Prague to Budapest flight

Flights from Prague to Budapest start at €50.88 and take 4h 9m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Prague to Budapest starts at €50.88 and takes 4h 9m door to door, run by 4 operators over 458 km, with around 24 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 9, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 4h 9mDoor to door
  • 59mMoving
  • €50.88From
  • 112.7 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.

No bookable itinerary on the day this page prices, so none is shown.

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€43.80
Qatar Airways€43.21
Smartwings€44.39
TAP Portugal€45.57

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 Prague to Budapest

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

  1. €19.9890 days
  2. €18.8860 days
  3. €21.6345 days
  4. €20.5330 days
  5. €22.1821 days
  6. €27.1314 days
  7. €30.987 days
  8. €45.833 days
  9. €57.381 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €18.88.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 204 percent. The most expensive point is €57.38, 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. €28.23Sun
  2. €25.48Mon
  3. €24.93Tue
  4. €27.13Wed
  5. €32.08Thu
  6. €29.33Fri
  7. €30.98Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Prague

Air
  • PRG

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.

How far it really runs
The route covers 458 km against 444 km in a straight line, a detour of 1 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Prague at 06:23 and the last at 19:59, across 24 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
The alternatives

Flights against the other ways to make this journey

The same corridor, door to door, with every mode that runs it.

Door to door means the whole journey, including reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end. Fares are the cheapest sold on each mode.
ModeDoor to doorMovingAt the endsFromCO2Per day
Train3h 47m3h 3m44m€56.4414.7 kg24
Flight4h 9m59m3h 10m€50.88112.7 kg24
Coach6h 45m6h 1m44m€24.9312.0 kg16

Questions about Prague 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 Prague to Budapest take?

The Flight from Prague to Budapest takes 4h 9m door to door, of which 59m is spent moving. The route runs 458 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 Prague to Budapest cost?

The Flight from Prague to Budapest starts at €50.88 for one passenger, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare is €50.59. 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 Prague to Budapest?

4 operators run the Flight from Prague to Budapest: Ryanair, Qatar Airways, Smartwings, TAP Portugal. Between them they file around 24 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 Prague to Budapest use?

The Flight from Prague to Budapest leaves from Prague PRG 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.

Is the Flight the best way from Prague to Budapest?

Traveling from Prague to Budapest by Coach costs €24.93 and takes 6h 45m door to door, against 4h 9m by Flight. Which is better depends on whether the money or the hours matter more on this trip. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.

When should I book the Flight from Prague to Budapest?

Fares for the Flight from Prague to Budapest bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €18.88. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 204 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Flight from Prague to Budapest produces about 112.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 458 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.

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On this page
Every figure above was computed for Prague to Budapest on September 9, 2026: 458 km of route against 444 km in a straight line, 24 services a day, 4 operators, a cheapest fare of €50.88, and 4h 9m 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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