There are 11 ways to get from Kaunas to Basel by train, plane, bus, car, or car train
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Train to Vilnius Airport, fly to Basel
best- Take the train from Kaunas to Vilniaus geležinkelio stotistrain
- Fly from Vilnius Airport (VNO) to Basel (BSL)plane VNO - BSL
8h 29mCHF 85–272Bus, train via Berlin
- Take the bus from Kaunas to Białystokbus
- Take the train from Bialystok to Warszawa Centralnatrain Ic
- Take the train from Warszawa Centralna to Berlin Ostbahnhoftrain Eic
- Take the train from S Ostbahnhof to Basel Bad Bftrain 12
20h 58mCHF 269–1,115Bus, train
- Take the bus from Kaunas to Karlsruhebus
- Take the train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Basel SBBtrain 20 / ...
27h 36mCHF 123–251Drive 1,746.3 km
- Drive from Kaunas to Baselcar 1,746.3 km
15h 25mCHF 276–399Train to Vilnius Airport, fly to Zurich Airport, train
- Take the train from Kaunas to Vilniaus geležinkelio stotistrain
- Fly from Vilnius Airport (VNO) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane VNO - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain
7h 42mCHF 123–323Train to Vilnius Airport, fly to Frankfurt, train
- Take the train from Kaunas to Vilniaus geležinkelio stotistrain
- Fly from Vilnius Airport (VNO) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane VNO - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Mannheim, Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof to Basel Bad Bftrain
9h 16mCHF 128–397Fly Kaunas to Basel
- Fly from Kaunas (KUN) to Basel (BSL)plane KUN - BSL
9h 30mCHF 89–305Train, train to Riga International Airport, fly to Zurich Airport
- Take the train from Kaunas to Kėdainiaitrain
- Take the train from Kedainiai to Riga-Pasazierutrain
- Fly from Riga International Airport (RIX) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane RIX - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain
11h 18mCHF 135–335Train
- Take the train from Kaunas to Vilniaus geležinkelio stotistrain 828 / ...
- Take the train from Vilniaus geležinkelio stotis to Kraków Głównytrain
- Take the train from Krakow Glowny to Berlin Ostbahnhoftrain Ic
- Take the train from S Ostbahnhof to Basel Bad Bftrain 12
29h 44mCHF 271–1,102Bus
- Take the bus from Kaunas, Bus Station to Nuremberg central bus stationbus N1230
- Take the bus from Nürnberg to Basel, Bahnhofbus Ivano-Frankivsk
29h 49mDrive, car train
- Drive from Kaunas to Lüneburgcar
- Take the car train from Lüneburg to Lörrach Hbfcartrain
23h 25mCHF 237–323
Kaunas to Basel by bus and train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Kaunas to Basel is to train and fly which costs SFr 80 - SFr 280 and takes 8h 29m.
The fastest way to get from Kaunas to Basel is to train and fly which takes 7h 42m and costs SFr 120 - SFr 330.
No, there is no direct bus from Kaunas station to Basel. However, there are services departing from Kaunas, Bus Station and arriving at Basel, Bahnhof via Nürnberg. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 29h 49m.
No, there is no direct train from Kaunas to Basel. However, there are services departing from Kaunas and arriving at Basel Bad Bf via Vilniaus geležinkelio stotis, Krakow Glowny and S Ostbahnhof. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 29h 44m.
The distance between Kaunas and Basel is 1575 km. The road distance is 1746.3 km.
The best way to get from Kaunas to Basel without a car is to bus and train via Berlin which takes 20h 58m and costs SFr 260 - SFr 1200.
It takes approximately 8h 29m to get from Kaunas to Basel, including transfers.
Kaunas to Basel bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Kaunas, Bus Station.
Kaunas to Basel train services, operated by LTG Link, depart from Kaunas station.
The best way to get from Kaunas to Basel is to fly which takes 9h 30m and costs SFr 85 - SFr 310. Alternatively, you can train, which costs SFr 270 - SFr 1100 and takes 29h 44m, you could also bus, which costs and takes 29h 49m.
What companies run services between Kaunas, Lithuania and Basel, Switzerland?
Ryanair, Norwegian Air International, and two other airlines fly from Kaunas (KUN) to Basel (BSL) 6 times a week. Alternatively, you can take a train from Kaunas to Basel Bad Bf via Vilniaus geležinkelio stotis, Kraków Główny, Krakow Glowny, and S Ostbahnhof in around 29h 44m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Basel via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–410
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 130–290
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Frankfurt via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–240
Flights from Riga International Airport to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–200
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Basel via Krakow
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–250
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Basel via Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–250
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Basel via Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–300
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Basel via Hamburg
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 35m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–330
Flights from Kaunas to Basel via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 25m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–320
Flights from Kaunas to Basel via London Luton
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 20m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–310
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Zurich Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 43m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–230
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Frankfurt via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 22m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 95–320
- Website
- airbaltic.com
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–130
Flights from Riga International Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 95–220
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–180
Flights from Riga International Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 95–220
- Website
- flysas.com
Flights from Riga International Airport to Zurich Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–220
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Basel via Krakow
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 15m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–250
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Vilnius Airport to Zurich Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–330
- Website
- norwegian.com
Flights from Kaunas to Basel via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 40m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–340
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Kaunas to Basel via London Stansted
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 5m
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–300
- Phone
- +370 700 55 111
- informacija@ltglink.lt
- Website
- ltglink.lt
Train from Kaunas to Vilniaus geležinkelio stotis
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 9m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 5–8
- Website
- https://ltglink.lt/en
Train from Kaunas to Kėdainiai
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 4–6
- Website
- https://ltglink.lt/en
Train from Kedainiai to Riga-Pasazieru
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 44m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 10–14
- Website
- https://ltglink.lt/en
Train from Vilniaus geležinkelio stotis to Kraków Główny
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 9m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–45
- Website
- https://ltglink.lt/en
- Phone
- +48 22 322 22 22
- infokraj@intercity.pl
- Website
- intercity.pl
Train from Bialystok to Warszawa Centralna
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 48m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 25–60
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
Train from Warszawa Centralna to Berlin Ostbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 6m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–180
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
Train from Krakow Glowny to Berlin Ostbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 7m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–200
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from S Ostbahnhof to Basel Bad Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 19m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 150–370
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–80
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 12–29
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof to Basel Bad Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–110
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from S Ostbahnhof to Basel Bad Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 18m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 290–850
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Zürich HB to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 28–85
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 18m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 19–45
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
Train from Frankfurt to Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 7–16
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
Train from Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof to Basel Bad Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 24–60
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof to Basel Bad Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 34m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–85
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- info@urlaubs-express.de
- Website
- urlaubs-express.de
Car train from Lüneburg to Lörrach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 26m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–110
- Website
- https://urlaubs-express.de/?lang=en
- Phone
- +371 67 214 512
- info@ecolines.lv
- Website
- ecolines.net
Bus from Kaunas to Białystok
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 14–24
- Website
- https://ecolines.net/
Bus from Kaunas to Karlsruhe
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 15m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–180
- Website
- https://ecolines.net/
- Phone
- +370 612 88 984
- info@eurolines.lt
- Website
- eurolines.lt
Bus from Kaunas to Białystok
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 16–24
- Website
- https://www.eurolines.lt/en
- Phone
- +38(098) 343 8282
- callcenter@likebus.ua
- Website
- likebus.ua
Bus from Kaunas to Białystok
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- likebus.ua
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Kaunas to Białystok
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 15–25
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Kaunas, Bus Station to Nuremberg central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 20m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–150
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +38 098-888-11-08
- igoruzhanskyi@grandbus.com.ua
- Website
- grandbus.com.ua
Bus from Nürnberg to Basel, Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 29m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- https://www.grandbus.com.ua/en
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More Questions & Answers
Kaunas to Basel bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Nuremberg central bus station.
Basel is 1h behind Kaunas. It is currently 3:32 AM in Kaunas and 2:32 AM in Basel.
Kaunas to Basel train services, operated by LTG Link, arrive at Vilniaus geležinkelio stotis station.
Yes, the driving distance between Kaunas to Basel is 1746 km. It takes approximately 15h 25m to drive from Kaunas to Basel.
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