Chania to Budapest flight

Flights from Chania to Budapest start at €128.76 and take 5h 25m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Chania to Budapest starts at €128.76 and takes 5h 25m door to door, run by 3 operators over 1,437 km, with around 10 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 10, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 5h 25mDoor to door
  • 2h 15mMoving
  • €128.76From
  • 353.5 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 29, 2026

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

Cheapest€116.96
  1. Air Serbia AS468807:301h 56m09:26Chaniá CHQBelgrade BEG
  2. FlixBus FB475110:344h 13m14:47Beograd BASBudapest Nepliget

Changes at Belgrade, with 68 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 9h 14mCO2 281.4 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€135.25
  1. Wizz Air WA130814:542h 15m17:09Chaniá CHQBudapest BUD

Door to door 5h 25mCO2 353.5 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

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
Smartwings Hungary€137.025h 23m
Ryanair€128.175h 24m
Wizz Air€122.865h 24m

That is the traveling done. What happens after you walk out into Budapest is not something we sell.

A hotel room

Rooms within reach of Budapest Keleti

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Booking window

When to book Chania to Budapest

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

  1. €119.3290 days
  2. €92.1860 days
  3. €114.0145 days
  4. €123.4530 days
  5. €150.5921 days
  6. €167.1114 days
  7. €186.587 days
  8. €220.213 days
  9. €249.711 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €92.18.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 171 percent. The most expensive point is €249.71, 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. €170.65Sun
  2. €128.76Mon
  3. €147.05Tue
  4. €143.51Wed
  5. €167.11Thu
  6. €164.75Fri
  7. €176.55Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Chaniá

Air
  • CHQ

Budapest

Air
  • BUD
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
60% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 40% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 1,437 km against 1,395 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Athens, Belgrade, Sofia, Thessaloníki. The gap between arriving and leaving is 51 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 18 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 Chania at 06:30 and the last at 14:54, across 10 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Chania to Budapest

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 Flight from Chania to Budapest take?

The Flight from Chania to Budapest takes 5h 25m door to door, of which 2h 15m is spent moving. The route runs 1,437 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 Flight from Chania to Budapest cost?

The Flight from Chania to Budapest starts at €128.76 for one passenger, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare is €134.66. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Chania to Budapest?

3 operators run the Flight from Chania to Budapest: Smartwings Hungary, Ryanair, Wizz Air. Between them they file around 10 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 Flight from Chania to Budapest use?

The Flight from Chania to Budapest leaves from Chaniá CHQ and arrives at Budapest BUD. Allow about 3h 10m 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 Flight from Chania to Budapest?

Fares for the Flight from Chania to Budapest bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €92.18. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 171 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Chania to Budapest produce?

The Flight from Chania to Budapest produces about 353.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1437 km, which works out at roughly 246 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

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 Chania to Budapest on September 10, 2026: 1437 km of route against 1395 km in a straight line, 10 services a day, 3 operators, a cheapest fare of €128.76, and 5h 25m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

Landing at BUD after the trains have stopped is the case this solves. We do not run cars.

A taxi stand outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Budapest

Settled in advance, so the ride into Budapest costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.

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