Accademia Tickets: What to Do When the Official Site Is Sold Out
Updated 14 September 2026 · Availability counted on the gallery’s own booking system
Every guide to the Accademia tells you to book ahead, and most of them suggest a few days. So we went to the gallery’s own booking system and counted what was actually on sale.
There was nothing. Not for three weeks. Thirty-eight time slots a day, twenty-three consecutive days, and not one of them available to buy.
We counted the slots. There are none
The Accademia sells timed entry through b-ticket.com, which the gallery describes as the only official channel authorized by MiC. Each open day carries 38 slots at fifteen minute intervals, from 08:15 to 17:30. We walked the calendar and counted how many of those 38 were still buyable.
| Date | Days ahead | Slots still on sale |
|---|---|---|
| 15 September to 7 October | 1 to 23 | 0 of 38, every single day |
| 8 October | 24 | 8 of 38, the first ticket you can actually buy |
| 9 and 10 October | 25 and 26 | 16 of 38 |
| 11 October | 27 | 8 of 38 |
| 13 October | 29 | Back to 0 of 38, inside an otherwise open stretch |
| 15 October | 31 | 22 of 38 |
| 18 October | 34 | 24 of 38 |
| 22 October | 38 | 36 of 38 |
| 30 October | 46 | 38 of 38. The first completely open day |
| 5 November onwards | 52 and beyond | 38 of 38 |
Two things in that table are worth saying out loud. The first ticket we could have bought was 24 days away. Advice to book a few days ahead is not cautious or optimistic, it describes a thing that was not possible on the day we looked.
And the curve is not clean. The 13th of October was completely sold out while the 11th and the 15th around it had slots. So counting weeks does not work. You have to open your actual date, because the day either side of it tells you nothing.
What the gallery itself says about that
If the page stopped there it would be frightening and wrong, so here is the other half, in the gallery’s own words on its information page:
Even if online availability is sold out, tickets can be purchased at the museum box office on the day of your visit. Please consider that waiting time could be long.
That single sentence reframes everything above. A sold out calendar is not a closed door. It means the decision in front of you is not whether you get in, it is what you pay to skip the queue, and the currency is either time or money.
We cannot tell you how long the queue is. Neither can the gallery, which says only that it could be long, and we are not going to invent a number for something we have not stood in. What we can do is put the prices side by side.
The official ticket is 20 euros. Below is what an allocation costs when the official channel has none, cheapest first. All three include entry.
Accademia Gallery David Skip The Line Entrance Tickets
The bare ticket with a time slot, and nothing else. Against 20 € official you are paying 8 € for an allocation that exists when the official one does not. Note the rating: at 4.33 it is the weakest of the three here, which is the pattern across Florence for ticket-only resales.
Florence Accademia Gallery Tour & Skip-the-Line Tickets Included
Sixty-five minutes with a guide, entry included, and you keep the museum afterwards at your own pace. At 4.86 from 3,107 ratings it is both better reviewed and seventeen euros cheaper than the bigger-name tour below, which is an unusual combination and the reason this is the one to beat.
Florence Accademia Gallery Tour with Entrance Ticket Included
Seventy-five minutes and by far the largest body of evidence in this category, at 7,964 ratings. It costs eleven euros more than the option above and rates fractionally lower, so the case for it is volume of proof rather than anything the reviews say it does better.
The same pattern we found at the Uffizi holds here: the product that sells you nothing but a ticket is the worst rated of the set, 4.33 against 4.86 and 4.77. If you are going to pay above the official price anyway, the seventeen euro step from the bare ticket to the best-rated guided visit buys more than the eight euro step from official to bare ticket does.
Every official price
| Ticket | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Regular | 20 € | Full price admission |
| Reduced | 2 € | EU citizens aged 18 to 25, up to the day of the 25th birthday |
| Under 18 | Free | Any nationality |
| Combined 48 hours | 26 € | Accademia plus the Bargello. Six euros over the Accademia alone |
| Combined 72 hours | 38 € | All six museums of the new institute, including the Medici Chapels |
The 72 hour ticket is the quietly interesting line. Eighteen euros above the Accademia alone buys five more museums, including the Bargello and the Medici Chapels, across three days. If you were going to see any one of them anyway it has already paid for itself, and almost nobody writing about the David mentions it exists.
One figure we are deliberately not giving you is the walk-up price. The official tariff table lists full price admission at 20 euros and does not publish a separate door price. A guide ranking on the first page for this search states that admission is 16 euros at the door and 20 online, being 16 plus a 4 euro reservation fee. That does not match the official table and we could not resolve it, so we are telling you the sources disagree rather than picking one. The gallery does print a 4 euro booking charge, but it prints it underneath its telephone booking number rather than in the price list, which is not the same claim.
No, there is no combined Uffizi and Accademia ticket
This is one of the most asked questions about Florence tickets and the answer is a clean no, for a reason that is structural rather than commercial. They are two different state institutes.
The Accademia is grouped with the Bargello museums, which is why its combined tickets cover the Bargello, the Medici Chapels, Palazzo Davanzati and Orsanmichele. The Uffizi is grouped with the Pitti Palace and the Boboli Gardens, which is exactly what its PassePartout covers and no more.
So no official ticket puts Michelangelo’s David and Botticelli’s Venus together. Anything sold as a combined Uffizi and Accademia ticket is a reseller buying two separate admissions and charging you once, which is a legitimate convenience and worth knowing you are paying for.
The free Sunday you cannot reserve
Admission is free on the first Sunday of every month, and in 2026 also on 25 April, 2 June and 4 November. The condition attached is the same one the Uffizi imposes, and the gallery states it without ambiguity: on those days the booking service is not active, and it will be sufficient to wait your turn at the entrance gate.
Read that against everything above. On a normal day a sold out calendar leaves you the option of paying somebody for an allocation. On a free day that option does not exist for anyone, because there are no reservations to be had at any price. Free admission days are the one occasion when the queue is genuinely the only way in.
Our honest read: if you have a single morning in Florence, the free Sunday is a bad trade. Twenty euros is less than the morning costs you.
Hours, and the ten minutes the official site disagrees with itself about
Tuesday to Sunday, 8.15 to 18.50. Closed every Monday, 1 January and 25 December. There is one advertised exception in 2026: a special opening on Monday 6 April, at normal hours and normal prices.
Last admission is where it gets untidy. The gallery’s visit page says last admission is 6.10pm. Its tickets page says admission ends thirty minutes before closing, which is 6.20pm. Ten minutes apart, on the same official site, and Google’s AI summary of this search confidently repeats the later of the two.
Treat 6.10pm as the deadline, because being wrong in that direction costs you nothing. And note separately that from 6.40 the ground floor musical instrument rooms and the first floor exhibition rooms close regardless of when you got in, so a late entry is not a full visit even if they let you through the door.
Uffizi or Accademia, if you only have one morning
The Accademia is the smaller, cheaper and faster of the two: 20 euros and roughly an hour and a half door to door, against 25 to 29 euros and three to four hours at the Uffizi. It is built around one object, and the honest consequence is that the price per minute is high.
That is not an argument against it. For a first visit to Florence the David does what people hope it will do, and being able to see it and still have the day left is worth more on a short trip than most itineraries admit. But if Renaissance painting rather than sculpture is the reason you came, the Uffizi is where the morning should go, and its pricing works in the opposite direction to what you would expect.
If you are trying to fit both, our two day plan argues for splitting them across different days, and how many days Florence needs explains why stacking them is the most common way to ruin a Florence trip.
Questions
Are Accademia Gallery tickets sold out?
On the official channel, frequently yes, and by a much wider margin than any guide admits. On 14 September 2026 we counted the bookable slots on b-ticket.com, the only channel the gallery authorises, and found nothing at all for 23 consecutive days. The first ticket we could have bought was 24 days away, and the first completely open day was 46 days away. That is a snapshot of one morning rather than a permanent state, but it is the opposite of the usual advice to book a few days ahead.
Can I get into the Accademia without a reservation?
Yes, and this comes from the gallery rather than from us. Their information page states that even if online availability is sold out, tickets can be purchased at the museum box office on the day of your visit, and warns that the waiting time could be long. So a sold out calendar is not a closed door. It means your real choice is between queueing and paying somebody who holds an allocation. Neither the gallery nor we can tell you how long that queue actually is.
How much are Accademia Gallery tickets?
Twenty euros for full price admission, 2 euros for EU citizens aged 18 to 25, and free for under 18s of any nationality. A 48 hour combined ticket with the Bargello is 26 euros, and a 72 hour ticket covering all six museums of the new institute is 38 euros. Both combined tickets launched on 15 March 2026. Prices read from the gallery on 14 September 2026, which also notes that its prices changed on 1 February.
Is there a combined Uffizi and Accademia ticket?
No, and the reason is structural rather than commercial. They belong to two different state institutes. The Accademia is grouped with the Bargello museums, so its combined tickets cover the Bargello, the Medici Chapels, Palazzo Davanzati and Orsanmichele. The Uffizi is grouped with the Pitti Palace and the Boboli Gardens, which is what its PassePartout covers. No official ticket puts the David and the Botticellis together, and anything sold as one is a reseller bundling two separate admissions.
Is the Accademia free on the first Sunday of the month?
Yes, along with 25 April, 2 June and 4 November in 2026. The catch is the same one the Uffizi has: on free days the booking service is switched off entirely. The gallery puts it plainly, saying it will be sufficient to wait your turn at the entrance gate. So the free Sunday is free and you queue for it, and there is no way to buy your way past that.
What time does the Accademia close?
It closes at 6.50 in the evening, Tuesday to Sunday, and shuts on Mondays, 1 January and 25 December. Last admission is less settled than it should be: the gallery says 6.10pm on one page and, on another, that admission ends thirty minutes before closing, which would be 6.20pm. Ten minutes apart on the same official site. Treat 6.10 as the real deadline. From 6.40 the ground floor musical instrument rooms and the first floor exhibition rooms close regardless.
Is the Accademia worth it just for the David?
For most first visits, yes, and it is the cheaper and shorter of the two big Florence galleries: 20 euros and about an hour and a half door to door, against 25 to 29 euros and three to four hours at the Uffizi. The honest caveat is that it is a small museum built around one object, so the price per minute is high. If Renaissance painting rather than sculpture is what brought you to Florence, the Uffizi is the better use of a morning.
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