There are 10 ways to get from Basel to Katowice by plane, train, bus, or car
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Fly Basel to Katowice International Airport
best- Fly from Basel (BSL) to Katowice International Airport (KTW)plane BSL - KTW
6h 31mzł 469–975Train
cheapest- Take the train from Basel SBB to München Hbftrain 60
- Take the train from Muenchen Hbf to Katowicetrain Ic
16h 40mzł 329–1,672Train via Dresden
- Take the train from Basel Bad Bf to Frankfurttrain 20 / ...
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Dresden Bahnhof Neustadttrain 50
- Take the train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Zgorzelec Bahnhoftrain Re1
- Take the train from Zgorzelec to Wroclaw Glownytrain Os
- Take the train from Wroclaw Glowny to Katowicetrain Ic / ...
16h 7mzł 721–1,660Train, bus
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain Ir36 / ...
- Take the bus from Zurich Bus Station to Katowice, Bus Station Sadowabus N1290
19h 28mzł 363–543Drive 1,101.4 km
- Drive from Basel to Katowicecar 1,101.4 km
10h 40mzł 793–1,146Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Katowice International Airport
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Katowice International Airport (KTW)plane ZRH - KTW
7h 56mzł 602–1,055Fly Basel to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice, train
- Fly from Basel (BSL) to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice (KRK)plane BSL - KRK
- Take the train from Krakow Glowny to Katowicetrain
6h 31mzł 375–1,023Fly Basel to Wroclaw, train
- Fly from Basel (BSL) to Wroclaw (WRO)plane BSL - WRO
- Take the train from Wroclaw Glowny to Katowicetrain
7h 34mzł 336–975Train to Zurich Airport, fly to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice, train
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice (KRK)plane ZRH - KRK
- Take the train from Krakow Glowny to Katowicetrain
7h 46mzł 708–1,453Bus
- Take the bus from Basel, Bahnhof to Katowicebus Ivano-Frankivsk
20h 30m
Basel to Katowice by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Basel to Katowice is to train and bus which costs 360 zł - 550 zł and takes 19h 28m.
The fastest way to get from Basel to Katowice is to fly which takes 6h 31m and costs 460 zł - 1 000 zł.
Yes, there is a direct bus departing from Basel, Bahnhof and arriving at Katowice. Services depart once daily, and operate every day. The journey takes approximately 20h 30m.
No, there is no direct train from Basel to Katowice. However, there are services departing from Basel Bad Bf and arriving at Katowice via Frankfurt, Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt, Zgorzelec and Wroclaw Glowny. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 16h 7m.
The distance between Basel and Katowice is 935 km. The road distance is 1101.4 km.
The best way to get from Basel to Katowice without a car is to train via Dresden which takes 16h 7m and costs 700 zł - 1 700 zł.
It takes approximately 6h 31m to get from Basel to Katowice, including transfers.
Basel to Katowice bus services, operated by GrandBus, depart from Basel, Bahnhof station.
Basel to Katowice train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), depart from Basel Bad Bf station.
The best way to get from Basel to Katowice is to fly which takes 6h 31m and costs 460 zł - 1 000 zł. Alternatively, you can train via Dresden, which costs 700 zł - 1 700 zł and takes 16h 7m, you could also bus, which costs and takes 20h 30m.
What companies run services between Basel, Switzerland and Katowice, Poland?
Air Dolomiti, Lufthansa, and two other airlines fly from Basel (BSL) to Katowice International Airport (KTW) twice daily. Alternatively, you can take a train from Basel Bad Bf to Katowice via Frankfurt, Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt, Zgorzelec Bahnhof, Zgorzelec, and Wroclaw Glowny in around 16h 7m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Basel to Katowice International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 16m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 550–1,700
Flights from Zurich Airport to Katowice International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 460–1,500
Flights from Basel to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- zł 310–850
Flights from Basel to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 2m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 310–850
Flights from Basel to Wroclaw via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- zł 350–1,400
Flights from Basel to Wroclaw via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 48m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 500–1,600
Flights from Zurich Airport to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- zł 270–1,100
Flights from Zurich Airport to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- zł 280–1,100
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Basel to Katowice International Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- zł 210–950
Flights from Zurich Airport to Katowice International Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 300–1,200
Flights from Zurich Airport to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 260–1,100
Flights from Zurich Airport to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 440–1,100
- Website
- airdolomiti.it
Flights from Basel to Katowice International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 27m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 550–1,700
Flights from Zurich Airport to Katowice International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 460–1,500
Flights from Basel to Wroclaw via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 500–1,600
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 260–1,100
Flights from Zurich Airport to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- zł 270–1,100
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Basel to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- zł 300–1,300
Flights from Zurich Airport to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 42m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 250–1,000
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Basel to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- zł 100–650
Flights from Basel to Wroclaw
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- zł 110–600
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Katowice International Airport via Zadar
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- zł 550–750
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Basel to John Paul Ii International Airport Kraków–Balice
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- zł 100–550
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Basel Bad Bf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 44m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- zł 120–340
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- zł 130–380
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Basel SBB to München Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 59m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- zł 160–480
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Basel Bad Bf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 49m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- zł 460–850
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Basel SBB to Zürich HB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- zł 90–170
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +49 89 548889725
- info@trilex.de
- Website
- laenderbahn.com
Train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Zgorzelec Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 18m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- zł 167
- Schedules at
- laenderbahn.com
- Phone
- 0 89 54 888 97 - 25
- info@laenderbahn.com
- Website
- laenderbahn.com
Train from Dresden Bahnhof Neustadt to Zgorzelec Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 18m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Schedules at
- laenderbahn.com
Train from Zgorzelec to Wroclaw Glowny
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- zł 145
- Website
- https://kolejedolnoslaskie.pl/
- Phone
- +48 22 322 22 22
- infokraj@intercity.pl
- Website
- intercity.pl
Train from Zgorzelec to Wroclaw Glowny
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 33m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- zł 145
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
Train from Wroclaw Glowny to Katowice
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- zł 152–157
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
Train from Krakow Glowny to Katowice
- Ave. Duration
- 52 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- zł 95
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
Train from Muenchen Hbf to Katowice
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 41m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- zł 160–600
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
- Phone
- +48 32 428 88 88
- bok@kolejeslaskie.com
- Website
- kolejeslaskie.com
Train from Krakow Glowny to Katowice
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- zł 21–29
- Website
- https://www.kolejeslaskie.com/en/
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Muenchen Hbf to Katowice
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 41m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- zł 750–1,200
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket?cref=oebb-header
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Zurich Bus Station to Katowice, Bus Station Sadowa
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 15m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- zł 270–380
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +38 098-888-11-08
- igoruzhanskyi@grandbus.com.ua
- Website
- grandbus.com.ua
Bus from Basel, Bahnhof to Katowice
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- https://www.grandbus.com.ua/en
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More Questions & Answers
Basel to Katowice bus services, operated by GrandBus, arrive at Katowice station.
Basel to Katowice train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), arrive at Frankfurt station.
Yes, the driving distance between Basel to Katowice is 1101 km. It takes approximately 10h 40m to drive from Basel to Katowice.
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