There are 11 ways to get from London to Budapest by plane, train, night train, 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 • 5 h 39 min
$126 - $457
Cheapest option
Train to London Luton, fly • 5 h 56 min
$65 - $225
9 alternative options
Fly from London Heathrow • 5 h 32 min
$109 - $259
Fly from London Gatwick • 5 h 39 min
$83 - $277
Fly from London Stansted • 5 h 58 min
$67 - $197
Train to Southend, fly • 6 h 12 min
$75 - $1,327
Train, EuroNight • 17 h 36 min
$285 - $618
Bus FlixBus • 28 h 29 min
$106 - $172
Bus Eurolines CZ • 30 h 7 min
$90 - $123
Drive, Eurotunnel, train • 18 h 51 min
$518 - $679
Drive, carferry • 21 h 20 min
$280 - $398
Questions & Answers
No, there is no direct bus from London to Budapest. However, there are services departing from London and arriving at Deák Ferenc tér M via Népliget M. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 28 h 29 min.
No, there is no direct train from London to Budapest. However, there are services departing from London St. Pancras International and arriving at Budapest-Kelenföld via Paris Est, Stuttgart Hbf, München Hbf, Salzburg Hbf and Wien Hauptbahnhof. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 17 h 36 min.
The distance between London and Budapest is 906 miles.
The best way to get from London to Budapest without a car is to train and EuroNight which takes 17 h 36 min and costs .
It takes approximately 5 h 39 min to get from London to Budapest, including transfers.
London to Budapest bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from London station.
London to Budapest train services, operated by Eurostar, depart from London St. Pancras International station.
The best way to get from London to Budapest is to fly which takes 5 h 39 min and costs . Alternatively, you can bus, which costs and takes 28 h 29 min.
The quickest flight from London City Airport to Budapest Airport is the direct flight which takes 2 h 30 min.
London to Budapest bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Budapest, Budapest Népliget station.
- Distance: 905.7 miles
- Duration: 5 h 39 min
What companies run services between London, England and Budapest, Hungary?
LOT, KLM and two other airlines fly from London to Budapest every 4 hours. Alternatively, FlixBus operates a bus from London to Budapest twice a week. Tickets cost $100 - $170 and the journey takes 28 h 10 min. Eurolines CZ also services this route twice a week.
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from London Luton to Budapest via Berlin Schoenefeld
- Ave. Duration
- 4 h 40 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $120 - $290
Flights from London Gatwick to Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 2 h 30 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85 - $390
Flights from London Gatwick to Budapest via Berlin Tegel
- Ave. Duration
- 4 h 50 min
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85 - $390
Flights from London Gatwick to Budapest via Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 4 h 55 min
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $85 - $390
Flights from London Gatwick to Budapest via Paris CDG
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 50 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85 - $390
Flights from Southend to Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 2 h 25 min
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $90 - $460
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from London Stansted to Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 2 h 25 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $45 - $260
Flights from London Stansted to Budapest via Pisa
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 5 min
- When
- Monday, Wednesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $45 - $260
Flights from London Stansted to Budapest via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 40 min
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $45 - $260
Flights from Southend to Budapest via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 45 min
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $85 - $370
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from London City to Budapest via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $190 - $850
Flights from London Heathrow to Budapest via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4 h 15 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $190 - $750
Flights from London Heathrow to Budapest via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4 h 20 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $190 - $750
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from London City to Budapest via Amsterdam
- Ave. Duration
- 4 h 56 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $190 - $700
Flights from London Heathrow to Budapest via Amsterdam
- Ave. Duration
- 4 h 45 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $160 - $460
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from London Luton to Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 2 h 23 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $55 - $280
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from London Heathrow to Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 2 h 31 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85 - $550
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from London City to Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 2 h 30 min
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- $120 - $450
Flights from London Heathrow to Budapest via Warsaw
- Ave. Duration
- 4 h 50 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110 - $460
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from London City to Budapest via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 20 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100 - $700
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from London Heathrow to Budapest via Paris CDG
- Ave. Duration
- 4 h 25 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $180 - $550
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from London Heathrow to Budapest via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 3 h 55 min
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $110 - $500
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from London Heathrow to Budapest via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4 h 25 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $190 - $750
- Website
- norwegian.com
Flights from London Gatwick to Budapest via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4 h 35 min
- When
- Thursday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $110 - $600
- Website
- vueling.com
Flights from London Gatwick to Budapest via Barcelona
- Ave. Duration
- 5 h 35 min
- When
- Wednesday, Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $140 - $900
- Website
- flybe.com
Flights from Southend to Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 2 h 25 min
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $40 - $950
- Website
- thameslinkrailway.com
Train from London St Pancras International LL to Luton Airport Parkway
- Ave. Duration
- 43 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- $14 - $20
- Schedules at
- thameslinkrailway.com
- Phone
- 03457 125 678
- getintouch@eastmidlandstrains.co.uk
- Website
- eastmidlandstrains.co.uk
Train from London St Pancras International to Luton Airport Parkway
- Ave. Duration
- 20 min
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $14 - $21
- Website
- eastmidlandstrains.co.uk
- Advance Single
- $6 - $10
- Off-Peak Single
- $13 - $21
- Anytime Day Single
- $14 - $21
- Anytime Single
- $19 - $28
- Website
- abelliogreateranglia.co.uk
Train from London Liverpool Street to Southend Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $18 - $26
- Website
- abelliogreateranglia.co.uk
- Schedules at
- ojp.nationalrail.co.uk
Rome2rio's guide to Eurostar
Contact Details
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from London St. Pancras International to Paris Nord Eurostar
- Ave. Duration
- 2 h 16 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $75 - $240
- Website
- eurostar.com
- Standard
- $75 - $240
- Premier
- $180 - $280
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- Phone
- 0033 892 353535
- Website
- sncf.com
Train from Paris Est to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3 h 9 min
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- $110 - $130
- Website
- en.oui.sncf
- 2nd Class
- $110 - $130
- 1st Class
- $150 - $220
Train from Stuttgart Hbf to München Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2 h 17 min
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $50 - $60
- Website
- en.oui.sncf
- 2nd Class
- $50 - $60
- 1st Class
- $75 - $95
Train from Calais-Fréthun to Paris Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 1 h 42 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $65 - $75
- Website
- en.oui.sncf
- 2nd Class
- $65 - $75
- 1st Class
- $95 - $130
Deutsche Bahn is the German railway company, and the largest railway operator and infrastructure owner in Europe. Based in Berlin, Deutsche Bahn was founded in 1994, and 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.
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 0180 6 99 66 33
- Website
- bahn.com
Train from Paris Est to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3 h 9 min
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $110 - $170
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Stuttgart Hbf to München Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2 h 13 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $50 - $75
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from München Hbf to Salzburg Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1 h 57 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $30 - $50
- Website
- bahn.de
The national railway system of Austria, the OBB carried 209 million passengers on local and regional trains, and 35 million on long-distance trains in 2016 alone. The OBB’s 4865 km network covers 570 trains simultaneously at peak times, with one train leaving every 12 seconds, making it a supremely efficient way to travel around the country and surrounding region. The company’s extensive network connects cities in Austria, and adjacent European countries including Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Czech Republic, Switzerland and Slovenia.
Contact Details
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Salzburg Hbf to Wien Hbf (Bahnsteige 1-2)
- Ave. Duration
- 2 h 30 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $40 - $70
- Website
- fahrplan.oebb.at
- Book at
- Raileurope.com
- Website
- flixtrain.com
Train from Salzburg, Salzburg to Vienna, Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 2 h 30 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $19 - $24
- Schedules at
- flixtrain.com
- Phone
- +420 220 311 700
- info@le.cz
- Website
- leoexpress.com
Train from Salzburg Hbf to Wien Hauptbahnhof Bstg 1-2
- Ave. Duration
- 2 h 30 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $7 - $35
- Schedules at
- leoexpress.com
- Economy
- $7 - $9
- Business
- $16 - $18
- Premium
- $26 - $35
- Phone
- +420 221 111 122
- info@cd.cz
- Website
- cd.cz
Night train from Wien Hauptbahnhof to Budapest-Kelenföld
- Ave. Duration
- 2 h 20 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $9 - $15
- Website
- cd.cz
- Phone
- +44 (0) 8443 35 35 35
- Website
- eurotunnel.com
Car train from Folkestone to Calais
- Ave. Duration
- 25 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $173
- Website
- eurotunnel.com
One of Europe’s leading bus companies, Flixbus serves over 1400 destinations, in 26 countries including Germany, France, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, Croatia, Spain, and across Scandinavia and central and eastern Europe. Founded in 2012, Flixbus’ extensive network connects cities with approximately 200,000 trips, with buses often departing every 30 minutes. One of the most affordable ways to get around Europe (and expanding soon into the US), a Flixbus journey is cost-effective, well-connected, comfortable and safe.
Rome2rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 1807 123 99 123
- info@flixbus.de
- Website
- flixbus.de
Bus from London to Budapest, Budapest Népliget
- Ave. Duration
- 28 h 10 min
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $100 - $170
- Website
- flixbus.co.uk
- info@eurolines.cz
- Website
- elines.cz
Bus from London Victoria Coach Station to Budapest Népliget
- Ave. Duration
- 29 h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $90 - $130
- Schedules at
- elines.cz
Bus from London Victoria Coach Station to Bratislava
- Ave. Duration
- 26 h 15 min
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $80 - $120
- Schedules at
- elines.cz
- Phone
- +420 542 42 42 42
- info@regiojet.cz
- Website
- regiojet.sk
Bus from Bratislava, Autobusová stanica Nivy to Budapest, Kelenföld vasútállomás M - Etele tér
- Ave. Duration
- 2 h 30 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $7 - $9
- Schedules at
- regiojet.sk
- Website
- stenaline.co.uk
Car ferry from Harwich to Hook of Holland
- Ave. Duration
- 6 h 45 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $53
- Schedules at
- stenaline.co.uk
- Passenger
- $53
- Small Car
- $53
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Budapest is 1 h ahead of London. It is currently 12:16 AM in London and 1:16 AM in Budapest.
London to Budapest train services, operated by Czech Railways (ČD), arrive at Budapest-Kelenföld station.
LOT, Lufthansa, Swiss and KLM offer flights from London City Airport to Budapest Airport.
There are 4266+ hotels available in Budapest. Prices start at $47 USD per night.
The best way to get from London to London City Airport is to train which takes 21 min and costs .