Uffizi Gallery tickets: prices, opening hours and how to book

Uffizi Gallery tickets do not come at a single price. According to the price list on uffizi.it, full admission is €25 if you buy it for the same day and €29 if you choose a later date: those €4 are the booking fee that comes with reserving a time slot, not a seasonal surcharge. Anyone walking in from 16:00 onwards pays €16, or €20 if booked ahead.

Opening hours are 8:15–18:30 Tuesday to Sunday, last entry 17:30, closed on Mondays. Online platforms start at €25 with an audio guide on Tiqets, with the odd offer below that mark tied to the afternoon slots.

Uffizi tickets price: what you actually pay

Forget the old high-season and low-season split: the official price list no longer has one. Only two things matter now — when you buy, and what time you go in.

The most underrated lever here is the afternoon rate: €16 instead of €25 for the same museum, with better light in the second-floor rooms and fewer tour groups around. The trade-off is that you give up the early hours, which are also the quietest.

Platform prices quoted on this page are the ones recorded at the time of checking and move with availability. Two things to keep in mind: when an offer drops below the official €25, it is almost always an afternoon slot, and neither Tiqets nor GetYourGuide is an official Uffizi box office — they resell through accredited operators, which is where the few euros of mark-up on full-admission products come from.

How to book and skip the line at the Uffizi

The official channel is tickets.uffizi.it, run by CoopCulture, with a call centre on 800 615 615 (from abroad +39 055 0354135, daily 8:00–19:00). Any page that still points you to B-ticket or the Firenze Musei number for the Uffizi is out of date: that channel now only serves the Accademia Gallery, which we cover in Michelangelo’s David tickets.

Uffizi tickets are named: you enter the visitor’s details when you buy, and the name is checked against your ID at the entrance. If it does not match, you are refused entry and the ticket is not refunded. Each account can buy a maximum of 10 tickets per day.

Buying on the official site costs less and gives you the museum’s real time slots. Platforms earn their keep when the slot you want is sold out, when you want an audio guide on an app, or when you need to be able to cancel: free cancellation up to 24 hours before applies to many GetYourGuide products, while Uffizi tickets sold by Tiqets and the official ones are both stated to be non-refundable and non-changeable.

Turn up at the entrance 15 minutes before the time printed on your ticket. The official site names Door 3 as the entrance for visitors with a booking, and Door 1 as the pick-up point for courtesy wheelchairs and walkers. A full map of the three doors is published nowhere on uffizi.it: on the day, follow the signs and the staff out on the Piazzale, who sort the queues by sight.

How far ahead should you book? The museum says slots are limited and that the time you want may be sold out; sales open in blocks of months and are released gradually. No average lead time is published anywhere, and there is no reliable figure to quote: the official booking calendar, showing the first slot still free, is the only honest indicator. In practice, look at the calendar the moment your dates are fixed.

Uffizi opening hours, last entry and closures

The official audio guide costs €6 and is handed out until 17:00; the radio guide for groups is €1.50. If you go in after 16:00 on the reduced rate, count on barely two hours: enough for the second floor, not for everything.

Reduced tickets, free entry and free Sundays

Under 18s go free, always, wherever they are from. Reduced admission is €2 for EU citizens from 18 up to and including the day of their 25th birthday, with ID; the same terms apply to citizens of Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Uruguay.

Free entry also covers visitors with disabilities and one companion, licensed EU tour guides and interpreters, teachers and students of the faculties listed by the Ministry, ICOM members, registered journalists and Ministry of Culture staff. The European Disability Card gives free and priority entry.

Admission is free for everyone on the first Sunday of every month, on 25 April, 2 June and 4 November; on 8 March it is free for all women. On free days there is no booking and priority access is suspended: you queue, and there is a queue. If time is short, those Sundays are the worst day for the Uffizi and the best day for a less besieged museum such as the Bargello Museum.

What to see: the route in two or three hours

The official Vasari Corridor regulations set two hours as the minimum time allowed for a gallery visit. That is a realistic measure: two hours for the main rooms, three if you want to stand still in front of something.

The route starts on the second floor with the Tuscan primitives, Giotto, Simone Martini and the Pollaiolo brothers, and leads to the Botticelli rooms, permanently rehung: the Birth of Venus and the Primavera now face each other in sealed cases, with a new installation for the Annunciation, “Renaissance grey” walls, QR codes and video displays. If you read that the Botticelli rooms are closed, you are reading an out-of-date page.

Then come Leonardo, the octagonal Tribuna, the Michelangelo room with the Doni Tondo, and finally the first floor with Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi and seventeenth-century painting. Before you leave, the terrace above the Loggia dei Lanzi gives you the head-on view of Palazzo Vecchio: two minutes, no extra charge.

Some rooms rotate for rehanging — at the time of checking this affects rooms A9, A17/A21 and A40/A42 on the second floor and C7/C12, D3 and D9/D11 on the first, with the works from A40/A42 moved into rooms C9/C10. The current list is on the museum’s website: check it the day before if you are coming for one particular painting.

Vasari Corridor tickets: price, rules and room D19

The raised passage linking the Uffizi to Pitti Palace over the Ponte Vecchio is visited on a single combined ticket: €43 for the same day, €47 with a date booked in advance, €2 reduced. PassePartout and Firenze Card holders pay a €20 supplement per visit.

The rules are strict and worth reading before you pay:

• You must enter the gallery two hours before your corridor time, and at least 45 minutes have to pass between the two.
• The meeting point is room D19 on the first floor, the Venetian Chapel: be there 5 minutes early, without exception — turning up late means losing your place.
• The walk is about a kilometre, takes 45 minutes, runs one way only and does not let you back into the gallery. It is an escorted walk, not a guided tour.
• You come out at the Buontalenti Grotto, inside the Boboli Gardens: to collect anything left in the cloakroom you have to walk back round to the Uffizi from the outside.
• Booking is compulsory for everyone, including children under six and anyone entitled to free entry. Tickets cannot be changed or refunded, maximum five per transaction.
• Photos are allowed without professional equipment; video is not.

There is also an evening format: Fridays, 19:00 to 23:00 with last entry at 21:50, sold as “Vasari Corridor — special openings” at €20 for the same day and €24 in advance, with a shorter 35-minute route and an exit into Piazza Pitti. It is the cheapest way to see the corridor without paying for the whole gallery.

Guided tours and audio guides

A guide roughly doubles what you pay compared with a bare ticket, but for anyone seeing the Uffizi once in a lifetime it changes a lot: somebody who walks you in sequence from Giotto to Caravaggio saves you the two hours otherwise spent hunting for rooms.

If you would rather go it alone, there are three options: the official €6 audio guide at the desk, a platform app (cheap, but not the museum’s own audio guide, and the ratings are lukewarm), or nothing at all, reading the labels. The third is more sensible than it sounds if you already know what you are looking for.

PassePartout, Friends of the Uffizi and city passes

For anyone visiting only the Uffizi–Pitti–Boboli group, the museum itself offers the best deal. The official PassePartout 5 days costs €40: five consecutive days, one entry per site, booking required only for the Uffizi, which must be the first museum you visit, arriving 15 minutes early at Door 3. If those five days include a closed Monday, 25 December or 1 January, validity rolls over to a sixth day. The version with the Vasari Corridor costs €58.

Compare the sums: separate tickets bought in advance come to €29 (Uffizi) + €25 (Pitti and Boboli combined) = €54. The official PassePartout saves you €14. The same pass on the platforms costs €45 on Tiqets at the time of checking, €5 above the official price: worth it only if the museum’s own channel is sold out, or if you would rather have everything on one voucher.

Regular visitors have two annual cards: the annual PassePartout at €80 (unlimited priority entry to the Uffizi, Pitti and Boboli, corridor excluded; Family version €120, Boboli only €25) and membership of Friends of the Uffizi (standard €80, family €120, ages 18–26 €40 for six months), which gives free priority access to the same museums. The fee is non-refundable and priority does not apply on free days. For two people visiting the Uffizi, Pitti and Boboli once a year it does not add up; for anyone living in Tuscany it does.

The Firenze Card at €85 includes the Uffizi with free booking, but not the Duomo complex: it only makes sense from your fourth major museum onwards. The full comparison is on our Florence Pass and museum cards page.

Combos: when pairing two museums pays off

Platform combos knock 5% off the sum of the two tickets. It is no windfall, but it solves a practical problem: two coordinated time slots, paid for in one go.

The honest comparison is always with the official price: the Uffizi (€29) and the Accademia (€24 with booking) come to €53 through the museums’ own channels. A combo costing more than that is selling you availability, audio guides and support — if you need them, the mark-up is a conscious choice; if you are buying months ahead, it almost never is. Every pairing is compared on our combo tickets page.

Bags, photos and the rules at the door

There is a metal detector at the entrance. The cloakroom is free, in the east loggia, and takes items up to 40×40×50 cm: large rucksacks, bulky bags, suitcases, wheeled cases and big umbrellas must be left there. If you are arriving with luggage, drop it at a luggage storage point first — the museum is not set up for suitcases.

Water is allowed in flasks, thermoses or plastic bottles up to 50 cl; no glass, no food, apart from baby food, juice cartons under 25 cl for children, and medical or dietary products. Larger bottles go in the bins next to the security check.

Photos yes, for personal and study use, without flash, tripods, stands, selfie sticks or lighting; in the temporary exhibitions they are banned. You may sketch in pencil or on a tablet, but not with paints. The regulations ask for appropriate dress: no swimwear, revealing clothes, formal wedding attire or costumes. Groups are capped at 16 people and whisper systems are compulsory above six.

Getting there and when to go

The entrance is at Piazzale degli Uffizi 6, between Piazza della Signoria and the river. It is a five-minute walk from the Duomo and three from the Ponte Vecchio. From Santa Maria Novella station it is about a quarter of an hour on foot via via de’ Cerretani.

Driving is not an option: the centre is a restricted traffic zone and the area around the museum is pedestrian. A city bus and tram ticket costs €2.00 for 90 minutes, but for the Uffizi you only need one if you are coming from the airport or the suburbs.

The best times are the 8:15 opening and the slot from 16:00, which also costs less. Avoid the first Sunday of the month, long weekends and rainy mornings in high season, when everybody picks an indoor museum. Month by month, the picture is set out in when to visit Florence.

Nearby

Palazzo Vecchio and the Arnolfo Tower are five minutes away; ten minutes further, across the river, are Pitti Palace and the Boboli Gardens, where the Vasari Corridor comes out. In the other direction lie the Duomo and Brunelleschi’s Dome and, behind San Lorenzo, the Medici Chapels.

If you are building an itinerary and want official prices, opening hours and online prices for every monument in one table, it is on our Florence museum tickets page.

Uffizi Gallery tickets in Florence cost €29 at full price on the official channel, €25 for the same day and €16 in the afternoon; the platforms charge a few euros more and give you slots, audio guides and, in some cases, the option to cancel. Choose according to how close your date is: the further off it is, the more the official channel wins.