Birsfelden
Birsfelden is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
Birsfelden is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Birsfelden
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Birsfelden
- Airports
- EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 9 km · Zürich (ZRH), 70 km · Strasbourg (SXB), 110 km
- Stations
- Basel SBB railway station, 2.6 km · Basel Badischer Bahnhof railway station, 2 km · Basel SNCF railway station, 2.7 km
- Zurich → Birsfelden73 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · CHF9–11
- Geneva → Birsfelden188 km · quickest by road, 3h 37m · CHF26–34
- Strasbourg → Birsfelden115 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · €15–20
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Birsfelden
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Birsfelden. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBut these are scenic cruises taking 8 days to tour the cities along the way; they're not point-to-point ferries.
- Get aroundYou can be carried across the Rhine by Fähri, one of Basel's four small ferry boats, which, hanging at a steel rope, are silently drawn by the current between the two banks of the river.
- Go nextThe following destinations are good day trips by train from Basel: Zürich, Bern, Interlaken (see below), Lucerne (see below), Schaffhausen — all in Switzerland, 1–2 hours from the main station (Bahnhof SBB).
From Wikivoyage: Basel, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Birsfelden – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Birsfelden
- Baselcity on the Rhine in Switzerland2.6 km
- Riehenmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Stadt in Switzerland3.6 km
- Münchensteinmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland3.9 km
- Grenzach-Wyhlenmunicipality in Baden-Württemberg, Germany2.7 km
- Muttenzmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland3.8 km
- Bettingenmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Stadt, Switzerland3.7 km