There are 6 ways to get from Basel to Hong Kong by train, plane, or ferry
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Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Hong Kong International Airport
best- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Hong Kong International Airport (HKG)plane ZRH - HKG
15h 22m$2,920–4,820Train, train to Milano Malpensa Airport, fly to Shenzhen Bao'An International Airport
cheapest- Take the train from Basel SBB to Luganotrain
- Take the train from Lugano to Malpensa Aeroporto T1train
- Fly from Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP) to Shenzhen Bao'An International Airport (SZX)plane MXP - SZX
20h 20m$2,464–9,246Fly Basel to Hong Kong International Airport
- Fly from Basel (BSL) to Hong Kong International Airport (HKG)plane BSL - HKG
17h 33m$3,225–5,668Train, train to Frankfurt, fly to Hong Kong International Airport
- Take the train from Basel Bad Bf to Mannheim, Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Hong Kong International Airport (HKG)plane FRA - HKG
16h 58m$3,380–5,905Train, train to Milano Malpensa Airport, fly to Hong Kong International Airport
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Luganotrain
- Take the train from Lugano to Malpensa Aeroporto T1train
- Fly from Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP) to Hong Kong International Airport (HKG)plane MXP - HKG
19h 12m$3,132–7,026Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Macau International Airport, ferry
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Macau International Airport (MFM)plane ZRH - MFM
- Take the ferry from Macau Taipa Ferry Terminal to Hong Kong Sheung Wanferry
19h 4m$4,395–12,210
Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Hong Kong International Airport (HKG) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Basel to Hong Kong is to train and fly which costs $2900 - $4900 and takes 15h 22m.
The fastest way to get from Basel to Hong Kong is to train and fly which takes 15h 22m and costs $2900 - $4900.
The distance between Basel and Hong Kong is 9410 km.
It takes approximately 15h 22m to get from Basel to Hong Kong, including transfers.
Hong Kong is 6h ahead of Basel. It is currently 5:04 AM in Basel and 11:04 AM in Hong Kong.
There are 636+ hotels available in Hong Kong.
What companies run services between Basel, Switzerland and Hong Kong?
Lufthansa and Cathay Pacific fly from Basel (BSL) to Hong Kong International Airport (HKG) 3 times a day.
- Website
- airchina.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Hong Kong International Airport via Beijing Capital
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 2m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $2,900–3,400
Flights from Frankfurt to Hong Kong International Airport via Beijing Daxing
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $2,900–3,400
Flights from Frankfurt to Hong Kong International Airport via Tianfu International
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 35m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $2,900–3,400
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Hong Kong International Airport via Beijing Daxing
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $2,100–6,000
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Hong Kong International Airport via Tianfu International
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $2,000–6,000
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Shenzhen Bao'An International Airport via Beijing Capital
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $2,400–7,000
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Shenzhen Bao'An International Airport via Beijing Daxing
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 30m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $2,400–7,000
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Shenzhen Bao'An International Airport via Tianfu International
- Ave. Duration
- 19h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $2,200–6,500
- Website
- cathaypacific.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hong Kong International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $3,300–9,500
Flights from Basel to Hong Kong International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $3,600–11,000
Flights from Frankfurt to Hong Kong International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $3,100–11,000
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Hong Kong International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $2,700–8,000
- Website
- en.ceair.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hong Kong International Airport via Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $2,900–8,000
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Hong Kong International Airport via Xi An
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 30m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $2,200–6,000
Flights from Zurich Airport to Macau International Airport via Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 15m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $3,900–14,000
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Shenzhen Bao'An International Airport via Xi An
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 10m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $2,500–6,500
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Basel to Hong Kong International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $3,600–12,000
Flights from Basel to Hong Kong International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 20m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $3,600–12,000
Flights from Frankfurt to Hong Kong International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $3,100–11,000
- Website
- hainanairlines.com
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Hong Kong International Airport via Chongqing
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 35m
- When
- Tuesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $2,300–6,500
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Shenzhen Bao'An International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $2,600–7,500
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Shenzhen Bao'An International Airport via Chongqing
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 15m
- When
- Tuesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $2,600–7,500
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hong Kong International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $3,300–9,500
- Website
- thaiairways.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Hong Kong International Airport via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $4,400–11,000
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Hong Kong International Airport via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $3,600–9,000
- Website
- egoairways.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Macau International Airport via Hong Kong International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 47m
- When
- Thursday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- $4,400–13,000
- Website
- airmacau.com.mo
Flights from Zurich Airport to Macau International Airport via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $5,000–15,000
- Website
- csair.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Hong Kong International Airport via Urumqi
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 20m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $2,700–9,000
- Website
- miat.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Hong Kong International Airport via Ulaanbaatar
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $3,300–4,200
- Website
- vietnamairlines.com
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Hong Kong International Airport via Noi Bai International
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $2,600–7,000
- Website
- ceair.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Macau International Airport via Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 30m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $4,800–14,000
- Website
- jejuair.net
Flights from Zurich Airport to Macau International Airport via Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 35m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $5,000–14,000
- Website
- juneyaoair.com
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Shenzhen Bao'An International Airport via Zhengzhou
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 50m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $2,700–7,500
- 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
- $290–900
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $850–2,600
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Basel SBB to Zürich HB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- $290–900
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $850–2,600
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Basel Bad Bf to Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $410–1,700
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 31 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $120–490
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- [email protected]
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Basel Bad Bf to Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 3m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $500–950
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- 1st Class
- $650–950
- 2nd Class
- $500–700
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- konzern.oebb.at
Train from Basel Bad Bf to Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 53m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- $500–750
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 31 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $70–150
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- Phone
- +49 (0) 7531 915109
- [email protected]
- Website
- sbb-deutschland.de
Train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 21m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $180–230
- Schedules at
- sbb-deutschland.de
Train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 21m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $180–230
- Schedules at
- sbb-deutschland.de
- Phone
- +39 02 7249 4494
- [email protected]
- Website
- trenord.it
Train from Lugano to Malpensa Aeroporto T1
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $55–70
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
Train from Lugano to Malpensa Aeroporto T1
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $55–70
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
- Phone
- +852 2359 9990
- Website
- cotaiwaterjet.com
Ferry from Macau Taipa Ferry Terminal to Hong Kong Sheung Wan
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $175–220
- Schedules at
- cotaiwaterjet.com
- Weekdays
- $175
- Weekends/Holidays
- $190
- Night Sailing
- $220
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