Route brief · STO → BUD
Stockholm → Budapest
$44
−51% vs typical
seasonal median $90 · difference $46
Sep 20 – Sep 23 · 3 nights
RyanairNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $62–$118
- Board rank
- Stronger than 96%
- Route sample
- 10 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 10 months, Sep is the cheapest for STO → BUD. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in September around $44 and peak in July near $221 — a $177 spread across the 10 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Ryanair nonstop and takes about 2.5 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip. At $44 for 1,318 km each way, that works out to about $17 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $41 that short-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 10 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Budapest, this fare ranks 3rd — 0% above the $44 from Brussels. It is also the 2nd cheapest of the 10 routes of similar length we watch out of Stockholm.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Sep 13 · $49 (55% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 15% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $93 then versus $107 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 $49, on Sep 23.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $44
51% below the $90 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Stockholm → Budapest · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Arlanda (ARN) · Bromma (BMA) · Skavsta (NYO) ↔ Ferenc Liszt (BUD)
- Flight time
- ~2.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,318 km each way
- Typical price
- $90 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Ryanair
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
STO → BUD, answered.
Is $44 a good price for Stockholm to Budapest?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $90 round-trip. At $44 you're 51% below that, saving about $46, which we rate rare for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Stockholm to Budapest?
Across 10 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 STO → 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 10 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 Stockholm to Budapest?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Ryanair). 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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