Route brief · ZRH → BUD
Zurich → Budapest
$204
−5% vs typical
seasonal median $215 · difference $11
Dec 17 – Dec 20 · 3 nights
easyJet1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $212–$217
- Board rank
- Stronger than 6%
- 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, Dec is the cheapest for ZRH → BUD. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in December around $204 and peak in September near $248 — a $44 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 3.5 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip — ticketed under easyJet, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. Across the 5 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Budapest, this fare ranks 5th — 5.0× the $41 we hold from Milan. For context, the middle fare among the 6 routes of similar length we watch out of Zurich is $166.
The 6 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 15% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $246 then versus $210 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 $160, on Nov 13.
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 Dec · around $204
5% below the $215 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Zurich → Budapest · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Zurich (ZRH) ↔ Ferenc Liszt (BUD)
- Flight time
- ~3.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~789 km each way
- Typical price
- $215 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- easyJet
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
ZRH → BUD, answered.
Is $204 a good price for Zurich to Budapest?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $215 round-trip and this fare is 5% under it, about $11. 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 Zurich 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 ZRH → 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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Zurich to Budapest?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under easyJet. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
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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