By train
Bad Aussee is a nice day trip from Salzburg by train. Take the train from the central station in Salzburg to Attnang-Puchheim. From Attnang-Puchheim, you change the train to one directed to Stainach-Irdning. Now you travel through the Salzkammergut region along the Traun River, the cities Gmunden, Bad Ischl and Hallstatt before you arrive Bad Aussee. Although it may sound like a long journey, the trip from Salzburg to Bad Aussee by train takes a mere two and a half hours.
Bad Aussee is also easy to travel starting at Graz, Linz or Vienna. If you start travelling at Graz, you take an IC train from Graz to Salzburg or Innsbruck/Bregenz and change the train in Stainach-Irdning. From Stainach-Irdning the journey doesn't take long any more, approximately half an hour before you arrive at Bad Aussee.Travellers from Vienna or Linz one of the many trains located to Salzburg, Innsbruck or Munich and travel at first to Attnang-Puchheim. Here they change the train and travel on like the travellers from Salzburg.