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Budapest to Oradea

Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Budapest to Oradea. From £25.60, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

One passenger pays £25.60, every fee included. Services cover 447 km and are run by 2 operators across 1 mode.

Checked 6 October 2026Priced for 26 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at £25.60, so there is no spread to show.

Typical fares · Priced for 26 October 2026

£25.60

  • 146%Moves across the booking window

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The price is the one 12Go sets, with every fee shown before you pay.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about £61.88Wed7
  2. about £61.88Thu8
  3. about £59.06Fri9
  4. about £47.74Sat10
  5. about £42.09Sun11
  6. about £41.15Mon12
  7. about £39.27Tue13
  8. about £37.38Wed14
  9. about £40.68Thu15
  10. about £41.62Fri16
  11. about £38.80Sat17
  12. about £38.32Sun18
  13. about £38.80Mon19
  14. about £33.14Tue20
  15. about £29.37Wed21
  16. about £32.67Thu22
  17. about £31.26Fri23
  18. about £36.90Sat24
  19. about £29.37Sun25
  20. about £25.60Mon26
  21. about £29.37Tue27

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

The coach gets you into Oradea. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Oradea for the night the coach gets in

Sort by distance from Oradea Railway Station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Budapest to Oradea

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. £25.1390 days
  2. £33.1460 days
  3. £26.0745 days
  4. £30.7830 days
  5. £29.3721 days
  6. £33.1414 days
  7. £39.277 days
  8. £59.063 days
  9. £61.881 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at £25.13.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 146 percent. The dearest point is £61.88, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 90 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
£61.88£25.13137142130456090

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 90 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Budapest to Oradea and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

1 hours ahead on arrival. The clock moves even though you do not.

The shape of it

447 km

223 km as the crow flies, 100% further by the route services take. The bearing runs east.

Who lives at each end

1,741,041 → 183,105

Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.

The route

HungaryRomaniaSlovakiaUkraineBratislavaBratislavaCluj-NapocaCluj-NapocaDebrecenDebrecenMiskolcMiskolcGyőrGyőrNyíregyházaNyíregyházaSatu MareSatu MareKecskemétKecskemétBaia MareBaia MareSzékesfehérvárSzékesfehérvárSzolnokSzolnokTatabányaTatabányaKaposvárKaposvárZalăuZalăuDunaújvárosDunaújvárosTurdaTurdaBudapestBudapestOradeaOradeaMap data: Natural Earth, GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)Map data: Natural Earth, GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 447 km against 223 km in a straight line, a detour of 100 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Timişoara, Cluj-Napoca. The gap between arriving and leaving is 79 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 12 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.

The fare from OMR into Oradea is set by whoever drives it.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Oradea

Settled in advance, so the ride into Oradea costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.

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Who runs this route

The coach gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage lockers

Left luggage near Oradea Railway Station

Most of the points near Oradea Railway Station open before the first train and shut after the last one.

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Questions about Budapest to Oradea

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does it take to get from Budapest to Oradea?

Budapest to Oradea covers 447 km. Each operator's own departure and arrival times for the date you pick are in the search at the top of this page, beside the total price.

How much does it cost to travel from Budapest to Oradea?

The cheapest fare from Budapest to Oradea is £25.60, as of 6 October 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is £39.98. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.

What is the cheapest way to get from Budapest to Oradea?

The cheapest way from Budapest to Oradea is by coach, at £25.60 for one passenger on 26 October 2026. The comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs side by side.

When should I book Budapest to Oradea?

Fares from Budapest to Oradea bottom out around 90 days before departure, at £25.13. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 146 percent, measured on 6 October 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Budapest to Oradea?

Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Budapest to Oradea, at £33.14. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 6 October 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Budapest to Oradea?

February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Budapest to Oradea, at £22.30 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.

Who runs services from Budapest to Oradea?

2 operators sell services from Budapest to Oradea across 1 mode: cfr, FlixBus. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.

Is there a direct service from Budapest to Oradea?

0 percent of the services we sell from Budapest to Oradea are direct. The rest connect at Timişoara, Cluj-Napoca, with about 79 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.

Which station or terminal do services from Budapest to Oradea use?

Services from Budapest to Oradea by coach leave from Budapest Nepliget and arrive at Oradea Railway Station. Allow about 44m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.

Can I change or refund a ticket from Budapest to Oradea?

2 of the 2 operators we sell from Budapest to Oradea allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs £4.28. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances

The coach is the simple part. What you do once you are in Oradea is somebody else's catalogue.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Oradea and across Romania

Day trips that leave Oradea in the morning and cover a good part of Romania by evening.

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The two ends, compared

Budapest reaches 130 places in 48 countries on services we hold, over distances from 107 to 9,685 km. Oradea reaches 8 places in 3 countries, from 106 to 436 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Budapest

  • 130Places you can leave for
  • 48Countries
  • 77Operators

Arriving in Oradea

Leaving Oradea

  • 8Places you can leave for
  • 3Countries
  • 6Operators

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