All Florence tickets: official prices, opening hours and booking

Buying Florence museum tickets is confusing for one precise reason: three different bodies sell on three different logics, and online prices rarely resemble official ones. The Uffizi costs €25 for the same day and €29 with an advance date, the Accademia Gallery €20 plus €4 booking, the Brunelleschi Pass for the Dome €30. This page puts the lot in a single table: official price, lowest online price at the time of checking, opening hours, closing days and where booking is compulsory.

The complete table of Florence tickets

Official prices come from the institutions’ own pages; the “online from” column shows the cheapest product between Tiqets and GetYourGuide in our comparison, verified regularly. Gallery tickets, church tickets and civic museum tickets all sit in the same list. Where no product exists in either catalogue the column stays empty: the official channel is the only way to buy.

Two entries need a footnote. The Boboli + Bardini Garden combined ticket at €15 exists but is sold only at the physical desks, on the day, never online. And Michelangelo’s Secret Room at the Medici Chapels costs €32 all in, with compulsory booking and a maximum of four people per fifteen-minute slot.

Which tickets really do sell out

Fear of the sold-out sign is nearly always pointed at the wrong target. The tickets that genuinely run out are few, and they share one feature: a small physical capacity.

Brunelleschi’s Dome goes up in groups every fifteen minutes on a staircase of 463 steps with no lift: it is the city’s bottleneck number one. The Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore confirms that sell-outs happen — the “On-site” Ghiberti Pass exists precisely for those days — but publishes no official lead time. With no stated figure, the only reliable yardstick is the official booking calendar: open your dates and see which is the first slot still free.

The Arnolfo Tower takes few people per slot and closes in the rain, with no refund. The Vasari Corridor accepts groups of 25, sells tickets that cannot be changed or refunded, and caps each transaction at five. The Brancacci Chapel admits ten people at a time for thirty minutes. Michelangelo’s Secret Room, four.

The Uffizi and the Accademia are a different case: they rarely sell out a whole day, but the 9:00 to 11:00 slots disappear first, and first Sundays of the month cannot be booked at all. The Uffizi site is blunt about it: on weekdays you can turn up without a booking, but “waiting times may be rather long”.

When the official site wins and when the platform does

On price there is no contest: the official channel costs less nearly everywhere. Tickets for the Uffizi museum with booking are €29 on tickets.uffizi.it, the Accademia €24 on B-Ticket, the Brunelleschi Pass €30 with no online fee at all. Platforms resell through partner operators and the mark-up shows: Accademia listings start at €31 against €20 official, and for the Dome the “premium” packages pass €60 against the pass’s €30.

There are three situations, though, where the platform is worth the difference. The first is availability: when the official slot is closed, operator allocations are often still open. The second is cancellation: official tickets for the Uffizi, the Accademia and the Duomo are neither refundable nor movable, while GetYourGuide normally gives a full refund up to 24 hours before. The third is convenience: audio guides included, apps in many languages, the ticket on your phone in seconds, everything in one order.

Two honest warnings. On Tiqets, Uffizi and Accademia tickets are declared non-refundable and non-changeable, and the audio guide is not the museum’s official one. For the Duomo complex the Opera publishes the list of authorised resellers — Tiqets is on it — and reminds buyers that nobody can sell a “skip-the-line” for the Dome, because it does not exist.

The three cards, in brief

Firenze Card — €85, 72 hours from your first entry, more than 60 museums. It covers admissions, exhibition supplements and bookings, but not the Duomo complex and not public transport. Uffizi, Accademia and Palazzo Vecchio booked in advance come to €72: you break even from the fourth major museum onwards, which means at least three full days of visits. The Restart extension costs €28 for another 48 hours.

PassePartout 5 Days — €40 on the Galleries’ official site, one entry each to the Uffizi, Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens over five consecutive days, with priority access. If your trip revolves around that cluster, it beats every other formula: the equivalent product on the platforms costs €45.

Commercial passes — the Tiqets Florence Pass starts at €92.50 and is not a timed card but a bundle of three tickets with separate slots, non-refundable. It makes sense if you want a single purchase with a city audio guide included. The number-by-number comparison is on Passes, while the bundles discounted by 5% are gathered on Combos.

Free and reduced tickets

In state museums under-18s pay nothing; the reduced rate is €2 for EU citizens aged 18 to 25 inclusive, with ID. Entry is free for everyone on the first Sunday of each month, on 25 April, 2 June, 4 November and, for all women, on 8 March. On free days booking is not possible and priority access is suspended: you queue, very early.

In civic museums under-18s are free, and the reduced rate covers 18–25s and university students: Palazzo Vecchio drops from €18 to €12. On the first Sunday of the month residents of the Metropolitan City get in free with Domenica Metropolitana, which also includes Palazzo Medici Riccardi.

At the Duomo complex under-7s are free and the 7–14 reduced rate costs €12 on the Brunelleschi, €7 on the Giotto, €5 on the Ghiberti. Students get €5 on the Ghiberti Pass only, and only by collecting it at the desk. Santa Croce is free for residents of the Comune di Firenze and for the under-18 children of paying families; Santa Maria Novella for residents of the Comune and for under-11s.

You’re already in Florence and haven’t booked

It is not a disaster. The physical desks of the state museums always sell, even when online availability is gone: the Accademia Gallery says so on its own site, and the Uffizi ticket office under the loggia of the Piazzale works all day. You pay €25 instead of €29 and queue in exchange.

For the Duomo the right move is the Ghiberti Pass On-site: Museo dell’Opera plus Baptistery at €15, sold only at the desks in Piazza San Giovanni 7 when the ordinary Ghiberti has run out. The Dome is the exception: without a slot you do not climb, and no reseller can get you in.

Then there is the plan B that always works: the museums that never sell out. The Bargello with its Donatellos and Michelangelo’s Bacchus, the Medici Chapels with the New Sacristy, San Marco with Fra Angelico, Santa Maria Novella with the Green Cloister, Palazzo Strozzi open until 20:00 and until 23:00 on Thursdays. Add the Cathedral nave, free until 15:45, and a day fills up with nothing booked at all.

Always compare the official price with the online one before you buy Florence tickets: at some museums the gap is a couple of euros and free cancellation is worth every cent, at others the mark-up tops 50% and the desk wins. The individual pages — Uffizi Gallery, Accademia and David, Florence Duomo, Palazzo Vecchio, Pitti Palace and Boboli — set out opening hours, entrance doors and suggested routes in detail.