There are 9 ways to get from Kos to Basel by plane, train, ferry, bus, car ferry, 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 Kos to Zurich Airport, train
best- Fly from Kos (KGS) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane KGS - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain
7h 18mCHF 134–291Fly Kos to Milano Malpensa Airport, train
cheapest- Fly from Kos (KGS) to Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP)plane KGS - MXP
- Take the train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Luganotrain
- Take the train from Lugano to Basel SBBtrain
11h 38mCHF 80–320Ferry, bus, train
- Take the ferry from Port of Kos to Port of Piraeusferry Bsf
- Take the bus from Piraeus to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusavebus
- Take the bus from Tirana to Strasbourgbus
- Take the train from Strasbourg to Basel Sbbtrain Ter
45h 18mFerry, bus
- Take the ferry from Port of Kos to Syrosferry Bsf
- Take the ferry from Syros to Thessalonikiferry Bsf
- Take the bus from Thessaloniki to Skopje Central Bus Stationbus
- Take the bus from Skopje, Transporten Centar to Basel, Bahnhofbus
2d 12hCHF 158–344Car ferry, drive
- Take the car ferry from Port of Kos to Port of Bodrumcarferry
- Drive from Port of Bodrum to Baselcar
30h 18mCHF 432–673Car ferry to Rhodes International Airport, fly to Zurich Airport, train
- Take the car ferry from Port of Kos to Port of Rhodescarferry
- Fly from Rhodes International Airport (RHO) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane RHO - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain
9h 57mCHF 131–327Fly Kos to Geneva International Airport, train
- Fly from Kos (KGS) to Geneva International Airport (GVA)plane KGS - GVA
- Take the train from Genève-Aéroport to Renens VDtrain
- Take the train from Renens VD to Basel SBBtrain
11h 47mCHF 160–324Fly Kos to Stuttgart Airport, train
- Fly from Kos (KGS) to Stuttgart Airport (STR)plane KGS - STR
- Take the train from Stuttgart Hbf to Karlsruhe Hbftrain
- Take the train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Basel Bad Bftrain
9h 13mCHF 120–309Car ferry, bus
- Take the car ferry from Port of Kos to Port of Bodrumcarferry
- Take the bus from Bodrum to İstanbul Esenlerbus
- Take the bus from Istanbul to Lindaubus
- Take the bus from Lindau to Basel SBBbus 006
2d 1hCHF 135–196
Kos to Basel by car ferry, foot, and bus
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Kos to Basel is to fly and train which costs SFr 120 - SFr 310 and takes 9h 13m.
The fastest way to get from Kos to Basel is to fly and train which takes 7h 18m and costs SFr 130 - SFr 300.
The distance between Kos and Basel is 2050 km.
The best way to get from Kos to Basel without a car is to ferry and bus and train which takes 45h 18m and costs .
It takes approximately 7h 18m to get from Kos to Basel, including transfers.
Basel is 1h behind Kos. It is currently 10:38 PM in Kos and 9:38 PM in Basel.
There are 1256+ hotels available in Basel.
What companies run services between Kos, Greece and Basel, Switzerland?
There is no direct connection from Kos to Basel. However, you can take the bus to Kos Airport, walk to Kos (KGS) airport, fly to Zurich Airport (ZRH), walk to Zürich Flughafen, take the train to Zürich HB, then take the train to Basel SBB. Alternatively, you can take a ferry from Port of Kos to Basel Sbb via Port Of Piraeus, Piraeus, Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave, Tirana, Strasbourg, and Strasbourg in around 45h 18m.
- Website
- en.aegeanair.com
Flights from Rhodes International Airport to Zurich Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 42m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–220
Flights from Rhodes International Airport to Zurich Airport via Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 55m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–220
Flights from Kos to Geneva International Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 23m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–390
Flights from Kos to Stuttgart Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–380
Flights from Kos to Stuttgart Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 15m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–150
Flights from Kos to Milano Malpensa Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–270
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Kos to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–420
Flights from Rhodes International Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–390
Flights from Kos to Geneva International Airport via Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 25m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–460
Flights from Kos to Geneva International Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 20m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 120–190
- Website
- comlux.com
Flights from Kos to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Tuesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–700
Flights from Rhodes International Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–650
- Website
- flexflight.dk
Flights from Kos to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Tuesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–700
Flights from Rhodes International Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–650
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Kos to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–300
Flights from Rhodes International Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–270
- Website
- flyedelweiss.com
Flights from Kos to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–420
Flights from Rhodes International Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–390
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Kos to Stuttgart Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–380
- Website
- tui.com
Flights from Kos to Stuttgart Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 180–600
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Kos to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–210
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Kos to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–240
- Website
- neosair.it
Flights from Kos to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 180–550
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
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
Train from Genève-Aéroport to Renens VD
- Ave. Duration
- 42 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 13–26
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Renens VD to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–65
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Lugano to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 53m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–100
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- track.effiliation.com
Train from Strasbourg to Basel Sbb
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 17m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 28
- Website
- https://track.effiliation.com/servlet/effi.redir?id_compteur=23007591&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sncf-connect.com%2Fen-en%2F
- 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 13–25
- Schedules at
- go-ahead-bw.de
- 2nd Class Ticket
- CHF 13–16
- 1st Class Ticket
- CHF 17–25
- 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 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
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 21–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- 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 27–45
- 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 26–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +39 02 7249 4494
- my-link@trenord.it
- Website
- trenord.it
Train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 5–7
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- ufficiogruppi@trenitalia.it
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Lugano to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 53m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–95
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- 1st Class
- CHF 65–95
- 2nd Class
- CHF 50–70
- Phone
- +49 (0) 7531 915109
- info@sbb-deutschland.de
- Website
- sbb-deutschland.de
Train from Lugano to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 56m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 18–23
- Schedules at
- sbb-deutschland.de
- Phone
- +2105203350
- Website
- top-lines.gr
Bus from Piraeus to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 25m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 37
- Schedules at
- top-lines.gr
- Phone
- +355 68 407 6607
- komatastours.al@gmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Piraeus to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 25m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 37
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +355 68 20 63 724
- info@arjanitravel.com
- Website
- arjanitravel.com
Bus from Tirana to Strasbourg
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 51m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- arjanitravel.com
- Phone
- +30-2310540970
- info@simeonidistours.gr
- Website
- simeonidistours.gr
Bus from Thessaloniki to Skopje Central Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 18–35
- Schedules at
- simeonidistours.gr
- Phone
- +389 42 217 370
- durmotours@yahoo.com
- Website
- durmotours.com.mk
Bus from Skopje, Transporten Centar to Basel, Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 56m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–85
- Schedules at
- durmotours.com.mk
- Phone
- 0 850 333 35 35
- info@pamukkale.com.tr
- Website
- pamukkale.com.tr
Bus from Bodrum to İstanbul Esenler
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 30m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 22–30
- Schedules at
- pamukkale.com.tr
- Phone
- +90 212 658 18 51
- info@alparturizm.com.tr
- Website
- alparturizm.com.tr
Bus from Istanbul to Lindau
- Ave. Duration
- 30h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–120
- Website
- https://www.alparturizm.com.tr/en/
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Lindau to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 16–23
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Ferry from Port of Kos to Port of Piraeus
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 55m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–75
- Website
- https://www.bluestarferries.com/en-gb/
Ferry from Port of Kos to Syros
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 40m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 29–85
- Website
- https://www.bluestarferries.com/en-gb/
- Economy
- CHF 29–45
- 2 Bed Inside Cabin
- CHF 55–75
- 4 Bed Outside Cabin
- CHF 50–65
- 2 Bed Lux Cabin
- CHF 70–85
Ferry from Syros to Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 55m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–140
- Website
- https://www.bluestarferries.com/en-gb/
- Economy
- CHF 55–85
- 2 Bed Inside Cabin
- CHF 85–110
- 4 Bed Outside Cabin
- CHF 90–120
- 2 Bed Lux Cabin
- CHF 110–140
- Website
- bodrumferryboat.com
Car ferry from Port of Kos to Port of Bodrum
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 11–23
- Schedules at
- bodrumferibot.com
- Phone
- +30 22410 70590
- info@12ne.gr
- Website
- 12ne.gr
Car ferry from Port of Kos to Port of Rhodes
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 14m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 20–40
- Website
- https://www.12ne.gr/en
- Phone
- +30 21 0620 6427
- info@saos.gr
- Website
- saos.gr
Car ferry from Port of Kos to Port of Rhodes
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 40m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 19
- Website
- https://saos.gr/en/
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