There are 5 ways to get from Basel to Luxor by train, plane, bus, or taxi
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Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Luxor
best- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Luxor (LXR)plane ZRH - LXR
8h 5m$292–970Train, train to Milano Malpensa Airport, fly to Luxor
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 Luxor (LXR)plane MXP - LXR
11h 19m$102–713Train 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 Luxorbus
12h 16m$146–376Fly Basel to Hurghada Airport, bus
- Fly from Basel (BSL) to Hurghada Airport (HRG)plane BSL - HRG
- Take the bus from Hurghada to Luxorbus
12h 13m$234–483Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Marsa Alam, taxi
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Marsa Alam (RMF)plane ZRH - RMF
- Take the taxi from Marsa Alam (RMF) to Luxortaxi
11h 20m$531–1,123
Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Luxor (LXR) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Basel to Luxor is to train and fly and bus which costs $140 - $380 and takes 12h 16m.
The fastest way to get from Basel to Luxor is to train and fly which takes 8h 5m and costs $290 - $1,000.
The distance between Basel and Luxor is 3321 km.
It takes approximately 8h 5m to get from Basel to Luxor, including transfers.
Luxor is 1h ahead of Basel. It is currently 10:11 AM in Basel and 11:11 AM in Luxor.
There are 284+ hotels available in Luxor.
What companies run services between Basel, Switzerland and Luxor, Egypt?
There is no direct connection from Basel to Luxor. However, you can take the train to Zürich HB, take the train to Zürich Flughafen, walk to Zurich Airport (ZRH) airport, fly to Luxor (LXR), then take the taxi to Luxor. Alternatively, you can take the train to Lugano, take the train to Malpensa Aeroporto T1, walk to Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP) airport, fly to Luxor (LXR), then take the taxi to Luxor.
- Website
- flyedelweiss.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Luxor
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $310–1,100
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hurghada Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 17m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $260–850
Flights from Zurich Airport to Marsa Alam
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $470–1,600
- Website
- flyaircairo.com
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Luxor
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $210–400
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Luxor via Cairo
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $210–1,100
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hurghada Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $110–220
Flights from Basel to Hurghada Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $240–1,000
Flights from Zurich Airport to Marsa Alam
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $410–1,700
- Website
- egyptair.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Luxor via Cairo
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 25m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $250–1,400
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Luxor via Cairo
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $250–1,100
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hurghada Airport via Cairo
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $270–1,200
- Website
- flypgs.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Luxor via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 55m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $210–900
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hurghada Airport via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $170–750
Flights from Zurich Airport to Marsa Alam via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 50m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $330–1,400
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Luxor
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $29–190
Flights from Basel to Hurghada Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $210–700
Flights from Basel to Hurghada Airport via Naples
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 55m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $220–700
- Website
- neosair.it
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Luxor
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 7m
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $230–850
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Luxor via Cairo
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 50m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $230–850
- Website
- nesmaairlines.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hurghada Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $200–420
Flights from Basel to Hurghada Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $220–460
- Website
- comlux.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hurghada Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $240–500
Flights from Zurich Airport to Marsa Alam
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $450–950
- Website
- flexflight.dk
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hurghada Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $160–1,200
Flights from Zurich Airport to Marsa Alam
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $300–2,300
- 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 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
- $23–30
- 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
- +20 19567
- info@gobus-eg.com
- Website
- go-bus.com
Bus from Hurghada to Luxor
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $5–8
- Book at
- https://12go.asia/en
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 13m
- Estimated price
- $40–55
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