There are 7 ways to get from Basel to Melbourne by plane, train, or bus
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Fly Basel to Melbourne Airport
best- Fly from Basel (BSL) to Melbourne Airport (MEL)plane BSL - MEL
26h 47m$824–1,725Train, train to Geneva International Airport, fly to Melbourne Airport
cheapest- 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 Melbourne Airport (MEL)plane GVA - MEL
28h 40m$520–1,884Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Melbourne Airport
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Melbourne Airport (MEL)plane ZRH - MEL
25h 7m$811–1,597Train, train to Stuttgart Airport, fly to Melbourne Airport
- Take the train from Basel Bad Bf to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Karlsruhe Hbf to Stuttgart Hbftrain
- Fly from Stuttgart Airport (STR) to Melbourne Airport (MEL)plane STR - MEL
29h 53m$933–2,070Train, train to Milano Malpensa Airport, fly to Melbourne Airport
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Luganotrain
- Take the train from Lugano to Malpensa Aeroporto T1train
- Fly from Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP) to Melbourne Airport (MEL)plane MXP - MEL
29h 36m$612–1,711Fly Mulhouse to Melbourne Airport
- Fly from Mulhouse (MLH) to Melbourne Airport (MEL)plane MLH - MEL
34h 47m$1,624–4,225Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Avalon Airport, bus
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Avalon Airport (AVV)plane ZRH - AVV
- Take the bus from Avalon Airport/Outside Terminal to Skybus Coach Terminalbus
29h 41m$1,011–3,297
Basel (BSL) to Melbourne Airport (MEL) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Basel to Melbourne is to train and fly which costs $600 - $1,800 and takes 29h 36m.
The fastest way to get from Basel to Melbourne is to train and fly which takes 25h 7m and costs $800 - $1,600.
The distance between Basel and Melbourne is 16431 km.
It takes approximately 26h 47m to get from Basel to Melbourne, including transfers.
Melbourne is 10h ahead of Basel. It is currently 3:37 AM in Basel and 1:37 PM in Melbourne.
There are 5345+ hotels available in Melbourne.
What companies run services between Basel, Switzerland and Melbourne, VIC, Australia?
Flydubai, Emirates, and five other airlines fly from Basel (BSL) to Melbourne Airport (MEL) 3 times a day.
- Website
- qantas.com
Flights from Basel to Melbourne Airport via Istanbul, Soekarno–Hatta
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 25m
- When
- Thursday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $750–2,500
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Melbourne Airport via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 21m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $950–3,100
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Melbourne Airport via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 26m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,100–3,400
Flights from Mulhouse to Melbourne Airport via Belgrade, Guangzhou Baiyun
- Ave. Duration
- 32h
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $1,600–4,200
Flights from Mulhouse to Melbourne Airport via Belgrade, Guangzhou Baiyun, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 34h 53m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $1,700–4,400
Flights from Mulhouse to Melbourne Airport via Belgrade, Guangzhou Baiyun, Adelaide
- Ave. Duration
- 36h
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $1,600–4,200
Flights from Zurich Airport to Avalon Airport via Singapore Changi, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,000–7,000
Flights from Zurich Airport to Avalon Airport via Hong Kong, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,000–3,700
Flights from Zurich Airport to Avalon Airport via Singapore Changi, Adelaide
- Ave. Duration
- 30h 25m
- When
- Tuesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $950–3,200
Flights from Zurich Airport to Avalon Airport via Hong Kong, Brisbane
- Ave. Duration
- 31h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,000–3,400
Flights from Zurich Airport to Avalon Airport via Suvarnabhumi, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 32h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,400–4,200
- Website
- emirates.com
Flights from Basel to Melbourne Airport via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 15m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $1,000–3,400
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Melbourne Airport via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 21m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $950–3,100
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Melbourne Airport via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 26m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,100–3,400
Flights from Mulhouse to Melbourne Airport via Tirana, Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 46h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $1,600–5,500
Flights from Zurich Airport to Avalon Airport via Singapore Changi, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,000–7,000
Flights from Zurich Airport to Avalon Airport via Hong Kong, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,000–3,700
Flights from Zurich Airport to Avalon Airport via Suvarnabhumi, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 32h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,400–4,200
- Website
- jetstar.com
Flights from Basel to Melbourne Airport via Istanbul, Ngurah Rai
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $750–2,500
Flights from Zurich Airport to Avalon Airport via Singapore Changi, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,000–7,000
Flights from Zurich Airport to Avalon Airport via Hong Kong, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,000–3,700
Flights from Zurich Airport to Avalon Airport via Singapore Changi, Adelaide
- Ave. Duration
- 30h 25m
- When
- Tuesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $950–3,200
Flights from Zurich Airport to Avalon Airport via Hong Kong, Brisbane
- Ave. Duration
- 31h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,000–3,400
Flights from Zurich Airport to Avalon Airport via Suvarnabhumi, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 32h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,400–4,200
- Website
- singaporeair.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Melbourne Airport via Singapore Changi
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $650–4,300
Flights from Zurich Airport to Melbourne Airport via Singapore Changi, Adelaide
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 25m
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $700–4,400
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Melbourne Airport via Singapore Changi
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 25m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $650–4,000
- Website
- turkishairlines.com
Flights from Basel to Melbourne Airport via Istanbul, Singapore Changi
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $750–2,500
Flights from Basel to Melbourne Airport via Istanbul, Soekarno–Hatta
- Ave. Duration
- 31h 45m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $750–2,500
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Melbourne Airport via Singapore Changi
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $650–4,300
Flights from Zurich Airport to Melbourne Airport via Hong Kong
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $650–2,200
- Website
- thaiairways.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Melbourne Airport via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 42m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $650–2,600
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Melbourne Airport via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $800–2,400
- Website
- cathaypacific.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Melbourne Airport via Hong Kong
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $650–2,300
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Melbourne Airport via Hong Kong
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $700–2,200
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Melbourne Airport via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 24h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,100–3,400
- Website
- csair.com
Flights from Mulhouse to Melbourne Airport via Belgrade, Guangzhou Baiyun
- Ave. Duration
- 32h
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $1,600–4,200
Flights from Mulhouse to Melbourne Airport via Belgrade, Guangzhou Baiyun, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 35h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $1,700–4,400
- Website
- vietnamairlines.com
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Melbourne Airport via Noi Bai International
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 5m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $600–1,900
- 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
- $35–70
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Basel SBB to Renens VD
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 16m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $70–120
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Renens VD to Genève-Aéroport
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- $30–55
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $95–180
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Basel Bad Bf to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 37m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $40–85
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Karlsruhe Hbf to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 57 min
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- 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
- $24–45
- Schedules at
- go-ahead-bw.de
- 2nd Class Ticket
- $24–29
- 1st Class Ticket
- $30–45
- Phone
- +49 711 400 534 44
- stuttgart@arverio.de
- Website
- arverio-by.de
Train from Karlsruhe Hbf to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- arverio-by.de
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- sncf-connect.com
Train from Karlsruhe Hbf to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 36 min
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $11–50
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
- Phone
- +49 711 2092-7087
- Website
- regional.bahn.de
Train from Karlsruhe Hbf to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 36m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Schedules at
- regional.bahn.de
- Phone
- +49 731 1550-0
- servicecenter@dbregiobus-rab.de
- Website
- meine-rab.de
Train from Karlsruhe Hbf to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 59 min
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $19–25
- Schedules at
- meine-rab.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
- $30–45
- 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
- $10–13
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
- Phone
- 1300 759 287
- info@skybus.com.au
- Website
- skybus.com.au
Bus from Avalon Airport/Outside Terminal to Skybus Coach Terminal
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $18
- Website
- https://www.skybus.com.au
- Schedules at
- https://www.skybus.com.au/timetables/
- Book at
- https://www.skybus.com.au/buy-tickets/
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