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Basel to Budapest

3 operators run this water, from 384 h 00 to 696 h 00 — a difference of 312 h 00 on the same crossing. Budapest has an airport 18 km from the quay, so this is a crossing you can make one way and fly the other.

Every way across

One row per operator and speed. Where a service is sold as fast and its average does not clear 45 km/h, the word appears in quotation marks — the boat is fast craft, the crossing is not.

Avalon Waterways Basel → Budapest 860 km crossing 384 h 00 rate not held 2 km/h average
Viking River Cruises Basel → Budapest 860 km crossing 432 h 00 rate not held 2 km/h average
Scenic Cruises Basel → Budapest 860 km crossing 696 h 00 rate not held 1 km/h average

Other ways to reach Budapest

If this crossing does not suit, these quays also reach Budapest without a change. It is the question a single-route page cannot answer about itself and an atlas can.

And other ways to reach Basel

Freiburg (im Breisgau) central station – Basel 33 min FlixBus-eu, FlixTrain-eu
Colmar – Basel 45 min FlixBus-eu
Zurich Bus Station – Basel 1 h 00 FlixBus-eu
Luzern (Landenberg) – Basel 1 h 15 FlixBus-eu
Strasbourg – Basel 1 h 40 CroisiEurope, FlixBus-eu
Nancy – Basel 3 h 05 FlixBus-eu

Where else these quays go

Which months this runs

Season not heldwe can say when we looked, not which months run

Our records for the Basel–Budapest crossing were read on 11 August 2026 and describe the network as it ran that week. We hold no month-by-month variation, so this page cannot tell you whether a crossing runs in February.

If you are travelling well outside August 2026, confirm with the operator before you plan around it.

What we do not know

No fares. The choice between Avalon Waterways at 384 h 00 and Scenic Cruises at 696 h 00 is mostly a price decision, and we hold no prices for either.

No departure times. No rate is held for this pair either, so we cannot say how often it runs.