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LHR London ⇄ BUD Budapest

London Heathrow Airport (United Kingdom) and Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (Hungary): great-circle distance, estimated scheduled flight time each way, time difference and jet lag.

Distance1,489 km926 mi804 nautical miles
LHR → BUD2 h 35 minestimated block time
BUD → LHR2 h 55 minestimated block time
Clock change+1 hBudapest vs London, today
Great-circle route from London (LHR) to Budapest (BUD)LHRLondonBUDBudapest
The shortest path over the Earth’s surface (great circle), drawn on a Natural Earth projection. Real flight paths bend around weather, winds and closed airspace.

Flight time each way

LHR → BUD

2 h 35 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 100° (E).

Leave London Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Budapest Sat 7 Nov, 13:35 local.

BUD → LHR

2 h 55 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 295° (WNW).

Leave Budapest Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive London Sat 7 Nov, 11:55 local.

LHR-bound flights are the slower direction by about 20 minutes in our estimate: the route runs mostly east–west through latitudes where the prevailing westerly winds at cruise height are strong, so heading east rides a tailwind and heading west fights a headwind. How we estimate it.

Distance

Great-circle distance1,489 km · 926 mi · 804 nmi
Initial heading100° (E) from LHR; 295° (WNW) from BUD
Farthest from the equator51.5°N
Crossesneither the equator nor the 180th meridian
Share of the longest possible trip7% of the 20,015 km to the far side of the Earth

Time zones and jet lag

LHREurope/London — UTC+0 now; UTC+0 standard time, UTC+1 during daylight saving time
BUDEurope/Budapest — UTC+1 now; UTC+1 standard time, UTC+2 during daylight saving time
DifferenceBudapest is 1 hour ahead of London today.

Jet lag, flying LHR → BUD. Your body clock has to move 1 hour earlier, like an eastward trip. A shift this small rarely causes much jet lag; most people feel normal within a day or so. Flying the other way, the shift is reversed.

General information, not medical advice.

The two airports

LHR London Heathrow AirportLondon, United Kingdom · longest runway 12,799 ft3,901 m BUD Budapest Liszt Ferenc International AirportBudapest, Hungary · longest runway 12,162 ft3,707 m

More routes from LHR and BUD

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Routes of a similar length

IAHORD Houston – Chicago 1,491 km926 mi · 2 h 40 min CDGLIS Paris – Lisbon 1,470 km913 mi · 2 h 50 min EWRMCO Newark – Orlando 1,511 km939 mi · 2 h 50 min ICNTPE Seoul – Taipei 1,464 km909 mi · 2 h 45 min

Need a different pair? The flight-time calculator works for any two of 3,245 airports. Not covered: which airlines fly this route, schedules, fares and live status — that data is proprietary and we don’t guess it.

Photos on airport pages are credited there. Estimates are rounded to 5 minutes; typical error about 13 minutes (validation).