Car hire prices at Budapest Airport

For November 2026, booked around a month before your trip, a good price at Budapest Airport is £30 a day for a Compact car such as a Ford Focus Estate. A Mini car such as a Hyundai i10 averages £21 a day, while an Economy car such as an Opel Corsa averages £23 at the same lead time. In the last 2 weeks before pickup in November 2026, a Compact car averages £36 a day, £6 more a day than around a month before. Check your quote against the price checker for your exact dates.

For November 2026 at Budapest Airport, book your hire car about a month before you fly: a Compact is £30 a day then, against £36 in the last 2 weeks. Across the year at Budapest Airport, a Compact booked 9 months ahead is £49 a day and one booked 2 weeks ahead £38. Across the 395 airports we track car hire prices for, half of our customers book a hire car within 16 days of pickup.

Wheego is the cheapest company at Budapest Airport for a Compact car, averaging £23 a day over the last 12 months, but you need a credit card and it does not yet have enough reviews for a score. Wheego's desk is at the airport, and its typical card deposit is £1,793, so check your available credit before booking. Carwiz averages £29 a day for a Compact car over the last 12 months from 951 prices, £6 more a day than Wheego, and scores 99/100 from 104 reviews in the last 5 months. Carwiz also requires a credit card, but its typical deposit is lower at £1,110.

The cheapest company can cost you a longer queue or a bigger deposit, so check the review score and desk wait beside each car in the results before you book.

Carwiz and Schiller are joint best-reviewed at Budapest Airport, both scoring 99/100 over the last 5 months, from 104 and 73 reviews respectively; their average desk waits are 4 and 3 minutes. Carwiz is also a lower-priced option: a Compact car averages £29 a day over the last 12 months from 951 prices, while Schiller averages £32 a day for a Compact car from 533 prices over that window. Wheego is cheapest for a Compact car at £23 a day over the last 12 months, but does not yet have enough reviews for a score. If you want a review score to guide your choice, compare Carwiz with Schiller rather than choosing Wheego on price alone.

Review scores are CarTrawler customers' own, from the last five months; the score and the desk wait sit beside each car in the results.

At Budapest Airport, typical card deposits range from £427 with Flizzr to £5,799 with Europcar, and only 3 of the 16 companies take a debit card, so check the card rule before booking. Green Motion, Hertz and Thrifty take debit cards; the other 13 companies require a credit card. If you need to use a debit card, filter for it before comparing prices, then check the deposit and card rule beside each car. Extras charged at the desk are listed under each car with their price.

If you bring your own child seat, check your airline's rules first: most carry one free, some charge.

At Budapest Airport, check credit-card requirements and deposit holds before choosing a cheap car, and allow for the desk wait before planning your onward drive. 13 of the 16 companies require a credit card, so filter for debit-card acceptance first if that is what you have. Europcar's typical deposit is £5,799, so check that your card can cover the hold before booking. Dryyve and Klass Wagen average 18 minutes at the desk, compared with Schiller's 3 minutes, so allow collection time before any fixed appointment.

Only 46% of prices at Budapest Airport are full tank out, full tank back, so read the fuel line under the car before you book.

Choose a Compact car such as a Ford Focus Estate at Budapest Airport for £30 a day around a month before your November 2026 trip; it seats 5 but takes 3 bags, so check your luggage. At around a month before pickup in November 2026, an Economy car such as an Opel Corsa costs £23 a day but takes only 2 bags despite seating 5; an Intermediate car such as a Skoda Karoq costs £43 a day and takes 4 bags, still fewer than its 5 seats. Automatics are 55% of cars offered over the last 12 months, so you can compare automatic options rather than settling for a manual. For Compact cars such as a Ford Focus Estate across all batches, automatics cost £50 a day on average from 21,252 prices, £7 more a day than manuals at £43 from 18,326 prices, so check whether that extra cost suits your budget. Hybrids are 8% of cars offered and no electric cars are listed, so filter for a hybrid before comparing prices if you want one.