There are 11 ways to get from Bucharest to Basel by plane, bus, train, night train, car, or car train
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Fly Bucharest Otopeni to Basel
best- Fly from Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) to Basel (BSL)plane OTP - BSL
6h 39mCHF 120–242Fly Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport to Basel
cheapest- Fly from Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport (BBU) to Basel (BSL)plane BBU - BSL
5h 43mCHF 54–165Bus, train via Aachen
- Take the bus from Bucharest Obor to Aachenbus
- Take the train from Aachen Hbf to Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbftrain Ice / ...
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Basel Bad Bftrain 20 / ...
21h 58mCHF 88–313Train
- Take the train from Bucuresti Nord to Budapest-Keletitrain Ir
- Take the train from Budapest-Keleti to Zuerich Hbtrain Rjx
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain Ice / ...
29h 45mCHF 187–282Night train, train
- Take the night train from Bucuresti Nord to Wien Meidlingnighttrain
- Take the train from Wien Meidling to Zuerich Hbtrain Rjx
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain Ic3 / ...
28h 15mCHF 191–263Fly Bucharest Otopeni to Zurich Airport, train
- Fly from Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane OTP - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain
6h 34mCHF 149–346Fly Bucharest Otopeni to Stuttgart Airport, train
- Fly from Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) to Stuttgart Airport (STR)plane OTP - STR
- Take the train from Stuttgart Hbf to Karlsruhe Hbftrain
- Take the train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Basel Bad Bftrain
8h 19mCHF 149–404Bus
- Take the bus from Bucharest to Frankfurtbus
- Take the bus from Frankfurt central train station to Basel SBBbus FlixBus N33 / ...
27h 58mCHF 145–159Bus, train
- Take the bus from Bucharest to Zurich Bus Stationbus FlixBus 1921
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain Ir36 / ...
33h 17mCHF 75–171Drive 1,802.6 km
- Drive from Bucharest to Baselcar 1,802.6 km
18h 49mCHF 280–405Drive, car train
- Drive from Bucharest to Villach Hbf ARZcar
- Take the car train from Villach Hbf ARZ to München Ostcartrain
- Drive from München Ost to Baselcar
19h 56mCHF 317–436
Bucharest to Basel by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Bucharest to Basel is to fly which costs SFr 50 - SFr 170 and takes 5h 43m.
The fastest way to get from Bucharest to Basel is to fly which takes 5h 43m and costs SFr 50 - SFr 170.
No, there is no direct bus from Bucharest to Basel. However, there are services departing from Bucharest and arriving at Basel SBB via Frankfurt central train station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 27h 58m.
No, there is no direct train from Bucharest to Basel. However, there are services departing from Bucuresti Nord and arriving at Basel SBB via Budapest-Keleti and Zürich HB. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 29h 45m.
The distance between Bucharest and Basel is 1492 km. The road distance is 1802.6 km.
The best way to get from Bucharest to Basel without a car is to bus and train via Aachen which takes 21h 58m and costs SFr 85 - SFr 320.
It takes approximately 6h 39m to get from Bucharest to Basel, including transfers.
Bucharest to Basel bus services, operated by Maxibus Travel, depart from Bucharest station.
Bucharest to Basel train services, operated by Romanian Railways (CFR), depart from Bucuresti Nord station.
The best way to get from Bucharest to Basel is to fly which takes 6h 39m and costs SFr 120 - SFr 250. Alternatively, you can train, which costs SFr 180 - SFr 290 and takes 29h 45m, you could also bus, which costs SFr 140 - SFr 160 and takes 27h 58m.
What companies run services between Bucharest, Romania and Basel, Switzerland?
Lufthansa City, Lufthansa, and six other airlines fly from Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) to Basel (BSL) 4 times a day. Alternatively, you can take a train from Bucuresti Nord to Basel SBB via Budapest-Keleti, Zuerich Hb, and Zürich HB in around 29h 45m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Basel via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 51m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–330
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Zurich Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–280
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Stuttgart Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 13m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–350
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Basel via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–320
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Zurich Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 18m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–270
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Stuttgart Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–330
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Basel via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–230
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Basel via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 15m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–150
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 37m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–220
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Basel via Timisoara
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–160
Flights from Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport to Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–110
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Stuttgart Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–200
- Website
- airserbia.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Zurich Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 2m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–180
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Stuttgart Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Monday and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- CHF 110–180
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Basel via Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–260
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport to Basel via Krakow
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–170
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Bucharest Otopeni to Stuttgart Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–190
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Aachen Hbf to Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–80
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Basel Bad Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 41m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–75
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Zürich HB to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 26–29
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Stuttgart Hbf to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 54 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 16–26
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Basel Bad Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 21–55
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Frankfurt to Basel Bad Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 39m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–180
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Zürich HB to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 19–40
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- 0219521
- petitii@cfrcalatori.ro
- Website
- cfrcalatori.ro
Train from Bucuresti Nord to Budapest-Keleti
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 21m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 58–63
- Website
- https://www.cfrcalatori.ro/en/
Night train from Bucuresti Nord to Wien Meidling
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 6m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–85
- Website
- https://www.cfrcalatori.ro/en/
Train from Budapest-Keleti to Zuerich Hb
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 40m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 120–190
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- CHF 120–190
Train from Wien Meidling to Zuerich Hb
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 45m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 95–140
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- CHF 95–140
- Phone
- +49 (0) 7531 915109
- info@sbb-deutschland.de
- Website
- sbb-deutschland.de
Train from Zürich HB to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 8–10
- Schedules at
- sbb-deutschland.de
- Phone
- +49 711 400 534 44
- service@gabw-bahn.de
- Website
- go-ahead-bw.de
Train from Stuttgart Hbf to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 13–24
- Schedules at
- go-ahead-bw.de
- 2nd Class Ticket
- CHF 13–16
- 1st Class Ticket
- CHF 17–24
- Phone
- +49 711 400 534 44
- stuttgart@arverio.de
- Website
- arverio-by.de
Train from Stuttgart Hbf to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 57 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- arverio-by.de
- Phone
- +49 711 2092-7087
- Website
- regional.bahn.de
Train from Stuttgart Hbf to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- regional.bahn.de
- Phone
- +49 731 1550-0
- servicecenter@dbregiobus-rab.de
- Website
- meine-rab.de
Train from Stuttgart Hbf to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 59 min
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 10–14
- Schedules at
- meine-rab.de
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Basel Bad Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 8m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 27–90
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- CHF 27–40
- 1st Class
- CHF 55–90
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Basel Bad Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 27m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 25–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- info@urlaubs-express.de
- Website
- urlaubs-express.de
Car train from Villach Hbf ARZ to München Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–100
- Website
- https://urlaubs-express.de/?lang=en
- Phone
- +40 230 562 929
- tarsin_irlanda@yahoo.com
- Website
- tarsin.ro
Bus from Bucharest Obor to Aachen
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 45m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 21–28
- Schedules at
- tarsin.ro
- Phone
- +40 745 766 766
- dispecerat@maxibustravel.ro
- Website
- maxibustravel.ro
Bus from Bucharest to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 13m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 119
- Schedules at
- maxibustravel.ro
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Frankfurt central train station to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 26–40
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Bucharest to Zurich Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 30h 15m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–130
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
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More Questions & Answers
Bucharest to Basel bus services, operated by Maxibus Travel, arrive at Frankfurt station.
Basel is 1h behind Bucharest. It is currently 2:30 PM in Bucharest and 1:30 PM in Basel.
Bucharest to Basel train services, operated by Romanian Railways (CFR), arrive at Budapest-Keleti station.
Yes, the driving distance between Bucharest to Basel is 1803 km. It takes approximately 18h 49m to drive from Bucharest to Basel.
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