There are 11 ways to get from Croatia to Basel by plane, bus, train, night train, or car
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Fly Split Airport to Basel
best- Fly from Split Airport (SPU) to Basel (BSL)plane SPU - BSL
4h 29mCHF 59–203Fly Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport to Basel
cheapest- Fly from Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport (ZAG) to Basel (BSL)plane ZAG - BSL
4h 54mCHF 39–198Bus, train
- Take the bus from Zagreb to Zürich Hbfbus
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain Ir36 / ...
14h 9mCHF 164–225Train
- Take the train from Zagreb Glavni Kol. to Ljubljanatrain 318 / ...
- Take the train from Ljubljana to Villach Hbftrain 38 / ...
- Take the train from Villach Hbf to Muenchen Hbftrain Ice
- Take the train from München Hbf to Mannheim, Hauptbahnhoftrain 47 / ...
- Take the train from Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof to Basel Bad Bftrain 12 / ...
15h 27mCHF 152–765Night train, train
- Take the nighttrain from Zagreb Glavni Kol. to Zuerich Hbnighttrain En
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain Ir36 / ...
15h 5mCHF 183–308Fly Split Airport to Zurich Airport, train
- Fly from Split Airport (SPU) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane SPU - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain
5h 37mCHF 124–325Fly Pula Airport to Basel
- Fly from Pula Airport (PUY) to Basel (BSL)plane PUY - BSL
3h 57mCHF 65–182Fly Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport to Zurich Airport, train
- Fly from Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport (ZAG) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane ZAG - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain
6h 13mCHF 113–294Bus
- Take the bus from Zagreb to Basel SBBbus FlixBus N887
15h 50mCHF 75–130Bus, train via Graz
- Take the bus from Zagreb to Maribor, Avtobusna Postajabus
- Take the train from Maribor to Graz Hbftrain 676 / ...
- Take the train from Graz Hbf to Zuerich Hbtrain Ec
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain Ic3 / ...
16h 40mCHF 226–720Drive 846.8 km
- Drive from Zagreb to Baselcar 846.8 km
10h 23mCHF 137–198
Croatia to Basel by bus and train
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Croatia to Basel is to bus which costs SFr 75 - SFr 130 and takes 15h 50m.
The fastest way to get from Croatia to Basel is to fly which takes 3h 57m and costs SFr 65 - SFr 190.
Yes, there is a direct bus departing from Zagreb and arriving at Basel SBB. Services depart four times a week, and operate Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The journey takes approximately 15h 50m.
No, there is no direct train from Croatia to Basel. However, there are services departing from Zagreb Glavni Kol. and arriving at Basel Bad Bf via Ljubljana, Villach Hbf, München Hbf and Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 15h 27m.
The distance between Croatia and Basel is 848 km. The road distance is 846.8 km.
The best way to get from Croatia to Basel without a car is to bus and train which takes 14h 9m and costs SFr 160 - SFr 230.
It takes approximately 4h 29m to get from Croatia to Basel, including transfers.
Croatia to Basel bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Zagreb station.
Croatia to Basel train services, operated by HŽ Putnički prijevoz (HŽPP), depart from Zagreb Glavni Kol. station.
The best way to get from Croatia to Basel is to fly which takes 4h 29m and costs SFr 55 - SFr 210. Alternatively, you can train, which costs SFr 150 - SFr 800 and takes 15h 27m, you could also bus, which costs SFr 75 - SFr 130 and takes 15h 50m.
What companies run services between Croatia and Basel, Switzerland?
easyJet, Croatia Airlines, and two other airlines fly from Split Airport (SPU) to Basel (BSL) twice daily. Alternatively, you can take a train from Zagreb Glavni Kol. to Basel Bad Bf via Ljubljana, Villach Hbf, Muenchen Hbf, München Hbf, and Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof in around 15h 27m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Split Airport to Basel via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Monday, Friday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–310
Flights from Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport to Basel via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 110–200
Flights from Split Airport to Zurich Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Thursday and Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–260
Flights from Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–290
Flights from Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport to Zurich Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 52m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–290
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Split Airport to Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–180
Flights from Pula Airport to Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 18m
- When
- Saturday, Thursday, and Tuesday
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–180
- Website
- croatiaairlines.com
Flights from Split Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 37m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–260
Flights from Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–290
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Split Airport to Zurich Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 42m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 95–220
Flights from Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport to Zurich Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–270
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport to Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–150
- Website
- flyedelweiss.com
Flights from Split Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–270
Train from Zürich HB to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 29–90
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Zürich HB to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 29–90
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Zürich HB to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 29–90
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Zürich HB to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 29–90
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Zürich HB to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 29–90
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
- Phone
- +385 60 333 444
- informacije@hzpp.hr
- Website
- HŽ Putnički prijevoz (HŽPP)
Train from Zagreb Glavni Kol. to Ljubljana
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 26m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 26–40
- Website
- HŽ Putnički prijevoz (HŽPP)
Train from Ljubljana to Villach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 19–27
- Website
- HŽ Putnički prijevoz (HŽPP)
Night train from Zagreb Glavni Kol. to Zuerich Hb
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 41m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 150–220
- Website
- HŽ Putnički prijevoz (HŽPP)
Train from Maribor to Graz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 12–18
- Website
- HŽ Putnički prijevoz (HŽPP)
- Phone
- +386 1 29 13 331
- potnik.info@slo-zeleznice.si
- Website
- Slovenske železnice (SŽ)
Train from Ljubljana to Villach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 19–27
- Website
- Slovenske železnice (SŽ)
Train from Maribor to Graz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 12–18
- Website
- Slovenske železnice (SŽ)
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Villach Hbf to Muenchen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 14m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–250
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from München Hbf to Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 44m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–260
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof to Basel Bad Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 59m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–190
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
- Phone
- +43 (0) 5 1717
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Villach Hbf to Muenchen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 14m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–120
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof to Basel Bad Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 26m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–90
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Graz Hbf to Zuerich Hb
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 31m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 140–260
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)
Train from München Hbf to Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 44m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–75
- Website
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)
Train from Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof to Basel Bad Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 26–55
- Website
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)
- Phone
- +49 221 800 20 80
- info@msm-gruppe.de
- Website
- MSM Partyzug
Train from München Hbf to Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 16m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- MSM Partyzug
- Phone
- +41 79 445 39 68
- info@zelicreisen.ch
- Website
- zelicreisen.ch
Bus from Zagreb to Zürich Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 45m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 135
- Schedules at
- zelicreisen.ch
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Zagreb to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 50m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–130
- Website
- Flixbus
- Phone
- +386 1 320 4530
- info@goopti.com
- Website
- GoOpti
Bus from Zagreb to Maribor, Avtobusna Postaja
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–350
- Website
- GoOpti
- Private
- CHF 122
- Shared
- CHF 45–65
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Booking & Getting There
Croatia to Basel bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Basel SBB station.
Croatia to Basel train services, operated by HŽ Putnički prijevoz (HŽPP), arrive at Ljubljana station.
Yes, the driving distance between Croatia to Basel is 847 km. It takes approximately 10h 23m to drive from Croatia to Basel.
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