✈ BUD → SFO
BUDAPEST → SAN FRANCISCO IN 12H 26M. CONSIDER BUSINESS CLASS. NO, REALLY.
Flight from Budapest to San Francisco
From Ferenc Liszt (BUD), Hungary Europe → SFO (SFO), USA North America
↔ Flying the other way? San Francisco → Budapest
How long is the flight from Budapest to San Francisco?
A nonstop flight from Budapest (BUD) to San Francisco (SFO) takes about 12 hours 26 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 6,101 miles (9,819 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
12h 26m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
6,101 mi
9,819 km · great-circle
Avg speed
789 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Budapest timezone
UTC+2
Europe/Budapest
San Francisco 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 → Los Angeles
- Budapest → Rio de Janeiro
More flights to North America
Flights to San Francisco
Nearest origins
- Los Angeles → San Francisco
- Las Vegas → San Francisco
- Seattle → San Francisco
- Vancouver → San Francisco
- Dallas → San Francisco
- Chicago → San Francisco
- Mexico City → San Francisco
- Atlanta → San Francisco
- Toronto → San Francisco
- Cancun → San Francisco
Long-haul to San Francisco
- Johannesburg → San Francisco
- Cape Town → San Francisco
- Nairobi → San Francisco
- Kuala Lumpur → San Francisco
- Singapore → San Francisco
- Mumbai → San Francisco
- Bali (Denpasar) → San Francisco
- Abu Dhabi → San Francisco
- Dubai → San Francisco
- Doha → San Francisco