Uffizi tickets sold out? What still works

Start with the official ticket shop

The Uffizi is on Italy's list as "Tour the Uffizi Gallery in Florence". The Gallerie degli Uffizi, a state museum, sells its tickets in three places: at tickets.uffizi.it, the shop every "Buy online" button on uffizi.it leads to, by phone, and at the ticket office under the loggia in Piazzale degli Uffizi. The shop has been run by a new ticketing contractor, CoopCulture, since 13 October 2025. B-ticket, the platform many older guides mention, is no longer the shop uffizi.it links to.

This is a planning guide, not a report of a recent visit. The rules and prices below come from uffizi.it, checked on 25 October 2026. The ticket shop blocks automated visits, so the one detail taken from it (same-day tickets online without the advance surcharge) comes from an archived copy of a shop page dated 14 November 2025. If you have not yet decided which ticket you need, read Choose the Uffizi visit before choosing the ticket first.

Why it sells out

The museum's FAQ puts it plainly: "Bookings for time slots are limited, so your desired time slot may be sold out." Booking is compulsory at weekends and on bank holidays. The museum does not publish how long a slot is or how many people it takes, and it can tighten the rules at short notice: during a heatwave, from 24 to 28 June 2026, it admitted only visitors with a pre-booked ticket.

Since 13 October 2025 every ticket carries the visitor's name. If the name does not match your ID document, you are not let in and the ticket is not refunded. Each account can buy up to 10 tickets a day.

The scarcest thing in the building is the Vasari Corridor, reopened on 21 December 2024. It runs in groups of 25 visitors, carers and private guides included, from 10:15 until the last group leaves at 16:45, and you can buy no more than five Corridor tickets at a time.

Official options first

1. Try another time or another day. It is the museum's own advice, and the phone line (800 615 615 toll-free in Italy, +39 055 0354135 from abroad, every day from 8:00 to 19:00) sells tickets too.
2. Turn up on a weekday. From Tuesday to Friday you can come without a booking and buy a same-day ticket, though the museum warns the wait "can be rather long". This does not work at weekends or on bank holidays.
3. Buy on the day. A same-day ticket costs €25 instead of €29, at the ticket office or online on the day itself, if slots remain.
4. Go late. The Afternoon ticket, for entry from 16:00, costs €16 on the day or €20 in advance. The ticket office closes at 17:30 and visitors are asked to leave at 18:30, so this suits a focused visit.
5. Use a free day if your dates fit. Entry is free on the first Sunday of each month and on 25 April, 2 June and 4 November. There is no booking and no priority: you queue, and receive a free ticket at the entrance. The next ones are Sunday 1 November and Wednesday 4 November 2026. Expect the longest queue of the month, in must30's view.
6. Consider the annual PassePartout (€80, or €120 for a family). It gives unlimited priority admission to the Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti and the Boboli Gardens for a year, Saturdays and holidays included, but not on free days. The museum does not say whether holders still need a timed slot, so confirm by phone before you rely on it.

Tours and resold tickets with entry included

The Uffizi does not warn against third-party sellers, and its ticketing contractor runs a trade channel for professional operators. So a resold ticket is not against the museum's rules in itself, and operators have an official way to buy. Expect to pay more than €29.

The rule that follows every ticket is the name. Wherever you book, give each visitor's name exactly as it appears on their passport or ID card. The museum runs no guided tours of its permanent collection, so any guided visit comes from a private guide.

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Timing that helps

The Uffizi opens Tuesday to Sunday from 8:15 to 18:30, and closes on Mondays, 1 January and 25 December. The Ministry of Culture's page for the museum gives last entry as one hour before closing. On Friday 30 October 2026 a national strike limits opening to 13:30 to 18:30.

If the Corridor is what you want, the Uffizi and Vasari Corridor ticket costs €43 on the day or €47 in advance, and lets you into the gallery two hours before your Corridor time. Holders of a plain Uffizi ticket can add the Corridor for €20 if their slot still has room. On Friday evenings until 20 November 2026 the Corridor also opens from 19:00 to 23:00, but that ticket does not include a visit to the gallery.

What not to do

• Do not book under a nickname or for someone else. A name that does not match the ID means no entry and no refund.
• Do not come at the weekend without a booking. Walk-up is for weekdays only.
• Do not be late for the Corridor. Visitors must be at the meeting point five minutes before their time or lose the right to enter.
• Do not take a site with "Uffizi" in its address for the museum. The official shop is tickets.uffizi.it.

Keep planning

• Italy's list, where it appears as "Tour the Uffizi Gallery in Florence".
• Choose the Uffizi visit before choosing the ticket, on matching the ticket to the visit you want.
• One week in Italy: pick a lane, not a loop, for building Florence into a week.
• The other ticket guides, including the Colosseum and Pompeii.