battle, major, interwar and Second World War
Budapest offensive
Budapest offensive was a battle fought in 1944 at Budapest, in what is now Hungary; it ran into the following year. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Budapest. It was part of World War II, which ran from 1939 to 1945. The recorded result: Allied victory. Recorded strength: 719,000 against N/A.
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Where it sits in World War II
Record
| Date | 1944 (year precision) to 1945 | |
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| Place | Budapest, Hungary 47.498N, 19.041E | |
| Kind | Battle, interwar and Second World War | |
| Strength | 719,000 | N/A |
| Casualties and losses | Soviet: 80,026 dead and missing; 240,056 wounded and sick; Total casualties: 320,082 (including 260,000 combat casualties); 1,766 tanks destroyed; 4,127 guns and mortars; 293 aircraft; 135,100 small arms | Siege of Budapest: 125,000 combat casualties; (48,000 killed, 26,000 wounded, 51,000 captured); Total: ~270,000 combat casualties; 76,000 civilian dead; 38,000 civilians dead in the siege (7,000 executed); 38,000 died in labour or POW camps |
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The ground today


The recorded site stands at about 109 m; within 10.0 km the ground runs from 0 to 377 m, 377 m of relief, hilly country and today it is 60% built-up, 32% tree cover, 7% water.
Elevation from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, Airbus); land cover from ESA WorldCover 2021 (CC BY 4.0), within about 5 km of the recorded site. Computed, not recorded.Nearest engagements
- Siege of Budapest 1944, same recorded site
- Siege of Buda 1849, 0.5 km NW
- Siege of the communist headquarters 1956, 2.7 km E
- Battle of Buda 1686, 3.6 km S
- Siege of Buda 1541, 3.6 km S
In the same war
- Before: Battle of Debrecen 1944
- After: Operation Obviate 1944
- All 1155 engagements of World War II
Elsewhere in 1944
- Battle of Leyte Gulf Philippines
- Battle of the Philippine Sea Japan
- Battle of Peleliu Palau
- Operation Ichi-Go China
- Battle of Saipan United States
Budapest offensive is one of 4,429 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 128 in present-day Hungary.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q717146, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Budapest offensive, revision 1373440542, read 2026-11-15, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.