Hitchhiking from Basel
Hitchhiking to Basel
Recent reviews mentioning Basel
47.06566, 8.28802
Absolute banger. Directions of Basel/Zürich. You just take your sign, sit on a fence and wait. Tons of space to stop, lots of cars and they are slow because of the traffic light.Also it is a spectacular view from the bridge if you are going from the bus station (10-15 minutes away btw)
rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min, ride: 96 km ↖
―Anonymous, February 2025
47.4201, 8.22318
Took me a while to find this spot and after some time I got a lift in the direction of Bern, to Gunzgen Nord service station, just after Oftringen.However, not many cars go to the highway from here, many continue straight in the roundabout, possibly going to the directions of Zurich and Basel, but I'm not so sure.
rating: 4/5, wait: 20 min 👍, ride: 40 km ←
―dalby, October 2024
47.04844, 8.3035
My friend and me got picked up immediately when we went to Basel. Cars have the possibility to stop either in parking lot on the left or the bus stop at the right.rating: 5/5, wait: 1 min 🪧, ride: 95 km ↖
―Anonymous, August 2024
46.49617, 7.67111
Good spot for rides to Bern or Basel. Also good for local destinations.rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min 🪧, ride: 54 km ↑
―Anonymous, August 2024
47.39117, 8.50715
I tried to go to Basel with a panel. No one stopped, and the subway driver screamed at me to move because I was to close to it.rating: 1/5, wait: 120 min
―Anonymous, July 2024
46.96727, 7.47021
2 mins to Basel.WARNING !
The current spot doesn’t exist anymore, there is a fence before the on-ramp and bumps so cars can’t stop there.
You can hitchhike BEFORE the traffic lights, not much space to stop but they go very slow and they see you
rating: 5/5, wait: 2 min 🪧
―Anonymous, May 2024
47.39117, 8.50715
The best spot to get out of Zurich, I used it twice, once to get to Basel, once to get to Avignon(France) both succesfull, you're very visible there and there is a pocket for cars to stop, there's not always a lot of traffic there but still got rides under 30minutes. To get there you have to go like a 100m back towards the city from the Sportsweg tram stop and then get thru the tram tracks closer to the road, the pole with stickers is your spot!- October 2023
rating: 5/5, wait: 25 min, ride: 597 km ↙
―Anonymous, January 2024
47.39173, 8.50547
We wanted to go to Basel, Freiburg, Frankfurt, Kassel from there.Got our first ride over the border very quickly.
rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min, ride: 40 km ↖
―161nasty, June 2023
47.88077, 10.03953
a really good spot, after some minutes a couple came to us and offered us a ride till Basel! really good place―Anonymous, August 2019
49.16021, 8.56752
Good spot if you are going towards Freiburg/Basel―Anonymous, July 2018
48.56241, 7.95736
Direction South on the A5 towards BaselNeeded 10min to get a ride with two Australian guys who brought me to Freiburg.
―Anonymous, July 2018
46.18245, 9.0019
Hard to get a lift to Chur, easy in direction Basel―Anonymous, May 2017
45.44573, 9.07501
A quite small petrol station with Autogrill.It is theoretically a good spot to hitch away from Milano but its quite hard getting there by public transportation. I took an S-train direction Abbiaragate to the station Cesano Boscone and from there bus 323 to D'Acquisto-Liberta stop at the roundabout. From there you have to cross a kind of natural park which then ends and you have to walk through 2 fields crossing two small "rivers", for the first there is a tree put as natural bridge, the second you have to take shoes off and walk through. Otherwise its impossible to get to the motorway. After this there was even some road works around the station so I had to cross the road works illegally. After all this I got a direct ride to Basel, Switzerland.
―Anonymous, August 2016
48.73168, 9.0913
Got offered a ride to Basel withing 30 mins and a ride to Zürich within one hour. Monday morning in june.―Yhtam, August 2016
47.15876, 7.287
Went from here to Basel, quite ride. Other time I drove I picked up someone from here. Best spot around―ThunderBeest, August 2016
46.18245, 9.0019
I stopped here thinking it would be a good place to get a ride north on the A13 on my way to Munich, but after 40mins of people saying they were going on the A2 towards Basel, I gave in and took a ride to 'Gunzgen Nord' to continue east towards Munich on the A1. This turned out to be a good stradegy (even though a fair detour) as i go a direct lift from there to Munich :)―Falcor, July 2016
49.16167, 8.56891
I got an very nice lift to Basel. I think, its better to ask on the gasstation and on the parking spot!―Anonymous, June 2016
47.43901, 8.34783
10 min to Basel. Great spot!―Yarex, June 2016
48.04945, 7.81054
On a friday evening (20:00) this gas station was almost abandoned. When we finally got a ride it brought us to our final destination Basel (CH)―Michaeln, April 2016
49.16167, 8.56891
Most of the southward traffic goes to Stuttgart/Karlsruhe, but not much towards Freiburg/Basel―Michaeln, April 2016