There are 9 ways to get from Riga to Locarno by plane, train, bus, or car
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Fly to Milano Malpensa Airport, train
best- Fly from Riga International Airport (RIX) to Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP)RIX - MXP
- Take the train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Mendrisio
- Take the train from Mendrisio to Locarno
7h 50mCHF 70–193Fly to Il Caravaggio International Airport, train
cheapest- Fly from Riga International Airport (RIX) to Il Caravaggio International Airport (BGY)RIX - BGY
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Locarno
8h 34mCHF 66–214Bus, train via Berlin
- Take the bus from Riga, Bus Station to Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof
- Take the train from S Südkreuz Bhf to Frankfurt82 / ...
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Basel SBB20 / ...
- Take the train from Basel SBB to BellinzonaEc
30h 15mCHF 145–464Drive 2,063.3 km
- Drive from Riga to Locarno2,063.3 km
20h 22mCHF 328–474Fly to Zurich Airport, train
- Fly from Riga International Airport (RIX) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)RIX - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Bellinzona
7h 51mCHF 137–301Fly to Milan Linate Airport, train
- Fly from Riga International Airport (RIX) to Milan Linate Airport (LIN)RIX - LIN
- Take the train from Monza to Locarno
10h 7mCHF 93–246Bus
- Take the bus from Riga, Bus Station to Munich central bus station
- Take the bus from Munich central bus station to Chur station train stationN76 / ...
- Take the bus from Chur, Postautostation to Bellinzona, Stazione171
36h 30mCHF 91–201Bus, train
- Take the bus from Rīga to Karlsruhe
- Take the train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Basel SBB20 / ...
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Locarno
37h 38mBus, train #2
- Take the bus from Riga Central Bus Station to Kaliningrad Bus station
- Take the bus from Kaliningrad Bus station to Stuttgart Airport Busterminal399
- Take the bus from Stuttgart Airport Bus Terminal SAB to Winterthur Lagerhausstrasse
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Locarno
38h 55mCHF 238–337
Riga to Locarno by bus and train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Riga to Locarno is to fly and train which costs SFr 65 - SFr 220 and takes 8h 34m.
The fastest way to get from Riga to Locarno is to fly and train which takes 7h 50m and costs SFr 70 - SFr 200.
No, there is no direct bus from Riga station to Locarno. However, there are services departing from Riga, Bus Station and arriving at Locarno, Debarcadero via Munich central bus station, Chur, Postautostation and Bellinzona, Stazione. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 36h 30m.
The distance between Riga and Locarno is 1760 km. The road distance is 2063.3 km.
The best way to get from Riga to Locarno without a car is to bus and train via Berlin which takes 30h 15m and costs SFr 140 - SFr 470.
It takes approximately 7h 50m to get from Riga to Locarno, including transfers.
Riga to Locarno bus services, operated by FlixBus, depart from Riga, Bus Station.
Riga to Locarno bus services, operated by FlixBus, arrive at Munich central bus station.
Locarno is 1h behind Riga. It is currently 6:15 AM in Riga and 5:15 AM in Locarno.
Yes, the driving distance between Riga to Locarno is 2063 km. It takes approximately 20h 22m to drive from Riga to Locarno.
What companies run services between Riga, Latvia and Locarno, Switzerland?
You can take a bus from Riga, Bus Station to Locarno, Debarcadero via Munich central bus station, Chur station train station, Chur, Postautostation, and Bellinzona, Stazione in around 36h 30m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Riga International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–210
Flights from Riga International Airport to Zurich Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–200
Flights from Riga International Airport to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 50m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 95–190
Flights from Riga International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 15m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–250
Flights from Riga International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–280
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Riga International Airport to Il Caravaggio International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–170
Flights from Riga International Airport to Il Caravaggio International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–170
Flights from Riga International Airport to Il Caravaggio International Airport via Prague
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Monday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–170
Flights from Riga International Airport to Il Caravaggio International Airport via Krakow
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 47m
- When
- Tuesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–170
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Riga International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–210
Flights from Riga International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Monday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 95–280
Flights from Riga International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 52m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–200
Flights from Riga International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 45m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–280
- Website
- airbaltic.com
Flights from Riga International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–210
Flights from Riga International Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–200
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Riga International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 20m
- When
- Wednesday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–210
Flights from Riga International Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–200
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Riga International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 1m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–260
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Riga International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 42m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–290
- Website
- flysas.com
Flights from Riga International Airport to Zurich Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–280
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Riga International Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–240
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Mendrisio
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 24–45
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Mendrisio to Locarno
- Ave. Duration
- 57 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 19–23
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Basel SBB to Bellinzona
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 39m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–90
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Zürich HB to Bellinzona
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 37m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–65
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Zürich HB to Locarno
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 14m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–70
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +39 02 7249 4494
- my-link@trenord.it
- Website
- trenord.it
Train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Mendrisio
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 4–6
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
Train from Mendrisio to Locarno
- Ave. Duration
- 57 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 4–6
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
Train from Milano Centrale to Locarno
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 7–10
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
Train from Monza to Locarno
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 5–7
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from S Südkreuz Bhf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 43m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–170
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 1m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–90
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 26–50
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +41 58 580 70 70
- info@sob.ch
- Website
- sob.ch
Train from Basel SBB to Bellinzona
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 57m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Schedules at
- sob.ch
Train from Zürich HB to Bellinzona
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Schedules at
- sob.ch
Train from Basel SBB to Locarno
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 24m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Schedules at
- sob.ch
Train from Zürich HB to Locarno
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 22m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Schedules at
- sob.ch
- Phone
- +49 (0) 7531 915109
- info@sbb-deutschland.de
- Website
- sbb-deutschland.de
Train from Basel SBB to Bellinzona
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 6m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 17–22
- Schedules at
- sbb-deutschland.de
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 18m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 28–95
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- CHF 28–45
- 1st Class
- CHF 55–95
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- konzern.oebb.at
Train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–60
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Riga, Bus Station to Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 18h
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–100
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Riga, Bus Station to Munich central bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 28h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–150
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Munich central bus station to Chur station train station
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 14–35
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +371 67 214 512
- info@ecolines.lv
- Website
- ecolines.net
Bus from Riga, Bus Station to Berlin, Zentralen Omnibusbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 19h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–80
- Website
- https://ecolines.net/
Bus from Rīga to Karlsruhe
- Ave. Duration
- 29h 55m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–110
- Website
- https://ecolines.net/
- Phone
- +41 (0)848 818 818
- info@postauto.ch
- Website
- postauto.ch
Bus from Chur, Postautostation to Bellinzona, Stazione
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 12m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 9–14
- Website
- https://www.postauto.ch
- Phone
- +7 812 386 79 79
- eco@ecolines.ru
- Website
- ecolines.ru
Bus from Riga Central Bus Station to Kaliningrad Bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 45m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 56
- Schedules at
- ecolines.net
- Book at
- ecolines.net
- Phone
- +7 (4012) 64-36-35
- info@avl39.ru
- Website
- avl39.ru
Bus from Kaliningrad Bus station to Stuttgart Airport Busterminal
- Phone
- +39 080 3112335
- info@marinobus.it
- Website
- marinobus.it
Bus from Stuttgart Airport Bus Terminal SAB to Winterthur Lagerhausstrasse
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 18–26
- Website
- https://marinobus.it/en/
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