There are 6 ways to get from Basel to Egypt by train, plane, or bus
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Cairo International Airport
best- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Cairo International Airport (CAI)plane ZRH - CAI
8h 29m$213–522Train, train to Milano Malpensa Airport, fly to Cairo International Airport
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 Cairo International Airport (CAI)plane MXP - CAI
11h 59m$162–558Fly Basel to Borg El Arab, bus
- Fly from Basel (BSL) to Borg El Arab (HBE)plane BSL - HBE
- Take the bus from Borg El Arab Airport to Moharam Bek Bus Stnbus
10h 37mFly Basel to Cairo International Airport
- Fly from Basel (BSL) to Cairo International Airport (CAI)plane BSL - CAI
10h 15m$236–557Train, train to Geneva International Airport, fly to Cairo International Airport
- 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 Cairo International Airport (CAI)plane GVA - CAI
10h 32m$262–677Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Hurghada Airport, bus
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Hurghada Airport (HRG)plane ZRH - HRG
- Take the bus from Hurghada to Assiutbus
12h 16m$193–491
Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Cairo International Airport (CAI) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Basel to Egypt is to train and fly which costs $160 - $600 and takes 11h 59m.
The fastest way to get from Basel to Egypt is to train and fly which takes 8h 29m and costs $210 - $550.
The distance between Basel and Egypt is 2869 km.
It takes approximately 8h 29m to get from Basel to Egypt, including transfers.
Egypt is 1h ahead of Basel. It is currently 4:01 AM in Basel and 5:01 AM in Egypt.
There are 7957+ hotels available in Egypt.
What companies run services between Basel, Switzerland and Egypt?
AJet, easyJet, and three other airlines fly from Basel (BSL) to Cairo International Airport (CAI) 5 times a day.
- Website
- flyaircairo.com
Flights from Basel to Borg El Arab via Hurghada Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 55m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $360–1,200
Flights from Basel to Cairo International Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 9h
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $310–1,300
Flights from Basel to Cairo International Airport via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 20m
- When
- Monday, Saturday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $170–750
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Cairo International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 43m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $150–850
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hurghada Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $170–300
- Website
- egyptair.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Cairo International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $180–1,200
Flights from Basel to Cairo International Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 9h
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $310–1,300
Flights from Basel to Cairo International Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 5m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $170–650
Flights from Basel to Cairo International Airport via Venice
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 15m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $300–1,300
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Cairo International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $260–1,100
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Cairo International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $200–850
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hurghada Airport via Cairo International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $330–1,300
- Website
- en.aegeanair.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Cairo International Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 11m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $180–750
Flights from Basel to Cairo International Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 5m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $170–650
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Cairo International Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 11m
- When
- Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $180–700
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Cairo International Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 7m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $140–420
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Cairo International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $180–1,200
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Cairo International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $260–1,100
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hurghada Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $270–700
- Website
- flypgs.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Cairo International Airport via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $150–700
Flights from Basel to Borg El Arab via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 30m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $270–1,200
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hurghada Airport via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $190–800
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Cairo International Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $200–700
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Cairo International Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $190–650
- Website
- turkishairlines.com
Flights from Basel to Borg El Arab via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $440–1,600
- Website
- ajet.com
Flights from Basel to Cairo International Airport via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $170–750
- Website
- mea.com.lb
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Cairo International Airport via Beirut
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $280–600
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Cairo International Airport via Beirut
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 45m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $210–430
- Website
- nesmaairlines.com
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Cairo International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $120–460
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hurghada Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $210–850
- Website
- neosair.it
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Cairo International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $180–750
- Website
- comlux.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hurghada Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $200–370
- Website
- flyedelweiss.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hurghada Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $270–700
- Website
- flexflight.dk
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hurghada Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $650–1,000
- 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
- $35–110
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Basel SBB to Renens VD
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 16m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $70–210
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Renens VD to Genève-Aéroport
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- $26–75
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $100–310
- 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
- $23–29
- 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
- +2 01200003533
- info@egyptbus.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Borg El Arab Airport to Moharam Bek Bus Stn
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +20 19567
- info@gobus-eg.com
- Website
- go-bus.com
Bus from Hurghada to Assiut
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $7–11
- Book at
- https://12go.asia/en
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