There are 9 ways to get from Basel to Vilnius by plane, train, bus, night train, car, or car train
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Fly from Basel
best- Fly from Basel (BSL) to Vilnius Airport (VNO)plane BSL - VNO
7h 20m$116–328Train
- Take the train from Basel Bad Bf to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhoftrain 12 / ...
- Take the train from Karlsruhe Hbf to Berlin Gesundbrunnentrain Ice
- Take the train from S+U Gesundbrunnen Bhf to Rzepintrain 95 / ...
- Take the train from Rzepin to Warszawa Wschodniatrain 95
- Take the train from Warszawa Wschodnia to Vilniaus geležinkelio stotistrain
22h 26m$298–1,183Bus via Nuremberg
- Take the bus from Basel, Bahnhof to Nürnbergbus
- Take the bus from Nuremberg central bus station to Kaunas, Bus Stationbus
- Take the bus from Kauno autobusų stotis to Vilniaus autobusų stotisbus
31h 27mTrain, night train
- Take the train from Basel SBB to München Hbftrain 60
- Take the night train from Muenchen Hbf to Warszawa Centralnanighttrain En
- Take the train from Warszawa Centralna to Vilniaus geležinkelio stotistrain
27h 12m$325–1,179Train to Zurich Airport, fly
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Vilnius Airport (VNO)plane ZRH - VNO
7h 3m$173–428Train, train to Frankfurt, fly
- Take the train from Basel Bad Bf to Mannheim, Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Take the train from Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Vilnius Airport (VNO)plane FRA - VNO
7h 59m$174–592Bus
- Take the bus from Basel SBB to Karlsruhe central train stationbus
- Take the bus from Karlsruhe to Kaunasbus
- Take the bus from Kauno autobusų stotis to Vilniaus autobusų stotisbus
32h 28m$184–309Drive 1,796.9 km
- Drive from Basel to Vilniuscar 1,796.9 km
17h 20m$363–524Car train, drive
- Take the car train from Lörrach Hbf to Lüneburgcartrain
- Drive from Lüneburg to Vilniuscar
24h 7m$312–443
Basel to Vilnius by train
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Basel to Vilnius is to bus which costs $180 - $310 and takes 32h 28m.
The fastest way to get from Basel to Vilnius is to train and fly which takes 7h 3m and costs $170 - $430.
No, there is no direct bus from Basel to Vilnius. However, there are services departing from Basel, Bahnhof and arriving at Vilniaus autobusų stotis via Nuremberg central bus station and Kauno autobusų stotis. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 31h 27m.
No, there is no direct train from Basel to Vilnius. However, there are services departing from Basel Bad Bf and arriving at Vilniaus geležinkelio stotis via Karlsruhe Hbf, S+U Gesundbrunnen Bhf, Rzepin and Warszawa Wschodnia. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 22h 26m.
The distance between Basel and Vilnius is 1470 km. The road distance is 1796.9 km.
The best way to get from Basel to Vilnius without a car is to train which takes 22h 26m and costs $290 - $1,200.
It takes approximately 7h 20m to get from Basel to Vilnius, including transfers.
Basel to Vilnius bus services, operated by GrandBus, depart from Basel, Bahnhof station.
Basel to Vilnius train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), depart from Basel Bad Bf station.
The best way to get from Basel to Vilnius is to fly which takes 7h 20m and costs $110 - $330. Alternatively, you can train, which costs $290 - $1,200 and takes 22h 26m, you could also bus via Nuremberg, which costs and takes 31h 27m.
What companies run services between Basel, Switzerland and Vilnius, Lithuania?
Air Dolomiti, Lufthansa, and five other airlines fly from Basel (BSL) to Vilnius Airport (VNO) 4 times a day. Alternatively, you can take a train from Basel Bad Bf to Vilniaus geležinkelio stotis via Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof, Karlsruhe Hbf, Berlin Gesundbrunnen, S+U Gesundbrunnen Bhf, Rzepin, and Warszawa Wschodnia in around 22h 26m.
- Website
- lot.com
Flights from Basel to Vilnius Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 50m
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–310
Flights from Zurich Airport to Vilnius Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–390
Flights from Frankfurt to Vilnius Airport via Warsaw Chopin
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–470
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Basel to Vilnius Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 31m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $150–550
Flights from Zurich Airport to Vilnius Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $130–260
Flights from Frankfurt to Vilnius Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $130–470
- Website
- airbaltic.com
Flights from Basel to Vilnius Airport via Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 20m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $120–470
Flights from Zurich Airport to Vilnius Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $130–260
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Basel to Vilnius Airport via Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $140–310
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Vilnius Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–350
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Vilnius Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $130–480
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Basel Bad Bf to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 32m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $40–170
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Karlsruhe Hbf to Berlin Gesundbrunnen
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 9m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $130–600
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from S+U Gesundbrunnen Bhf to Rzepin
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $22–95
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Basel SBB to München Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 59m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $100–450
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Basel Bad Bf to Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $50–220
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Mannheim, Hauptbahnhof to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 31 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $15–65
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Basel Bad Bf to Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 28m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $45–70
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +48 22 322 22 22
- [email protected]
- Website
- intercity.pl
Train from Rzepin to Warszawa Wschodnia
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 3m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $80–290
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
Night train from Muenchen Hbf to Warszawa Centralna
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 33m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $190–700
- Website
- https://www.intercity.pl/en/
- Phone
- +370 700 55 111
- [email protected]
- Website
- ltglink.lt
Train from Warszawa Wschodnia to Vilniaus geležinkelio stotis
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 22m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $26–35
- Website
- https://ltglink.lt/en
Train from Warszawa Centralna to Vilniaus geležinkelio stotis
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $26–35
- Website
- https://ltglink.lt/en
- 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
- $35–120
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/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
- $65–120
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- 1st Class
- $85–120
- 2nd Class
- $65–90
- 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
- $60–95
- 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
- $9–19
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- Phone
- +49 (0) 221 800 20 820
- [email protected]
- Website
- urlaubs-express.de
Car train from Lörrach Hbf to Lüneburg
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 29m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- $110–140
- Website
- https://urlaubs-express.de/?lang=en
- Phone
- +38 098-888-11-08
- [email protected]
- Website
- grandbus.com.ua
Bus from Basel, Bahnhof to Nürnberg
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 29m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- https://www.grandbus.com.ua/en
Rome2Rio's guide to FlixBus
Contact DetailsContact Details
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- [email protected]
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.fr
Bus from Nuremberg central bus station to Kaunas, Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 10m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $120–210
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
Bus from Basel SBB to Karlsruhe central train station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $18–30
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.co.uk
- Phone
- (+370 37) 34 24 40
- [email protected]
- Website
- kautra.lt
Bus from Kauno autobusų stotis to Vilniaus autobusų stotis
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $10–13
- Website
- https://www.kautra.lt/en/
- Schedules at
- https://www.autobusubilietai.lt/en
Bus from Kauno autobusų stotis to Vilniaus autobusų stotis
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $10–13
- Website
- https://www.kautra.lt/en/
- Schedules at
- https://www.autobusubilietai.lt/en
- Phone
- +372 680 0909
- [email protected]
- Website
- luxexpress.eu
Bus from Kauno autobusų stotis to Vilniaus autobusų stotis
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $7–15
- Website
- https://luxexpress.eu/en/
Bus from Kauno autobusų stotis to Vilniaus autobusų stotis
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $7–15
- Website
- https://luxexpress.eu/en/
- Phone
- +38(098) 343 8282
- [email protected]
- Website
- likebus.ua
Bus from Kauno autobusų stotis to Vilniaus autobusų stotis
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 39m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- likebus.ua
Bus from Kauno autobusų stotis to Vilniaus autobusų stotis
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 39m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- likebus.ua
- Phone
- +38 (067) 467-44-00
- [email protected]
- Website
- transtempo.ua
Bus from Kauno autobusų stotis to Vilniaus autobusų stotis
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $26–29
- Website
- https://transtempo.ua/
Bus from Kauno autobusų stotis to Vilniaus autobusų stotis
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $26–29
- Website
- https://transtempo.ua/
- Phone
- +371 67 214 512
- [email protected]
- Website
- ecolines.net
Bus from Karlsruhe to Kaunas
- Ave. Duration
- 27h
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- $140–250
- Schedules at
- ecolines.net
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More Questions & Answers
Basel to Vilnius bus services, operated by GrandBus, arrive at Nürnberg station.
Vilnius is 1h ahead of Basel. It is currently 4:46 PM in Basel and 5:46 PM in Vilnius.
Basel to Vilnius train services, operated by Deutsche Bahn Intercity (DB IC), arrive at Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof station.
Yes, the driving distance between Basel to Vilnius is 1797 km. It takes approximately 17h 20m to drive from Basel to Vilnius.
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