Florence Tickets: Every Price and What to Book

Five tickets in Florence run on a timed slot that genuinely disappears. Everything else is a queue at worst. Book these in order and the rest of the trip stays flexible.

The Uffizi comes first, being both the busiest and the strictest: the ticket is dated, timed and named, and between April and October the morning slots go days ahead. Our reserved Uffizi entry is from €16 (about $19) and cancels free up to 24 hours ahead.

The Accademia is second. The museum's own wording is that without a reservation the wait for access may be long. Our timed David entry is €28 (about $33), fixes the hour in the same order and comes with an audio app.

Third is the Vasari Corridor, where booking is a rule rather than advice: the ticket is nominative, personal and non-transferable, you must be at the meeting point five minutes before the slot, and the corridor opens Tuesday to Sunday from 10:15. Fourth, the dome. The climb is sold only with the three-day Duomo pass, and the dome slot is fixed at purchase. Our dome climb ticket with the pass is €53 (about $62) and cancels free up to 24 hours ahead. Fifth, the Brancacci Chapel, where ten people enter per 30-minute slot: entry with an audio guide holds yours.

• 1. Uffizi: timed and named; book 2 to 4 weeks ahead for a summer morning
• 2. Accademia: timed entry, since the wait without one may be long
• 3. Vasari Corridor: booking mandatory, first entry 10:15
• 4. Dome climb: the slot cannot be changed once bought
• Everything else: no fixed slot needed. A reserved entry at the Bargello or the Medici Chapels simply fixes your hour.

Five booking systems sit behind the tickets in the table above, and each venue works with exactly one of them. Knowing which is which explains the names on a confirmation email and why the museums check ID. The last column links the ticket we list for each group.

B-ticket confuses more visitors than the other four. It is a Swiss ticketing platform that looks nothing like a museum website, yet it is the system the ministry authorises for David. A visitor who reaches tickets.uffizi.it looking for David finds nothing there at all. The Accademia ticket page explains what our timed entry covers, and the Uffizi ticket page does the same for the gallery.

There is no single pass for Florence. Four are on sale, and each covers a set the others do not touch, so a pass suits only the particular buildings you intend to enter. The Firenzecard and the two Bargello-group tickets are sold by the institutions that run them.

The five-day Uffizi, Pitti and Boboli pass is the one we list. The last column says who each suits.

The Firenzecard is the only one that includes the civic museums, the five-day pass spreads the Uffizi, Pitti and Boboli across the week, and the two Bargello-group tickets bundle David with its neighbours. None of the four covers the Duomo monuments. If your plan has the dome in it, add the dome climb with the three-day pass.

Whether the €85 card clears its own bar, what the €28 restart adds, and which reservations remain are worked out on the Firenzecard page.

Four separate discounts run in Florence and almost nobody uses more than one of them. The first Sunday of every month is free at the state museums: the Uffizi, the Accademia, Pitti, Boboli, the Bargello, the Medici Chapels and Orsanmichele. There is no reservation on those days: the ticket is issued at the entrance, so the queue is the longest of the month.

The Bargello and the Medici Chapels add 25 April and 4 November 2026; the Accademia adds 25 April, 2 June and 4 November. Santa Croce runs its own free list for 2026: 15 August, 14 September, 26 and 27 September, 4 October, 8 November, 20 December and 26 December, with no online booking and last entry at 16:30. The second is the clock: the Uffizi's €16 ticket (about $19) for entry from 16:00 is nine euro under the same-day morning price for the same rooms.

Palazzo Medici Riccardi drops from €15 to €10 between November and February. The third is age and nationality. EU citizens aged 18 to 25 pay €2 at the Uffizi, the Accademia and the Medici Chapels and €3 at Pitti and Boboli, with ID at the door.

Anyone under 18 of any nationality enters the state museums free, and still needs a slot. On the Duomo passes the reduced band is ages 7 to 14 — €12, €7 or €5 depending on the pass — and children under 6 go free; students of any age can buy the Ghiberti Pass for €5, but only at the ticket office, never online. The fourth is the cross-discount nobody advertises: a Santa Croce ticket brings Museo Galileo down from €14 to €10, and the two are a four-minute walk apart.

Every one of these discounts applies on its own, so pairing the cheapest qualifying ticket with one of the best Florence guided tours is a straightforward way to keep the total low.

A first day in Florence can cost nothing. The cathedral nave is free to visitors Monday to Saturday 10:15–15:45 — no ticket, no booking, and the dress rule applies: shoulders covered, knees covered, no flip-flops. San Miniato al Monte is free every day, with vespers sung in Latin at 18:30. Santo Spirito is free apart from its €2 sacristy. Ponte Vecchio is a public bridge and Piazzale Michelangelo a public square, both open at any hour. Mercato Centrale's food hall runs 09:00–23:00 every day, and Piazza della Signoria is an open-air sculpture gallery.

What this list does not include is the rest of the Duomo complex: the dome, the bell tower, the Baptistery, the museum and the Santa Reparata excavations are sold only inside a three-day pass, with no single-monument ticket at any price. Our dome climb ticket includes that pass. The churches page compares the free churches against the ticketed ones, and the attractions list puts the free squares into a walking order.

Tickets in Florence are dated, and several venues have dates in 2026 when they simply are not open. The dome is closed for maintenance from 16 to 20 November 2026 and the bell tower from 9 to 13 November 2026, so a Brunelleschi Pass bought for that week loses its headline monument. Casa Martelli, one of the six museums on the €38 ticket, is closed until 31 December 2026, so that ticket covers five.

The Museo Novecento has its permanent collection away at Castelfiorentino until 20 September 2026, so the €13 buys the temporary shows. The weekly pattern catches more visitors than any of those dates: every state museum here closes on Mondays, the civic museums each take a different day, and the Boboli Gardens shut on the first and last Monday of the month. Which sights open on a Monday has the whole week as a table; the Duomo complex, open seven days, is usually the answer.

Florence inverts the usual rule. At the state galleries the advance price is higher than the door price: the Uffizi is €25 at the ticket office and €29 online, Pitti €16 against €19, Boboli €10 against €13. There is no presale fee as such. The advance price is simply higher.

What the difference buys is the hour. In November, January and February, on a weekday at 08:15, the door queue is short, and walking up suits a traveller whose plans are loose. Between April and October, on a Saturday or a public holiday, the morning slots go days ahead, and a reserved ticket suits anyone with one fixed day for the city: the Uffizi slot, the David slot and the dome climb each cancel free up to 24 hours ahead.

Every seller here tells you the slot is fixed, and then stops. We read the terms of the three shops that matter: the Uffizi channel's rules of service, the access regulation the Accademia and Bargello museums signed, and the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore's general conditions. This is what each will actually do.

Where a venue publishes nothing, the row says so.

Late for the slot: nobody publishes a grace period

No official shop states a tolerance. The Uffizi channel's rules say only that a confirmed booking cannot be changed; the Accademia group's regulation sets a fifteen-minute limit at article 4, but for organised groups, and says nothing about one visitor arriving late; the Opera's conditions oblige you to respect “both data and time of visit” and stop there. The grace period is whatever the door gives you, which in practice is the queue for unbooked visitors.

Two facts soften it. The Opera's FAQ confirms the other monuments on a pass can be entered inside the 72 hours whatever happens to the booked one, so a missed dome slot does not cost you the Baptistery or the museum. And a missed morning is not a lost trip: a reserved Uffizi entry for another day is from €16 (about $19) and cancels free up to 24 hours ahead.

Missed it entirely: what is dead money and what is not

An unused official ticket is gone. The Uffizi channel refuses refunds twice over: for a purchase made in error or a visit you can no longer attend, and again “for tickets that were purchased but never retrieved”. The Accademia group rules out a refund and a rescheduling of the visit alike. The Opera is blunter: “None of the admission tickets are modifiable, cancellable or refundable.”

The reseller card is a different product, and that is this page's practical point. A reserved Uffizi entry cancels free up to 24 hours before the start time and refunds in full. Inside 24 hours, or on a no-show, it pays nothing. Some reseller tickets are non-refundable too, so read the cancel line on the card before you pay. On dates that may still move, a cancellable card is the simplest cover in the city.

Lost email, wrong name, or someone else going instead

Each shop recovers differently. The Duomo webshop is easiest: its FAQ says you get your tickets back by returning to the shop's home page and entering the credentials you registered with. The Uffizi channel never e-mails a ticket at all — the confirmation carries a reservation code, and tickets “may be retrieved at the ticket office where the event is to be held by showing the mail with the reservation code”.

The Accademia group is harshest: a lost or stolen ticket cannot “in any case be duplicated, replaced or refunded”. Names matter, because these tickets are nominative. Every Uffizi ticket has been personalised since 1 March 2022 and entry is refused where the name does not match the ID.

The Accademia group may ask for a document at the door and gives nothing back on a mismatch — but the name can be changed once, more than 24 hours before the visit, and only for an obvious typo, a wrong fare inside the same order, or serious documented reasons. The Brunelleschi Pass is “strictly non-transferable and issued in the holder's name”. A friend cannot go in your place.

Wrong shop, or the monument shut anyway

A ticket from a reseller is usually a real reservation made on your behalf, and it scans. What changes is the cancellation terms, which are the reseller's own. Two names the Accademia ticket page flags as unauthorised are accademia.org and florence-museum.com. The regulation is explicit that tickets bought through unauthorised sellers may be refused, so ask that seller in writing first, then your card issuer.

Closures split the same way. The Accademia group refunds when an exceptional event stops a site opening and names strikes among them, which makes a transport strike the one closure that gives money back. The Opera does the reverse: adverse weather, security, liturgy or force majeure may change access to the climb or cancel the reservation, and “any hypothesis of refund, in whole or in part, of the admission tickets is expressly excluded”. Nobody refunds a Monday either — check what opens on a Monday before fixing the date, and keep the indoor list for the afternoon a tower shuts in rain, as the Palazzo Vecchio tower card warns it can.