Venice Day-Tripper Fee 2027: All 72 Dates, Hours and Who Has to Pay

The fee in 2027

For 2027, neither the dates nor who has to pay is settled yet. The 2026 season is all anyone has to go on, so if you are planning a spring or summer trip, check before you travel. Torcello was never inside the charging area anyway. For a trip now, the only tickets that matter are the museum ones, and a few of them need booking.

San Marco in one ticket

Palazzo Ducale faces the lagoon, its pink-and-white diamond stonework carried on a double Gothic arcade. The enclosed Ponte dei Sospiri runs from it across a canal to the old prisons. Until the end of March it opens 09:00 to 18:00, with last admission at 17:00. Entry is €35 on the St Mark's Square Museums ticket, which also covers the Museo Correr and the monumental rooms of the Biblioteca Marciana. Book online at least 30 days ahead and it drops to €30. The reduced rate is €15. The guided Secret Itineraries route is €40 and has to be booked, and if you turn up more than 15 minutes late they won't let you in.

Basilica di San Marco next door is open 9:30 to 17:15 Monday to Saturday, and from 14:00 on Sunday, when the morning is kept for mass. Plain entry is €10, or €30 for everything. For the balcony above the piazza, pay €14, which takes in the museum and the bronze horses. The campanile out on the square is a separate €15 ticket with its own queue.

The Biennale's last days

This year's art exhibition, In Minor Keys, closes on 22 November, so you have a couple of weeks. The work sits in the national pavilions through the wooded Giardini and in the long brick rope-making sheds of the Arsenale. La Biennale di Venezia is open 10:00 to 18:00, closed Monday apart from 16 November. One ticket is €30, or €16 for students and under-26s. It gives you a single entry to each site, so give the Arsenale one day and the Giardini another. After 22 November both sites shut until the next one.

Paintings in Dorsoduro

Gallerie dell'Accademia is beside the wooden Ponte dell'Accademia, and it is where Venetian painting is explained properly. Go here first and the churches afterwards are easier to read. Giorgione's The Tempest, Veronese's Feast in the House of Levi and Tintoretto's Saint Mark Freeing the Slave all hang here. It opens 09:00 to 19:00 Tuesday to Sunday, closed Monday, and the ticket desk shuts at 18:00. Entry is €15, or €2 for EU citizens aged 18 to 25 and free under 18. Everyone gets in free on the first Sunday of the month.

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a short walk on, a low white palace right on the Grand Canal with a walled sculpture garden behind it. It opens daily except Tuesday, 10:00 to 18:00, with last entry at 17:00. Tickets are €17, or €9 for students under 26. A show of 20th-century artistic glass opens on 14 November and runs into March. Take vaporetto 1 or 2 to Accademia, or line 1 to Salute.

Punta della Dogana is at the tip of Dorsoduro, where the Grand Canal meets the basin. Inside it is stripped back to bare brick and raw concrete. Lorna Simpson's show there closes on 22 November and nothing replaces it until 21 March 2027. In the meantime, go to Palazzo Grassi further up the canal, where Amar Kanwar and Michael Armitage are both on until 10 January. One ticket covers a single entry to each building, and both open daily except Tuesday, 10:00 to 18:00.

San Rocco and the Frari

Upstairs at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Tintoretto's near-black and gold canvases fill the whole ceiling and all four walls. They are still in the room they were painted for. It opens daily 9:30 to 17:30, with the ticket office closing at 17:00. Entry is €12, €8 for students under 26, or €14 with the church next door. Tickets are sold at the Scuola desk and not online, so you simply turn up. The multimedia guide is €5 and runs on your own phone.

The Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in San Polo is a huge bare brick Gothic church. Titian's Assunta hangs at the end of the nave, framed by the marble choir screen. Canova's white pyramid tomb is in a side aisle. Winter hours are 9:00 to 18:00, from 13:00 on Sunday and holidays. It is €8 at the door or €9.50 online with priority access. The church closes to visitors for weddings, funerals and concerts, so check the calendar a few days ahead.

Rialto before 09:30

The fish stalls under the Pescaria at Mercato di Rialto are set up from about 6:30 and packing away towards noon, Tuesday to Saturday. Go between 7:30 and 9:30, while it is still a working market. There is no fish market on Sunday or Monday. The fruit and vegetable stalls of the Erbaria trade Monday to Saturday until around 13:00. It costs nothing to look, it is right beside the Ponte di Rialto, and the bàcari (wine bars) in the lanes behind open with it.

Quiet across the water

Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore is a white Palladian front rising out of the water on its own island. Vaporetto 2 from San Zaccaria takes three minutes. Entry is free and it opens 09:00 to 18:00 every day. Tintoretto's two chancel canvases have just been restored and put back. The campanile is shut for major work with no reopening date, so don't come for the view from the top. Sunday mass is at 11:00, so give that hour a miss.

Out to the lagoon islands

Torcello is flat and green, with one grass path along a canal and a tall brick bell tower standing apart from the church. Inside, a gold-ground Byzantine Last Judgement covers the whole west wall. Getting there means two boats: line 12 from Fondamente Nove to Burano, about 40 minutes, then the line 9 shuttle across in five. The Museo di Torcello on the main square opens 11:00 to 17:00 until the end of March, closed Monday, and costs €7. The basilica is a separate €5 ticket and asks you to cover shoulders and knees. If you only have one day in Venice, leave this for the next trip, as the round trip will take most of it.

On the way back, Museo del Vetro sits in the old bishops' palace on Murano's main canal. Dark rooms hold lit cases of chandeliers and winged-stem goblets. See it before anyone tries to sell you glass. Winter hours are 10:00 to 17:00 and entry is €15. The €20 Island Museums ticket also covers Torcello and the Burano lace museum for three months.

A rowing lesson

Row Venice teaches you to row standing up in a wooden batela. The lessons are out on the open water of the Sacca de la Misericordia in northern Cannaregio. The 80-minute lesson is €100 for two people, €130 for three and €150 for four. Every lesson is private, with no more than five in the boat. Book more than 24 hours ahead. If the tide is forecast above 110 cm they will move you to another slot, which is the main winter risk.

Closed days to plan around

Monday closes the Accademia, the Biennale and the Torcello museum. Tuesday closes the Guggenheim, Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana. Book Palazzo Ducale online for the cheaper rate, book the rowing at least a day ahead, and check the Frari calendar before you walk over. See the Venice guide and the Venice hotel search.