There are 11 ways to get from Palermo to Lausanne by plane, train, ferry, car ferry, car, or bus
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Fly to Geneva International Airport, train
best- Fly from Palermo Airport (PMO) to Geneva International Airport (GVA)plane PMO - GVA
- Take the train from Genève-Aéroport to Lausannetrain
5h 53mCHF 71–362Fly to Milano Malpensa Airport, bus, train
cheapest- Fly from Palermo Airport (PMO) to Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP)plane PMO - MXP
- Take the bus from Aeroporto Malpensa - Terminal 1 to Domodossola - Stazione Ferroviariabus
- Take the train from Domodossola to Lausannetrain
8h 39mCHF 62–328Train, ferry
- Take the train from Palermo Centrale to Messina Centraletrain Re
- Take the ferry from Messina Marittima to Villa S.Giovanniferry M1 / ...
- Take the train from Villa S.Giovanni to Milano Centraletrain Fr
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Lausannetrain Ec
17h 54mCar ferry, drive
- Take the carferry from Port of Palermo to Port of Genoacarferry
- Drive from Port of Genoa to Lausannecar
25h 11mCHF 156–228Bus via Zurich
- Take the bus from Palermo Piazza Cairoli to ZÜRICH, Carparkplatz am Sihlquaibus
- Take the bus from Zurich Bus Station to Lausannebus 144 / ...
28h 57mCHF 226–315Fly to Milan Linate Airport, train
- Fly from Palermo Airport (PMO) to Milan Linate Airport (LIN)plane PMO - LIN
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Lausannetrain
8h 21mCHF 110–319Fly to Zurich Airport, train
- Fly from Palermo Airport (PMO) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane PMO - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich Flughafen to Lausannetrain
7h 45mCHF 133–290Fly to Basel, train
- Fly from Palermo Airport (PMO) to Basel (BSL)plane PMO - BSL
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Lausannetrain
8h 4mCHF 94–291Fly to Il Caravaggio International Airport, bus, train
- Fly from Palermo Airport (PMO) to Il Caravaggio International Airport (BGY)plane PMO - BGY
- Take the bus from Milan Bergamo Orio al Serio Airport to Piazza Luigi di Savoiabus
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Lausannetrain
9hCHF 94–336Car ferry, train
- Take the carferry from Port of Palermo to Port of Genoacarferry
- Take the train from Genova P.Za Principe to Milano Centraletrain Ic
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Lausannetrain Ec
27h 35mCHF 149–238Bus
- Take the bus from Palermo to Aostabus N597
- Take the bus from Aosta to Lausannebus BlaBlaCar Bus
29h 40mCHF 149–229
Palermo Airport (PMO) to Geneva International Airport (GVA) flights
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Palermo to Lausanne is to fly and train which costs SFr 70 - SFr 370 and takes 5h 53m.
The fastest way to get from Palermo to Lausanne is to fly and train which takes 5h 53m and costs SFr 70 - SFr 370.
No, there is no direct bus from Palermo to Lausanne. However, there are services departing from Palermo Piazza Cairoli and arriving at Lausanne via Zurich Bus Station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 28h 57m.
The distance between Palermo and Lausanne is 1161 km.
The best way to get from Palermo to Lausanne without a car is to train and ferry which takes 17h 54m and costs .
It takes approximately 5h 53m to get from Palermo to Lausanne, including transfers.
Palermo to Lausanne bus services, operated by Onebus, depart from Palermo Piazza Cairoli station.
Palermo to Lausanne bus services, operated by Onebus, arrive at ZÜRICH, Carparkplatz am Sihlquai station.
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There are 1247+ hotels available in Lausanne.
What companies run services between Palermo, Italy and Lausanne, Switzerland?
You can take a bus from Palermo Piazza Cairoli to Lausanne via Zurich Bus Station in around 28h 57m.
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Palermo Airport to Geneva International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Tuesday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–290
Flights from Palermo Airport to Geneva International Airport via Nice
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–290
Flights from Palermo Airport to Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–170
Flights from Palermo Airport to Basel via Naples
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 6m
- When
- Thursday, Sunday, and Tuesday
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–170
Flights from Palermo Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–260
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Palermo Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–140
Flights from Palermo Airport to Il Caravaggio International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 26–190
Flights from Palermo Airport to Il Caravaggio International Airport via Cagliari
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- CHF 26–190
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Palermo Airport to Geneva International Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 53m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–270
Flights from Palermo Airport to Milan Linate Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–140
Flights from Palermo Airport to Milan Linate Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 32m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–140
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Palermo Airport to Geneva International Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–270
Flights from Palermo Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 1m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–330
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Palermo Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 10–190
Train from Genève-Aéroport to Lausanne
- Ave. Duration
- 52 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 18–27
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Zürich Flughafen to Lausanne
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 37m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–95
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Basel SBB to Lausanne
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 24m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 45–75
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
Train from Domodossola to Lausanne
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–75
- Website
- Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS)
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Palermo Centrale to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 54m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 24–35
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Genova P.Za Principe to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 57m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 15–21
- Website
- Trenitalia
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Palermo Centrale to Messina Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 21–40
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Villa S.Giovanni to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 53m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 110–220
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Genova P.Za Principe to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 41m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 13–25
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
- Phone
- +39 06 5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Villa S.Giovanni to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 34m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 150–260
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Genova P.Za Principe to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 40m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 17–30
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
- Phone
- +39 06 8937 1892
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Villa S.Giovanni to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 59m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 130–210
- Website
- Italo Treno
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- [email protected]
- Website
- Trenitalia Eurocity
Train from Milano Centrale to Lausanne
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 38m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–110
- Website
- Trenitalia Eurocity
- 1st Class
- CHF 75–110
- 2nd Class
- CHF 60–85
Train from Milano Centrale to Lausanne
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 38m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–110
- Website
- Trenitalia Eurocity
- 1st Class
- CHF 75–110
- 2nd Class
- CHF 60–85
Train from Domodossola to Lausanne
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–85
- Website
- Trenitalia Eurocity
- 1st Class
- CHF 55–85
- 2nd Class
- CHF 40–55
Train from Milano Centrale to Lausanne
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 38m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–110
- Website
- Trenitalia Eurocity
- 1st Class
- CHF 75–110
- 2nd Class
- CHF 60–85
Train from Milano Centrale to Lausanne
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 38m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–75
- Website
- Trenitalia Eurocity
- 1st Class
- CHF 40–65
- 2nd Class
- CHF 50–75
- Phone
- +39 0362 185 0590
- [email protected]
- Website
- Onebus
Bus from Palermo Piazza Cairoli to ZÜRICH, Carparkplatz am Sihlquai
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 42m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 210–290
- Website
- Onebus
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- [email protected]
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Zurich Bus Station to Lausanne
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 17–26
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Palermo to Aosta
- Ave. Duration
- 26h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 140–220
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Aosta to Lausanne
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 11–17
- Website
- Flixbus
- Phone
- +420 222 222 221
- [email protected]
- Website
- RegioJet
Bus from Zurich Bus Station to Lausanne
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 12–21
- Website
- RegioJet
- Phone
- +39 0322 844 862
- [email protected]
- Website
- Comazzi Bus
Bus from Aeroporto Malpensa - Terminal 1 to Domodossola - Stazione Ferroviaria
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 8
- Website
- Comazzi Bus
- [email protected]
- Website
- TERRAVISION
Bus from Milan Bergamo Orio al Serio Airport to Piazza Luigi di Savoia
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 4–21
- Website
- TERRAVISION
- Phone
- 035.319366
- [email protected]
- Website
- orioshuttle.com
Bus from Milan Bergamo Orio al Serio Airport to Piazza Luigi di Savoia
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 10–13
- Schedules at
- orioshuttle.com
- Phone
- +3 318 576 2228
- Website
- BlaBlaCar Bus
Bus from Aosta to Lausanne
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 8–15
- Website
- BlaBlaCar Bus
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia
Ferry from Messina Marittima to Villa S.Giovanni
- Ave. Duration
- 20 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- Trenitalia
- Phone
- +39 010 209 4591
- [email protected]
- Website
- Grandi Navi Veloci
Car ferry from Port of Palermo to Port of Genoa
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 95–140
- Website
- Grandi Navi Veloci
Car ferry from Port of Palermo to Port of Genoa
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 95–140
- Website
- Grandi Navi Veloci
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