There are 8 ways to get from Shanghai to Zurich by plane, car, or train
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Fly Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Zurich Airport
best- Fly from Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane PVG - ZRH
17h 41mCHF 246–386Fly Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport to Zurich Airport
cheapest- Fly from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport (SHA) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane SHA - ZRH
19h 9mCHF 191–620Drive 10,705.1 km
- Drive from Shanghai Station to Zurichcar 10,705.1 km
5d 3hCHF 1,661–2,399Fly Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Basel, train
- Fly from Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) to Basel (BSL)plane PVG - BSL
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
18h 35mCHF 378–721Fly Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Geneva International Airport, train
- Fly from Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) to Geneva International Airport (GVA)plane PVG - GVA
- Take the train from Genève-Aéroport to Zürich HBtrain
19h 33mCHF 385–756Fly Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport, train
- Fly from Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) to Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP)plane PVG - MXP
- Take the train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Luganotrain
- Take the train from Lugano to Zürich HBtrain
20h 4mCHF 265–613Fly Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Frankfurt, train
- Fly from Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane PVG - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Mannheim, Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof to Basel SBBtrain
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
19h 56mCHF 341–601Fly Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Munich International Airport, train
- Fly from Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) to Munich International Airport (MUC)plane PVG - MUC
- Take the train from Flughafen München to Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Take the train from München Hbf to Lindau, Reutin Bahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Bregenz to Zürich HBtrain
21h 9mCHF 421–813
Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) to Zurich Airport (ZRH) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Shanghai to Zurich is to fly which costs SFr 240 - SFr 390 and takes 17h 41m.
The fastest way to get from Shanghai to Zurich is to fly which takes 17h 41m and costs SFr 240 - SFr 390.
The distance between Shanghai and Zurich is 9081 km. The road distance is 10705.1 km.
It takes approximately 17h 41m to get from Shanghai to Zurich, including transfers.
Zurich is 7h behind Shanghai. It is currently 7:11 PM in Shanghai and 12:11 PM in Zurich.
Yes, the driving distance between Shanghai to Zurich is 10705 km. It takes approximately 5 days 3h to drive from Shanghai to Zurich.
There are 1224+ hotels available in Zurich.
What companies run services between Shanghai, China and Zurich, Switzerland?
Swiss, Air China, and two other airlines fly from Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) to Zurich Airport (ZRH) twice daily.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Zurich Airport via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 7m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 260–410
Flights from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport to Zurich Airport via Beijing Capital, Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 46m
- When
- Tuesday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 180–600
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Basel via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 230–900
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Basel via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 37m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 190–900
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Geneva International Airport via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 58m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 150–800
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 32m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 130–700
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 280–410
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Frankfurt via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 300–390
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 160–850
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Munich International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 160–850
- Website
- airchina.com
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Zurich Airport via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 35m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 260–410
Flights from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport to Zurich Airport via Beijing Capital, Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 20m
- When
- Tuesday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 180–600
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Basel via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 230–900
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Geneva International Airport via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 58m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 150–800
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 130–440
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 280–410
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Frankfurt via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 300–390
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 160–850
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Munich International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 160–850
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 280–410
Flights from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport to Zurich Airport via Beijing Capital, Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 5m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 180–600
Flights from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport to Zurich Airport via Beijing Capital, Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 20m
- When
- Wednesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 180–600
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Basel via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 14h
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 190–600
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Zurich Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 15m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 290–390
Flights from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport to Zurich Airport via Beijing Capital, Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 20m
- When
- Wednesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 180–600
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Basel via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 20m
- When
- Tuesday and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- CHF 230–750
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Geneva International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 40m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 200–650
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Munich International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 15m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 210–700
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport to Zurich Airport via Beijing Capital, Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 5m
- When
- Thursday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 190–600
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Basel via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 180–800
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Basel via London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 25m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 180–650
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Basel via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 15m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 230–750
- Website
- en.ceair.com
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Geneva International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 170–500
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 140–430
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 12h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 270–380
- Website
- airdolomiti.it
Flights from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport to Zurich Airport via Beijing Capital, Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 180–600
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Basel SBB to Zürich HB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–60
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Genève-Aéroport to Zürich HB
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 3m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–150
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Lugano to Zürich HB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 53m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–110
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Bregenz to Zürich HB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 28m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–80
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/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
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Frankfurt to Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 24–27
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 44–50
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from München Hbf to Lindau, Reutin Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 38–43
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Frankfurt to Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 11–35
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- CHF 11–18
- 1st Class
- CHF 20–35
Train from Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–120
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- CHF 35–55
- 1st Class
- CHF 70–120
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 59m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–60
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Flughafen München to Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 9–13
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from München Hbf to Lindau, Reutin Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 26–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 821 899 825 44
- servus@arverio.de
- Website
- arverio-by.de
Train from München Hbf to Lindau, Reutin Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 57m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Schedules at
- arverio-by.de
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