There are 10 ways to get from Villach to Basel by bus, train, night train, car, plane, or shuttle
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Bus, train
best- Take the bus from Villach Bus Station to Zurich Bus Stationbus FlixBus N953
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain Ir36 / ...
9h 49mCHF 75–117Night train, train
cheapest- Take the nighttrain from Villach Hbf to Zuerich Hbnighttrain Nj
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain Ir36 / ...
11h 16mCHF 64–223Train
- Take the train from Villach Hbf to Schwarzach-St.Veittrain Ice
- Take the train from Schwarzach-St.Veit to Innsbruck Hauptbahnhoftrain 612 / ...
- Take the train from Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof to Sarganstrain Rjx
- Take the train from Sargans to Basel SBBtrain Ic3 / ...
10h 48mCHF 80–287Drive 613.1 km
- Drive from Villach to Baselcar 613.1 km
8h 7mCHF 103–148Train to Munich International Airport, fly to Basel
- Take the train from Villach Hbf to Muenchen Osttrain
- Fly from Munich International Airport (MUC) to Basel (BSL)plane MUC - BSL
7h 1mCHF 162–450Shuttle to Ljubljana, fly to Zurich Airport, train
- Take a shuttle bus from Klagenfurt - Hauptbahnhof to Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana
- Fly from Ljubljana (LJU) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane LJU - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain
6h 49mCHF 202–465Train to Venice Marco Polo Airport, fly to Basel
- Take the train from Villach Hbf to Venezia Mestretrain
- Fly from Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE) to Basel (BSL)plane VCE - BSL
7h 17mCHF 94–287Train to Graz Airport, fly to Zurich Airport, train
- Take the train from Villach Hbf to Graz Hbftrain
- Fly from Graz Airport (GRZ) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane GRZ - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain
6h 40mCHF 181–461Train, shuttle to Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport, fly to Basel
- Take the train from Villach Hbf to Ljubljanatrain
- Take a shuttle bus from Ljubljana, Avtobusna Postaja to Zagreb Airport
- Fly from Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport (ZAG) to Basel (BSL)plane ZAG - BSL
7h 10mCHF 68–524Train to Venice Marco Polo Airport, fly to Zurich Airport, train
- Take the train from Villach Hbf to Venezia Mestretrain
- Fly from Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane VCE - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain
8h 31mCHF 144–351
Villach to Basel by bus and train
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Villach to Basel is to bus and train which costs SFr 75 - SFr 120 and takes 9h 49m.
The fastest way to get from Villach to Basel is to train and fly which takes 6h 40m and costs SFr 180 - SFr 470.
No, there is no direct train from Villach to Basel. However, there are services departing from Villach Hbf and arriving at Basel SBB via Schwarzach-St.Veit, Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof and Sargans. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 10h 48m.
The distance between Villach and Basel is 639 km. The road distance is 613.1 km.
The best way to get from Villach to Basel without a car is to bus and train which takes 9h 49m and costs SFr 75 - SFr 120.
It takes approximately 9h 49m to get from Villach to Basel, including transfers.
Villach to Basel train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), depart from Villach Hbf station.
Villach to Basel train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), arrive at Schwarzach-St.Veit station.
Yes, the driving distance between Villach to Basel is 613 km. It takes approximately 8h 7m to drive from Villach to Basel.
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What companies run services between Villach, Austria and Basel, Switzerland?
You can take a train from Villach Hbf to Basel SBB via Schwarzach-St.Veit, Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof, and Sargans in around 10h 48m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Munich International Airport to Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–440
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Basel via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–240
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Basel via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–240
Flights from Graz Airport to Zurich Airport via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 53m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 140–330
Flights from Graz Airport to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 140–330
Flights from Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport to Basel via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–270
Flights from Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport to Basel via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–210
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Zurich Airport via Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 120–390
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Munich International Airport to Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–160
Flights from Ljubljana to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 17m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 110–330
Flights from Graz Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 120–420
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–340
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport to Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Monday, Saturday, Sunday, Thursday, Friday, and Tuesday
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–160
- Website
- airdolomiti.it
Flights from Munich International Airport to Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 55 min
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 150–440
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Venice Marco Polo Airport to Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–190
Train from Zürich HB to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–50
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Sargans to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 59m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–100
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Zürich HB to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–50
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Zürich HB to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–50
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Zürich HB to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–50
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Zürich HB to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–50
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Villach Hbf to Schwarzach-St.Veit
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 18–40
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Villach Hbf to Muenchen Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 6m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–120
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
Train from Villach Hbf to Graz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 27–60
- Website
- Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC)
- Phone
- +43 (0) 5 1717
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
Train from Villach Hbf to Schwarzach-St.Veit
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 26m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 11–21
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
Train from Villach Hbf to Graz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 17–35
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
Train from Villach Hbf to Ljubljana
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 31m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 10–19
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
- Website
- ÖBB Intercity
- Phone
- +43 (0)5 1717
- Website
- Railjet
Train from Villach Hbf to Schwarzach-St.Veit
- *
- CHF 20–30
Train from Schwarzach-St.Veit to Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof
- *
- CHF 27–45
Train from Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof to Sargans
- *
- CHF 28–45
Train from Villach Hbf to Muenchen Ost
- *
- CHF 40–65
Train from Villach Hbf to Venezia Mestre
- *
- CHF 35–55
Train from Villach Hbf to Graz Hbf
- *
- CHF 26–40
Train from Villach Hbf to Venezia Mestre
- *
- CHF 35–55
- Phone
- +43 (0) 5 1717
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Villach Hbf to Schwarzach-St.Veit
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 24–28
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Schwarzach-St.Veit to Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 21m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–45
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof to Sargans
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–50
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Villach Hbf to Muenchen Ost
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 8m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–80
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
Train from Villach Hbf to Ljubljana
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 21–25
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Website
- ÖBB EuroCity
- Phone
- _AUSTRIAN_RAILWAYS_(ÖBB)
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Villach Hbf to Schwarzach-St.Veit
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 21–35
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Schwarzach-St.Veit to Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 33m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–55
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Night train from Villach Hbf to Zuerich Hb
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 9m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–180
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Villach Hbf to Graz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–55
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Villach Hbf to Ljubljana
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 58m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 18–35
- Website
- Austrian Railways
- Phone
- +43 (0) 51717
- Website
- Nightjet
Train from Villach Hbf to Schwarzach-St.Veit
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 33m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 16–85
- Website
- Nightjet
- Sleeper Carriage
- CHF 70–85
- Couchette Carriage
- CHF 45–55
- Seating Carriage
- CHF 16–20
Night train from Villach Hbf to Zuerich Hb
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 52m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–100
- Website
- Nightjet
- Sleeper Carriage
- CHF 90–100
- Couchette Carriage
- CHF 60–75
- Seating Carriage
- CHF 30–40
- Phone
- +49 (0) 7531 915109
- info@sbb-deutschland.de
- Website
- SBB GmbH
Train from Sargans to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 13–17
- Schedules at
- SBB GmbH
- Phone
- +385 60 333 444
- informacije@hzpp.hr
- Website
- HŽ Putnički prijevoz (HŽPP)
Night train from Villach Hbf to Zuerich Hb
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 8m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 42
- Website
- HŽ Putnički prijevoz (HŽPP)
- Phone
- +43 1 89900
- service@westbahn.at
- Website
- Westbahn
Train from Villach Hbf to Graz Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 6m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–55
- Website
- Westbahn
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact DetailsContact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- service@flixbus.com
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Villach Bus Station to Zurich Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 25m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–70
- Website
- Flixbus
- Phone
- +386 1 320 4530
- info@goopti.com
- Website
- GoOpti
Shuttle from Klagenfurt - Hauptbahnhof to Zgornji Brnik, Letališče Jožeta Pučnika Ljubljana
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 8m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–140
- Website
- GoOpti
- Private
- CHF 140
Shuttle from Ljubljana, Avtobusna Postaja to Zagreb Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- CHF 25–280
- Website
- GoOpti
- Shared
- CHF 25–70
- Private
- CHF 130–170
- Phone
- +386 40 121 900
- mamut.slovenija@gmail.com
- Website
- slovenija.eu.com
Shuttle from Ljubljana, Avtobusna Postaja to Zagreb Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- On demand
- Estimated price
- CHF 120–204
- Schedules at
- slovenija.eu.com
- 1 -3 persons
- CHF 158
- 4-8 persons
- CHF 204
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