Budapest to Szombathely bus

Buses from Budapest to Szombathely start at €13.93 and take 3h 34m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Budapest to Szombathely starts at €13.93 and takes 3h 34m door to door, run by 2 operators over 212 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 11, 2026Priced for September 30, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 3h 34mDoor to door
  • 2h 50mMoving
  • €13.93From
  • 5.7 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 30, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€12.28
  1. FlixBus FB777306:312h 50m09:21Budapest NepligetSzombathely, autóbusz-állomás

Door to door 3h 34mCO2 5.7 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Bus operators

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastest
FlixBus€12.283h 34m
Francesco Reali€12.833h 35m

Szombathely is small enough to walk across, so almost anywhere downtown works. We still do not sell the room.

A hotel room

Rooms within reach of Szombathely railway station

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Booking window

When to book Budapest to Szombathely

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

  1. €13.9390 days
  2. €10.0760 days
  3. €10.0845 days
  4. €12.2830 days
  5. €13.3821 days
  6. €16.6814 days
  7. €16.137 days
  8. €17.783 days
  9. €24.381 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €10.07.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 142 percent. The most expensive point is €24.38, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €17.78Sun
  2. €13.93Mon
  3. €15.03Tue
  4. €15.03Wed
  5. €16.68Thu
  6. €16.13Fri
  7. €17.78Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Budapest

Bus
  • Budapest Nepliget
  • Budapest, Kelenföld vasútállomás

Szombathely

Bus
  • Szombathely, autóbusz-állomás
  • Kőszeg, autóbusz-állomás
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

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

Direct or connecting
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 212 km against 185 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Győr, Petržalka, Tatabánya, Székesfehérvár. The gap between arriving and leaving is 45 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Budapest at 06:31 and the last at 06:35, across 2 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Budapest to Szombathely

The questions people actually ask about this trip, 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 the Coach from Budapest to Szombathely take?

The Coach from Budapest to Szombathely takes 3h 34m door to door, of which 2h 50m is spent moving. The route runs 212 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Coach from Budapest to Szombathely cost?

The Coach from Budapest to Szombathely starts at €13.93 for one passenger, checked on September 30, 2026. A typical fare is €13.93. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Coach from Budapest to Szombathely?

2 operators run the Coach from Budapest to Szombathely: FlixBus, Francesco Reali. Between them they file around 2 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Coach from Budapest to Szombathely use?

The Coach from Budapest to Szombathely leaves from Budapest Nepliget and arrives at Szombathely, autóbusz-állomás. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Coach from Budapest to Szombathely?

Fares for the Coach from Budapest to Szombathely bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €10.07. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 142 percent, measured on September 30, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Budapest to Szombathely produce?

The Coach from Budapest to Szombathely produces about 5.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 212 km, which works out at roughly 27 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Coach from Budapest to Szombathely?

Operators on the Coach from Budapest to Szombathely publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 3h 34m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.

Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Budapest to Szombathely on September 11, 2026: 212 km of route against 185 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €13.93, and 3h 34m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

Plenty of what is worth seeing sits outside Szombathely and elsewhere in Hungary. None of it is ours to sell.

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What to book in Szombathely before you go

The tickets worth having in advance, because the line at the door is usually the whole morning.

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