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Budapest to Istanbul

3 operators run this water, from 288 h 00. Istanbul has an airport 30 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.

Emerald Cruises Budapest → Istanbul 1070 km crossing 288 h 00 rate not held 4 km/h average
Scenic Cruises Budapest → Istanbul 1070 km crossing 408 h 00 rate not held 3 km/h average
Turkish Airlines BUD → IST 1017 km non-stop 319 320 321 in the air 3 h 16 est. rate not held 574 km/h average

Other ways to reach Istanbul

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

Pirot AS – Istanbul 9 h 20 FlixBus-eu
Bucharest (bus station Militari) – Istanbul 10 h 10 Emerald Cruises, FlixBus-eu
Marmaris – Istanbul 24 h 00 Aroya Cruises Saudi
Paris City – Istanbul 24 h 00 Uniworld
Trieste (Autostazione) – Istanbul 120 h 00 Cunard, Holland America
Piraeus-Athens – Istanbul 144 h 00 Azamara Cruises, Costa Cruises

And other ways to reach Budapest

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 Budapest–Istanbul 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. Not for this crossing, not for any crossing, not for any mode.

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