There are 12 ways to get from Leeds to Lugano by train (Eurostar, TGV), bus, car, car train, plane, train, or car ferry
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Train via Zurich
best- Take the train from Leeds to King's Cross
- Take the train from London St Pancras Intl to Paris NordEil
- Take the train from Paris Est to Zuerich HbTgv
- Take the train from Zürich HB to LuganoIc2 / ...
13h 14mCHF 180–658Fly Leeds Bradford International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport, train
cheapest- Fly from Leeds Bradford International Airport (LBA) to Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP)LBA - MXP
- Take the train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Lugano
8h 51mCHF 46–191Bus
- Take the bus from Leeds City Bus & Coach Station to London Victoria Coach Station Arrivals426 / ...
- Take the bus from London Victoria to Brussels Midi / Brussels South West
- Take the bus from Brussels - Midi Train Station to Lugano
25h 25mCHF 67–169Drive, Eurotunnel
- Drive from Leeds to Folkestone
- Take the car train from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthun
- Drive from Calais-Fréthun to Lugano
14h 53mTrain
- Take the train from Leeds to King's Cross
- Take the train from London St Pancras Intl to Paris NordEil
- Take the train from Paris Gare De Lyon to Basel SbbTgv
- Take the train from Basel SBB to LuganoEc
13h 52mCHF 149–646Train, bus
- Take the train from Leeds to Sheffield
- Take the bus from Sheffield to Gent-Dampoort
- Take the bus from Gent to Basel, Meret Oppenheim-Strasse
- Take the train from Basel SBB to LuganoEc
25h 47mDrive, car ferry
- Drive from Leeds to Port of Dover
- Take the car ferry from Port of Dover to Calais
- Drive from Calais to Lugano
15h 54mCHF 239–360Train to Manchester Airport, fly to Milano Malpensa Airport, train
- Take the train from Leeds to Manchester Airport
- Fly from Manchester Airport (MAN) to Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP)MAN - MXP
- Take the train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Lugano
7h 48mCHF 49–161Train to Manchester Airport, fly to Milan Linate Airport, train
- Take the train from Leeds to Manchester Airport
- Fly from Manchester Airport (MAN) to Milan Linate Airport (LIN)MAN - LIN
- Take the train from Monza to Lugano
8h 1mCHF 53–224Fly Leeds Bradford International Airport to Milan Linate Airport, train
- Fly from Leeds Bradford International Airport (LBA) to Milan Linate Airport (LIN)LBA - LIN
- Take the train from Monza to Lugano
9h 49mCHF 120–250Train to Manchester Airport, fly to Zurich Airport, train
- Take the train from Leeds to Manchester Airport
- Fly from Manchester Airport (MAN) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)MAN - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Lugano
7h 55mCHF 95–267Train to Manchester Airport, fly to Il Caravaggio International Airport, train
- Take the train from Leeds to Manchester Airport
- Fly from Manchester Airport (MAN) to Il Caravaggio International Airport (BGY)MAN - BGY
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Lugano
8h 19mCHF 56–226
Leeds to Lugano by train and foot
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Leeds to Lugano is to train and fly which costs SFr 45 - SFr 170 and takes 7h 48m.
The fastest way to get from Leeds to Lugano is to train and fly which takes 7h 48m and costs SFr 45 - SFr 170.
No, there is no direct bus from Leeds station to Lugano. However, there are services departing from Leeds City Bus & Coach Station and arriving at Lugano via London Victoria and Brussels - Midi Train Station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 25h 25m.
No, there is no direct train from Leeds to Lugano. However, there are services departing from Leeds and arriving at Lugano via London St Pancras Intl, Paris Est and Zürich HB. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 13h 14m.
The distance between Leeds and Lugano is 1537 km.
The best way to get from Leeds to Lugano without a car is to train via Zurich which takes 13h 14m and costs SFr 180 - SFr 700.
It takes approximately 13h 14m to get from Leeds to Lugano, including transfers.
Leeds to Lugano bus services, operated by National Express, depart from Leeds City Bus & Coach Station.
Leeds to Lugano train services, operated by London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER), depart from Leeds station.
The best way to get from Leeds to Lugano is to train via Zurich which takes 13h 14m and costs SFr 180 - SFr 700. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs SFr 65 - SFr 170 and takes 25h 25m.
What companies run services between Leeds, England and Lugano, Switzerland?
You can take a train from Leeds to Lugano via London Kings Cross, London St Pancras Intl, Paris Nord, Paris Est, Zuerich Hb, and Zürich HB in around 13h 14m. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Leeds City Bus & Coach Station to Lugano via London Victoria Coach Station Arrivals, London Victoria, and Brussels - Midi Train Station in around 25h 25m.
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Leeds Bradford International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 52m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–200
Flights from Leeds Bradford International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–190
Flights from Manchester Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Monday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 25–100
Flights from Manchester Airport to Milan Linate Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–130
Flights from Manchester Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Wednesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–130
Flights from Manchester Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–130
Flights from Manchester Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Monday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–120
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 22m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–280
Flights from Leeds Bradford International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–340
Flights from Manchester Airport to Zurich Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 7m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–260
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Leeds Bradford International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 10m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–190
Flights from Manchester Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–95
Flights from Manchester Airport to Il Caravaggio International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 14m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–130
Flights from Manchester Airport to Il Caravaggio International Airport via Charleroi
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 27m
- When
- Friday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–130
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–300
Flights from Leeds Bradford International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 10m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–260
Flights from Manchester Airport to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–280
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 45m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–230
Flights from Manchester Airport to Zurich Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 8m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–220
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 17m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–280
Flights from Leeds Bradford International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–330
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–100
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Leeds Bradford International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–250
Flights from Leeds Bradford International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 10m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–260
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Il Caravaggio International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Friday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–160
- Phone
- +44 345 722 5333
- customers@lner.co.uk
- Website
- lner.co.uk
Train from Leeds to King's Cross
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 11m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 29–85
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from London St Pancras Intl to Paris Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 28m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–310
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- sncf-connect.com
Train from Paris Est to Zuerich Hb
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 21m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–190
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
Train from Paris Gare De Lyon to Basel Sbb
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 4m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–150
- Website
- https://www.sncf-connect.com/en-en
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Zürich HB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 53m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–75
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–100
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +44 (0) 8443 35 35 35
- Website
- leshuttle.com
Car train from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthun
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://www.leshuttle.com/uk-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/
Train from Monza to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 3–5
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
Train from Milano Centrale to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 5–7
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/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
- CHF 18–24
- Schedules at
- sbb-deutschland.de
Train from Leeds to Sheffield
- Ave. Duration
- 39 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 11–24
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 800 200 6060
- enquiries@northernrailway.co.uk
- Website
- northernrailway.co.uk
Train from Leeds to Sheffield
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 6–21
- Website
- https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 345 600 1671
- tpecustomer.relations@tpexpress.co.uk
- Website
- tpexpress.co.uk
Train from Leeds to Manchester Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 16–45
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
- Phone
- 08717 81 81 81
- Website
- nationalexpress.com
Bus from Leeds City Bus & Coach Station to London Victoria Coach Station Arrivals
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 14–50
- Website
- https://www.nationalexpress.com/en
- Phone
- +420 222 222 221
- info@regiojet.cz
- Website
- regiojet.com
Bus from London Victoria to Brussels Midi / Brussels South West
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 17–26
- Website
- https://regiojet.com/
- Phone
- +3-389-268-0068
- Website
- blablacar.co.uk
Bus from Brussels - Midi Train Station to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 5m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–95
- Website
- https://www.blablacar.co.uk/bus
- Phone
- +421 55 680 73 06
- onlinepredaj@eurobus.sk
- Website
- eurobus.sk
Bus from Sheffield to Gent-Dampoort
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 50m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 23–26
- Website
- https://www.eurobus.sk/en
- Phone
- +393293958604
- info@pistoiaviaggi.com
- Website
- pistoia-viaggi.it
Bus from Gent to Basel, Meret Oppenheim-Strasse
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 19m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- pistoia-viaggi.it
- Phone
- +353 818 300 400
- info@irishferries.com
- Website
- irishferries.com
Car ferry from Port of Dover to Calais
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–40
- Website
- https://www.irishferries.com/uk-en/Travel-to-Ireland
- Car
- CHF 70–180
- On Foot
- CHF 30–40
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More Questions & Answers
Leeds to Lugano bus services, operated by National Express, arrive at London Victoria Coach Station Arrivals.
Lugano is 1h ahead of Leeds. It is currently 1:08 AM in Leeds and 2:08 AM in Lugano.
Leeds to Lugano train services, operated by London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER), arrive at King's Cross station.
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