There are 10 ways to get from Moscow to Basel by plane, train, bus, 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 Sheremetyevo International Airport to Zurich Airport, train
best- Fly from Sheremetyevo International Airport (SVO) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane SVO - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain
11h 26mCHF 115–345Fly Sheremetyevo International Airport to Basel
cheapest- Fly from Sheremetyevo International Airport (SVO) to Basel (BSL)plane SVO - BSL
12h 7mCHF 102–299Train, bus via Brest
- Take the train from Moskva Belorusskaia to Brest Ctrain
- Take the bus from Brest Bus station to Poznańbus
- Take the train from Poznan Glowny to Rzepintrain 95
- Take the train from Rzepin to Berlin Hbftrain Eic / ...
- Take the train from Berlin Hbf to Frankfurttrain 12 / ...
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Basel Bad Bftrain 20 / ...
35h 39mCHF 262–756Bus via Warsaw
- Take the bus from Moscow, International Bus Station to Warsaw Westbus Moscow/Warsaw
- Take the bus from Warsaw, Bus Station West to Mulhousebus N1326
41h 30mCHF 155–291Drive 2,597.8 km
- Drive from Moscow to Baselcar 2,597.8 km
25h 49mCHF 420–606Fly Moscow Vnukovo to Basel
- Fly from Moscow Vnukovo (VKO) to Basel (BSL)plane VKO - BSL
11h 11mCHF 184–397Fly Moscow Vnukovo to Zurich Airport, train
- Fly from Moscow Vnukovo (VKO) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane VKO - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain
12h 16mCHF 192–433Fly Sheremetyevo International Airport to Mulhouse
- Fly from Sheremetyevo International Airport (SVO) to Mulhouse (MLH)plane SVO - MLH
14h 17mCHF 102–299Train, bus
- Take the train from Moskva Belorusskaia to Kaliningrad-Passajirsktrain
- Take the bus from Kaliningrad Bus station to Gdańsk Głównybus 900 / ...
- Take the train from Gdansk Glowny to Berlin Ostbahnhoftrain Ic
- Take the train from S Ostbahnhof to Basel SBBtrain 12
38h 20mCHF 309–650Bus
- Take the bus from Moscow Novoyasnevskaya to Minsk Central Bus Stationbus
- Take the bus from Minsk Central Bus Station to Munich Central Bus Stationbus
- Take the bus from München, ZOB to Basel, Bahnhofbus
44h 2m
Moscow to Basel by train and bus
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Moscow to Basel is to fly which costs SFr 100 - SFr 300 and takes 12h 7m.
The fastest way to get from Moscow to Basel is to fly which takes 11h 11m and costs SFr 180 - SFr 400.
No, there is no direct bus from Moscow to Basel. However, there are services departing from Moscow Novoyasnevskaya and arriving at Basel, Bahnhof via Minsk Central Bus Station and München, ZOB. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 44h 2m.
The distance between Moscow and Basel is 2305 km. The road distance is 2597.8 km.
The best way to get from Moscow to Basel without a car is to train and bus via Brest which takes 35h 39m and costs SFr 260 - SFr 800.
It takes approximately 11h 26m to get from Moscow to Basel, including transfers.
Moscow to Basel bus services, operated by Eurotrans, depart from Moscow Novoyasnevskaya station.
The best way to get from Moscow to Basel is to bus via Warsaw which takes 41h 30m and costs SFr 150 - SFr 300. Alternatively, you can fly, which costs SFr 180 - SFr 400 and takes 11h 11m.
Moscow to Basel bus services, operated by Eurotrans, arrive at Minsk Central Bus Station.
Basel is 1h behind Moscow. It is currently 10:14 AM in Moscow and 9:14 AM in Basel.
What companies run services between Moscow, Russia and Basel, Switzerland?
You can take a subway from Biblioteka Imeni Lenina to Basel St. Johann via Salaryevo, Moscow, International Bus Station, Warsaw West, Warsaw, Bus Station West, Mulhouse, and Mulhouse Ville in around 41h 30m. Alternatively, Turkish Airlines, Pegasus Airlines, and three other airlines fly from Moscow Vnukovo (VKO) to Basel (BSL) every 4 hours.
- Website
- turkishairlines.com
Flights from Sheremetyevo International Airport to Zurich Airport via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 120–550
Flights from Moscow Vnukovo to Basel via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 57m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 180–750
Flights from Moscow Vnukovo to Zurich Airport via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 27m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 160–650
Flights from Sheremetyevo International Airport to Basel via Istanbul
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 180–750
- Website
- flypgs.com
Flights from Moscow Vnukovo to Basel via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 140–650
Flights from Moscow Vnukovo to Basel via Antalya
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 160–700
Flights from Moscow Vnukovo to Zurich Airport via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 12h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 120–550
Flights from Moscow Vnukovo to Zurich Airport via Izmir
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 5m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 130–600
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Sheremetyevo International Airport to Basel via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 95–290
Flights from Sheremetyevo International Airport to Mulhouse via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 30m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 95–290
- Website
- airserbia.com
Flights from Sheremetyevo International Airport to Zurich Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 27m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–250
- Website
- ajet.com
Flights from Moscow Vnukovo to Basel via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 10h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 180–390
Flights from Moscow Vnukovo to Zurich Airport via Sabiha Gokcen
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 160–340
- Website
- sunexpress.com
Flights from Moscow Vnukovo to Basel via Antalya
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 170–480
Flights from Sheremetyevo International Airport to Basel via Antalya
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 25m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 170–480
- Website
- corendon.com
Flights from Moscow Vnukovo to Basel via Antalya
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 55m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 200–650
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Sheremetyevo International Airport to Basel via Belgrade, Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 30m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 95–290
- Website
- airalgerie.dz
Flights from Sheremetyevo International Airport to Mulhouse via Algiers
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 40m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- CHF 220–1,100
- 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 28–80
- 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 Moskva Belorusskaia to Brest C
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 4m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–90
- Website
- https://www.rw.by/
- Schedules at
- https://pass.rw.by/ru/
- Book at
- https://pass.rw.by/ru/
- 3rd Class (Platzcart)
- CHF 45–55
- 2nd Class (Kupé)
- CHF 75–90
- 1nd Class (SW)
- CHF 130–180
- Phone
- 8 (800) 775-00-00
- Website
- eng.rzd.ru
Train from Moskva Belorusskaia to Brest C
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 11m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–100
- Website
- https://eng.rzd.ru/
- 2nd Class (Kupé)
- CHF 70–100
- 1nd Class (SW)
- CHF 150–210
- 3rd Class (Platzcart)
- CHF 40–55
- Phone
- +48 22 322 22 22
- infokraj@intercity.pl
- Website
- intercity.pl
Train from Poznan Glowny to Rzepin
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 22–50
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
Train from Rzepin to Berlin Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 26m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 15–35
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
Train from Gdansk Glowny to Berlin Ostbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 27m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–180
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Berlin Hbf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 13m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 95–220
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Basel Bad Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 41m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–130
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from S Ostbahnhof to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 31m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 150–340
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- 8 (800) 775-00-00
- Website
- eng.rzd.ru
Train from Moskva Belorusskaia to Kaliningrad-Passajirsk
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 45m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–65
- Website
- https://eng.rzd.ru/
- 1nd Class (SW)
- CHF 140–210
- 3rd Class (Platzcart)
- CHF 30–45
- 2nd Class (Kupé)
- CHF 45–65
- Website
- infobus.by
Bus from Brest Bus station to Poznań
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 51m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–55
- Website
- https://infobus.by/en/bus
- Phone
- +373 (689) 78-455
- bon_voyage_tour@list.ru
- Website
- bonvoyage.md
Bus from Moscow, International Bus Station to Warsaw West
- Ave. Duration
- 17h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–120
- Schedules at
- bonvoyage.md
- Book at
- bonvoyage.md
- Adult
- CHF 120
- Children
- CHF 60
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Warsaw, Bus Station West to Mulhouse
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 55m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–160
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +7 (4012) 64-36-35
- info@avl39.ru
- Website
- avl39.ru
Bus from Kaliningrad Bus station to Gdańsk Główny
- Website
- eurotrans.by
Bus from Moscow Novoyasnevskaya to Minsk Central Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 27
- Schedules at
- eurotrans.by
- Phone
- +375-17-251-14-11
- info@minsktrans.by
- Website
- minsktrans.by
Bus from Minsk Central Bus Station to Munich Central Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 27h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–130
- Schedules at
- https://minsktrans.by/en/home/
- Book at
- https://infobus.by/en/bus
- Phone
- +38 098-888-11-08
- igoruzhanskyi@grandbus.com.ua
- Website
- grandbus.com.ua
Bus from München, ZOB to Basel, Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 32m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- https://www.grandbus.com.ua/en
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