One passenger pays $64.50, every fee included. Services cover 707 km and are run by 2 operators across 1 mode.
What one seat costs
Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at $64.50, so there is no spread to show.
Typical fares · Priced for October 27, 2026
$64.50
- 222%Moves across the booking window
222%Departure times on this route
Departure times on this route12Go lists the departures it sells between Budapest and Iași.
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Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about $137.30Wed7
- about $178.55Thu8
- about $168.84Fri9
- about $105.15Sat10
- about $121.53Sun11
- about $115.46Mon12
- about $86.35Tue13
- about $82.70Wed14
- about $116.07Thu15
- about $88.77Fri16
- about $108.78Sat17
- about $82.70Sun18
- about $86.35Mon19
- about $73.00Tue20
- about $79.67Wed21
- about $92.41Thu22
- about $88.77Fri23
- about $80.27Sat24
- about $83.30Sun25
- about $77.85Mon26
- about $64.50Tue27
Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.
The bus gets you into Iași. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.
A room in Iași for the night the bus gets in
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When to book Budapest to Iași
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- $52.3790 days
- $93.6260 days
- $72.3845 days
- $65.1130 days
- $64.5021 days
- $73.0014 days
- $86.357 days
- $168.843 days
- $137.301 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at $52.37.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 222 percent. The most expensive point is $168.84, 3 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.
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This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Budapest to Iași 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
707 km
646 km as the crow flies, 9% further by the route services take. The bearing runs east.
Who lives at each end
1,741,041 → 378,954
Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.
The route
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 707 km against 646 km in a straight line, a detour of 9 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Cluj-Napoca. The gap between arriving and leaving is 63 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 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 IAS into Iași is set by whoever drives it.
A car waiting when you land in Iași
Settled in advance, so the ride into Iași costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.
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Who runs this route
The bus gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.
Baggage storage near Iași Railway Station
Most of the points near Iași Railway Station open before the first train and close after the last one.
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Questions about Budapest to Iași
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 it take to get from Budapest to Iași?
Budapest to Iași covers 707 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 Iași?
The cheapest fare from Budapest to Iași is $64.50, as of October 6, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is $88.77. 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 Iași?
The cheapest way from Budapest to Iași is by bus, at $64.50 for one passenger on October 27, 2026. The comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs side by side.
When should I book Budapest to Iași?
Fares from Budapest to Iași bottom out around 90 days before departure, at $52.37. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 222 percent, measured on October 6, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Which day of the week is cheapest for Budapest to Iași?
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Budapest to Iași, at $73.00. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of October 6, 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 Iași?
March is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Budapest to Iași, at $54.79 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 service from Budapest to Iași?
2 operators sell services from Budapest to Iași across 1 mode: CFR Călători, 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 Iași?
0 percent of the services we sell from Budapest to Iași are direct. The rest connect at Cluj-Napoca, with about 63 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 Iași use?
Services from Budapest to Iași by bus leave from Budapest Népliget bus station and arrive at Iași 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 Iași?
2 of the 2 operators we sell from Budapest to Iași allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs $5.51. 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 labeled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances
The bus is the simple part. What you do once you are in Iași is somebody else's catalog.
Day trips out of Iași and across Romania
Day trips that leave Iași 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. Iași reaches 19 places in 8 countries, from 85 to 2,075 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Budapest
- 130Places you can leave for
- 48Countries
- 77Operators
48
77Arriving in Iași
Leaving Iași
- 19Places you can leave for
- 8Countries
- 10Operators