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$874–1,725Train to Frankfurt, fly to Melbourne Airport
cheapest- Take the train from Basel Bad Bf to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Melbourne Airport (MEL)plane FRA - MEL
26h 3m$619–1,751Train 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$760–1,699Train, train to Geneva International Airport, fly to Melbourne 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 Melbourne Airport (MEL)plane GVA - MEL
28h 40m$763–1,581Train, bus to Stuttgart Airport, fly to Melbourne Airport
- Take the train from Basel Bad Bf to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Take the bus from Karlsruhe central train station to Stuttgart Airport Busterminalbus
- Fly from Stuttgart Airport (STR) to Melbourne Airport (MEL)plane STR - MEL
29h 26m$1,162–3,597Train, 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$662–1,813Train 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$1,060–3,499
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 26h 3m.
The fastest way to get from Basel to Melbourne is to train and fly which takes 25h 7m and costs $750 - $1,700.
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 10:43 PM in Basel and 8:43 AM in Melbourne.
There are 5357+ 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
- $1,100–3,500
Flights from Zurich Airport to Avalon Airport via Singapore Changi, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,100–7,500
Flights from Zurich Airport to Avalon Airport via Hong Kong, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,100–3,800
Flights from Zurich Airport to Avalon Airport via Singapore Changi, Adelaide
- Ave. Duration
- 30h 25m
- When
- Tuesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $1,000–3,400
Flights from Zurich Airport to Avalon Airport via Hong Kong, Brisbane
- Ave. Duration
- 31h 10m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $1,100–3,600
Flights from Zurich Airport to Avalon Airport via Suvarnabhumi, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 32h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,400–4,400
- Website
- emirates.com
Flights from Basel to Melbourne Airport via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 15m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $1,000–3,300
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
- $1,100–3,500
Flights from Zurich Airport to Avalon Airport via Singapore Changi, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,100–7,500
Flights from Zurich Airport to Avalon Airport via Hong Kong, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,100–3,800
Flights from Zurich Airport to Avalon Airport via Suvarnabhumi, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 32h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,400–4,400
- 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
- $750–2,600
Flights from Zurich Airport to Avalon Airport via Singapore Changi, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,100–7,500
Flights from Zurich Airport to Avalon Airport via Hong Kong, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,100–3,800
Flights from Zurich Airport to Avalon Airport via Singapore Changi, Adelaide
- Ave. Duration
- 30h 25m
- When
- Tuesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $1,000–3,400
Flights from Zurich Airport to Avalon Airport via Hong Kong, Brisbane
- Ave. Duration
- 31h 10m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $1,100–3,600
Flights from Zurich Airport to Avalon Airport via Suvarnabhumi, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 32h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,400–4,400
- Website
- singaporeair.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Melbourne Airport via Singapore Changi
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $650–4,400
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 Frankfurt to Melbourne Airport via Singapore Changi
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 33m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $800–4,700
Flights from Frankfurt to Melbourne Airport via Singapore Changi, Adelaide
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 15m
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $800–4,700
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Melbourne Airport via Singapore Changi
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 25m
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $650–4,100
- Website
- thaiairways.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Melbourne Airport via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 42m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $650–2,700
Flights from Frankfurt to Melbourne Airport via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 23h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $950–2,900
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Melbourne Airport via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $800–2,500
- Website
- turkishairlines.com
Flights from Basel to Melbourne Airport via Istanbul, Singapore Changi
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $750–2,600
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
- $650–4,400
Flights from Zurich Airport to Melbourne Airport via Hong Kong
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $650–2,200
- 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
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $700–2,200
- Website
- vietnamairlines.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Melbourne Airport via Noi Bai International
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $700–1,700
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Melbourne Airport via Noi Bai International
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 5m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $600–1,900
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Melbourne Airport via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 24h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,100–3,500
- 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
- $65–120
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Renens VD to Genève-Aéroport
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- $28–50
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $95–190
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Basel Bad Bf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 43m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $50–140
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Basel Bad Bf to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 37m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $35–65
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/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
- $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
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Karlsruhe central train station to Stuttgart Airport Busterminal
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $11–18
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Website
- global.flixbus.com
Bus from Karlsruhe central train station to Stuttgart Airport Busterminal
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- global.flixbus.com
- Phone
- +3-389-268-0068
- Website
- blablacar.co.uk
Bus from Karlsruhe central train station to Stuttgart Airport Busterminal
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $26–40
- Website
- https://www.blablacar.co.uk/bus
- Phone
- +371 67 214 512
- info@ecolines.lv
- Website
- ecolines.net
Bus from Karlsruhe central train station to Stuttgart Airport Busterminal
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- $8–20
- Website
- https://ecolines.net/
- Phone
- 07001 8282
- booking@union-ivkoni.com
- Website
- union-ivkoni.com
Bus from Karlsruhe central train station to Stuttgart Airport Busterminal
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $6–10
- Website
- https://union-ivkoni.com/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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