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City to airport · One way · All prices are totals for 1 adult · All service hours

3 ways to the airport

Recommended

The cheapest way to the airport. Nothing listed is quicker.

CFF train to Cornavin

Train · CFF/SBB, on a Unireso ticket
6 min rideEvery 10 min04:41–00:27
Genève-CornavinThe railway station in the terminal
Non-stopLuggage space
CHF 3total for 1 adultCHF 3 eachBuy ticketOn CFF/SBB, on a Unireso ticket
Pickup, hours & luggage

Boards at. Genève-Cornavin, the main station, any platform

The Unireso zone 10 ticket, CHF 3.00 for 60 minutes, valid on this train and every tpg bus and tram in the canton. Reduced fare CHF 2.00. CHF 0 with a Geneva Transport Card obtained before arrival.

Luggage. Mainline Swiss trains; racks and space by the doors.

Hours. Every few minutes through the day, six minutes to the airport.

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Bus

TPG bus 10

10 · tpg, on a Unireso ticket
15–34 min rideEvery 10 min04:59–00:48
Gare CornavinThe bus stops outside arrivals
CHF 3total for 1 adultCHF 3 eachBuy ticketOn tpg, on a Unireso ticket
Pickup, hours & luggage

Boards at. Gare Cornavin, the bus stop

The same CHF 3.00 Unireso ticket as the train — one zone, all modes. Its value is the hours: it runs later than the train every night, and much later at weekends.

Luggage. A city bus, busy at peak.

Hours. Roughly every 15 to 30 minutes, about 20 minutes to the airport.

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Taxi

Taxi, capped fare

Taxi · Licensed Geneva taxis
15 min rideTraffic dependent
Any address in the right-bank or left-bank centreThe taxi rank outside arrivals
Non-stopPer vehicleLuggage space
CHF 50total for 1 adultCHF 50 eachView details
Pickup, hours & luggage

Boards at. Any address in the right-bank or left-bank centre

A legal maximum: CHF 50 to the right-bank centre, including Cornavin, CHF 60 to the left bank, or the meter if that is lower. Pickup is CHF 7.80, then CHF 3.20 a kilometre by day or CHF 3.80 at night, on Sundays, or with more than three passengers — usually under the cap on a 4 km ride.

Luggage. Included; no supplement is published for it.

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Fares are the same ticket ridden the other way; the boarding points, hours and, where a ride differs by direction, the ride time are read for this direction. Also runs to the airport, boarding point and hours in town not recorded yet: Pre-booked private transfer, Private transfer to Lausanne. Every way from Geneva airport into Geneva

How do I get from Geneva city centre to Geneva airport?

For one traveler the CFF train to Cornavin is the way we recommend: CHF 3 in total, 6 min, boarding at Genève-Cornavin. The first one leaves at 04:41 and is at the airport by about 04:47; the last leaves at 00:27.

First departures

Earliest at the airport first
CFF train to Cornavin

First 04:41 from Genève-Cornavin, at the airport by about 04:47.

TPG bus 10

First 04:59 from Gare Cornavin, at the airport by about 05:19.

Arrival times add the recorded ride time to the first departure; no walking or waiting is added.

Before you leave for Geneva Airport

From the centre to each way out
Tickets

Buy the same CHF 3.00 unireso zone 10 ticket before you board, at a tpg or CFF machine in town — it covers the train or the bus to the airport just as it does the ride in.

Taxis to the airport

The same capped fares apply leaving the city as arriving: the canton's own page states the flat maximums "au départ de l'Aéroport international de Genève et vice-versa" — CHF 50 from the right bank, CHF 60 from the left, or the meter if that is lower.

Questions

When is the first CFF train to Cornavin from Genève-Cornavin?

04:41. It reaches the airport at about 04:47.

What does a taxi to Geneva airport cost from the centre?

The same capped fares apply leaving the city as arriving: the canton's own page states the flat maximums "au départ de l'Aéroport international de Genève et vice-versa" — CHF 50 from the right bank, CHF 60 from the left, or the meter if that is lower.

Where does the TPG bus 10 leave from in Geneva?

Gare Cornavin, the bus stop. First departure 04:59, last 00:48.

Arriving instead? Every way from Geneva airport into Geneva