove usualPress a month to compare its fares
Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Seoul to Budapest, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Incheon (ICN) · Gimpo (GMP) ↔ Ferenc Liszt (BUD)
- Flight time
- ≈14 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈8,169 km each way
- Typical price
- $600 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- China Eastern
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
Good to know
SEL → BUD, answered.
Is $540 a good price for Seoul to Budapest?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $600 round-trip and this fare is 10% under it. We do not call a drop notable until 20%, so this is an ordinary price for the route rather than a reason to hurry.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Seoul to Budapest?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Dec 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 SEL → 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, Dec comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Seoul to Budapest?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under China Eastern. 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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