There are 13 ways to get from Basel to Patras by train, plane, car, car ferry, bus, or ferry
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Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Patras Araxos Airport
best- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Patras Araxos Airport (GPA)plane ZRH - GPA
7h 16m€300–635Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Athens International Airport, train, bus
cheapest- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Athens International Airport (ATH)plane ZRH - ATH
- Take the train from Ano Liosia to Kiatotrain
- Take the bus from Kiato to Patrabus
10h 50m€128–336Drive, car ferry
- Drive from Basel to Port of Anconacar
- Take the car ferry from Port of Ancona to Port of Patrascarferry
29h 11m€252–391Bus via Strasbourg
- Take the bus from Basel Euroairport FR to Strasbourgbus
- Take the bus from Strasbourg Bahnhof to Tiranabus
- Take the bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Patrabus
33h 14mDrive 2,083.9 km
- Drive from Basel to Patrascar 2,083.9 km
26h 17m€377–544Fly Basel to Patras Araxos Airport
- Fly from Basel (BSL) to Patras Araxos Airport (GPA)plane BSL - GPA
12h 52m€288–836Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Kalamata International Airport, bus
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Kalamata International Airport (KLX)plane ZRH - KLX
- Take the bus from Kalamata to Patrasbus
10h 45m€185–462Fly Basel to Preveza Airport, bus
- Fly from Basel (BSL) to Preveza Airport (PVK)plane BSL - PVK
- Take the bus from Lefkáda to Patrasbus
15h 43m€140–399Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia, bus
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia (SKG)plane ZRH - SKG
- Take the bus from Thessaloniki Macedonia KTEL Bus Station to Patrasbus
13h 55m€157–355Train, car ferry
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Luganotrain Ec
- Take the train from Lugano to Milano Centraletrain
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Anconatrain Fr
- Take the car ferry from Port of Ancona to Port of Patrascarferry
32h 33m€209–666Train, ferry
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain Tgv / ...
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Como S. Giovannitrain Ec
- Take the train from Como S.Giovanni to Milano Centraletrain Ec
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Bari Centraletrain Fr
- Take the ferry from Bari M.ma to Patrasferry Asf
33h 36m€290–793Bus
- Take the bus from Basel, Bahnhof to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusavebus
- Take the bus from Tirana to Patrasbus
42h 18mTrain, line 2 ferry, car ferry
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Bellinzonatrain Ec
- Take the train from Bellinzona to Chiassotrain S10 / ...
- Take the train from Chiasso to Venezia S. Luciatrain Ec
- Take the ferry from Ferrovia "A" to Tronchetto "A"ferry 2 / ...
- Take the car ferry from Port of Venice to Port of Patrascarferry
44h 39m€245–664
Basel to Patras by train, bus, and ferry
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Basel to Patras is to train and fly and bus which costs €120 - €340 and takes 10h 50m.
The fastest way to get from Basel to Patras is to train and fly which takes 7h 16m and costs €300 - €650.
No, there is no direct bus from Basel to Patras. However, there are services departing from Basel, Brausebad and arriving at Patra via Basel Euroairport FR, Etoile Bourse, Strasbourg Bahnhof and Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 33h 14m.
The distance between Basel and Patras is 1608 km. The road distance is 2083.9 km.
The best way to get from Basel to Patras without a car is to bus via Strasbourg which takes 33h 14m and costs .
It takes approximately 7h 16m to get from Basel to Patras, including transfers.
Basel to Patras bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Basel Euroairport FR station.
The best way to get from Basel to Patras is to bus via Strasbourg which takes 33h 14m and costs . Alternatively, you can fly, which costs €280 - €850 and takes 12h 52m.
Basel to Patras bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Strasbourg station.
Patras is 1h ahead of Basel. It is currently 1:15 PM in Basel and 2:15 PM in Patras.
What companies run services between Basel, Switzerland and Patras, Greece?
You can take a bus from Basel, Brausebad to Patra via Basel EuroAirport, Abflug, Basel Euroairport FR, Strasbourg, Etoile Bourse, Strasbourg Bahnhof, Tirana, and Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave in around 33h 14m. Alternatively, Austrian Airlines, Lufthansa, and TUIfly fly from Basel (BSL) to Patras Araxos Airport (GPA) twice a week.
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Kalamata International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €400–850
Flights from Basel to Preveza Airport via Skiathos
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 20m
- When
- Tuesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €180–600
Flights from Zurich Airport to Athens International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 38m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–240
Flights from Zurich Airport to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 18m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–220
- Website
- en.aegeanair.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Kalamata International Airport via Athens International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €200–800
Flights from Zurich Airport to Athens International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 38m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–240
Flights from Zurich Airport to Athens International Airport via Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €60–240
Flights from Zurich Airport to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 18m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–220
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Patras Araxos Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €220–850
Flights from Basel to Patras Araxos Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 10m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €230–900
Flights from Zurich Airport to Kalamata International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Tuesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €210–800
Flights from Basel to Preveza Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 10m
- When
- Saturday, Tuesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €240–950
Flights from Zurich Airport to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–420
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Kalamata International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €180–330
Flights from Zurich Airport to Kalamata International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 40m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €220–600
Flights from Basel to Preveza Airport via Skiathos
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 20m
- When
- Tuesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €180–600
Flights from Zurich Airport to Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–450
- Website
- comlux.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Patras Araxos Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €270–1,400
- Website
- flexflight.dk
Flights from Zurich Airport to Patras Araxos Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €270–1,400
- Website
- flyedelweiss.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Kalamata International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €400–850
Flights from Basel to Preveza Airport via Skiathos
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 20m
- When
- Tuesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €180–600
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Kalamata International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 25m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €120–220
Flights from Basel to Preveza Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 35m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €210–650
- Website
- tui.com
Flights from Basel to Patras Araxos Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 12h
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €260–800
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Basel to Preveza Airport via Naples
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 35m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €160–600
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Basel to Preveza Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 20m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €130–550
- Website
- croatiaairlines.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Athens International Airport via Dubrovnik
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €120–450
- 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
- €30–95
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €90–270
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Lugano to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €28–80
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Zürich HB to Como S. Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €75–220
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Basel SBB to Bellinzona
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 38m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €80–240
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Bellinzona to Chiasso
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €18–55
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- 14511
- Website
- hellenictrain.gr
Train from Ano Liosia to Kiato
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 4m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €7–11
- Website
- https://www.hellenictrain.gr/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
- €20–25
- Schedules at
- sbb-deutschland.de
Train from Basel SBB to Bellinzona
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €18–23
- Schedules at
- sbb-deutschland.de
Train from Bellinzona to Chiasso
- Ave. Duration
- 41 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €3–5
- Schedules at
- sbb-deutschland.de
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Milano Centrale to Ancona
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 7m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €60–120
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
Train from Milano Centrale to Bari Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €150–300
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Milano Centrale to Ancona
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 16m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €40–95
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Milano Centrale to Bari Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 45m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €100–240
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- ufficiogruppi@trenitalia.it
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Como S.Giovanni to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 40 min
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €17–60
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- 1st Class
- €40–60
- 2nd Class
- €17–24
Train from Chiasso to Venezia S. Lucia
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- €65–120
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- 1st Class
- €80–120
- 2nd Class
- €65–95
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Como S.Giovanni to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 40 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €7–19
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +41 58 580 70 70
- Website
- sob.ch
Train from Basel SBB to Bellinzona
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 56m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €65–110
- Schedules at
- sob.ch
- Phone
- +39 02 7249 4494
- my-link@trenord.it
- Website
- trenord.it
Train from Bellinzona to Chiasso
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €2–4
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.fr
Bus from Basel Euroairport FR to Strasbourg
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €10–17
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +3-389-268-0068
- Website
- blablacar.co.uk
Bus from Basel Euroairport FR to Strasbourg
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €10–20
- Website
- https://www.blablacar.co.uk/bus
- Phone
- +355 68 20 63 724
- info@arjanitravel.com
- Website
- arjanitravel.com
Bus from Strasbourg Bahnhof to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 52m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- arjanitravel.com
- Phone
- +355 68 407 6607
- komatastours.al@gmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Patra
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 47m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €40
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +355 69 617 8170
- diamanttravel88@gmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Patra
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €45
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
Bus from Basel, Bahnhof to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave
- Ave. Duration
- 29h 50m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +30 2616 001 600
- info@ktelachaias.gr
- Website
- ktelachaias.gr
Bus from Kalamata to Patras
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €19–23
- Website
- https://www.ktelachaias.gr/en/homepage-en/
Bus from Thessaloniki Macedonia KTEL Bus Station to Patras
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €40–50
- Website
- https://www.ktelachaias.gr/en/homepage-en/
- Phone
- +30 27210 28581
- info@ktelmessinias.gr
- Website
- ktelmessinias.gr
Bus from Kalamata to Patras
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €19–27
- Website
- https://www.ktelmessinias.gr/en/homepage-en/
- Schedules at
- https://www.ktelmessinias.gr/en/routes/
- Phone
- +30 26450 22364
- info@ktel-lefkadas.gr
- Website
- ktel-lefkadas.gr
Bus from Lefkáda to Patras
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €15–20
- Website
- https://ktel-lefkadas.gr/
- Website
- https://ktel-lefkadas.gr/
- Phone
- 14511
- Website
- hellenictrain.gr
Bus from Kiato to Patra
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €4–7
- Website
- https://www.hellenictrain.gr/en
- Phone
- +2105203350
- Website
- top-lines.gr
Bus from Tirana to Patras
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €45
- Schedules at
- top-lines.gr
- Phone
- +30 210 8919700
- superfast@superfast.com
- Website
- superfast.com
Car ferry from Port of Ancona to Port of Patras
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 30m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- €120–200
- Website
- https://www.superfast.com
Ferry from Bari M.ma to Patras
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €75–120
- Website
- https://www.superfast.com
Car ferry from Port of Venice to Port of Patras
- Ave. Duration
- 35h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €150–240
- Website
- https://www.superfast.com
- Phone
- (+39) 041 041
- direzione@actv.it
- Website
- actv.avmspa.it
Ferry from Ferrovia "A" to Tronchetto "A"
- Ave. Duration
- 14 min
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- €10
- Website
- https://actv.avmspa.it/en
- 75 min. Ticket
- €10
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