Cheapest€47.34
- European Air Transport EA666306:2758m07:25Köln CGNBasel BSL
Door to door 4h 8mCO2 95.7 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
Cologne to Basel flight
Flights from Cologne to Basel start at €56.78 and take 4h 8m at their fastest.
The Flights from Cologne to Basel starts at €56.78 and takes 4h 8m door to door, run by 1 operator over 389 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.
- 4h 8mDoor to door
- 58mMoving
- €56.78From
- 95.7 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on 29 September 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Airlines
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 European Air Transport | €47.34 | 4h 5m | 740 km/h | Fixed fare | Not published |
The journey ends at Basel SBB. Everything past the barriers belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.
A room in Basel for the night the flight gets in
Hotels and flats near the centre, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.
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When to book Cologne to Basel
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €37.3190 days
- €41.5960 days
- €40.2645 days
- €42.6230 days
- €52.0421 days
- €62.0914 days
- €72.127 days
- €100.993 days
- €122.271 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €37.31.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 228 percent. The dearest point is €122.27, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 90 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €58.55Sun
- €50.94Mon
- €56.78Tue
- €62.09Wed
- €65.24Thu
- €59.19Fri
- €57.37Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Köln
Air
- CGN
Basel
Air
- BSL
What the journey actually looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
- Direct or connecting
- 43% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 57% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 389 km against 378 km in a straight line, a detour of 1 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Koblenz, Saarbrücken, Freiburg, Luxembourg. The gap between arriving and leaving is 49 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Cologne at 06:27 and the last at 07:30, across 2 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Flights against the other ways to make this journey
The same corridor, door to door, with every mode that runs it.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | 3h 24m | 2h 40m | 44m | €50.94 | 12.5 kg | 5 |
| Flight | 4h 8m | 58m | 3h 10m | €56.78 | 95.7 kg | 2 |
Questions about Cologne to Basel
The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.
How long does the Flight from Cologne to Basel take?
The Flight from Cologne to Basel takes 4h 8m door to door, of which 58m is spent moving. The route runs 389 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.
How much does the Flight from Cologne to Basel cost?
The Flight from Cologne to Basel starts at €56.78 for one passenger, checked on 29 September 2026. A typical fare is €54.72. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
Who runs the Flight from Cologne to Basel?
1 operators run the Flight from Cologne to Basel: European Air Transport. Between them they file around 2 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
Which terminal does the Flight from Cologne to Basel use?
The Flight from Cologne to Basel leaves from Köln CGN and arrives at Basel BSL. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
Is the Flight the best way from Cologne to Basel?
Travelling from Cologne to Basel by Train costs €50.94 and takes 3h 24m door to door, against 4h 8m by Flight. Which is better depends on whether the money or the hours matter more on this trip. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.
When should I book the Flight from Cologne to Basel?
Fares for the Flight from Cologne to Basel bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €37.31. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 228 percent, measured on 29 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Flight from Cologne to Basel produce?
The Flight from Cologne to Basel produces about 95.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 389 km, which works out at roughly 246 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.
Where these numbers come from
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modelled number pass for a filed one.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Cologne to Basel on 9 September 2026: 389 km of route against 378 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €56.78, and 4h 8m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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BSL is not in Basel, and the road in from it is the part of the trip nobody plans. We sell the flight and stop at the terminal door.
Getting from BSL into Basel
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