There are 11 ways to get from France to Budapest by plane, train (TGV), bus, train, night train, or car
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Fly from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport
best- Fly from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport (CDG) to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD)plane CDG - BUD
5h 26mFt 31,473–69,773Fly from Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport
cheapest- Fly from Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport (NCE) to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD)plane NCE - BUD
5h 1mFt 16,987–56,750Train
- Take the train from Paris Est to Muenchen Hbftrain Tgv
- Take the train from München Hbf to St Pölten Hauptbahnhoftrain Drf / ...
- Take the train from St.Poelten Hbf to Wien Meidlingtrain Rjx / ...
- Take the train from Vienna Meidling Train Station to Budapest-Kelenföldtrain
15h 26mFt 84,207–166,907Bus
- Take the bus from Paris, Quai de Bercy (Bercy Seine) to Budapest, Népliget Autóbusz-Pályaudvarbus 091 / ...
21h 55mFt 38,907–65,907Train, night train
- Take the train from Paris Est to Stuttgart Hbftrain Tgv
- Take the night train from Stuttgart Hbf to Budapest-Keletinighttrain En
19hFt 55,357–115,357Train to Stuttgart Airport, fly
- Take the train from Strasbourg to Stuttgart Hbftrain
- Fly from Stuttgart Airport (STR) to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD)plane STR - BUD
6h 9mFt 24,172–82,012Train to Brussels Airport, fly
- Take the train from Lille Europe to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Miditrain
- Fly from Brussels Airport (BRU) to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD)plane BRU - BUD
5h 35mFt 33,439–92,703Fly from Paris Orly Airport
- Fly from Paris Orly Airport (ORY) to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD)plane ORY - BUD
5h 24mFt 24,150–67,065Train to Basel, fly
- Take the train from Strasbourg to St Louistrain
- Fly from Basel (BSL) to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD)plane BSL - BUD
5h 54mFt 18,077–91,755Bus via Maubert - Mutualité
- Take the bus from Paris - Bercy-Seine Bus Station to Budapest, Népliget Autóbusz-Pályaudvarbus BlaBlaCar Bus
22h 58mFt 42,907–80,907Drive 1,457 km
- Drive from Paris to Budapestcar 1,457 km
13h 23mFt 79,775–115,231
France to Budapest by subway, foot, and bus
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from France to Budapest is to fly which costs 17 000 Ft - 60 000 Ft and takes 5h 1m.
The fastest way to get from France to Budapest is to fly which takes 5h 1m and costs 17 000 Ft - 60 000 Ft.
No, there is no direct bus from France to Budapest. However, there are services departing from Maubert - Mutualité and arriving at Budapest, Népliget Autóbusz-Pályaudvar via Paris - Bercy-Seine Bus Station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 22h 58m.
No, there is no direct train from France to Budapest. However, there are services departing from Cité and arriving at Budapest-Kelenföld via Paris Est, München Hbf, St.Poelten Hbf and Vienna Meidling Train Station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 15h 26m.
The distance between France and Budapest is 1293 km. The road distance is 1457 km.
The best way to get from France to Budapest without a car is to train which takes 15h 26m and costs 80 000 Ft - 170 000 Ft.
It takes approximately 5h 26m to get from France to Budapest, including transfers.
France to Budapest bus services, operated by BlaBlaCar Bus, depart from Paris - Bercy-Seine Bus Station.
France to Budapest train services, operated by TGV inOui, depart from Paris Est station.
The best way to get from France to Budapest is to fly which takes 5h 26m and costs 31 000 Ft - 70 000 Ft. Alternatively, you can train, which costs 80 000 Ft - 170 000 Ft and takes 15h 26m, you could also bus, which costs 38 000 Ft - 70 000 Ft and takes 21h 55m.
What companies run services between France and Budapest, Hungary?
easyJet, Air France, and five other airlines fly from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport (CDG) to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD) hourly. Alternatively, you can take a subway from Cité to Budapest-Kelenföld via Gare de l'Est, Paris Est, Muenchen Hbf, München Hbf, St.Poelten Hbf, Wien Meidling, and Vienna Meidling Train Station in around 15h 26m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 50,000–75,000
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 27m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 19,000–110,000
Flights from Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 29,000–120,000
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 32,000–130,000
Flights from Brussels Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- Ft 30,000–120,000
Flights from Brussels Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 3m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 30,000–120,000
Flights from Basel to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 35,000–140,000
Flights from Basel to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 37,000–150,000
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 11m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 49,000–75,000
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- Ft 19,000–75,000
Flights from Brussels Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 3m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 24,000–110,000
Flights from Basel to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- Ft 30,000–130,000
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- Ft 24,000–65,000
Flights from Basel to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday, Wednesday, and Tuesday
- Estimated price
- Ft 11,000–80,000
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Brussels Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 56m
- When
- Monday, Friday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- Ft 24,000–65,000
Flights from Brussels Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 3m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 30,000–120,000
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 30,000–120,000
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 33,000–130,000
Flights from Brussels Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 29,000–120,000
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Nice Côte D'Azur International Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 15,000–55,000
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- Ft 11,000–47,000
Flights from Paris Orly Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 21,000–60,000
Flights from Basel to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 9,500–55,000
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 13m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 19,000–110,000
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday, and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- Ft 19,000–75,000
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Brussels Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 6m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 20,000–110,000
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 42m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 31,000–47,000
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- sncf-connect.com
Train from Paris Est to Muenchen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 51m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 60,000–100,000
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
Train from Paris Est to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 23m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- Ft 44,000–70,000
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
Train from Strasbourg to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- Ft 11,000–19,000
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
Train from Lille Europe to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 34 min
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- Ft 7,500–13,000
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
- Phone
- +43 1 89900
- meinenachricht@westbahn.at
- Website
- westbahn.at
Train from München Hbf to St Pölten Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 36m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- Ft 27,000–47,000
- Website
- https://westbahn.at/en/
- Phone
- +48 22 322 22 22
- infokraj@intercity.pl
- Website
- intercity.pl
Train from München Hbf to St Pölten Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 13m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 21,000–48,000
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
Train from St.Poelten Hbf to Wien Meidling
- Ave. Duration
- 27 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 3,300–7,500
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from München Hbf to St Pölten Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 1m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 16,000–35,000
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket?cref=oebb-header
Train from St.Poelten Hbf to Wien Meidling
- Ave. Duration
- 28 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- Ft 2,500–5,500
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket?cref=oebb-header
- Phone
- +420 221 111 122
- info@cd.cz
- Website
- cd.cz
Train from München Hbf to St Pölten Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 13m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- Ft 16,000–25,000
- Website
- https://www.cd.cz/en/default.htm
Train from St.Poelten Hbf to Wien Meidling
- Ave. Duration
- 27 min
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- Ft 2,500–3,800
- Website
- https://www.cd.cz/en/default.htm
Train from St.Poelten Hbf to Wien Meidling
- Ave. Duration
- 22 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- Ft 5,000–8,000
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- Ft 5,000–8,000
Train from St.Poelten Hbf to Wien Meidling
- Ave. Duration
- 24 min
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- Ft 4,500–8,000
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- konzern.oebb.at
Train from St.Poelten Hbf to Wien Meidling
- Ave. Duration
- 28 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 6,500–10,000
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from St.Poelten Hbf to Wien Meidling
- Ave. Duration
- 27 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 2,300–5,500
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from St.Poelten Hbf to Wien Meidling
- Ave. Duration
- 24 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 5,000–8,500
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from St.Poelten Hbf to Wien Meidling
- Ave. Duration
- 24 min
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- Ft 3,900–9,500
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Paris Est to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 21m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 39,000–95,000
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Strasbourg to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- Ft 10,000–25,000
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +420 222 222 221
- info@regiojet.cz
- Website
- regiojet.com
Train from Vienna Meidling Train Station to Budapest-Kelenföld
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 24m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 5,000–8,000
- Website
- https://regiojet.com/
- Phone
- +36 (1) 3 49 49 49
- info@mavcsoport.hu
- Website
- jegy.mav.hu
Night train from Stuttgart Hbf to Budapest-Keleti
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 15,000–19,000
- Website
- https://jegy.mav.hu/
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from Lille Europe to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- Ft 12,000–20,000
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Phone
- +32 70 79 79 79
- Website
- belgiantrain.be
Train from Lille Europe to Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 48 min
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- Ft 7,000–14,000
- Website
- https://www.belgiantrain.be/en
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- track.effiliation.com
Train from Strasbourg to St Louis
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 9m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- Ft 7,500–17,000
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.fr
Bus from Paris, Quai de Bercy (Bercy Seine) to Budapest, Népliget Autóbusz-Pályaudvar
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 45m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 38,000–65,000
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +3-389-268-0068
- Website
- blablacar.co.uk
Bus from Paris - Bercy-Seine Bus Station to Budapest, Népliget Autóbusz-Pályaudvar
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 35m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 42,000–80,000
- Website
- https://www.blablacar.co.uk/bus
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France to Budapest bus services, operated by BlaBlaCar Bus, arrive at Budapest, Népliget Autóbusz-Pályaudvar station.
France to Budapest train services, operated by TGV inOui, arrive at Muenchen Hbf station.
Yes, the driving distance between France to Budapest is 1457 km. It takes approximately 13h 23m to drive from France to Budapest.
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