There are 11 ways to get from Cumbria to Zurich by train, plane, train (Eurostar, TGV), bus, car, car train, train (Eurostar), or car ferry
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Train to Manchester Airport, fly to Zurich Airport
best- Take the train from Penrith North Lakes to Manchester Airporttrain
- Fly from Manchester Airport (MAN) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane MAN - ZRH
7h 36mCHF 92–269Train
- Take the train from Penrith North Lakes to London Eustontrain
- Take the train from London St Pancras Intl to Paris Nordtrain Eil
- Take the train from Paris Gare De Lyon to Zuerich Hbtrain Tgv
13h 50mCHF 364–605Bus
- Take the bus from Rail Station to London Victoria Coach Station Arrivalsbus 590
- Take the bus from London Victoria Green Line Station to Luxembourg P+R Bouillonbus
- Take the bus from Luxembourg to Zürichbus
28h 5mCHF 125–210Drive, Eurotunnel
- Drive from Cumbria to Folkestonecar
- Take the cartrain from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthuncartrain
- Drive from Calais-Fréthun to Zurichcar
14h 53mCHF 344–446Train to Edinburgh Airport, fly to Zurich Airport
- Take the train from Penrith North Lakes to Haymarkettrain
- Fly from Edinburgh Airport (EDI) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane EDI - ZRH
8h 8mCHF 128–300Train to Newcastle, fly to Zurich Airport
- Take the train from Carlisle to Newcastletrain
- Fly from Newcastle (NCL) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane NCL - ZRH
9h 32mCHF 108–286Train to Manchester Airport, fly to Basel, train
- Take the train from Penrith North Lakes to Manchester Airporttrain
- Fly from Manchester Airport (MAN) to Basel (BSL)plane MAN - BSL
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
8h 50mCHF 128–309Train to Birmingham Airport, fly to Zurich Airport
- Take the train from Penrith North Lakes to Birmingham Internationaltrain
- Fly from Birmingham Airport (BHX) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane BHX - ZRH
8h 56mCHF 152–319Train, train to Durham Tees Valley Airport, fly to Zurich Airport
- Take the train from Carlisle to Newcastletrain
- Take the train from Newcastle to Darlingtontrain
- Fly from Durham Tees Valley Airport (MME) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane MME - ZRH
10h 55mCHF 142–640Train via Amsterdam
- Take the train from Penrith North Lakes to London Eustontrain
- Take the train from London St Pancras Intl to Amsterdam Centraaltrain Eil
- Take the train from Amsterdam Centraal to Zürich HBtrain
23h 48mCHF 393–683Drive, car ferry
- Drive from Cumbria to Port of Dovercar
- Take the carferry from Port of Dover to Calaiscarferry
- Drive from Calais to Zurichcar
15h 54mCHF 246–401
Manchester Airport (MAN) to Zurich Airport (ZRH) flights
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Cumbria to Zurich is to train and fly which costs SFr 90 - SFr 270 and takes 7h 36m.
The fastest way to get from Cumbria to Zurich is to train and fly which takes 7h 36m and costs SFr 90 - SFr 270.
No, there is no direct bus from Cumbria to Zurich. However, there are services departing from Longthwaite road end and arriving at Zürich via Rail Station, London Victoria Green Line Station and Luxembourg. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 28h 5m.
No, there is no direct train from Cumbria to Zurich. However, there are services departing from Penrith North Lakes and arriving at Zuerich Hb via London St Pancras Intl, Paris Nord and Paris Gare De Lyon. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 13h 50m.
The distance between Cumbria and Zurich is 1214 km.
The best way to get from Cumbria to Zurich without a car is to train which takes 13h 50m and costs SFr 360 - SFr 650.
It takes approximately 7h 36m to get from Cumbria to Zurich, including transfers.
Cumbria to Zurich bus services, operated by National Express, depart from Rail Station.
Cumbria to Zurich train services, operated by Avanti West Coast, depart from Penrith North Lakes station.
The best way to get from Cumbria to Zurich is to train which takes 13h 50m and costs SFr 360 - SFr 650. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs SFr 120 - SFr 210 and takes 28h 5m.
What companies run services between Cumbria, England and Zurich, Switzerland?
You can take a bus from Ullswater Guest House to Zuerich Hb via Rail Station, Penrith North Lakes, London Euston, London St Pancras Intl, Paris Nord, and Paris Gare De Lyon in around 13h 50m. Alternatively, you can take a vehicle from Cumbria to Zürich via Longthwaite road end, Rail Station, London Victoria Coach Station Arrivals, London Victoria Green Line Station, and Luxembourg in around 28h 5m.
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Zurich Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–280
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Zurich Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 21m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–300
Flights from Newcastle to Zurich Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 11m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–320
Flights from Manchester Airport to Basel via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–300
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Zurich Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 51m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–270
Flights from Durham Tees Valley Airport to Zurich Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 42m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 95–550
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 37m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–280
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 41m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–310
Flights from Manchester Airport to Basel via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–320
Flights from Manchester Airport to Basel via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 18m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, Sunday, Monday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–340
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–290
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Zurich Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–300
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 58m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–170
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 13m
- When
- Monday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Thursday
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–300
Flights from Birmingham Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–280
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–180
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 6m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Monday
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–190
Flights from Newcastle to Zurich Airport via Bristol
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- CHF 95–270
Flights from Manchester Airport to Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–170
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Zurich Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–230
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Zurich Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Thursday, Saturday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–240
- Website
- flyedelweiss.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 13m
- When
- Monday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Thursday
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–300
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Zurich Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 130–210
Flights from Edinburgh Airport to Zurich Airport via Cologne Bonn
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 130–210
Flights from Newcastle to Zurich Airport via Dusseldorf
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 45m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–270
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Newcastle to Zurich Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 43m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–330
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Manchester Airport to Basel via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 75–250
- Phone
- +44 345 600 1671
- [email protected]
- Website
- TransPennine Express
Train from Penrith North Lakes to Manchester Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 54m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–60
- Website
- TransPennine Express
Train from Penrith North Lakes to Haymarket
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 38m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–65
- Website
- TransPennine Express
Train from Penrith North Lakes to Manchester Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 54m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–60
- Website
- TransPennine Express
Train from Newcastle to Darlington
- Ave. Duration
- 31 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 11–19
- Website
- TransPennine Express
- Phone
- +44 (0)345 528 0253
- Website
- Avanti West Coast
Train from Penrith North Lakes to London Euston
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 18m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–170
- Website
- Avanti West Coast
Train from Penrith North Lakes to Haymarket
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–70
- Website
- Avanti West Coast
Train from Penrith North Lakes to Birmingham International
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–110
- Website
- Avanti West Coast
Train from Penrith North Lakes to London Euston
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 18m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–170
- Website
- Avanti West Coast
- Phone
- +44 (0)3432 186 186
- Website
- Eurostar
Train from London St Pancras Intl to Paris Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 28m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 150–260
- Website
- Eurostar
Train from London St Pancras Intl to Amsterdam Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 16m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 200–330
- Website
- Eurostar
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Paris Gare De Lyon to Zuerich Hb
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 4m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 110–170
- Website
- TGV inOui
- Phone
- +44 (0) 8443 35 35 35
- [email protected]
- Website
- LeShuttle
Car train from Folkestone to Calais-Fréthun
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 129
- Website
- LeShuttle
- Standard fare
- CHF 129
- Phone
- +44 800 200 6060
- [email protected]
- Website
- Northern Trains Limited
Train from Carlisle to Newcastle
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 31m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 22–40
- Website
- Northern Trains Limited
Train from Carlisle to Newcastle
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 31m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 22–40
- Website
- Northern Trains Limited
Train from Newcastle to Darlington
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 12–24
- Website
- Northern Trains Limited
Train from Basel SBB to Zürich HB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 29–45
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Newcastle to Darlington
- Ave. Duration
- 29 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 13–19
- Website
- London North Eastern Railway Limited (LNER)
- Phone
- +44 3447 369 123
- [email protected]
- Website
- Cross Country
Train from Newcastle to Darlington
- Ave. Duration
- 29 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 17–26
- Website
- Cross Country
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)
Train from Amsterdam Centraal to Zürich HB
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 50m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–180
- Website
- Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)
- Phone
- +44 (0)3717 81 81 81
- Website
- National Express
Bus from Rail Station to London Victoria Coach Station Arrivals
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 5m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–90
- Website
- National Express
- Phone
- +420 222 222 221
- [email protected]
- Website
- RegioJet
Bus from London Victoria Green Line Station to Luxembourg P+R Bouillon
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 30m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–55
- Website
- RegioJet
- Phone
- +3 318 576 2228
- Website
- BlaBlaCar Bus
Bus from Luxembourg to Zürich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 55m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 27–45
- Website
- BlaBlaCar Bus
- Phone
- +353 818 300 400
- [email protected]
- Website
- Irish Ferries
Car ferry from Port of Dover to Calais
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 28–80
- Website
- Irish Ferries
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Booking & Getting There
Cumbria to Zurich bus services, operated by National Express, arrive at London Victoria Coach Station Arrivals.
Zurich is 1h ahead of Cumbria. It is currently 2:21 PM in Cumbria and 3:21 PM in Zurich.
Cumbria to Zurich train services, operated by Avanti West Coast, arrive at London Euston station.
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