The sector is held by Ryanair and Wizz Air.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BUD Budapest to LIS Lisbon
Budapest Ferenc Liszt, Hungary, to Lisbon Humberto Delgado, Portugal. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 2,480 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 40m
- Door to door
- 10h 25m
What BUD to LIS looks like
The BUD to LIS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Budapest BUD to Lisbon LIS is a medium haul sector of 2,480 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,480 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 40m.
Budapest BUD is a major hub in the network held here, 158 scheduled destinations and 222.9 departures a day. Lisbon LIS has 154 destinations and 367.9 departures a day.
Lisbon is one hour behind of Budapest all year.
The pair sits inside Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 14 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on BUD to LIS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUD to LIS | 1.71 | 12 | Ryanair, Wizz Air |
| LIS to BUD | 1.71 | 12 | Ryanair, Wizz Air |
Two carriers hold the sector, Ryanair and Wizz Air, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 23.9 departures a week on BUD to LIS, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 3h 40m block time on BUD to LIS. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to BUD | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At BUD before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| BUD to LIS in the air, estimated | 220 min | 8h 10m |
| Formalities at LIS | 90 min | 9h 40m |
| Delivery run in Lisbon | 45 min | 10h 25m |
| Door to door | 625 min | 10h 25m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for BUD to LIS is 10h 25m.
A courier who leaves Budapest at 09:00 local is on the ground in Lisbon at about 11:40 local and at the door by 13:55 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Lisbon, the last useful departure from Budapest is around 13:05 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 83 of them join BUD to LIS.
| Connecting at | BUD to hub, flights a day | Hub to LIS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilbao BIO | 0.57 | 1.86 | 2,509 | 5h 21m |
| Nice NCE | 1.43 | 3.57 | 2,494 | 5h 26m |
| Geneva GVA | 0.71 | 7.14 | 2,504 | 5h 27m |
| Basel BSL | 2.86 | 1.57 | 2,543 | 5h 29m |
| Vienna VIE | 4 | 2.14 | 2,519 | 5h 31m |
| Venice VCE | 0.86 | 2.29 | 2,485 | 5h 32m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at BUD in the afternoon actually flies on.
83 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Bilbao BIO, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through BIO the routing covers 2,509 km against the 2,480 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 21m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 41m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Nice NCE at 5h 26m and Geneva GVA at 5h 27m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Budapest, Bratislava BTS is 173 km away by great circle and carries 88 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Lisbon, Faro FAO is 222 km away by great circle and carries 87 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Budapest to Lisbon yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for BUD to LIS in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The BUD airport entry
- The LIS airport entry
- Hand carry into Hungary
- Hand carry into Portugal
- The written lane, Shanghai to Budapest
- The written lane, Dubai to Lisbon
- The written lane, Lisbon to Sao Paulo
- The route calculator
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