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title: "BUD — Budapest Liszt Ferenc Airport, Budapest · Orbit"
description: "Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD/LHBP) serves Budapest, Hungary. Opened 1950, named after Franz Liszt, 17.6 million passengers in 2024."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/bud
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Budapest · Hungary · Europe

# BUD — Budapest Liszt Ferenc

Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport serves Budapest, Hungary, 18 km from the city centre, and sits at 47.4°N, 19.3°E. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**IATA**
BUD
the code on your bag tag

**ICAO**
LHBP
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1950
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
17.6M
in 2024

## History & name

Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport opened in 1950 and is named after Franz Liszt (1811-1886), the Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist. It lies 18 km from Budapest at 495 feet, has two runways up to 3,707 m, and handled 17.6 million passengers in 2024.

Named after **Franz Liszt** — Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist (1811-1886)

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest%5FFerenc%5FLiszt%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q500945)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport

**Serves**
Budapest, Hungary

**City centre**
18 km from Budapest

**Opened**
1950

**Passengers**
17.6 million in 2024

**Runways**
2 runways, longest 3,707 m

**Elevation**
495 ft (151 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=47.43020,19.26240)

**Website**
[bud.hu ↗](http://www.bud.hu/english)

## Where it sits

47.4°N, 19.3°E puts BUD in the northern hemisphere, 5,274 km from the equator and 4,734 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **89th** most northerly, which makes it the 573rd most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 47.4°S, 160.7°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Hawke's Bay (NPE) in New Zealand, still 2,003 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **M. R. Štefánik** (BTS), 174 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

## Distances from BUD

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.

| To                                                   |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ---------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-bud) | LHR | 1,489 km | 2h 21m    |

[Distance from BUD to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=BUD&to=LHR) [Map a trip from BUD →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=BUD-LHR)

## Where these facts come from

The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/) (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/) (CC0); the city centre from [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/) (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.

What you won’t find: terminal maps, airline lists, shops or live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that guessed at those would be worse than one that leaves them out.

[Measure BUD to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

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