There are 4 ways to get from Basel to Luxor by train, plane, or bus
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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$270–558Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Hurghada Airport, bus
cheapest- 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
13h 6m$124–364Train, train to Milano Malpensa Airport, fly to Luxor
- 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$131–721Fly Basel to Hurghada Airport, bus
- Fly from Basel (BSL) to Hurghada Airport (HRG)plane BSL - HRG
- Take the bus from Hurghada to Luxorbus
12h 7m$224–513
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 $120 - $370 and takes 13h 6m.
The fastest way to get from Basel to Luxor is to train and fly which takes 8h and costs $270 - $600.
The distance between Basel and Luxor is 3321 km.
It takes approximately 8h to get from Basel to Luxor, including transfers.
Luxor is 1h ahead of Basel. It is currently 4:07 AM in Basel and 5:07 AM in Luxor.
There are 897+ 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 25m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $150–700
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hurghada Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $120–550
- Website
- flyaircairo.com
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Luxor
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $200–460
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Luxor via Cairo
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 1m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $200–750
Flights from Basel to Hurghada Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $210–600
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hurghada Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $110–240
- Website
- egyptair.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Luxor via Cairo
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 20m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $160–850
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Luxor via Cairo
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 32m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $220–750
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hurghada Airport via Cairo
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $200–700
- Website
- neosair.it
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Luxor
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 6m
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $210–700
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Luxor via Cairo
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 50m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $210–700
- Website
- nesmaairlines.com
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Luxor via Cairo
- Ave. Duration
- 9h
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $200–460
Flights from Basel to Hurghada Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $210–490
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hurghada Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $180–420
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Luxor
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $50–370
Flights from Basel to Hurghada Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $150–600
- Website
- flypgs.com
Flights from Basel to Hurghada Airport via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 50m
- When
- Monday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $140–700
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hurghada Airport via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 40m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- $120–600
- Website
- comlux.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hurghada Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–950
- Website
- flexflight.dk
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hurghada Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $85–950
- 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
- $100–300
- 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
- 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
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