By Train

The cheapest option is to take the train.

Between the Airport and the Railway Station (Ferihegy vasútállomás) there’s a regular, scheduled public transport service offered: Bus line 200E, which operates day and night. Tickets are available for purchase on the bus for 450 HUF, or at BKK Customer service centres at airport terminals 2A and 2B as well as from BKK ticket vending machines at the bus stops for 350 HUF. Please make sure to have Hungarian Forint on you (exchange services are offered at the Airport).

At the Ferihegy stop, use the overpass to reach the platform - the one being further from the road is the direction to Szeged. A full-price ticket to Szeged costs ca. 3,600 HUF, and you can buy it at the ticket office (open 6:00-18:00 every day), or using the ticket vending machines. The ride is approximately two and a half hours long.

Here you can find the official timetable.

Search from “Budapest Airport [Ferihegy]” to “SZEGED”. Usually it departs once at every hour: 13 min., directly without the necessity to transfer. In case of arriving in Budapest by other means of transport, catch a train from Nyugati Railway station. Usually it departs once at every hour: 53 min., directly without the necessity to transfer. Beside the ticket,you also need to buy a supplementary ticket (pótjegy).

Trains usually have an additional Inter City car, where seat reservation is compulsory. At the Ferenc Liszt International Airport you can buy your ticket, the supplementary ticket and the seat reservation at the Tourist Information booth.

TIP:This is what you should say in Hungarian if you are not sure that the cashier understands you in English, or just simply show the cashier the following sentence:

„Kérek egy jegyet Budapestről Szegedre, egy pótjegyet és egy Intercity helyjegyet.”