About us
Who makes budapestimetro.com, how we work, and where every figure here comes from.
An independent guide to the Budapest metro
We are a small group: some of us live in Budapest and ride the metro daily, others build websites and tools. budapestimetro.com puts the practical things in one place — a page for each of the 48 stations, one for each of the four lines, the network map, the timetable, fares, a route planner and guides to the sights you can reach by metro. It is free, needs no sign-up, and runs in Hungarian and English.
We are not BKK or BKV. We sell no tickets, handle no penalty fares or complaints, and run no lost property office. For anything about the journey itself, go to the operator.
Where the data comes from
BKK's official GTFS timetable
The timetable is not an estimate: we compute it from BKK's own GTFS package. That is where the first and last train at all 48 stations in both directions comes from, and the headways too — not a rounded «2–3 minutes at peak» but the real gaps between departures. Every station is on the timetable page.
BKK's real-time feed (GTFS-Realtime)
The next departures on the station pages really are live: they come from BKK's GTFS-RT feed through our own API key. That is why we are willing to call them live. Where there is no live data we do not claim any — and the key stays on the server, your browser only talks to our own endpoint.
BKK's official tariff
Every price comes from the bkk.hu tariff, with the month we checked it. The single ticket went from 450 to 500 HUF on 1 June 2025 — a change many sites still have not made.
If we cannot verify it, we do not print it
When a figure has no source, the line simply is not there. That covers undocumented exit counts and anything else we cannot trace back to BKK.
What we fixed on our own pages
The fare was more than a year out of date
A single ticket has cost 500 HUF since 1 June 2025, not 450. The old price was still sitting in 113 places on this site, from station pages to the route planner. All of it is corrected, along with the 30- and 90-minute tickets, the book of ten and the 24/72-hour passes.
We were selling two tickets that do not exist
The site listed a «transfer ticket» at 530 HUF for one change within 80 minutes, a 5,150 HUF weekly pass and a 4,200 HUF family day ticket. BKK sells none of them: for transfers you buy the 30-minute (600 HUF) or 90-minute (850 HUF) ticket.
The timetable was invented
The «first and last metro» table printed an even grid running 04:30 to 23:10. In reality the earliest train leaves Újpest-központ at 4:21 and the last one gets back there at 0:18 — the M2, M3 and M4 run past midnight. Anyone who called a taxi at half past ten on our old figure did it for nothing.
Two stations were under their pre-2020 names
Árpád híd has been Göncz Árpád városközpont since 31 January 2020, and Klinikák has been Semmelweis Klinikák since 2019. Both fixed, the old addresses now 301 to the new ones, and the station cards were regenerated.
The route planner refused journeys that exist
It called any trip after 23:10 «outside operating hours» and sent you to a night bus while the metro was still running. The service window is now 4:21–0:18.
Corrections
We make mistakes, and the network changes. Write to [email protected] with a link to the page — we will check it against BKK and fix it. The date we last checked stays on the page so you can see how fresh a figure is.
How the site is funded
The site is free. Hosting and development are paid for by advertising. Advertising does not influence the content: we receive nothing from BKK or the city, sell no tickets, place no paid links in the text and do not sell reader data.
Questions and answers
No. budapestimetro.com is an independent information site, with no connection to BKK, BKV or the Budapest municipality.
No. Tickets are bought in the BudapestGO app, at a machine or at a ticket office. We only show what each one costs and which is worth it.
Yes. They come from BKK’s GTFS-Realtime feed through our own API key and refresh every minute. If the feed is unavailable the box hides itself — we never show an invented time.
Checked in August 2026 against BKK’s tariff. The month we checked sits next to the prices.
Who is behind this site
This site is run by the team at GoRandom, a small group based in the Basque Country in Spain who do two things that go together better than they sound: travel, and build websites.
We were in Budapest in August 2024, and the city guide on gorandom.es came out of that trip. We liked it enough to want to go back, and after enough hours spent staring at network maps and comparing travel passes this turned up: a site about nothing except how you actually get around here.
The other half of what we know how to do is web development, and this site is the excuse to put the two together. We do not leave it sitting there: every fare and every timetable carries its source and the date we checked it, and they get revised when the operator changes something. The last thorough revision was in August 2026: the single ticket was still 450 Ft instead of 500 Ft on 113 pages, and the timetable now comes from the official GTFS rather than from an estimate.
He decides what goes up, checks the data before it does, and answers the email. If you find a fare that has expired or a timetable that no longer holds, there is a specific person to write to.