waypoints.now
waypoints / 🇨🇭 CH / Basel – Shanghai Timings are not live · Documented
Route · CH

Basel to Shanghai

1 operator run this water, from 384 h 00. Shanghai has an airport 14 km from the quay, so this is a crossing you can make one way and fly the other.

Every way across

One row per operator and speed. Where a service is sold as fast and its average does not clear 45 km/h, the word appears in quotation marks — the boat is fast craft, the crossing is not.

River Cruises Basel → Shanghai 9056 km crossing 384 h 00 rate not held 24 km/h average

Other ways to reach Shanghai

If this crossing does not suit, these quays also reach Shanghai without a change. It is the question a single-route page cannot answer about itself and an atlas can.

Busan – Shanghai 72 h 00 Costa Cruises
Tokyo – Shanghai 96 h 00 MSC Cruises, MSC Explora Journeys
Hong Kong – Shanghai 120 h 00 Azamara Cruises, MSC Explora Journeys
Keelung – Shanghai 192 h 00 MSC Cruises, MSC Explora Journeys
Yokohama – Shanghai 216 h 00 Royal Caribbean
Singapore – Shanghai 336 h 00 AIDA Cruises, MSC Explora Journeys
Jeju – Shanghai not held Costa Cruises
Kobe-Osaka – Shanghai not held Shanghai Ferry Company
Nagasaki – Shanghai not held Shanghai Ferry Company
Qingdao – Shanghai not held Qingdao Ferry Company

And other ways to reach Basel

Freiburg (im Breisgau) central station – Basel 33 min FlixBus-eu, FlixTrain-eu
Colmar – Basel 45 min FlixBus-eu
Zurich Bus Station – Basel 1 h 00 FlixBus-eu
Luzern (Landenberg) – Basel 1 h 15 FlixBus-eu
Strasbourg – Basel 1 h 40 CroisiEurope, FlixBus-eu
Nancy – Basel 3 h 05 FlixBus-eu

Where else these quays go

Which months this runs

Season not heldwe can say when we looked, not which months run

Our records for the Basel–Shanghai crossing were read on 11 August 2026 and describe the network as it ran that week. We hold no month-by-month variation, so this page cannot tell you whether a crossing runs in February.

If you are travelling well outside August 2026, confirm with the operator before you plan around it.

What we do not know

No fares. Not for this crossing, not for any crossing, not for any mode.

No departure times. No rate is held for this pair either, so we cannot say how often it runs.