There are 7 ways to get from Basel to Taipei by train or plane
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Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport
best- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE)plane ZRH - TPE
18h 44m$543–1,319Train, train to Milano Malpensa Airport, fly to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport
cheapest- Take the train from Basel SBB to Luganotrain
- Take the train from Lugano to Malpensa Aeroporto T1train
- Fly from Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP) to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE)plane MXP - TPE
20h 48m$284–1,404Train to Frankfurt, fly to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport
- Take the train from Basel Bad Bf to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE)plane FRA - TPE
18h 40m$437–1,271Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Taipei Songshan Airport
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Taipei Songshan Airport (TSA)plane ZRH - TSA
18h 21m$640–2,813Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Taichung Airport, train
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Taichung Airport (RMQ)plane ZRH - RMQ
- Take the train from 台中 to 台北train
19h 58m$612–2,240Fly Basel to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport
- Fly from Basel (BSL) to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE)plane BSL - TPE
21h 40m$477–1,511Train to Frankfurt, fly to Taipei Songshan Airport
- Take the train from Basel Bad Bf to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Taipei Songshan Airport (TSA)plane FRA - TSA
19h 13m$544–4,365
Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Basel to Taipei is to train and fly which costs $430 - $1,300 and takes 18h 40m.
The fastest way to get from Basel to Taipei is to train and fly which takes 18h 21m and costs $600 - $2,900.
The distance between Basel and Taipei is 9649 km.
It takes approximately 18h 44m to get from Basel to Taipei, including transfers.
Taipei is 6h ahead of Basel. It is currently 12:08 AM in Basel and 6:08 AM in Taipei.
There are 886+ hotels available in Taipei.
What companies run services between Basel, Switzerland and Taipei, Taiwan?
easyJet, EVA Air, and five other airlines fly from Basel (BSL) to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE) once daily.
- Website
- airchina.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport via Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 7m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $350–1,800
Flights from Frankfurt to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport via Beijing Capital
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $350–850
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport via Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 30m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $220–1,700
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport via Beijing Capital
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $220–1,700
Flights from Basel to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport via Budapest, Beijing Capital
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 37m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $320–2,300
Flights from Basel to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport via Warsaw Chopin, Beijing Capital
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 7m
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $310–2,300
Flights from Basel to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport via Stockholm, Beijing Capital
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 40m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $320–2,300
- Website
- ceair.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Taipei Songshan Airport via Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 55m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $600–2,700
Flights from Zurich Airport to Taipei Songshan Airport via Frankfurt, Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 15m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $800–3,400
Flights from Zurich Airport to Taipei Songshan Airport via Vienna, Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $750–2,700
Flights from Zurich Airport to Taipei Songshan Airport via Munich, Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 30m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $500–3,900
Flights from Zurich Airport to Taipei Songshan Airport via Budapest, Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $700–7,000
Flights from Frankfurt to Taipei Songshan Airport via Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $600–3,300
Flights from Frankfurt to Taipei Songshan Airport via Beijing Capital, Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 25m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $500–3,800
Flights from Frankfurt to Taipei Songshan Airport via Vienna, Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $750–2,700
- Website
- cathaypacific.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport via Hong Kong
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 57m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $390–1,600
Flights from Frankfurt to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport via Hong Kong
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $410–1,500
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport via Hong Kong
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 10m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $320–1,200
Flights from Zurich Airport to Taichung Airport via Hong Kong
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $550–2,200
- Website
- en.ceair.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport via Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 55m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $320–1,400
Flights from Frankfurt to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport via Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 30m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $310–1,400
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport via Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $250–1,100
Flights from Basel to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport via Budapest, Ningbo Lishe
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 45m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $430–3,800
- Website
- thaiairways.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 27m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $440–2,000
- Website
- china-airlines.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $410–1,800
Flights from Frankfurt to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 13h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $410–1,800
- Website
- evaair.com
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 40m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $330–1,100
Flights from Basel to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 30m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $470–1,500
- Website
- koreanair.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport via Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $420–1,700
- Website
- csair.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport via Guangzhou Baiyun
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 25m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $270–1,700
- Website
- ch.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Taipei Songshan Airport via Tianfu International
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 5m
- When
- Tuesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $500–3,900
- 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
- $35–110
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $100–290
- 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
- $70–170
- 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
- $23–30
- 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
- 4266-3000
- Website
- en.thsrc.com.tw
Train from 台中 to 台北
- Ave. Duration
- 59 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- $20–25
- Website
- https://en.thsrc.com.tw/
- Non-Reserved
- $20–23
- Standard
- $21–25
- Business
- $40
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