There are 10 ways to get from London to Budapest by plane, train, bus and ferry, bus, car, car train or car ferry
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2rio's travel planner.
Recommended option
Fly from London City • 5h 33m
36 436 Ft - 131 729 Ft
Cheapest option
Fly from London Stansted • 5h 52m
17 198 Ft - 58 176 Ft
8 alternative options
Fly from London Heathrow • 5h 26m
25 393 Ft - 75 703 Ft
Train to London Gatwick, fly • 5h 38m
22 834 Ft - 80 322 Ft
Train to London Luton, fly • 5h 43m
18 539 Ft - 69 844 Ft
Train • 17h 20m
95 998 Ft - 171 618 Ft
Bus and ferry, bus • 26h 48m
38 644 Ft - 61 803 Ft
Bus • 29h 28m
25 000 Ft - 36 000 Ft
Drive, Eurotunnel • 15h 45m
106 999 Ft - 138 803 Ft
Drive, car ferry • 16h 3m
66 316 Ft - 101 456 Ft
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from London to Budapest is to fly which costs £45 - £160 and takes 5h 52m.
The quickest way to get from London to Budapest is to fly which costs £65 - £210 and takes 5h 26m.
No, there is no direct bus from London to Budapest. However, there are services departing from London Victoria and arriving at Budapest Ritz Carlton via Lille and Budapest Nepliget. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 26h 48m.
No, there is no direct train from London to Budapest. However, there are services departing from London St Pancras Eurostar and arriving at Kelenföld via Bruxelles-Midi and Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 17h 20m.
The distance between London and Budapest is 906 miles.
The best way to get from London to Budapest without a car is to train which takes 17h 20m and costs £260 - £470.
It takes approximately 5h 33m to get from London to Budapest, including transfers.
London to Budapest bus services, operated by Eurolines FR, depart from London Victoria station.
London to Budapest train services, operated by Eurostar, depart from London St Pancras Eurostar station.
The best way to get from London to Budapest is to fly which takes 5h 33m and costs £95 - £360. Alternatively, you can train, which costs £260 - £470 and takes 17h 20m, you could also bus, which costs £70 - £100 and takes 29h 28m.
- Distance: 905.7 miles
- Duration: 5h 33m
What companies run services between London, England and Budapest, Hungary?
LOT, KLM and two other airlines fly from London Bank DLR to Budapest every 3 hours. Alternatively, you can take a train from London King's Cross to Budapest via Bruxelles-Midi and Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf in around 17h 20m.
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from London Gatwick to Budapest via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- 33 000 Ft - 65 000 Ft
Flights from London Stansted to Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- 13 000 Ft - 75 000 Ft
Flights from London Stansted to Budapest via Edinburgh
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- 13 000 Ft - 75 000 Ft
Flights from London Stansted to Budapest via Rome Ciampino
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- 13 000 Ft - 75 000 Ft
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from London City to Budapest via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 2m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- 50 000 Ft - 240 000 Ft
Flights from London Heathrow to Budapest via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 18m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- 50 000 Ft - 210 000 Ft
Flights from London Heathrow to Budapest via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- 50 000 Ft - 210 000 Ft
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from London Gatwick to Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 28m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- 23 000 Ft - 110 000 Ft
Flights from London Gatwick to Budapest via Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 15m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- 23 000 Ft - 110 000 Ft
Flights from London Luton to Budapest via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Tuesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- 34 000 Ft - 80 000 Ft
Flights from London Luton to Budapest via Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 45m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- 34 000 Ft - 80 000 Ft
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from London City to Budapest via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- 50 000 Ft - 200 000 Ft
Flights from London Heathrow to Budapest via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- 45 000 Ft - 130 000 Ft
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from London Gatwick to Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- 13 000 Ft - 65 000 Ft
Flights from London Luton to Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 24m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- 15 000 Ft - 80 000 Ft
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from London Heathrow to Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 31m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- 25 000 Ft - 150 000 Ft
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from London City to Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- 35 000 Ft - 130 000 Ft
Flights from London City to Budapest via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 50m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- 41 000 Ft - 150 000 Ft
Flights from London Heathrow to Budapest via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- 32 000 Ft - 130 000 Ft
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from London City to Budapest via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 17m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- 28 000 Ft - 200 000 Ft
Flights from London Heathrow to Budapest via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- 55 000 Ft - 210 000 Ft
- Website
- norwegian.com
Flights from London Gatwick to Budapest via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 7m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- 31 000 Ft - 160 000 Ft
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from London Heathrow to Budapest via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- 30 000 Ft - 140 000 Ft
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from London Heathrow to Budapest via Stuttgart
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- 29 000 Ft - 130 000 Ft
- Website
- southernrailway.com
Train from London Victoria to Gatwick Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 31m
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- 4 400 Ft - 7 000 Ft
- Website
- southernrailway.com
- Schedules at
- southernrailway.com
- Schedules at
- ojp.nationalrail.co.uk
- Phone
- +44 345 850 1530
- customerservices@gatwickexpress.com
- Website
- gatwickexpress.com
Train from London Victoria to Gatwick Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 28m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- 6 500 Ft - 10 000 Ft
- Website
- gatwickexpress.com
- Website
- thameslinkrailway.com
Train from London St Pancras International LL to Luton
- Ave. Duration
- 33m
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- 4 200 Ft - 6 000 Ft
- Schedules at
- thameslinkrailway.com
- Phone
- 03457 125 678
- getintouch@eastmidlandstrains.co.uk
- Website
- eastmidlandstrains.co.uk
Train from London St Pancras International to Luton
- Ave. Duration
- 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- 4 100 Ft - 6 000 Ft
- Website
- eastmidlandstrains.co.uk
- Advance Single
- 1 900 Ft - 2 800 Ft
- Off-Peak Single
- 3 800 Ft - 6 000 Ft
- Anytime Day Single
- 4 100 Ft - 6 000 Ft
- Anytime Single
- 5 500 Ft - 8 000 Ft
Rome2rio's guide to Eurostar
Contact Details
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from London St Pancras Eurostar to Bruxelles-Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 6m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- 19 000 Ft - 55 000 Ft
- Website
- eurostar.com
- Standard
- 19 000 Ft - 55 000 Ft
- Premier
- 44 000 Ft - 65 000 Ft
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German rail company Deutsche Bahn is known for its efficient and comfortable service. It offers many different types of rail transportation, including ICE or Intercity-Express for high-speed services between major cities and regions, IC (InterCity) for long-distance trains, RE (Regional Express) trains that connect regions and cities, and the S-Bahn rapid transit service. There are two main tickets on offer: the Flexpreis that has full flexibility, and the Sparpreis which is the cheaper, advanced fare (bookings usually open 6 months in advance for domestic tickets).
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 0180 6 99 66 33
- Website
- bahn.com
Train from Bruxelles-Midi to Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 51m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- 22 000 Ft - 32 000 Ft
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn
Train from Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf to Kelenföld
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 23m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- 55 000 Ft - 85 000 Ft
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn
- Phone
- +44 (0) 8443 35 35 35
- Website
- eurotunnel.com
Car train from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthun
- Ave. Duration
- 25m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- 47 940 Ft
- Website
- eurotunnel.com
- Phone
- + 33 1 41 86 24 21
- Website
- eurolines.fr
Bus and ferry from London Victoria to Lille
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- 15 000 Ft - 22 000 Ft
- Schedules at
- eurolines.fr
One of Europe’s leading bus companies, Flixbus serves 2000+ destinations in 29 countries, including Germany, France, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands and Croatia and into Scandinavia and eastern Europe, as well as some US cities. Coaches have toilets, free WiFi and power outlets, plus snacks and drinks for purchase on board. Flixbus is a good choice for the budget-conscious traveller; purchase tickets in advance for the cheapest fares (note: there is no option to reserve a seat in advance).
Rome2rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 1807 123 99 123
- info@flixbus.de
- Website
- flixbus.de
Bus from Lille to Budapest, Budapest Népliget
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 50m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- 23 000 Ft - 40 000 Ft
- Website
- flixbus.co.uk
- info@eurolines.cz
- Website
- elines.cz
Bus from London Victoria Coach Station to Budapest Népliget
- Ave. Duration
- 29h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- 25 000 Ft - 36 000 Ft
- Schedules at
- elines.cz
- Phone
- 01304 448866.
- Website
- poferries.com
Car ferry from Dover to Calais
- Ave. Duration
- 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- 6 500 Ft - 9 500 Ft
- Website
- P&O Ferries
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The quickest flight from London City Airport to Budapest Airport is the direct flight which takes 2h 30m.
London to Budapest bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Budapest, Budapest Népliget station.
Budapest is 1h ahead of London. It is currently 3:32 AM in London and 4:32 AM in Budapest.
London to Budapest train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn, arrive at Kelenföld station.
LOT, Lufthansa, Swiss and KLM offer flights from London City Airport to Budapest Airport.
There are 1935+ hotels available in Budapest. Prices start at 13 124 Ft per night.
The best way to get from London to London City Airport is to train which takes 21m and costs £3 - £4.