There are 11 ways to get from Tallinn to Basel by plane, bus, train, car, ferry, or car train
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Fly Lennart Meri International Airport to Basel
best- Fly from Lennart Meri International Airport (TLL) to Basel (BSL)plane TLL - BSL
7h 15mCHF 74–226Bus, train via Frankfurt am Main
- Take the bus from Tallinn, Bus Station to Berlin Airport BERbus
- Take the train from S Südkreuz Bhf to Frankfurttrain 82 / ...
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Basel Bad Bftrain 20 / ...
30h 11mCHF 223–659Train, bus
- Take the train from Tallinn to Kaisiadorystrain 12
- Take the train from Kaišiadorys to Marijampolėtrain 31
- Take the bus from Marijampolė to Magdeburgbus
- Take the train from Magdeburg Hbf to Braunschweig, Hauptbahnhoftrain 55 / ...
- Take the train from Braunschweig, Hauptbahnhof to Basel Bad Bftrain 12
36h 17mCHF 203–426Drive 2,306.2 km
- Drive from Tallinn to Baselcar 2,306.2 km
22h 45mCHF 371–535Fly Lennart Meri International Airport to Zurich Airport, train
- Fly from Lennart Meri International Airport (TLL) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane TLL - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain
6h 50mCHF 107–317Ferry to Helsinki Airport, fly to Basel
- Take the ferry from Tallinn to Helsinkiferry
- Fly from Helsinki Airport (HEL) to Basel (BSL)plane HEL - BSL
9h 36mFerry to Helsinki Airport, fly to Zurich Airport, train
- Take the ferry from Tallinn to Helsinkiferry
- Fly from Helsinki Airport (HEL) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane HEL - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain
9h 25mBus, train
- Take the bus from Tallinn, Harbour Terminal D to Hamburg, Zentraler Omnibusbahnhofbus N1206
- Take the train from Hamburg Hbf to Basel SBBtrain 20 / ...
35h 21mCHF 238–493Bus
- Take the bus from Tallinna bussijaam to Riiabus
- Take the bus from Rīga to Karlsruhebus
- Take the bus from Karlsruhe central train station to Basel SBBbus
39h 40mCHF 114–266Bus via Katowice
- Take the bus from Tallinn to Katowicebus
- Take the bus from Katowice to Basel, Bahnhofbus Ivano-Frankivsk
2d 3hDrive, car train
- Drive from Tallinn to Hamburg Altonacar
- Take the car train from Hamburg Altona to Lörrach Hbfcartrain
31h 1mCHF 327–1,094
Tallinn to Basel by bus, foot, and train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Tallinn to Basel is to fly which costs SFr 70 - SFr 230 and takes 7h 15m.
The fastest way to get from Tallinn to Basel is to fly and train which takes 6h 50m and costs SFr 100 - SFr 320.
No, there is no direct bus from Tallinn to Basel. However, there are services departing from Tallinna bussijaam and arriving at Basel SBB via Rīga and Karlsruhe central train station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 39h 40m.
The distance between Tallinn and Basel is 1740 km. The road distance is 2306.2 km.
The best way to get from Tallinn to Basel without a car is to bus and train via Frankfurt am Main which takes 30h 11m and costs SFr 220 - SFr 700.
It takes approximately 7h 15m to get from Tallinn to Basel, including transfers.
Tallinn to Basel bus services, operated by Lux Express, depart from Tallinna bussijaam station.
The best way to get from Tallinn to Basel is to fly which takes 7h 15m and costs SFr 70 - SFr 230. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs SFr 110 - SFr 270 and takes 39h 40m.
Tallinn to Basel bus services, operated by Lux Express, arrive at Riia station.
Basel is 1h behind Tallinn. It is currently 9:06 PM in Tallinn and 8:06 PM in Basel.
What companies run services between Tallinn, Estonia and Basel, Switzerland?
Lufthansa, Air Dolomiti, and six other airlines fly from Lennart Meri International Airport (TLL) to Basel (BSL) 4 times a day. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Tallinna bussijaam to Basel SBB via Rīga, Karlsruhe, and Karlsruhe central train station in around 39h 40m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Lennart Meri International Airport to Basel via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 18m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–210
Flights from Lennart Meri International Airport to Basel via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–290
Flights from Lennart Meri International Airport to Zurich Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- CHF 95–130
Flights from Lennart Meri International Airport to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–320
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Basel via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–370
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Basel via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 8m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–340
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Zurich Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–330
- Website
- flysas.com
Flights from Lennart Meri International Airport to Zurich Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 26m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–230
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Zurich Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 120–220
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Lennart Meri International Airport to Basel via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 45m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–220
Flights from Lennart Meri International Airport to Basel via Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 55m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–190
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Basel via Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 120–340
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Lennart Meri International Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Monday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 120–300
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Basel via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 120–340
- Website
- norwegian.com
Flights from Lennart Meri International Airport to Basel via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–250
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Basel via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–230
- Website
- finnair.com
Flights from Helsinki Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 110–300
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Lennart Meri International Airport to Basel via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 10m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–210
- Website
- airbaltic.com
Flights from Lennart Meri International Airport to Zurich Airport via Riga
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 25m
- When
- Wednesday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 95–130
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from S Südkreuz Bhf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 43m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–190
- 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 Magdeburg Hbf to Braunschweig, Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 13–30
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Braunschweig, Hauptbahnhof to Basel Bad Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 39m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–250
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 37m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 130–310
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Frankfurt to Basel Bad Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 39m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–310
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
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
- Phone
- +370 700 55 111
- informacija@ltglink.lt
- Website
- ltglink.lt
Train from Tallinn to Kaisiadorys
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 27m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–40
- Website
- https://ltglink.lt/en
Train from Kaišiadorys to Marijampolė
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 7m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 5–7
- Website
- https://ltglink.lt/en
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Magdeburg Hbf to Braunschweig, Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 16–24
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- konzern.oebb.at
Train from Hamburg Hbf to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 37m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 150–220
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- info@urlaubs-express.de
- Website
- urlaubs-express.de
Car train from Hamburg Altona to Lörrach Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 33m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–750
- Website
- https://urlaubs-express.de/?lang=en
- Car Single Bed
- CHF 340–400
- Car Compartment
- CHF 550–750
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- flixbus.fr
Bus from Tallinn, Bus Station to Berlin Airport BER
- Ave. Duration
- 22h
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–160
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Tallinn, Harbour Terminal D to Hamburg, Zentraler Omnibusbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 27h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–190
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Tallinna bussijaam to Riia
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 18–35
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Karlsruhe central train station to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 11–20
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- +371 67 214 512
- info@ecolines.lv
- Website
- ecolines.net
Bus from Marijampolė to Magdeburg
- Ave. Duration
- 15h
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–100
- Website
- https://ecolines.net/
Bus from Tallinna bussijaam to Riia
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 16–29
- Website
- https://ecolines.net/
Bus from Rīga to Karlsruhe
- Ave. Duration
- 29h 55m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–180
- Website
- https://ecolines.net/
- Phone
- +372 680 0909
- info@luxexpress.eu
- Website
- luxexpress.eu
Bus from Tallinna bussijaam to Riia
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 16–30
- Website
- https://luxexpress.eu/en/
- Phone
- +38 (067) 467-44-00
- transtempo@ukr.net
- Website
- transtempo.ua
Bus from Tallinna bussijaam to Riia
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 28–32
- Schedules at
- transtempo.ua
- Phone
- +373 789 18 888
- info@busline.md
- Website
- busline.md
Bus from Tallinna bussijaam to Riia
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 27m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 23–70
- Website
- https://busline.md/en/
Bus from Tallinn to Katowice
- Ave. Duration
- 29h 23m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 95–270
- Website
- https://busline.md/en/
- peatus@agri.ee
- Website
- web.peatus.ee
Bus from Tallinna bussijaam to Riia
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 3–5
- Website
- https://web.peatus.ee/?locale=en
- Phone
- +38 098-888-11-08
- igoruzhanskyi@grandbus.com.ua
- Website
- grandbus.com.ua
Bus from Katowice to Basel, Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- https://www.grandbus.com.ua/en
- Website
- en.tallink.com
Ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Schedules at
- en.tallink.com
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