✈ BUD → GIG
12H 39M IN A METAL TUBE. 6,209 MILES. EARN THE LEG.
Flight from Budapest to Rio de Janeiro
From Ferenc Liszt (BUD), Hungary Europe → Galeão (GIG), Brazil South America
↔ Flying the other way? Rio de Janeiro → Budapest
How long is the flight from Budapest to Rio de Janeiro?
A nonstop flight from Budapest (BUD) to Rio de Janeiro (GIG) takes about 12 hours 39 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 6,209 miles (9,993 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
12h 39m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
6,209 mi
9,993 km · great-circle
Avg speed
790 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Budapest timezone
UTC+2
Europe/Budapest
Rio de Janeiro timezone
UTC-3
America/Sao_Paulo
Time difference
-5h
5 hours behind
Jet lag (rough)
~3.5d
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
Flights to Rio de Janeiro
Nearest origins
- São Paulo → Rio de Janeiro
- Buenos Aires → Rio de Janeiro
- Santiago → Rio de Janeiro
- Cape Town → Rio de Janeiro
- Miami → Rio de Janeiro
- Cancun → Rio de Janeiro
- Johannesburg → Rio de Janeiro
- Casablanca → Rio de Janeiro
- Atlanta → Rio de Janeiro
- Mexico City → Rio de Janeiro
Long-haul to Rio de Janeiro
- Osaka → Rio de Janeiro
- Tokyo → Rio de Janeiro
- Taipei → Rio de Janeiro
- Shanghai → Rio de Janeiro
- Manila → Rio de Janeiro
- Seoul → Rio de Janeiro
- Hong Kong → Rio de Janeiro
- Beijing → Rio de Janeiro
- Bangkok → Rio de Janeiro
- Bali (Denpasar) → Rio de Janeiro