There are 10 ways to get from Lyon to Hungary by plane, train (TGV), bus, train, night train, or car
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Fly Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
best- Fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD)plane LYS - BUD
5h 8mFt 33,766–77,826Fly Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Vienna International Airport, train
cheapest- Fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Vienna International Airport (VIE)plane LYS - VIE
- Take the train from Wien Hbf to Gyoertrain
6h 40mFt 33,376–101,726Train
- Take the train from Lyon Part Dieu to Dijon Villetrain Tgv
- Take the train from Dijon Ville to Zuerich Hbtrain Tgv
- Take the train from Zuerich Hb to Wien Hbftrain Rjx
- Take the train from Wien Hbf to Budapest-Kelenfoeldtrain Ec
17h 35mFt 78,001–150,475Bus
- Take the bus from Lyon to Budapest Népliget bus stationbus FlixBus N882 / ...
21h 47mFt 35,813–58,878Train, night train
- Take the train from Lyon Part Dieu to Genevetrain Ter
- Take the train from Genève to Zürich HBtrain Ic1 / ...
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Buchs SGtrain Ec
- Take the night train from Buchs Sg to Budapest-Kelenfoeldnighttrain En
21h 20mFt 121,669–320,664Train to Geneva International Airport, fly to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Take the train from Lyon Part Dieu to Genevetrain
- Fly from Geneva International Airport (GVA) to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD)plane GVA - BUD
6h 56mFt 40,009–95,014Train to Geneva International Airport, fly to Vienna International Airport, train
- Take the train from Lyon Part Dieu to Genevetrain
- Fly from Geneva International Airport (GVA) to Vienna International Airport (VIE)plane GVA - VIE
- Take the train from Wien Hbf to Gyoertrain
8h 28mFt 42,619–123,914Fly Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Košice International Airport, train
- Fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Košice International Airport (KSC)plane LYS - KSC
- Take the train from Kosice to Miskolc Tiszaitrain
11h 25mFt 34,076–118,976Bus, train
- Take the bus from Lyon - Gerland Bus Station to Ljubljanabus BlaBlaCar Bus
- Take the train from Ljubljana to Budapest-Delitrain Ic
23h 14mFt 34,344–56,904Drive 1,336.9 km
- Drive from Lyon to Budapestcar 1,336.9 km
13h 44mFt 73,454–106,100
Lyon to Hungary by train and tram
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Lyon to Hungary is to bus and train which costs 34 000 Ft - 60 000 Ft and takes 23h 14m.
The fastest way to get from Lyon to Hungary is to fly which takes 5h 8m and costs 33 000 Ft - 80 000 Ft.
No, there is no direct bus from Lyon to Hungary. However, there are services departing from Lyon and arriving at Clark Ádám tér via Budapest, Népliget Autóbusz-Pályaudvar and Deák Ferenc tér M. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 21h 47m.
No, there is no direct train from Lyon to Hungary. However, there are services departing from Lyon Part Dieu and arriving at Clark Ádám tér via Dijon Ville, Zuerich Hb, Wien Hbf and Kelenföld vasútállomás M. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 17h 35m.
The distance between Lyon and Hungary is 1139 km. The road distance is 1336.9 km.
The best way to get from Lyon to Hungary without a car is to train which takes 17h 35m and costs 75 000 Ft - 150 000 Ft.
It takes approximately 5h 8m to get from Lyon to Hungary, including transfers.
Lyon to Hungary bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Lyon station.
Lyon to Hungary train services, operated by TGV inOui, depart from Lyon Part Dieu station.
The best way to get from Lyon to Hungary is to fly which takes 5h 8m and costs 33 000 Ft - 80 000 Ft. Alternatively, you can train, which costs 75 000 Ft - 150 000 Ft and takes 17h 35m, you could also bus, which costs 35 000 Ft - 60 000 Ft and takes 21h 47m.
What companies run services between Lyon, France and Hungary?
easyJet and Lufthansa fly from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS) to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD) 6 times a week. Alternatively, you can take a train from Lyon Part Dieu to Clark Ádám tér via Dijon Ville, Zuerich Hb, Wien Hbf, Budapest-Kelenfoeld, and Kelenföld vasútállomás M in around 17h 35m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Monday to Thursday
- Estimated price
- Ft 31,000–130,000
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- Ft 30,000–120,000
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Vienna International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- Ft 18,000–130,000
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Vienna International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 29,000–85,000
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Košice International Airport via Munich, Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- Ft 31,000–190,000
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 28,000–120,000
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 29,000–85,000
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Vienna International Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 29,000–85,000
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- Ft 27,000–110,000
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 35,000–150,000
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 29,000–85,000
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Košice International Airport via Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 25m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- Ft 43,000–170,000
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- Ft 25,000–65,000
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- Ft 23,000–65,000
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Košice International Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- Ft 49,000–160,000
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Košice International Airport via Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- Ft 31,000–130,000
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Košice International Airport via London Luton
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- Ft 27,000–110,000
- Website
- smartwings.com
Flights from Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport to Košice International Airport via Palma Mallorca
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 25m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- Ft 35,000–140,000
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- sncf-connect.com
Train from Lyon Part Dieu to Dijon Ville
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 39m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- Ft 14,000–23,000
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
Train from Dijon Ville to Zuerich Hb
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- Ft 24,000–38,000
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
Train from Lyon Part Dieu to Geneve
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- Ft 12,000–19,000
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
Rome2Rio's guide to Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF)
Contact Details
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- track.effiliation.com
Train from Lyon Part Dieu to Dijon Ville
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- Ft 11,000–24,000
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
Train from Lyon Part Dieu to Geneve
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- Ft 9,500–21,000
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
Train from Zuerich Hb to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 52m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- Ft 37,000–55,000
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- Ft 37,000–55,000
Train from Wien Hbf to Budapest-Kelenfoeld
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 13,000–20,000
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- Ft 13,000–20,000
Train from Zürich HB to Buchs SG
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- Ft 6,500–10,000
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- Ft 6,500–10,000
Train from Wien Hbf to Gyoer
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 14m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 7,500–12,000
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- Ft 7,500–12,000
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Wien Hbf to Budapest-Kelenfoeld
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 22m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- Ft 19,000–33,000
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
Train from Wien Hbf to Gyoer
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 14m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- Ft 9,500–16,000
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
- Phone
- +420 222 222 221
- info@regiojet.cz
- Website
- regiojet.com
Train from Wien Hbf to Budapest-Kelenfoeld
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 31m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- Ft 5,000–8,000
- Website
- https://regiojet.com/
Train from Wien Hbf to Gyoer
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- Ft 2,400–3,800
- Website
- https://regiojet.com/
Train from Wien Hbf to Budapest-Kelenfoeld
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 17,000–31,000
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
Night train from Buchs Sg to Budapest-Kelenfoeld
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 32m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 70,000–130,000
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
Train from Wien Hbf to Gyoer
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 2m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- Ft 8,500–15,000
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Genève to Zürich HB
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 53m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- Ft 35,000–110,000
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Zürich HB to Buchs SG
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 6m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- Ft 19,000–60,000
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +421 24 48 58 188
- info@slovakrail.sk
- Website
- zssk.sk
Train from Kosice to Miskolc Tiszai
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 31m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- Ft 1,500–2,800
- Website
- https://www.zssk.sk/en/
- Phone
- +36 (1) 3 49 49 49
- info@mavcsoport.hu
- Website
- jegy.mav.hu
Train from Ljubljana to Budapest-Deli
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 44m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 8,500–10,000
- Website
- https://jegy.mav.hu/
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.fr
Bus from Lyon to Budapest Népliget bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 5m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 35,000–60,000
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +3-389-268-0068
- Website
- blablacar.co.uk
Bus from Lyon - Gerland Bus Station to Ljubljana
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 25,000–47,000
- Website
- https://www.blablacar.co.uk/bus
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More Questions & Answers
Lyon to Hungary bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Budapest Népliget bus station.
Lyon to Hungary train services, operated by TGV inOui, arrive at Dijon Ville station.
Yes, the driving distance between Lyon to Hungary is 1337 km. It takes approximately 13h 44m to drive from Lyon to Hungary.
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