Uffizi Gallery

Uffizi tickets: your day and time, booked ahead

Every Uffizi ticket carries the visitor’s name and a time to go in. Our reserved entry with an audio guide starts from €25: you pick your day and time when you buy, the ticket goes on your phone, and the guide downloads to it, so someone talks you through the rooms as you walk. It can’t be cancelled, so book once your Florence days are fixed.

Some visitors pay little or nothing at any hour. They still need a ticket in their name, and they show their passport or ID card when they collect it.

When the Uffizi is free: the first Sunday of every month

That free Sunday comes round every month of the year, winter and summer alike, in all of Italy’s state museums. On those days nobody can book, and priority entry is suspended for cards and passes too. The only people who keep it are visitors with a disability and their companions, pregnant women and school groups within their quota.

So on a free Sunday everyone joins the same queue. The next ones fall on 6 December 2026 and 3 January 2027. If you’re travelling with a card, plan the Uffizi for another day of your trip, and you’ll walk in at your booked time instead of standing in that queue.

The Uffizi with the Firenze Card and Florence’s other passes

The Firenze Card includes the Uffizi, and booking your time is free: with the booking, you go in through the priority door. It pays off once you see four of the big museums in its 72 hours. With only the Uffizi and the Accademia, you’d spend less on the two tickets.

Card holders book on tickets.uffizi.it, choosing a day and time and then the option “Uffizi reservation for Firenze Card owners”, or by phone or at the ticket office. Every cardholder needs a booking of their own, children on the card included, and it can’t be changed later.

The Firenze Card doesn’t cover the Vasari Corridor, guided tours or group tickets. Our page on the Firenze Card and Florence’s other passes adds up which one comes out cheaper for the museums on your list.

Uffizi opening hours and the bag rules

The Uffizi is closed on Mondays and opens the same hours every other day, all year. The ticket office shuts at 17:30, which is also the last entry, and at 18:30 the staff start asking visitors to leave.

The museum’s audio guide covers the permanent collections and nothing in the temporary exhibitions. Inside, there are toilets on every floor and a café on the second floor with a terrace looking out over the city, and next to it a room for feeding and changing babies, open until 18:00.

What you see in the Uffizi, from the Medici statues to Botticelli and Leonardo

The gallery fills the first and second floors of a long building that Giorgio Vasari, the architect, designed for Florence’s Medici rulers and that went up between 1560 and 1580. Its corridors are lined with ancient statues and busts from the Medici collection, many of them Roman copies of Greek originals that have since been lost.

Off those corridors, the rooms trace Italian painting from the Middle Ages onwards: Giotto and Simone Martini, Piero della Francesca and Fra Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli and Mantegna, then Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Correggio and Caravaggio.

Botticelli has a room of his own, where The Birth of Venus hangs in a lit recess on the end wall. His other great panel, the Primavera, hangs nearby.

Leonardo da Vinci gets a room too. On one wall is his Adoration of the Magi, which he left unfinished, and on the wall beside it his Annunciation.

Further on there are European painters as well, German, Dutch and Flemish above all. The Uffizi is in the middle of restoration and rearrangement works, with some rooms closed for now, and the museum keeps a list of the works temporarily off display, so check it if one painting is the reason you’re going.

The Vasari Corridor, on its own ticket from the Uffizi

The Uffizi is also the way into the Vasari Corridor, which reopened in December 2024. It needs a separate ticket that covers the Uffizi too, in your name and booked ahead, and you go into the Uffizi two hours before your time in the Corridor. Our Uffizi and Vasari Corridor ticket costs €79 and adds an audio guide app for both. With the Firenze Card, the Corridor is a €20 supplement on top of the card.

Getting to the Uffizi, and the step-free way in

The Uffizi stands right by Piazza della Signoria, so from anywhere in the centre of Florence you walk there, and the Ponte Vecchio is a couple of minutes away on foot. The entrance is on the Piazzale degli Uffizi, the long courtyard between the two wings of Vasari’s building, and the ticket office is under the Uffizi’s loggia.

For wheelchair users there’s a ramp on Via della Ninna and lifts at the end of the visit. Wheelchairs weighing more than 230 kg in total or longer than 120 cm can’t go in.