There are 8 ways to get from Melbourne to Basel by plane or train
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Fly to Basel
best- Fly from Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Basel (BSL)plane MEL - BSL
25h 27mCHF 488–969Fly to Mulhouse
cheapest- Fly from Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Mulhouse (MLH)plane MEL - MLH
28h 27mCHF 298–1,719Fly to Zurich Airport, train
- Fly from Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane MEL - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain
26h 17mCHF 476–1,060Fly to Geneva International Airport, train
- Fly from Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Geneva International Airport (GVA)plane MEL - GVA
- Take the train from Genève-Aéroport to Renens VDtrain
- Take the train from Renens VD to Basel SBBtrain
28h 41mCHF 319–1,185Fly to Stuttgart Airport, train
- Fly from Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Stuttgart Airport (STR)plane MEL - STR
- Take the train from Stuttgart Hbf to Karlsruhe Hbftrain
- Take the train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Basel Bad Bftrain
30h 37mCHF 446–1,320Fly to Frankfurt, train
- Fly from Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane MEL - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Basel Bad Bftrain
27h 52mCHF 396–1,524Fly to Milano Malpensa Airport, train
- Fly from Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP)plane MEL - MXP
- Take the train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Luganotrain
- Take the train from Lugano to Basel SBBtrain
30h 47mCHF 358–1,662Fly to Munich International Airport, train
- Fly from Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Munich International Airport (MUC)plane MEL - MUC
- Take the train from Flughafen München to Pasingtrain
- Take the train from Pasing to Basel Bad Bftrain
30h 49mCHF 503–1,618
Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Basel (BSL) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Melbourne to Basel is to fly and train which costs SFr 350 - SFr 1700 and takes 30h 47m.
The fastest way to get from Melbourne to Basel is to fly which takes 25h 27m and costs SFr 480 - SFr 1000.
The distance between Melbourne and Basel is 16431 km.
It takes approximately 25h 27m to get from Melbourne to Basel, including transfers.
Basel is 10h behind Melbourne. It is currently 8:25 PM in Melbourne and 10:25 AM in Basel.
There are 1293+ hotels available in Basel.
What companies run services between Melbourne, VIC, Australia and Basel, Switzerland?
Emirates, Flydubai, and five other airlines fly from Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Basel (BSL) 4 times a day.
- Website
- emirates.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Basel via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 10m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 500–1,700
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Zurich Airport via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 460–1,500
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Geneva International Airport via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 52m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 460–1,500
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Frankfurt via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 450–1,500
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 17m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 400–1,300
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Munich International Airport via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 7m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 500–1,700
- Website
- qatarairways.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Zurich Airport via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 550–900
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Geneva International Airport via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 25m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 460–1,400
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Frankfurt via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 480–950
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 27m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 400–1,200
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Munich International Airport via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 500–1,600
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Basel via Suvarnabhumi, Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 28h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 490–1,900
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Basel via Abu Dhabi, Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 380–1,100
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Stuttgart Airport via Abu Dhabi, Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 400–1,200
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Stuttgart Airport via Doha, Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 2m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 550–1,700
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Stuttgart Airport via Colombo, Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 370–1,500
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Frankfurt via Delhi
- Ave. Duration
- 32h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 370–1,500
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Munich International Airport via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 35m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 500–1,700
- Website
- etihad.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Zurich Airport via Abu Dhabi
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 410–700
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Geneva International Airport via Abu Dhabi
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 330–950
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Frankfurt via Abu Dhabi
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 470–950
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Abu Dhabi
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 370–850
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Munich International Airport via Abu Dhabi
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 370–1,100
- Website
- airindia.in
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Zurich Airport via Delhi
- Ave. Duration
- 32h 30m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 380–1,600
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Frankfurt via Delhi
- Ave. Duration
- 32h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 370–1,500
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Delhi
- Ave. Duration
- 32h 45m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 330–1,400
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Mulhouse via Dubai, Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 40m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 500–1,700
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Mulhouse via Doha, Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 10m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 500–1,600
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Mulhouse via Guangzhou Baiyun, Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 37h 45m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 280–1,700
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Basel via Abu Dhabi, Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 5m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 380–1,100
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Basel via Abu Dhabi, Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 380–1,100
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Stuttgart Airport via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 550–1,800
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Stuttgart Airport via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 550–1,800
- Website
- srilankan.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Frankfurt via Colombo
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 300–1,300
- Website
- thaiairways.com
Flights from Melbourne Airport to Munich International Airport via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 550–2,000
- 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 28–85
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Genève-Aéroport to Renens VD
- Ave. Duration
- 42 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 19–60
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Renens VD to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–160
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Frankfurt to Basel Bad Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 39m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–300
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Lugano to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 53m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–240
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- 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 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Stuttgart Hbf to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 54 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 12–29
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Basel Bad Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 29–70
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Basel Bad Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 41m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–120
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Pasing to Basel Bad Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–190
- 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 18–45
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 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 35–55
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Flughafen München to Pasing
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 8–13
- 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 56m
- 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
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