City pass calculator for Italy

How the Italy city pass calculator works

The calculator runs in three steps, and you can go back and change your answers as often as you like.

Passes with a set number of included entries, like the Roma Pass with one on the 48-hour card and two on the 72-hour one, use them on the dearest sights you picked, the way you would on the day. The calculator counts adults only: under-18s go into Italy’s state museums and archaeological sites free, so a pass rarely changes much for them.

Which prices the calculator uses

Every price in the sum is the one on our buy buttons, per adult: the Tiqets price for each ticket and pass, and the GetYourGuide price for the Firenze Card and the Venezia Unica City Pass, which Tiqets doesn’t sell. The date next to the calculator says when we last checked them, and the passes above are at the same prices.

In Rome, the public transport box adds the cheapest mix of the city’s 24-, 48- and 72-hour tickets for your days. The Roma Pass and the 72-hour Omnia Card include the metro and buses, so they take those days off the bill.

The passes the calculator compares in each city

Rome

Rome’s sum puts the Roma Pass, for 48 or 72 hours, up against three bundles of tickets: the Rome Tourist Card, the Omnia Card and the Vatican City Pass. Eight sights are on the list, from the Colosseum and the Vatican Museums to Ostia Antica. Roma Pass and Rome’s other passes goes through each one, ticket by ticket.

Florence

Here the Firenze Card, the city’s own museum card, goes up against three smaller passes built around the Uffizi, the Accademia and Palazzo Pitti. The Duomo is on the list but not on the Firenze Card, so ticking it shows you what the cathedral adds on top. Firenze Card and Florence’s museum passes has the full list for each one.

Venice

Venice’s sum weighs the Venice Museum Pass and the Venezia Unica City Pass against two Tiqets bundles that take you into St Mark’s Basilica. The basilica and the gondola ride only come with the bundles, and the Querini Stampalia only with the Venezia Unica, so what you tick decides which one wins. Venice Pass and Venice’s museum passes goes through all four.

Naples

In Naples the Campania Artecard counts once for each of its versions, the 365 Lite, the seven-day card and the 365 Gold, next to four other passes. Pompeii, Herculaneum and the Archaeological Museum come with the Artecard, while the Sansevero Chapel only comes with the Naples City Card, which also lets you pick one underground visit, Napoli Sotterranea among them. The Naples passes are laid out side by side, with what each one includes.

Milan

Milan’s sum sets the two YesMilano City Passes, the Standard and the All-Inclusive, against the Milan City Card, The Milan Pass and the Case Museo Card, across eight sights from the Duomo to Leonardo3. The YesMilano passes also include three days of metro, trams and buses, which the sum leaves out, so if you’ll ride, they’re worth more than they show. Milan Pass and Milan’s city passes covers all five.

Verona and Turin: the city card is the one to buy

Verona and Turin aren’t in the calculator, and in both cities the city card is the one to buy. The VeronaCard gets you into the Arena, Juliet’s House, Castelvecchio, the Lamberti Tower and the other civic museums for 24 or 48 hours, with the city buses included. The VeronaCard page has what it covers and what it costs.

In Turin, the Torino+Piemonte Card takes an adult and a child under 12 into the city’s main museums and the royal residences and castles of Piedmont, with reduced tickets at many other places. The Torino+Piemonte Card page goes through each one.