✈ BUD → LAX
12H 41M FLIGHT. YOU WILL CRY DURING A ROMCOM. IT'S FINE.
Flight from Budapest to Los Angeles
From Ferenc Liszt (BUD), Hungary Europe → LAX (LAX), USA North America
↔ Flying the other way? Los Angeles → Budapest
How long is the flight from Budapest to Los Angeles?
A nonstop flight from Budapest (BUD) to Los Angeles (LAX) takes about 12 hours 41 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 6,232 miles (10,030 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
12h 41m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
6,232 mi
10,030 km · great-circle
Avg speed
790 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Budapest timezone
UTC+2
Europe/Budapest
Los Angeles timezone
UTC-7
America/Los_Angeles
Time difference
-9h
9 hours behind
Jet lag (rough)
~6.3d
Westward — easier
CO₂ footprint per passenger
Economy class, single passenger. Source: DEFRA 2024 averages.
This flight emits roughly 3.6× the CO₂ of an equivalent train trip and 0.9× a car driven alone over the same distance.
Flights from Budapest
Nearest destinations
- Budapest → Vienna
- Budapest → Prague
- Budapest → Warsaw
- Budapest → Munich
- Budapest → Bucharest
- Budapest → Berlin
- Budapest → Zurich
- Budapest → Milan
- Budapest → Frankfurt
- Budapest → Rome
Long-haul from Budapest
- Budapest → Auckland
- Budapest → Sydney
- Budapest → Melbourne
- Budapest → Santiago
- Budapest → Buenos Aires
- Budapest → Bali (Denpasar)
- Budapest → Mexico City
- Budapest → São Paulo
- Budapest → Rio de Janeiro
- Budapest → San Francisco
More flights to North America
Flights to Los Angeles
Nearest origins
- Las Vegas → Los Angeles
- San Francisco → Los Angeles
- Seattle → Los Angeles
- Vancouver → Los Angeles
- Dallas → Los Angeles
- Mexico City → Los Angeles
- Chicago → Los Angeles
- Atlanta → Los Angeles
- Cancun → Los Angeles
- Toronto → Los Angeles
Long-haul to Los Angeles
- Johannesburg → Los Angeles
- Cape Town → Los Angeles
- Nairobi → Los Angeles
- Kuala Lumpur → Los Angeles
- Singapore → Los Angeles
- Mumbai → Los Angeles
- Bali (Denpasar) → Los Angeles
- Abu Dhabi → Los Angeles
- Dubai → Los Angeles
- Doha → Los Angeles