There are 11 ways to get from Basel to Rome by bus, train (Trenitalia), car, train, or plane
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Bus
best- Take the bus from Basel to Roma Prenestina A1bus
8h 2mFly Basel to Fiumicino International Airport
cheapest- Fly from Basel (BSL) to Fiumicino International Airport (FCO)plane BSL - FCO
4h 30m€62–211Train
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Luganotrain Ec
- Take the train from Lugano to Milano Centraletrain
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Roma Terminitrain Fr / ...
8h 9m€117–515Drive 907.9 km
- Drive from Basel to Romecar 907.9 km
8h 51m€157–227Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Fiumicino International Airport
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Fiumicino International Airport (FCO)plane ZRH - FCO
5h 34m€78–260Train via Basel SBB
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Luganotrain Ec
- Take the train from Lugano to Milano Centraletrain
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Roma Terminitrain
8h 13m€122–495Bus to Milan Linate Airport, fly to Fiumicino International Airport
- Take the bus from Basel to Milano - Famagostabus
- Fly from Milan Linate Airport (LIN) to Fiumicino International Airport (FCO)plane LIN - FCO
6h 24mTrain, train to Geneva International Airport, fly to Fiumicino International 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 Fiumicino International Airport (FCO)plane GVA - FCO
7h 32m€148–453Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Florence Peretola Airport, train
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Florence Peretola Airport (FLR)plane ZRH - FLR
- Take the train from Firenze S.M.N. to Roma Terminitrain
6h 43m€164–425Train, train to Stuttgart Airport, fly to Fiumicino International 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 Fiumicino International Airport (FCO)plane STR - FCO
7h 14m€121–381Fly Basel to Naples Airport, train
- Fly from Basel (BSL) to Naples Airport (NAP)plane BSL - NAP
- Take the train from Napoli Afragola to Roma Terminitrain
6h 21m€91–292
Basel to Rome by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Basel to Rome is to fly which costs €60 - €220 and takes 4h 30m.
The fastest way to get from Basel to Rome is to fly which takes 4h 30m and costs €60 - €220.
Yes, there is a direct bus departing from Basel and arriving at Roma Prenestina A1. Services depart once a week. The journey takes approximately 8h 2m.
No, there is no direct train from Basel to Rome. However, there are services departing from Basel SBB and arriving at Roma Termini via Lugano and Milano Centrale. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 8h 9m.
The distance between Basel and Rome is 997 km. The road distance is 907.9 km.
The best way to get from Basel to Rome without a car is to bus which takes 8h 2m and costs .
The bus from Basel to Roma Prenestina A1 takes 8h 2m including transfers and departs once a week.
Basel to Rome bus services, operated by Onebus, depart from Basel station.
Basel to Rome train services, operated by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS), depart from Basel SBB station.
The best way to get from Basel to Rome is to bus which takes 8h 2m and costs . Alternatively, you can train, which costs €110 - €550 and takes 8h 9m, you could also fly, which costs €60 - €220 and takes 4h 30m.
What companies run services between Basel, Switzerland and Rome, Italy?
Onebus operates a bus from Basel to Roma Prenestina A1 once a week, and the journey takes 8h 2m. Alternatively, you can take a train from Basel SBB to Roma Termini via Lugano and Milano Centrale in around 8h 9m.
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Fiumicino International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–220
Flights from Zurich Airport to Fiumicino International Airport via Stuttgart Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €55–210
Flights from Zurich Airport to Fiumicino International Airport via Bologna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–220
Flights from Zurich Airport to Fiumicino International Airport via Florence Peretola Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–220
Flights from Milan Linate Airport to Fiumicino International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €50–160
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Fiumicino International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–190
Flights from Zurich Airport to Florence Peretola Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–220
Flights from Zurich Airport to Florence Peretola Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €170–600
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Fiumicino International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–150
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Fiumicino International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–220
Flights from Zurich Airport to Fiumicino International Airport via Bologna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–220
Flights from Zurich Airport to Fiumicino International Airport via Florence Peretola Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–220
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Fiumicino International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €70–190
Flights from Zurich Airport to Florence Peretola Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–220
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Fiumicino International Airport via Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–280
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Fiumicino International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €40–140
Flights from Basel to Fiumicino International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €50–200
Flights from Basel to Fiumicino International Airport via Nice
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €50–200
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Fiumicino International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, Sunday, and Monday
- Estimated price
- €45–200
Flights from Geneva International Airport to Fiumicino International Airport via Nice
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €45–200
Flights from Basel to Naples Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 47m
- When
- Saturday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday, Tuesday, and Monday
- Estimated price
- €50–210
Flights from Basel to Naples Airport via Split
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Friday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- €50–210
Flights from Basel to Naples Airport via Olbia
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 17m
- When
- Wednesday to Friday
- Estimated price
- €50–210
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Milan Linate Airport to Fiumicino International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €50–160
Flights from Zurich Airport to Florence Peretola Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 16m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €170–600
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Fiumicino International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–290
Flights from Basel to Naples Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Monday, Friday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €55–290
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Stuttgart Airport to Fiumicino International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–150
- Website
- aeroitalia.com
Flights from Milan Linate Airport to Fiumicino International Airport via Olbia
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–420
- Website
- flexflight.dk
Flights from Milan Linate Airport to Fiumicino International Airport via Olbia
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–420
- Website
- lufthansa-city.com
Flights from Basel to Naples Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €55–290
Train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €90–270
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Lugano to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €27–80
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Basel SBB to Zürich HB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €30–95
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €90–270
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Lugano to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €27–80
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Basel SBB to Renens VD
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 16m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €60–190
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Renens VD to Genève-Aéroport
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €22–65
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Basel SBB to Zürich HB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €30–95
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
- Phone
- +49 (0) 7531 915109
- info@sbb-deutschland.de
- Website
- SBB GmbH
Train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 21m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €20–25
- Schedules at
- SBB GmbH
Train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 21m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €20–25
- Schedules at
- SBB GmbH
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Milano Centrale to Roma Termini
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 4m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €80–170
- Schedules at
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Roma Termini
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 36m
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- €35–80
- Schedules at
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Napoli Afragola to Roma Termini
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €30–65
- Schedules at
- Trenitalia Frecce
- Phone
- +39 06 8937 1892
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Milano Centrale to Roma Termini
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 59m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €70–140
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Milano Centrale to Roma Termini
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €75–150
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Napoli Afragola to Roma Termini
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €27–55
- Website
- Italo Treno
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Roma Termini
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 51m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €30–55
- Website
- Trenitalia
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Roma Termini
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €28–60
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Basel Bad Bf to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 32m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €30–160
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Karlsruhe Hbf to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 47 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €14–65
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
Train from Basel Bad Bf to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 28m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €45–80
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Regio (DB Regional)
- Phone
- +49 711 400 534 44
- stuttgart@arverio.de
- Website
- Arverio Baden-Württemberg
Train from Karlsruhe Hbf to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €14–26
- Schedules at
- Arverio Baden-Württemberg
- 2nd Class Ticket
- €14–17
- 1st Class Ticket
- €18–26
- Phone
- +49 711 400 534 44
- stuttgart@arverio.de
- Website
- Arverio Baden-Württemberg GmbH
Train from Karlsruhe Hbf to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €13–19
- Schedules at
- Arverio Baden-Württemberg GmbH
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Karlsruhe Hbf to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 47 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €15–26
- Website
- TGV inOui
- Phone
- +49 711 2092-7087
- Website
- DB Regio Stuttgart
Train from Karlsruhe Hbf to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 34m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- €14–21
- Schedules at
- DB Regio Stuttgart
- Phone
- +39 0362 185 0590
- info@onebus.it
- Website
- Onebus
Bus from Basel to Roma Prenestina A1
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 2m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Website
- Onebus
Bus from Basel to Milano - Famagosta
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Website
- Onebus
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More Questions & Answers
Basel to Rome bus services, operated by Onebus, arrive at Roma Prenestina A1 station.
Basel to Rome train services, operated by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS), arrive at Lugano station.
Yes, the driving distance between Basel to Rome is 908 km. It takes approximately 8h 51m to drive from Basel to Rome.
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