How long does it take to get to Budapest airport (BUD) by bus?

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Wikivoyage describes the logistics quite well:

Budapest Franz Liszt International Airport ... is the country's largest airport, located about 16 km (10 mi) southeast of the city centre.

Budapest Airport is notoriously hard to get in and out of. While a train connection between the city and the terminal has been built, it only served Terminal 1, which is now defunct, and the currently used Terminal 2 is an at least 10 mins drive away, on the very other side of the airport. Public transportation between the city and airport requires changing from bus to rail or metro and takes between 40 mins to an hour. There is a single and long two-lane road connecting the city and Ferihegy, and it unsurprisingly gets congested at peak times, especially on the way to the airport, so bear this in mind and depart for the airport early (at least an hour before the boarding time to make sure you clear security).

Of course, you mention you're travelling at night, so traffic would be less. And you're wondering specifically about going from Kőbánya-Kispest. Putting that into Google Maps at 4.30am, would seem to indicate 16-24 minutes travel time from Kőbánya-Kispest to the airport. I played with it a bit and traffic seems to start to increase after 6am, but you should be at the airport well before that, especially if it's an international flight.

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The accepted answer is now slightly outdated -- I'd expect most people don't want to start from Kőbánya-Kispest but somewhere downtown. If so, the direct bus now starts at 3:40am, at 6:30AM I'd expect the roads to still be OK so it shouldn't take more than 35 minutes. It shouldn't -- but it will, at least until early 2021 I'd most certainly calculate 45 minutes because starting April 6, 2019 the south section of the M3 underground is out and it's replaced by buses and it'll slow down everything and the bus bridge and the airport bus overlap.

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