Last verified: September 16, 2026. That afternoon I checked every date on both official ticket shops, the Uffizi’s and the Accademia’s, read the Uffizi’s 2026 fares and notices and the Accademia’s new ticket rules, and compared official prices with the main reseller listings. I’ll re-run both availability checks and re-read every price and rule in this guide monthly.
On September 16, 2026, the Uffizi’s official shop had seats on every bookable date through December. The same afternoon, the Accademia couldn’t sell me a standalone ticket to see the David on any day for the next three weeks. Same city, same week, opposite problems.
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That’s the thing about Uffizi tickets in 2026. Most guides still treat Florence’s two big museums as one booking with one rule. They aren’t. They run on different ticket systems, with different prices and different ways of selling out.
You’ve probably met some of the confusion already. One guide quotes a €12 winter price that no longer exists. A marketplace calls a €26 ticket an “Uffizi and Accademia combo”, which it isn’t. Another sells “skip the line” at nearly double the official price.
This guide covers what each ticket costs now, what the name on your ticket means, how far ahead each museum really sells out, and how to book both on the official shops. Then come the back doors when your date is gone, and a one-day plan for both. For how Italy’s fixed-date sights are booked across the country, the experiences guide has the full ladder.
Key Takeaways
- Uffizi tickets cost €25 at the desk or €29 online on tickets.uffizi.it, one price all year since January 1, 2026 (Gallerie degli Uffizi, 2026). Entry from 16:00 costs €16 on the day.
- Both museums now print your name on the ticket and check it against ID.
- On September 16, no Uffizi date was sold out, but the 8:15 slot alone was gone on 16 of the next 17 open days.
- The David’s standalone ticket was sold out into October. The €26 Accademia and Bargello pass still had slots every day.
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How Much Do Uffizi Tickets Cost in 2026?
Since January 1, 2026, a full Uffizi ticket costs €25 bought on the day or €29 booked in advance, at one price year-round (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Tickets and fares, 2026). The €4 difference is the booking fee. Entry from 16:00 costs €16 on the day or €20 in advance, and under-18s go free.
That flat price is new. Until October 2025, the Uffizi sold a cheaper ticket for entry before 8:55, and that went with the switch to a new ticketing contractor. Until the end of 2025 it also charged less in winter, and that ended on January 1, 2026, when the afternoon ticket arrived (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Afternoon discount notice, 2026). A December slot on the official shop still checked out at €29 when I tried it, so don’t plan around the old winter discount.
EU citizens aged 18 to 24 pay €2, as do citizens of Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Uruguay (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Free and reduced tickets, 2026). Visitors with a certified disability get in free with one companion. Everyone else pays full price, whatever their age.
The first Sunday of every month is free for everyone. You can’t book those days online, though, so it’s a queue at the door.
The Uffizi also sells two things most visitors don’t know about. The PassePartout 5 Days costs €40 and covers the Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti and the Boboli Gardens, and you book your Uffizi slot first. The Vasari Corridor, reopened in December 2024, is a timed extra: €47 booked with the Uffizi, or a €20 add-on if you already hold a ticket.
The 2026 list for both museums follows, including the passes people confuse with each other.
| Ticket | On the day | Booked online | What it covers | Where to book |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uffizi, full | €25 | €29 | Uffizi Gallery | tickets.uffizi.it |
| Uffizi, afternoon | €16 | €20 | Uffizi, entry from 16:00 | tickets.uffizi.it |
| Uffizi, reduced | €2 | €2 | EU citizens 18 to 24 | tickets.uffizi.it |
| Uffizi, under 18 | Free | Free | ID needed | tickets.uffizi.it |
| PassePartout 5 Days | €40 | €40 | Uffizi, Pitti, Boboli | tickets.uffizi.it |
| Uffizi + Vasari Corridor | €43 | €47 | Uffizi plus a Corridor slot | tickets.uffizi.it |
| Corridor, Friday evening | €20 | €24 | Corridor only, 19:00 to 23:00 | tickets.uffizi.it |
| Accademia | €20 | €24 | Galleria dell’Accademia | B-Ticket |
| Accademia + Bargello, 48 hours | €26 | €30 | Accademia, then the Bargello | B-Ticket |
| Five museums, 72 hours | €38 | €38 plus fee | Accademia, Bargello, Medici Chapels, Orsanmichele, Palazzo Davanzati | B-Ticket |
| Firenze Card | €85 | €85 | 72 hours, free reservations at both | firenzecard.it |
Groups of 11 or more pay an extra €70 at the Uffizi (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Group fee notice, 2026). If you’re costing a whole trip, what a Florence museum day costs all-in sits inside the wider Italy budget.
Accademia Tickets: What Does the David Cost Now?
On February 1, 2026, the Galleria dell’Accademia raised its full ticket from €16 to €20 (Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze e Musei del Bargello, Combined tickets and new opening hours, 2026). Add the €4 booking fee and the David costs €24 online. That’s the price I saw at checkout on September 16.
The Accademia now belongs to a bigger institution. Since March 15, 2026, it has shared management, hours and tickets with the Musei del Bargello, which include the Bargello itself, the Medici Chapels, Orsanmichele and Palazzo Davanzati (Musei del Bargello, 2026). Casa Martelli is closed for renovation.
Two passes came with the merger. A 48-hour ticket at €26 covers the Accademia and the Bargello. Your booked slot is your Accademia entry, and the Bargello is yours any time in the following 48 hours. A 72-hour ticket at €38 adds the Medici Chapels, Orsanmichele and Palazzo Davanzati.
One myth needs killing. No combined Uffizi and Accademia ticket exists. The €26 ticket some ticket sites call one covers the Accademia and the Bargello. The only product that includes both the Uffizi and the David is the €85 Firenze Card.
Hours changed too. All the merged museums keep the same hours, Tuesday to Sunday, 8:15 to 18:50, with last admission at 18:10. EU citizens aged 18 to 25 pay €2 and under-18s are free, but the €4 fee still applies if you book. The Accademia has no cloakroom, and bags over 40 by 30 by 18 centimetres stay outside.
Is the Bargello worth the extra €6? I think it’s the best-value add-on in Florence. Donatello’s bronze David is there, in the Bargello, the museum most people walk past on their way to the Uffizi.
Why Do Uffizi and Accademia Tickets Now Carry Your Name?
To stop resale. Since October 13, 2025, every Uffizi ticket has been nominative. If the name doesn’t match your ID document, you’re refused entry with no refund (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Important notice to visitors, 2025). The Accademia followed under new ticket rules adopted on July 24, 2026, making every online and call-centre ticket nominative too.
For years, part of “sold out” in Florence was inventory held by third parties and sold on at a markup. In April 2024, the Guardia di Finanza seized 58 Accademia tickets being resold at €25 when the official price was €16 (FirenzeToday, 2024). The same operation found Uffizi tickets going for €40 against €26.
The two museums’ rules differ in the details, so read them separately.
- Uffizi: you need an account to buy, and you can book up to 10 tickets per day, or 5 if the order includes the Vasari Corridor. The Uffizi publishes no rule for changing a name or date, so treat the booking as final.
- Accademia: up to 10 tickets per online transaction. You can correct a name once, up to 24 hours before your visit, but only for a typo, a wrong ticket type or a serious documented reason (Galleria dell’Accademia e Musei del Bargello, Regolamento titoli di accesso, 2026). Dates can’t be changed, and there are no refunds unless the museum itself is forced to close.
Florence’s third big booking works the same way. The Duomo’s Brunelleschi Pass carries your name, and since March 1, 2025 the dome climb also needs ID, with a 5-minute limit on late arrival (Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore, New entry rules for the dome, 2025). It’s the same pattern as the Colosseum’s name-change cutoff in Rome.
The Accademia’s rules also go after reseller marketing. Article 7 bars sellers from advertising “skip the line”, “fast track” or “priority entrance” and from posing as official. Plenty of listings still use exactly those words.
So type every name exactly as it appears on the passport. Bring that passport. A ticket bought in someone else’s name is now a gamble you lose at the door.
How Far Ahead Do the Uffizi and the Accademia Sell Out?
In my September 16, 2026 check of both official shops, no Uffizi date through December 31 was sold out online. But the 8:15 slot alone was gone on 16 of the next 17 open days. The standalone Accademia ticket was either not on sale or sold out on every open day until October 9.
My method was simple. The Uffizi and Accademia shops both load their calendars from their own data feeds, and I read every date for one adult, full price. Mondays are closed at both museums, and the first Sunday of the month can’t be booked.
The Uffizi Sells Out by Time, Not by Date
The tightest day was September 29, with 15 of its 35 time slots still open and about 1,100 seats left, all from 12:15. The morning goes first. All three early slots, 8:15, 8:30 and 8:45, were gone on eight days between September 22 and October 6. The 16:00 slot, the first of the afternoon tickets, was gone on 16 of 17 days to October 7. From October 8 almost everything reopened.
The Accademia Sells Out by Date
For September 17 to 30, the shop didn’t offer the standalone ticket at all. October 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8 and 13 were fully sold out, 0 of 38 slots. October 11 had one ticket left, at 11:00. Mornings didn’t reopen until October 21, and the calendar only looked comfortable from October 22, five weeks out.
Why the Two Museums Differ
The gap comes down to capacity. Even on its tightest day the Uffizi still had more than 1,000 seats left online, and its ticket office sells on the day. The Accademia pushes about 2.2 million visitors a year through one building, and its standalone allocation is far smaller. There’s also a release pattern at the Uffizi: sales for April to December 2026 opened on February 2, released gradually, and nothing for 2027 was on sale yet.
In season, then, book the Accademia the day your Florence dates are fixed. Book the Uffizi soon after if you want 8:15 or 16:00. The David needs more notice than the Vatican’s four-week horizon, and the Uffizi needs less. From mid-October nearly every Uffizi slot I checked showed 100 or more free seats, which matches the months when Florence thins out.
How Do You Book Uffizi Tickets on the Official Site?
Book the Uffizi only on tickets.uffizi.it, run by CoopCulture since October 13, 2025. You need an account, and the shop caps you at 10 tickets per day (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Important notice to visitors, 2025). Slots start every 15 minutes from 8:15 to 16:45, and each gives you a 30-minute window to enter.
- Go to uffizi.it and follow the tickets link to tickets.uffizi.it. Switch the page to English.
- Create an account and log in. The shop won’t let you buy without one.
- Choose “Uffizi”. Firenze Card holders pick “Uffizi reservation for Firenze Card owners” instead, which is free.
- Pick your date. First Sundays show as not available online.
- Pick a time slot. Slots with no seats simply aren’t listed, so a gap in the list means that time is sold out.
- Choose the ticket type. The afternoon ticket only appears on slots from 16:00.
- Enter each visitor’s name exactly as it appears on their passport or ID card.
- Pay, and keep the confirmation. Bring the matching ID for everyone on the booking.
Adding the Vasari Corridor? Book it in the same order and plan your day around it. You enter the Uffizi 2 hours before your Corridor slot, and you must be at the meeting point in Room D19 five minutes early, or ten minutes early on Friday evenings, or you lose the right to enter. Groups are 25 visitors, and the walk ends at the Boboli Gardens.
The call centre takes bookings too, on 800 615 615 from Italy or +39 055 0354135 from abroad, daily from 8:00 to 19:00.
Now the domain rule. The Uffizi’s own sites are uffizi.it and tickets.uffizi.it, and nothing else. Several sites that look official aren’t. Visituffizi.org, which uffizi.org now redirects to, and uffizi.museum both say so in small print. Tickets-florence.it calls itself an “authorized partner” and is built by Headout. Florence-museum.com carried no “not official” wording that I could find. The routines they share are in the lookalike sites and ticket touts guide.
How to Book the Accademia, and the €26 Trick When the David Sells Out
B-Ticket is the only official online seller for the Accademia (Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze, Tickets, 2026). When the standalone ticket is sold out, check the €26 Accademia and Bargello 48-hour ticket. It runs on its own allocation, and on September 16 it had slots on every open day the €24 ticket didn’t. Online it costs €30 with the booking fee.
- Open the tickets page on galleriaaccademiafirenze.it and follow it to the B-Ticket webshop.
- Choose “Galleria dell’Accademia” for the David alone, or the 48-hour or 72-hour pass.
- Pick a date. Dates missing from the calendar are closed or not bookable online.
- Pick a 15-minute slot. Slots start every 15 minutes from 8:15, with the last at 17:30.
- Choose the ticket type and enter every visitor’s name as it reads on their ID.
- Pay. The full ticket totals €24 with the booking fee.
On my check, the trick looked like this. On September 18, the standalone ticket wasn’t on sale at all, but the 48-hour pass had 25 open slots starting at 8:15. On September 29 the pass still had 10 slots from 15:00. For €6 more than the David alone online, you get the same entry and a second museum.
Prefer to book by phone or in person? The call centre is on +39 055 294883. You can also book at the Orsanmichele ticket office on Via dei Calzaiuoli, at “My Accademia” on Via Ricasoli 105/r, Tuesday to Sunday from 8:15 to 17:00, or at the Bargello. Booked tickets are collected at Via Ricasoli 51.
What about arriving late? The Accademia’s rules say no delay over 15 minutes, but that line sits in the article for groups. Nothing official sets a grace period for individuals, so arrive before your slot starts.
Building the rest of the trip around these two slots? Three nights in Florence, planned, puts the Duomo, the Oltrarno and the day trips around them.
What Can You Do When Uffizi or Accademia Tickets Sell Out?
When your date looks gone, try these in order: another time slot, the ticket office under the Uffizi loggia, the Accademia’s own passes, the Firenze Card, then a licensed small-group tour. In my September 16 check, the Uffizi never sold out a whole date, and the Accademia’s passes stayed open while the David alone didn’t.
- Another time slot. At the Uffizi, the date is rarely gone. Look at 11:00 to 15:00, or 16:15 to 16:45 on the afternoon ticket.
- The ticket office under the Uffizi loggia. The Uffizi says its ticket office keeps selling as normal even when online sales are closed (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Tickets, 2026). That’s €25, or €16 from 16:00, with no booking fee. In season, expect a queue.
- The Accademia’s 48-hour or 72-hour pass. At €30 online, the 48-hour pass is the cheapest way to see the David on a date the €24 ticket has gone.
- The Firenze Card. At €85 for 72 hours, reservations at the Uffizi and the Accademia are free, subject to availability (Firenze Card, FAQ, 2026). An app-only €28 restart adds 48 hours, but the card doesn’t cover transport or the Vasari Corridor.
- A licensed small-group tour. Licensed guides book group entries separately. Uffizi groups are capped at 16 people with headsets above 6, and Accademia groups at 20.
The Firenze Card rarely saves money. At 2026 prices, the Uffizi at €29, the Accademia at €24, Palazzo Pitti at €19 and Boboli at €13 come to exactly €85. The card only pays off from a fifth museum. What it really buys on a sold-out week is a reservation you can still get.
And skip the first Sunday unless it’s winter. Free entry at both museums means no online booking, so you trade the price of a ticket for the year’s longest queue.
Anyone selling tickets in the street near either museum isn’t official. B-Ticket’s own home page says those sellers aren’t affiliated with the museum.
Can You See the Uffizi and the Accademia in One Day?
Yes, and the afternoon ticket makes it cheaper. Book the Accademia at 8:15, the first slot of the day, then the Uffizi from 16:00 on the €20 advance ticket or €16 at the desk (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Afternoon discount notice, 2026). The walk between them takes about 15 minutes. You save €9 against a morning Uffizi slot booked online.
Plan A: The David First
- 8:15 Accademia. Allow an hour to 90 minutes.
- Late morning the Bargello, if you bought the 48-hour pass, or San Lorenzo and the market.
- 16:00 to 16:45 Uffizi afternoon slot. Last entry is 17:30 and the gallery closes at 18:30, which gives you about two and a half hours.
Plan B: The Uffizi First
When the 8:15 Accademia slot is gone, flip it. Take an early Uffizi slot, which reopened almost daily from October 8 on my check, then the Accademia in the afternoon. The Accademia’s afternoon slots were the first to come back on its calendar.
Rules That Apply to Both Plans
- Both museums close on Mondays, January 1 and December 25.
- The Uffizi’s last entry is 17:30. The Accademia’s last admission is 18:10.
- Leave big bags at your hotel. The Accademia has no cloakroom.
- The Vasari Corridor doesn’t fit a two-museum day. It needs the Uffizi two hours ahead and ends in the Boboli Gardens, so pair it with Pitti on a PassePartout day instead.
The David is the harder booking for a simple reason. The Uffizi Galleries counted 5,294,968 visitors across their three sites in 2024, and the Accademia about 2.19 million in one building (Ministero della Cultura, 2024 visitor ranking, 2025). The Uffizi Galleries get more than twice the visitors, but they spread them across three sites.
The rest of 2026 at a glance:
| Date or period | Uffizi | Accademia and the Bargello museums |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday to Sunday | 8:15 to 18:30, last entry 17:30 | 8:15 to 18:50, last admission 18:10 |
| Mondays, January 1, December 25 | Closed | Closed |
| First Sundays: October 4, November 1, December 6 | Free, not bookable online | Free, not bookable online |
| November 4 | Not bookable online | Not bookable online |
| Fridays to November 20 | Vasari Corridor evenings, 19:00 to 23:00, sold out on my check | Normal hours |
| November 30, Festa della Toscana | Normal hours | Evening opening, 17:15 to 21:00 |
If this is one stop on a longer trip, the 10-day route through Florence has both museums built in, and Florence as a base for Tuscany covers the days after.
FAQ
How far in advance should I book Uffizi tickets?
For an 8:15 or 16:00 slot in season, book as soon as your dates are fixed. On September 16, 2026, no Uffizi date through December was sold out, but the 8:15 slot alone was gone on 16 of the next 17 open days. Book the Accademia first, because its dates sold out further ahead.
How much are Uffizi tickets in 2026?
€25 at the desk or €29 online, one price all year since January 1, 2026. Entry from 16:00 costs €16 on the day or €20 in advance. EU citizens aged 18 to 24 pay €2, and under-18s are free with ID. The first Sunday of each month is free but can’t be booked.
Is there a combined Uffizi and Accademia ticket?
No. The €26 ticket often described that way covers the Accademia and the Bargello for 48 hours. The Uffizi’s own combined ticket is the €40 PassePartout, with Palazzo Pitti and the Boboli Gardens. Only the €85 Firenze Card includes both the Uffizi and the Accademia.
Are Uffizi and Accademia tickets named?
Yes. Uffizi tickets have carried the visitor’s name since October 13, 2025, and entry is refused with no refund if it doesn’t match your ID. Accademia online tickets became nominative under rules adopted in July 2026, with one name correction allowed up to 24 hours before.
Can I buy Uffizi tickets at the door?
Yes. The ticket office under the Uffizi loggia sells same-day tickets at €25, or €16 from 16:00, and the Uffizi says it keeps selling when online slots are gone. In season, expect a queue. First Sundays are free and can’t be booked online, so that queue is the longest of the month.
The 7 Rules, in Short
Uffizi tickets and Accademia tickets don’t sell out the same way, and that’s the whole trick.
- The Uffizi costs €25 at the desk or €29 online, one price all year, and €16 on the day from 16:00.
- The Accademia costs €24 online since February 2026, and the €30 online pass adds the Bargello.
- Both tickets carry your name. Bring the passport you booked with.
- At the Uffizi, book the time. The date almost never sells out, but 8:15 and 16:00 do.
- At the Accademia, book the date first, because that’s what goes.
- When the David is sold out, try the 48-hour pass before any reseller, and remember the Uffizi desk still sells on the day.
- Book only on tickets.uffizi.it and B-Ticket, and never buy from someone in the street.
In season, this is the order I’d book in: the Accademia and the Uffizi’s early slots about five weeks out, Pompeii as soon as its calendar reaches your date, the Vatican as soon as your dates are set, then set the Colosseum alarm for 30 days out. The sequencing rule for Italy’s fixed-date sights covers the rest of the country, and the Pompeii ticket guide follows on October 10.
