There are 8 ways to get from Basel to Almaty by plane, train, bus, or car
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Fly from Basel
best- Fly from Basel (BSL) to Almaty International Airport (ALA)plane BSL - ALA
12h 37m$324–805Train, train to Milano Malpensa Airport, fly
cheapest- Take the train from Basel SBB to Luganotrain
- Take the train from Lugano to Malpensa Aeroporto T1train
- Fly from Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP) to Almaty International Airport (ALA)plane MXP - ALA
15h 2m$281–686Train, bus
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhetrain
- Take the bus from Kassel to Rīgabus
- Take the bus from Riga Central Bus Station to Saint Petersburg Bus Terminalbus
- Take the train from Moskovsky Railway Terminal to Kazan-Passtrain
- Take the train from Kazan-Pass to Almaty 2train
5d 10h$430–891Drive 6,440.7 km
- Drive from Basel to Almatycar 6,440.7 km
2d 23h$1,299–1,876Train to Zurich Airport, fly
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Almaty International Airport (ALA)plane ZRH - ALA
14h 2m$330–546Train to Frankfurt, fly
- Take the train from Basel Bad Bf to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Almaty International Airport (ALA)plane FRA - ALA
12h 28m$333–893Train, train to Stuttgart Airport, fly
- Take the train from Basel Bad Bf to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Karlsruhe Hbf to Stuttgart Hbftrain
- Fly from Stuttgart Airport (STR) to Almaty International Airport (ALA)plane STR - ALA
15h 13m$354–658Train, train to Geneva International Airport, fly
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Renens VDtrain
- Take the train from Renens VD to Genève-Aéroporttrain
- Fly from Geneva International Airport (GVA) to Almaty International Airport (ALA)plane GVA - ALA
15h 15m$328–559
Basel (BSL) to Almaty International Airport (ALA) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Basel to Almaty is to train and fly which costs $330 - $550 and takes 14h 2m.
The fastest way to get from Basel to Almaty is to train and fly which takes 12h 28m and costs $330 - $900.
The distance between Basel and Almaty is 5275 km. The road distance is 6440.7 km.
The best way to get from Basel to Almaty without a car is to train and bus which takes 5 days 10h and costs $430 - $900.
It takes approximately 12h 37m to get from Basel to Almaty, including transfers.
Almaty is 4h ahead of Basel. It is currently 4:55 AM in Basel and 8:55 AM in Almaty.
Yes, the driving distance between Basel to Almaty is 6441 km. It takes approximately 2 days 23h to drive from Basel to Almaty.
There are 3186+ hotels available in Almaty.
What companies run services between Basel, Switzerland and Almaty, Kazakhstan?
Turkish Airlines, Air Dolomiti, and five other airlines fly from Basel (BSL) to Almaty International Airport (ALA) 4 times a day.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Basel to Almaty International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 25m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $230–1,100
Flights from Zurich Airport to Almaty International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 35m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $190–900
Flights from Frankfurt to Almaty International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $200–950
Flights from Frankfurt to Almaty International Airport via Nur-Sultan
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 40m
- When
- Monday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $200–950
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Almaty International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 50m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $230–1,100
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Almaty International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 7m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $220–1,000
- Website
- turkishairlines.com
Flights from Basel to Almaty International Airport via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $270–950
Flights from Zurich Airport to Almaty International Airport via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $230–800
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Almaty International Airport via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $280–1,000
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Almaty International Airport via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $250–900
- Website
- flypgs.com
Flights from Basel to Almaty International Airport via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 47m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $230–900
Flights from Basel to Almaty International Airport via Antalya
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 45m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $250–950
Flights from Zurich Airport to Almaty International Airport via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 45m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $190–750
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Almaty International Airport via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $240–900
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Almaty International Airport via Antalya
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 15m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $250–950
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Almaty International Airport via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $220–850
- Website
- airastana.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Almaty International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $200–950
Flights from Frankfurt to Almaty International Airport via Nur-Sultan
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 47m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $200–950
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Almaty International Airport via Tbilisi
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 10m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $300–700
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Almaty International Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 12h
- When
- Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $200–650
Flights from Frankfurt to Almaty International Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 10m
- When
- Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $210–700
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Almaty International Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 15m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $240–800
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Almaty International Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 35m
- When
- Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $230–750
- Website
- uzairways.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Almaty International Airport via Tashkent
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 45m
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $320–950
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Almaty International Airport via Tashkent
- Ave. Duration
- 10h
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $280–850
- Website
- neosair.it
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Almaty International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 10m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $250–800
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Almaty International Airport via Atyrau
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 55m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $250–800
- Website
- unilode.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Almaty International Airport via Tashkent
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 25m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $290–700
- Website
- ajet.com
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Almaty International Airport via Ankara
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 55m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $250–700
- Website
- azal.az
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Almaty International Airport via Baku Heydar Aliyev
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 50m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $210–550
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Basel SBB to Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $45–130
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Basel Bad Bf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 43m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $40–95
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Basel Bad Bf to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 37m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $27–55
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Karlsruhe Hbf to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 57 min
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $21–35
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- 8 (800) 775-00-00
- Website
- eng.rzd.ru
Train from Moskovsky Railway Terminal to Kazan-Pass
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $50–90
- Website
- https://eng.rzd.ru/
- 1nd Class (SW)
- $220–300
- 3rd Class (Platzcart)
- $50–75
- 2nd Class (Kupé)
- $60–90
- Phone
- +7 (717) 260-66-60
- KensePP@railways.kz
- Website
- railways.kz
Train from Kazan-Pass to Almaty 2
- Ave. Duration
- 2d 16h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $220–430
- Website
- https://railways.kz/en/
- Schedules at
- https://bilet.railways.kz/post/schedule?_locale=us
- Book at
- https://bilet.railways.kz/?_locale=us
- 3rd Class (Berth)
- $220–310
- 2nd Class (Coupe)
- $310–430
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Basel SBB to Zürich HB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- $26–50
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Basel SBB to Renens VD
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 16m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $45–80
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Renens VD to Genève-Aéroport
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- $20–40
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $65–130
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +49 711 400 534 44
- service@gabw-bahn.de
- Website
- go-ahead-bw.de
Train from Karlsruhe Hbf to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $17–35
- Schedules at
- go-ahead-bw.de
- 2nd Class Ticket
- $17–21
- 1st Class Ticket
- $22–35
- Phone
- +49 711 400 534 44
- stuttgart@arverio.de
- Website
- arverio-by.de
Train from Karlsruhe Hbf to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- arverio-by.de
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- sncf-connect.com
Train from Karlsruhe Hbf to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 36 min
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $8–40
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
- Phone
- +49 711 2092-7087
- Website
- regional.bahn.de
Train from Karlsruhe Hbf to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 36m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Schedules at
- regional.bahn.de
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Karlsruhe Hbf to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 52 min
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- $27–35
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
- Phone
- +49 731 1550-0
- servicecenter@dbregiobus-rab.de
- Website
- meine-rab.de
Train from Karlsruhe Hbf to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 59 min
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $14–18
- Schedules at
- meine-rab.de
- 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
- $23–30
- Schedules at
- sbb-deutschland.de
- Phone
- +39 02 7249 4494
- my-link@trenord.it
- Website
- trenord.it
Train from Lugano to Malpensa Aeroporto T1
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $7–9
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
- Phone
- +371 67 214 512
- info@ecolines.lv
- Website
- ecolines.net
Bus from Kassel to Rīga
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 40m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $50–150
- Website
- https://ecolines.net/
- Phone
- +372 680 0909
- info@luxexpress.eu
- Website
- luxexpress.eu
Bus from Riga Central Bus Station to Saint Petersburg Bus Terminal
- Ave. Duration
- 12h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $65–95
- Website
- https://luxexpress.eu/en/
- Phone
- +7 (901) 374-41-56
- markatek_spb@mail.ru
- Website
- markatek.travel
Bus from Riga Central Bus Station to Saint Petersburg Bus Terminal
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 50m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $70
- Website
- https://markatek.travel/
- Schedules at
- https://markatek.travel/schedule/
- Phone
- +371 22 474 814
- vissa@apollo.lv
- Website
- vissareiss.lv
Bus from Riga Central Bus Station to Saint Petersburg Bus Terminal
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 50m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $72
- Website
- https://vissareiss.lv/
- Schedules at
- https://vissareiss.lv/?highlight=0&sitepage=#Schedule
- Book at
- https://vissareiss.lv/index.php?sitepage=ticket_offer_en
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