The sector is held by Norwegian Air Shuttle, Ryanair and Wizz Air.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ARN Stockholm to BUD Budapest
Stockholm Arlanda, Sweden, to Budapest Ferenc Liszt, Hungary. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 1,361 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 14m
- Door to door
- 8h 59m
What ARN to BUD looks like
The ARN to BUD sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Stockholm ARN to Budapest BUD is a medium haul sector of 1,361 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,361 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 14m.
Stockholm ARN is a major hub in the network held here, 160 scheduled destinations and 329.4 departures a day. Budapest BUD has 158 destinations and 222.9 departures a day.
Stockholm and Budapest keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
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 ARN to BUD from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARN to BUD | 2.43 | 17 | Norwegian Air Shuttle, Ryanair, Wizz Air |
| BUD to ARN | 2.43 | 17 | Norwegian Air Shuttle, Ryanair, Wizz Air |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
Between them the two directions put about 34 departures a week on ARN to BUD, 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 2h 14m block time on ARN to BUD. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to ARN | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At ARN before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| ARN to BUD in the air, estimated | 134 min | 6h 44m |
| Formalities at BUD | 90 min | 8h 14m |
| Delivery run in Budapest | 45 min | 8h 59m |
| Door to door | 539 min | 8h 59m |
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 ARN to BUD is 8h 59m.
A courier who leaves Stockholm at 09:00 local is on the ground in Budapest at about 11:14 local and at the door by 13:29 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Budapest, the last useful departure from Stockholm is around 13:31 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. 86 of them join ARN to BUD.
| Connecting at | ARN to hub, flights a day | Hub to BUD, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gdansk GDN | 3 | 0.71 | 1,361 | 4h 00m |
| Krakow KRK | 2.43 | 1.14 | 1,367 | 4h 03m |
| Riga RIX | 5.14 | 0.57 | 1,568 | 4h 05m |
| Warsaw WAW | 3.29 | 6.71 | 1,394 | 4h 08m |
| Vilnius VNO | 2.43 | 0.71 | 1,616 | 4h 12m |
| Vienna VIE | 5 | 3.57 | 1,500 | 4h 13m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at ARN in the afternoon actually flies on.
86 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Gdansk GDN, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through GDN the routing covers 1,361 km against the 1,361 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 00m 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 46m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Krakow KRK at 4h 03m and Riga RIX at 4h 05m 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.
Restricted hours at either end
Widely documented operating restrictions, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, so confirm with the carrier before relying on any of them.
Stockholm ARN is shut to scheduled movements between 22:00 and 06:00 local, so a collection in Stockholm that runs late does not simply catch a later flight, it waits for the morning and loses a working day in Budapest.
Stockholm ARN, night restrictions: Night movements are restricted between 22:00 and 06:00 local with exemptions.
Plan Stockholm to Budapest 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 ARN to BUD 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 ARN airport entry
- The BUD airport entry
- Hand carry into Sweden
- Hand carry into Hungary
- The written lane, Dubai to Stockholm
- The written lane, Shanghai to Budapest
- The route calculator
More pairs through ARN and BUD: Copenhagen to Stockholm, Amsterdam to Stockholm, London to Stockholm, Paris to Stockholm, Frankfurt to Stockholm, Munich to Stockholm, Vienna to Stockholm, Stockholm to Oslo.