✈ SEA → BUD
11H 15M FLIGHT. YOU WILL CRY DURING A ROMCOM. IT'S FINE.
Flight from Seattle to Budapest
From Sea-Tac (SEA), USA North America → Ferenc Liszt (BUD), Hungary Europe
↔ Flying the other way? Budapest → Seattle
How long is the flight from Seattle to Budapest?
A nonstop flight from Seattle (SEA) to Budapest (BUD) takes about 11 hours 15 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 5,484 miles (8,826 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
11h 15m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
5,484 mi
8,826 km · great-circle
Avg speed
784 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Seattle timezone
UTC-7
America/Los_Angeles
Budapest timezone
UTC+2
Europe/Budapest
Time difference
+9h
9 hours ahead
Jet lag (rough)
~9d
Eastward — worse
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 Seattle
Nearest destinations
- Seattle → Vancouver
- Seattle → San Francisco
- Seattle → Las Vegas
- Seattle → Los Angeles
- Seattle → Dallas
- Seattle → Chicago
- Seattle → Toronto
- Seattle → Atlanta
- Seattle → Mexico City
- Seattle → New York
Long-haul from Seattle
- Seattle → Johannesburg
- Seattle → Cape Town
- Seattle → Nairobi
- Seattle → Melbourne
- Seattle → Bali (Denpasar)
- Seattle → Kuala Lumpur
- Seattle → Singapore
- Seattle → Sydney
- Seattle → Mumbai
- Seattle → Abu Dhabi
More flights to Europe
Flights to Budapest
Nearest origins
- Vienna → Budapest
- Prague → Budapest
- Warsaw → Budapest
- Munich → Budapest
- Bucharest → Budapest
- Berlin → Budapest
- Zurich → Budapest
- Milan → Budapest
- Frankfurt → Budapest
- Rome → Budapest
Long-haul to 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 → Budapest