Budapest Airport to Budapest city centre taxi

From £25.59 fixed for a pre-booked saloon to Budapest city centre.

Budapest Airport works from a single passenger terminal split into Terminal 2A and Terminal 2B, with one arrivals level running between the two. Everything that takes you into the city leaves from that level or from the roadway immediately outside it, so the real choice is about luggage, the hour you land and how many of you there are.

Fixed price: from £25.59
Journey: 37 minutes
Distance: 14.1 miles

Lowest live operator quote, checked 16 October 2026.

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Lowest live operator quote to Budapest city centre, saloon, 16 October 2026.

What the fixed price includes

60 minutes free waiting after your flight lands; the rank meter charges from the moment you sit down
a fixed price confirmed when you book, with no meter and no surge
express pick-up at the airport's designated pick-up point
flight tracking, so a delayed arrival moves your pick-up time
free cancellation up to 24 hours before pick-up

How much is a taxi from Budapest Airport to the city centre?

Our price is agreed when you book and does not move afterwards. The alternative is the city's official taxi tariff, and that tariff is a rate rather than a fixed fare: a base charge, a charge for every kilometre covered and a charge for every minute the car spends crawling. Budapest sets it by decree, and the same decree applies at every hour of the day and to every licensed operator, so there is no cheaper hour and no cheaper firm to hunt for.

The part that catches people out is the airport base fare. Since the summer of 2026 a journey with the airport at either end starts from a considerably higher base charge than the identical journey inside the city, and it applies leaving the airport and arriving at it. It is a fixed step rather than a percentage, so it weighs heaviest on the short hops and barely registers on a long run out of town.

Where a booked car earns its money is a late landing, a party of four or more with hold luggage, or an address that is not in the middle of Pest. What will beat us on price is the 100E Airport Express or the 200E, not the rank: once the airport base fare sits on top of the kilometre and minute charges, a metered car into the centre lands close to what we quote. Travelling alone in daylight, take the 100E and keep the difference, and we would rather say that here than let you work it out afterwards.

Travelling as

Option	Cost for 2	Journey time	Door to door?	Pre-bookable?
Airport Taxi Hub, pre-booked	Cost for 2: £25.59 one price per car, up to 3 passengersFrom £25.59, fixed, including 60 minutes free waiting after your flight lands	Journey time: 37 minutes	Door to door? Yes	Pre-bookable? Yes
Taxi from the airport rank	Cost for 2: Metered on the city's official tariff, with a 2,100 HUF base fare because the airport is one end of the journey, then 520 HUF a kilometre and 130 HUF a minute	Journey time: The same roads as any car, and the meter switches to the time charge below 15 km/h, so heavy traffic adds to the fare as well as the clock	Door to door? Yes	Pre-bookable? No
100E Airport Express	Cost for 2: 2,500 HUF a person for one uninterrupted trip, or 1,000 HUF as an add-on if you already hold a pass	Journey time: BKK gives 40 minutes to Deak Ferenc ter, running around the clock: every 6 to 10 minutes in the daytime on Mondays and Fridays, 7 to 10 on other days, 30 to 40 at night	Door to door? No	Pre-bookable? No
200E bus, then metro or train	Cost for 2: One BKK single is 500 HUF bought ahead or 700 HUF on the spot and allows no transfer, so changing onto metro line M3 costs a second one; a 24-hour Budapest travelcard at 2,750 HUF covers that bus and metro route. The airport lists the Ferihegy to Nyugati trains as free with BKK passes, national and county passes or a 24, 48 or 72-hour Budapest Card, and the 300 HUF combined ticket between Terminal 2 and Ferihegy station is sold only alongside a train ticket. The airport express ticket is not accepted on this line	Journey time: Runs 24 hours a day to Kobanya-Kispest for metro line M3, or to Ferihegy station for trains reaching Nyugati in about 30 minutes	Door to door? No	Pre-bookable? No
Ride-hailing app	Cost for 2: The same authority-set tariff as the rank: a 2,100 HUF airport base fare, 520 HUF a kilometre and 130 HUF a minute, with an approximate figure shown in the app	Journey time: Pick-up point in front of Terminal 2A, where you give the driver a six-digit PIN before setting off	Door to door? Yes	Pre-bookable? No

Where do I meet my driver at Budapest?

Clear passport control and baggage reclaim and follow the signs to the arrivals level, the single floor serving both Terminal 2A and Terminal 2B. Gate H sits on the corridor between the two, which is the easiest landmark to steer by if you are describing where you are standing.
Contact your driver as soon as you land, their number is in your supplier details email. It arrives separately from your booking confirmation, so save it to your phone before you fly.
Express pick-up is included in the price you paid: your driver waits at the airport's designated pick-up point rather than inside the hall. Being met in the arrivals hall with a name board is meet and greet, a paid extra you add at checkout.
Do not join the rank queue by mistake. The airport puts its taxi stands at the entrances of Terminal 2A and 2B with the cars lined up in front of them, and your driver is not in that line unless they have told you otherwise.
Your flight is tracked at no charge, and your booking carries 60 minutes free waiting after your flight lands, so a slow belt does not cost you the car. The airport charges for every stop on the arrivals roadway and restricts it to licensed operators, which is why a driver will usually ask you to ring before you walk out rather than circling.

Contact your driver as soon as you land, their number is in your supplier details email.

Arrivals-hall meet and greet with a name board is available as a paid extra at checkout.

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Last updated 16 September 2026, from the most recent verified fact on this page rather than the build date. Sources are listed with each fact.

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