There are 12 ways to get from Basel to Milan by train, plane, bus, car, or car train
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Train to Düsseldorf International Airport, fly to Milan Linate Airport
best- Take the train from Oelde to Duesseldorf Flughafentrain
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Milan Linate Airport (LIN)plane DUS - LIN
7h 23mDrive 887.4 km
cheapest- Drive from Basel to Milancar 887.4 km
8h 49m€141–204Train
- Take the train from Oelde to Dortmund Hbftrain Re
- Take the train from Dortmund Hbf to Basel SBBtrain 43
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Luganotrain Ec
- Take the train from Lugano to Milano Centraletrain
13hTrain, bus
- Take the train from Oelde to Dortmund Hbftrain Re
- Take the bus from Dortmund central bus station to Milanbus FlixBus N07
18h 12mTrain to Düsseldorf International Airport, fly to Milano Malpensa Airport, train
- Take the train from Oelde to Duesseldorf Flughafentrain
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP)plane DUS - MXP
- Take the train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Milano Porta Garibalditrain
8h 7mTrain to Cologne Bonn Airport, fly to Milano Malpensa Airport, train
- Take the train from Oelde to Koeln/Bonn Flughafentrain
- Fly from Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) to Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP)plane CGN - MXP
- Take the train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Milano Porta Garibalditrain
9h 13mTrain to Cologne Bonn Airport, fly to Il Caravaggio International Airport, bus
- Take the train from Oelde to Koeln/Bonn Flughafentrain
- Fly from Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) to Il Caravaggio International Airport (BGY)plane CGN - BGY
- Take the bus from Milan Bergamo Orio al Serio Airport to Piazza Luigi di Savoiabus
9h 25mTrain, train to Frankfurt, fly to Milan Linate Airport
- Take the train from Oelde to Duesseldorf Hbftrain
- Take the train from Düsseldorf Hbf to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Milan Linate Airport (LIN)plane FRA - LIN
8h 37mTrain, train to Frankfurt, fly to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Take the train from Oelde to Duesseldorf Hbftrain
- Take the train from Düsseldorf Hbf to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP)plane FRA - MXP
- Take the train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Milano Porta Garibalditrain
9h 16mTrain via Werl
- Take the train from Hagen Hbf to Basel SBBtrain 43
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Bellinzonatrain Ec
- Take the train from Bellinzona to Como S. Giovannitrain S10 / ...
- Take the train from Como S.Giovanni to Milano Porta Garibalditrain S11
13h 12m€225–899Train, bus via Leverkusen
- Take the train from Oelde to Leverkusen Mittetrain Re
- Take the bus from Leverkusen to Milanbus FlixBus N11
20h 54mDrive, car train
- Drive from Basel to Fuldacar
- Take the car train from Fulda to München Ostcartrain
- Drive from München Ost to Milancar
12h 58m€196–265
Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Milan Linate Airport (LIN) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Basel to Milan is to drive which costs €140 - €210 and takes 8h 49m.
The fastest way to get from Basel to Milan is to drive which takes 8h 49m and costs €140 - €210.
No, there is no direct train from Basel to Milan. However, there are services departing from Oelde and arriving at Milano Centrale via Dortmund Hbf, Basel SBB and Lugano. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 13h.
The distance between Basel and Milan is 829 km. The road distance is 887.4 km.
The best way to get from Basel to Milan without a car is to train which takes 13h and costs .
It takes approximately 7h 23m to get from Basel to Milan, including transfers.
Basel to Milan train services, operated by National Express, depart from Oelde station.
Basel to Milan train services, operated by National Express, arrive at Dortmund Hbf station.
Yes, the driving distance between Basel to Milan is 887 km. It takes approximately 8h 49m to drive from Basel to Milan.
There are 14519+ hotels available in Milan.
What companies run services between Basel, Germany and Milan, Italy?
You can take a vehicle from Basel to Milano Centrale via Oelde, Dortmund Hbf, Basel SBB, and Lugano in around 13h.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 23m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–280
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €150–280
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Tuesday to Thursday
- Estimated price
- €85–320
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €80–310
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €40–310
Flights from Frankfurt to Milan Linate Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–550
Flights from Frankfurt to Milan Linate Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–260
Flights from Frankfurt to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–430
Flights from Frankfurt to Milano Malpensa Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 57m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €120–500
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–200
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €150–280
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €150–280
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €80–310
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €85–290
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–160
Flights from Frankfurt to Milan Linate Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–550
Flights from Frankfurt to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–430
- Website
- airdolomiti.it
Flights from Frankfurt to Milan Linate Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–550
Flights from Frankfurt to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–430
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–200
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- When
- Friday and Monday
- Estimated price
- €45–200
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €55–160
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €40–130
Flights from Frankfurt to Milan Linate Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €35–140
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €45–290
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €55–160
Flights from Frankfurt to Milano Malpensa Airport via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–270
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–340
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 6m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–180
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Il Caravaggio International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €50–180
- Phone
- +49 221 13 999 444
- Website
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Oelde to Duesseldorf Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 33m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Oelde to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Oelde to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Oelde to Duesseldorf Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 33m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Oelde to Koeln/Bonn Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 48m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Oelde to Koeln/Bonn Flughafen
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 48m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Oelde to Duesseldorf Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 42m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Oelde to Duesseldorf Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 42m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Oelde to Leverkusen Mitte
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 13m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Dortmund Hbf to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 12m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €100–420
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Düsseldorf Hbf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €35–150
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Düsseldorf Hbf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €35–150
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hagen Hbf to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 51m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €100–400
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Dortmund Hbf to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 32m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €65–140
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
Train from Düsseldorf Hbf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €23–50
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
Train from Düsseldorf Hbf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €23–50
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €90–280
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Basel SBB to Bellinzona
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 38m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €85–260
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Bellinzona to Como S. Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 58 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €20–60
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Como S.Giovanni to Milano Porta Garibaldi
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 2m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €17–55
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +49 (0) 7531 915109
- info@sbb-deutschland.de
- Website
- sbb-deutschland.de
Train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 21m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €20–25
- Schedules at
- sbb-deutschland.de
Train from Basel SBB to Bellinzona
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €18–23
- Schedules at
- sbb-deutschland.de
- Phone
- +39 02 7249 4494
- my-link@trenord.it
- Website
- trenord.it
Train from Lugano to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €6–8
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
Train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Milano Porta Garibaldi
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €4–6
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
Train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Milano Porta Garibaldi
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €4–6
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
Train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Milano Porta Garibaldi
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €4–6
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
Train from Bellinzona to Como S. Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 58 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €3–4
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
Train from Como S.Giovanni to Milano Porta Garibaldi
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €4–6
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
- Phone
- +41 58 580 70 70
- Website
- sob.ch
Train from Basel SBB to Bellinzona
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 56m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €65–100
- Schedules at
- sob.ch
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- info@urlaubs-express.de
- Website
- urlaubs-express.de
Car train from Fulda to München Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 41m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €95–110
- Website
- https://urlaubs-express.de/?lang=en
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.fr
Bus from Dortmund central bus station to Milan
- Ave. Duration
- 14h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €70–120
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Leverkusen to Milan
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €70–120
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- customerservices@terravision.eu
- Website
- terravision.eu
Bus from Milan Bergamo Orio al Serio Airport to Piazza Luigi di Savoia
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €5–25
- Website
- https://www.terravision.eu/
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