Madrid to Budapest flight

Flights from Madrid to Budapest start at €185.99 and take 6h 11m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Madrid to Budapest starts at €185.99 and takes 6h 11m door to door, run by 3 operators over 2,033 km, with around 22 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 10, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 6h 11mDoor to door
  • 3h 1mMoving
  • €185.99From
  • 500.1 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 28, 2026

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

Cheapest€161.21
  1. Ryanair R963007:302h 11m09:41Madrid MADVerona VRN
  2. FlixBus FB248910:5710h 19m21:16Autostazione VeronaBudapest Nepliget

Changes at Verona, with 76 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 15h 43mCO2 354.2 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€214.31
  1. Ryanair R405019:343h 1m22:35Madrid MADBudapest BUD

Door to door 6h 11mCO2 500.1 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.
OperatorFrom
Ryanair€162.39
Iberia Airlines€165.34
Wizz Air€162.39
  • Ryanair
  • Iberia Airlines
  • Wizz Air

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 Madrid to Budapest

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

  1. €167.1190 days
  2. €129.3560 days
  3. €152.9545 days
  4. €172.4230 days
  5. €206.0521 days
  6. €209.5914 days
  7. €260.927 days
  8. €286.883 days
  9. €373.611 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €129.35.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 189 percent. The most expensive point is €373.61, 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. €234.37Sun
  2. €185.99Mon
  3. €190.12Tue
  4. €206.05Wed
  5. €209.59Thu
  6. €238.50Fri
  7. €261.51Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Madrid

Air
  • MAD

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
82% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 18% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 2,033 km against 1,974 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 Milan, Verona, Turin, Mestre. The gap between arriving and leaving is 50 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 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 Madrid at 06:44 and the last at 19:56, across 22 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Madrid 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 Madrid to Budapest take?

The Flight from Madrid to Budapest takes 6h 11m door to door, of which 3h 1m is spent moving. The route runs 2,033 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 Madrid to Budapest cost?

The Flight from Madrid to Budapest starts at €185.99 for one passenger, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare is €210.48. 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 Madrid to Budapest?

3 operators run the Flight from Madrid to Budapest: Ryanair, Iberia Airlines, Wizz Air. Between them they file around 22 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 Madrid to Budapest use?

The Flight from Madrid to Budapest leaves from Madrid MAD 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 Madrid to Budapest?

Fares for the Flight from Madrid to Budapest bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €129.35. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 189 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Flight from Madrid to Budapest produces about 500.1 kg of CO2 per passenger over 2033 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 Madrid to Budapest on September 10, 2026: 2033 km of route against 1974 km in a straight line, 22 services a day, 3 operators, a cheapest fare of €185.99, and 6h 11m 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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