There are 11 ways to get from Essen to Hungary by plane, train, bus, night train, car, or car train
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Fly Düsseldorf International Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
best- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD)plane DUS - BUD
4h 49mFt 30,310–83,438Train to Dortmund Airport, fly to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
cheapest- Take the train from Essen Hbf to Dortmund Hbftrain
- Fly from Dortmund Airport (DTM) to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD)plane DTM - BUD
5h 49mFt 21,124–92,095Train
- Take the train from Essen Hbf to Salzburg Hauptbahnhoftrain 62
- Take the train from Salzburg Hbf to Wien Hbftrain Rjx / ...
- Take the train from Wien Hbf to Budapest-Kelenfoeldtrain Ec
14h 12mFt 72,125–314,044Bus
- Take the bus from Essen central train station to Budapest Déli train stationbus N161
19h 50mFt 35,000–60,000Night train, train
- Take the nighttrain from Essen Hbf to Wien Hbfnighttrain Nj
- Take the train from Wien Hbf to Budapest-Kelenfoeldtrain Ec
16h 34mFt 27,257–87,515Train to Cologne Bonn Airport, fly to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Take the train from Essen Hbf to Köln Messe/Deutz Bftrain
- Fly from Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD)plane CGN - BUD
5h 25mFt 31,833–98,245Fly Düsseldorf International Airport to Vienna International Airport, train
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Vienna International Airport (VIE)plane DUS - VIE
- Take the train from Wien Hbf to Gyoertrain
6h 24mFt 34,460–108,738Train to Cologne Bonn Airport, fly to Vienna International Airport, train
- Take the train from Essen Hbf to Köln Messe/Deutz Bftrain
- Fly from Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) to Vienna International Airport (VIE)plane CGN - VIE
- Take the train from Wien Hbf to Gyoertrain
6h 59mFt 32,983–118,545Drive, car train
- Drive from Essen to Fuldacar
- Take the cartrain from Fulda to Villach Hbfcartrain
- Drive from Villach Hbf to Budapestcar
17h 3mFt 78,938–105,576Bus, train
- Take the bus from Dusseldorf Central Bus Station to Bratislava hlavná stanicabus
- Take the train from Bratislava Hlavna Stanica to Budapest-Nyugatitrain Rj
23h 12mDrive 1,167.4 km
- Drive from Essen to Budapestcar 1,167.4 km
10h 59mFt 64,083–92,565
Essen to Hungary by train and tram
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Essen to Hungary is to train and fly which costs 21 000 Ft - 95 000 Ft and takes 5h 49m.
The fastest way to get from Essen to Hungary is to fly which takes 4h 49m and costs 30 000 Ft - 85 000 Ft.
Yes, there is a direct bus departing from Essen central train station station and arriving at Budapest Déli train station station. Services depart once daily, and operate every day. The journey takes approximately 19h 50m.
No, there is no direct train from Essen to Hungary. However, there are services departing from Essen Hbf and arriving at Clark Ádám tér via Salzburg Hbf, Wien Hbf and Kelenföld vasútállomás M. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 14h 12m.
The distance between Essen and Hungary is 1056 km. The road distance is 1167.4 km.
The best way to get from Essen to Hungary without a car is to train which takes 14h 12m and costs 70 000 Ft - 320 000 Ft.
It takes approximately 4h 49m to get from Essen to Hungary, including transfers.
Essen to Hungary bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Essen central train station.
Essen to Hungary train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), depart from Essen Hbf station.
The best way to get from Essen to Hungary is to fly which takes 4h 49m and costs 30 000 Ft - 85 000 Ft. Alternatively, you can train, which costs 70 000 Ft - 320 000 Ft and takes 14h 12m, you could also bus, which costs 35 000 Ft - 60 000 Ft and takes 19h 50m.
What companies run services between Essen, Germany and Hungary?
Eurowings, Lufthansa, and two other airlines fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD) every 4 hours. Alternatively, you can take a train from Essen Hbf to Clark Ádám tér via Salzburg Hauptbahnhof, Salzburg Hbf, Wien Hbf, Budapest-Kelenfoeld, and Kelenföld vasútállomás M in around 14h 12m.
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 42m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 24,000–100,000
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Monday to Thursday
- Estimated price
- Ft 24,000–65,000
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 27,000–80,000
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- Ft 23,000–70,000
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 30,000–110,000
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 48m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- Ft 30,000–110,000
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 57m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 29,000–100,000
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Vienna International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 8m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 17,000–110,000
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Vienna International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 27,000–65,000
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Vienna International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 33,000–85,000
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Tuesday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- Ft 24,000–55,000
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Hamburg
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- Ft 24,000–55,000
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- Ft 24,000–65,000
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 28,000–80,000
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- Ft 26,000–70,000
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- Ft 30,000–110,000
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- Ft 29,000–100,000
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Vienna International Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- Ft 23,000–60,000
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Dortmund Airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- Ft 18,000–70,000
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Vienna International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- Ft 20,000–65,000
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Essen Hbf to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 56m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 50,000–240,000
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Essen Hbf to Köln Messe/Deutz Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 51 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- Ft 5,000–24,000
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Essen Hbf to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 24 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- Ft 2,200–10,000
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Essen Hbf to Köln Messe/Deutz Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 51 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- Ft 5,000–24,000
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
- Phone
- +43 (0)5 1717
- Website
- Railjet
Train from Salzburg Hbf to Wien Hbf
- *
- Ft 16,000–25,000
Train from Wien Hbf to Budapest-Kelenfoeld
- *
- Ft 13,000–21,000
Train from Wien Hbf to Budapest-Kelenfoeld
- *
- Ft 13,000–21,000
Train from Wien Hbf to Gyoer
- *
- Ft 8,000–12,000
Train from Wien Hbf to Gyoer
- *
- Ft 8,000–12,000
- Phone
- +43 (0) 5 1717
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
Train from Salzburg Hbf to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 52m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- Ft 13,000–28,000
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
- Phone
- +43 (0) 5 1717
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Salzburg Hbf to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 42m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 24,000–44,000
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Wien Hbf to Budapest-Kelenfoeld
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 22m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- Ft 19,000–34,000
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Wien Hbf to Budapest-Kelenfoeld
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 22m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- Ft 19,000–34,000
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Wien Hbf to Gyoer
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 14m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- Ft 9,500–17,000
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Wien Hbf to Gyoer
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 14m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- Ft 9,500–17,000
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Bratislava Hlavna Stanica to Budapest-Nyugati
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 23m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 17,000–30,000
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Phone
- _AUSTRIAN_RAILWAYS_(ÖBB)
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Wien Hbf to Budapest-Kelenfoeld
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- Ft 18,000–34,000
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Wien Hbf to Budapest-Kelenfoeld
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- Ft 18,000–34,000
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Wien Hbf to Gyoer
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 2m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- Ft 8,500–17,000
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Wien Hbf to Gyoer
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 2m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- Ft 8,500–17,000
- Website
- Austrian Railways
- Phone
- +420 222 222 221
- [email protected]
- Website
- RegioJet
Train from Wien Hbf to Budapest-Kelenfoeld
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 31m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- Ft 5,000–8,500
- Website
- RegioJet
Train from Wien Hbf to Budapest-Kelenfoeld
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 31m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- Ft 5,000–8,500
- Website
- RegioJet
Train from Wien Hbf to Gyoer
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- Ft 2,600–4,100
- Website
- RegioJet
Train from Wien Hbf to Gyoer
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- Ft 2,600–4,100
- Website
- RegioJet
- Phone
- +43 (0) 51717
- Website
- Nightjet
Night train from Essen Hbf to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 4m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 21,000–55,000
- Website
- Nightjet
- Sleeper Carriage
- Ft 42,000–55,000
- Couchette Carriage
- Ft 32,000–37,000
- Seating Carriage
- Ft 21,000–26,000
- Phone
- +49 221 13 999 444
- Website
- National Express
Train from Essen Hbf to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 24 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Schedules at
- National Express
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
Train from Essen Hbf to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 41 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- Ft 3,000–5,500
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
- Phone
- 0180 6 9 27 37 27
- [email protected]
- Website
- Eurobahn
Train from Essen Hbf to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 20 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- Ft 3,500–4,900
- Website
- Eurobahn
Rome2Rio's guide to Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF)
Contact DetailsContact Details
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
Train from Essen Hbf to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 24 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 2,000–4,100
- Website
- Oui.SNCF
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- [email protected]
- Website
- FlixTrain GmbH
Train from Essen Hbf to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 23 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 900–1,400
- Website
- FlixTrain GmbH
- Phone
- +44 (0)3432 186 186
- Website
- Eurostar
Train from Essen Hbf to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 25 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 3,500–6,000
- Website
- Eurostar
- Phone
- +49 9126 301 90 70
- [email protected]
- Website
- TRI Train Rental GmbH
Train from Essen Hbf to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 22 min
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Schedules at
- TRI Train Rental GmbH
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- [email protected]
- Website
- Urlaubs-Express (UEX)
Car train from Fulda to Villach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 1m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- Ft 36,000–42,000
- Website
- Urlaubs-Express (UEX)
- Phone
- +420 221 111 122
- [email protected]
- Website
- Czech Railways (ČD)
Train from Bratislava Hlavna Stanica to Budapest-Nyugati
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 23m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- Ft 9,000–14,000
- Website
- Czech Railways (ČD)
- Phone
- +48 22 322 22 22
- [email protected]
- Website
- PKP Intercity
Train from Bratislava Hlavna Stanica to Budapest-Nyugati
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 32m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 11,000–45,000
- Website
- PKP Intercity
- Phone
- +421 24 48 58 188
- [email protected]
- Website
- Railways of Slovak Republic (ZSSK)
Train from Bratislava Hlavna Stanica to Budapest-Nyugati
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 32m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- Ft 3,700–7,000
- Website
- Railways of Slovak Republic (ZSSK)
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact DetailsContact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- [email protected]
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Essen central train station to Budapest Déli train station
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- Ft 35,000–60,000
- Website
- Flixbus
- Phone
- +421 55 72 896 16
- [email protected]
- Website
- interbus.sk
Bus from Dusseldorf Central Bus Station to Bratislava hlavná stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 5m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- interbus.sk
- Book at
- interbus.sk
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More Questions & Answers
Essen to Hungary bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Budapest Déli train station.
Essen to Hungary train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), arrive at Salzburg Hauptbahnhof station.
Yes, the driving distance between Essen to Hungary is 1167 km. It takes approximately 10h 59m to drive from Essen to Hungary.
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