Uffizi Gallery Tickets: Prices, Skip-the-Line & Booking Tips for 2026

The Uffizi holds the world’s most important collection of Renaissance painting — Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and Primavera, Leonardo’s Annunciation, Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo — in a 16th-century office building (that is what “uffizi” means) beside Piazza della Signoria. It is also Florence’s most queued-for door. Here is how the tickets actually work.

Prices (as of 2026)

Ticket	Approx. price	Notes
High season (Mar–Oct)	EUR 25 + EUR 4 booking fee	Timed entry
Low season (Nov–Feb)	EUR 12 + EUR 4 fee	Quietest months
PassePartout 5-day combo	EUR 38	Uffizi + Pitti Palace + Boboli Gardens
Guided tour	EUR 45–70	Includes skip-the-line slot
EU citizens 18–25	~EUR 2	Passport/ID required

The official seller is the Gallerie degli Uffizi site (uffizi.it) and its ticketing partner B-ticket. Anything else is a reseller with a markup. The first Sunday of each month is free, queue-only — pleasant in January, miserable in July.

If you also plan to visit Palazzo Pitti and the Boboli Gardens, the PassePartout combined ticket (approximately EUR 38 as of 2026, valid 5 days) pays for itself immediately in high season.

Opening hours

Tuesday–Sunday, 8:15am–6:30pm, last entry 5:30pm. Closed Mondays, 1 January and 25 December (as of 2026 — check uffizi.it for extended summer evening openings, which run on selected nights). The Monday closure is the classic Florence trip-planning trap: if you have one full day in the city and it is a Monday, the Uffizi and the Accademia are both shut.

Skip-the-line advice

• Pre-book a timed slot — always. The reserved-ticket entrance (Door 3) moves in minutes; the unreserved queue at Door 2 runs 1–3 hours in season.
• Take the 8:15am slot. The Botticelli rooms are genuinely quiet for the first 45 minutes. By 11am they operate like a metro platform.
• Late afternoon is the second-best window. From about 4pm the tour groups are gone; two hours is enough for the highlights.
• Pick up your ticket correctly. Pre-booked tickets must be exchanged or shown at Door 3 — arrive 15 minutes before your slot. After your slot time passes, entry is not guaranteed.
• A guided tour earns its fee here. The collection is arranged chronologically over two enormous floors with minimal explanation; a two-hour guided highlights tour (roughly EUR 50) turns it from a corridor walk into a narrative of the entire Renaissance.

If timed slots are sold out

Sold-out official slots are common for summer weekends, but rarely final. Returned tickets reappear on uffizi.it in small numbers, most often in the evening for the following days — re-check before assuming defeat. Guided-tour operators hold their own allocations and usually have availability several days after the official calendar closes; at roughly EUR 50 including entry, that is the standard fallback rather than an extravagance. And in genuine peak-week emergencies, the unreserved queue at Door 2 moves fastest in the last two hours before closing — joining it at 3:30pm usually gets you inside with enough time for the highlights.

Plan the Accademia at the same time

Florence’s other unmissable booking is Michelangelo’s David at the Galleria dell’Accademia — approximately EUR 16 plus booking fee as of 2026, also closed Mondays, also sold by timed slot, also gone for summer weekends if left late. Book both galleries the same evening you fix your dates: Uffizi early morning and Accademia late afternoon (or the reverse) fit comfortably in one day with the Duomo area between them.

What to know before you go

Backpacks and umbrellas go to the free cloakroom. Photography without flash is allowed. The café terrace on the second floor overlooks Piazza della Signoria and is one of the better-value coffee stops in central Florence — espresso standing at the bar costs about EUR 1.50 as of 2026.

The gallery sits a 4-minute walk from the Duomo and directly beside Ponte Vecchio, so pair it with either in a single morning. Our Florence things to do guide maps the full centre, and if you want the background to what you are looking at, our Renaissance history guide covers the Medici patronage system that built this collection. Planning a wider loop through the region? See our Tuscany itinerary.

Our recommendation

Book the 8:15am timed entry the day your Florence dates are fixed, and decide between self-guided (EUR 29 all-in) and a guided highlights tour (EUR 50ish) based on how much Renaissance context you already carry. In November–February, the EUR 12 low-season ticket with no crowds is one of the best museum deals in Europe.