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)BSL - ALA
12h 20m$314–805Train, train to Milano Malpensa Airport, fly
cheapest- Take the train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Take the train from Lugano to Malpensa Aeroporto T1
- Fly from Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP) to Almaty International Airport (ALA)MXP - ALA
15h 3m$281–684Train, bus
- Take the train from Basel Bad Bf to Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe
- Take the bus from Kassel to Rīga
- Take the bus from Riga Central Bus Station to Saint Petersburg Bus Terminal
- Take the train from Moskovsky Railway Terminal to Kazan-Pass
- Take the train from Kazan-Pass to Almaty 2
5d 10h$449–891Drive 6,440.7 km
- Drive from Basel to Almaty6,440.7 km
2d 23h$1,299–1,876Train to Zurich Airport, fly
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HB
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Almaty International Airport (ALA)ZRH - ALA
13h 51m$299–478Train to Frankfurt, fly
- Take the train from Basel Bad Bf to Frankfurt
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Almaty International Airport (ALA)FRA - ALA
12h 28m$323–706Train, train to Stuttgart Airport, fly
- Take the train from Basel Bad Bf to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof
- Take the train from Karlsruhe Hbf to Stuttgart Hbf
- Fly from Stuttgart Airport (STR) to Almaty International Airport (ALA)STR - ALA
15h 16m$284–871Train, train to Geneva International Airport, fly
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Bern
- Take the train from Bern to Genève-Aéroport
- Fly from Geneva International Airport (GVA) to Almaty International Airport (ALA)GVA - ALA
15h 36m$321–786
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 $290 - $480 and takes 13h 51m.
The fastest way to get from Basel to Almaty is to fly which takes 12h 20m and costs $310 - $850.
The distance between Basel and Almaty is 5274 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 $440 - $900.
It takes approximately 12h 20m to get from Basel to Almaty, including transfers.
Almaty is 4h ahead of Basel. It is currently 5:08 AM in Basel and 9:08 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 3236+ hotels available in Almaty.
What companies run services between Basel, Switzerland and Almaty, Kazakhstan?
Air Dolomiti, Air Astana, and five other airlines fly from Basel (BSL) to Almaty International Airport (ALA) 3 times a day.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Basel to Almaty International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 7m
- When
- 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
- $200–950
Flights from Frankfurt to Almaty International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $200–1,100
Flights from Frankfurt to Almaty International Airport via Nur-Sultan
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 50m
- When
- Monday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $210–900
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
- $220–1,100
- Website
- turkishairlines.com
Flights from Basel to Almaty International Airport via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $260–950
Flights from Zurich Airport to Almaty International Airport via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $230–850
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Almaty International Airport via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $270–1,000
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Almaty International Airport via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $200–750
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 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $210–900
Flights from Basel to Almaty International Airport via Antalya
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 45m
- When
- Tuesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $230–900
Flights from Zurich Airport to Almaty International Airport via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $190–800
Flights from Zurich Airport to Almaty International Airport via Antalya
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 45m
- When
- Tuesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $200–800
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Almaty International Airport via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $220–900
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Almaty International Airport via Antalya
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 35m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $240–950
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
- $200–850
- Website
- airastana.com
Flights from Basel to Almaty International Airport via Antalya
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 5m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $310–1,200
Flights from Frankfurt to Almaty International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $200–1,100
Flights from Frankfurt to Almaty International Airport via Nur-Sultan
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 52m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $210–1,100
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Almaty International Airport via Tbilisi
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 10m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $230–750
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Almaty International Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 12h
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $210–700
Flights from Frankfurt to Almaty International Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 10m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, 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
- $240–750
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Almaty International Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 35m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, 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 Saturday
- Estimated price
- $320–1,000
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
- $240–750
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Almaty International Airport via Atyrau
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 55m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $240–750
- Website
- unilode.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Almaty International Airport via Tashkent
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 5m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $280–850
- 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
- $210–450
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Basel Bad Bf to Kassel Bahnhof Wilhelmshöhe
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $60–150
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Basel Bad Bf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 43m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $30–110
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Basel Bad Bf to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 37m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $27–70
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Karlsruhe Hbf to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 56 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- 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)
- $210–300
- 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
- $220–420
- 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)
- $220–300
- 2nd Class (Coupe)
- $300–420
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Basel SBB to Zürich HB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- $25–50
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $65–130
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Basel SBB to Bern
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $30–60
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Bern to Genève-Aéroport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 11m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $40–80
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Basel Bad Bf to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 24m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- $30–50
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/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
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- sncf-connect.com
Train from Karlsruhe Hbf to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 47 min
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $8–40
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
- Phone
- +49 7821 9960770
- info@sweg.de
- Website
- sweg.de
Train from Karlsruhe Hbf to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 36m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Schedules at
- sweg.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
- $65–90
- 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
- $69
- 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
- $71
- 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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