Uffizi Gallery opening hours, closing days and free days

Closing days and special Monday openings

The Uffizi is closed every Monday, on 1 January and on 25 December. In 2026 Christmas Day falls on a Friday, as does 1 January 2027. Two Mondays opened as exceptions in 2026, Easter Monday 6 April and 1 June, both now past, and nothing has been announced for the Mondays around Christmas and New Year. The museum’s own advice is to check its notices page before you travel to confirm openings, particularly for Mondays. The Vasari Corridor does not open on special Mondays even when the gallery does. On a Monday, Palazzo Pitti and the Accademia are closed too; the Boboli Gardens close only on the first and last Monday of each month.

Holiday Mondays are the ones that open. Easter Monday opened in 2024, 2025 and 2026, so 29 March 2027 is likely to follow. Around Christmas the pattern is less steady: Monday 5 January 2026, the day before Epiphany, opened with normal hours, while Monday 29 December 2025 stayed closed. Each special Monday is announced on its own on uffizi.it, usually one to four weeks ahead, and the Christmas ones often only in the second half of December.

What is open in Florence on a Monday

On an ordinary Monday you still have options, as long as you know which museums take the day off.

Under the first-and-last-Monday rule, the Boboli Gardens open on 9, 16 and 23 November, 14 and 21 December, 11 and 18 January, 8 and 15 February and 8, 15 and 22 March. They close on 2 and 30 November, 7 and 28 December, 4 and 25 January, 1 and 22 February and 1 March. Monday 29 March 2027 is both the last Monday of the month and Easter Monday, when Boboli has opened in recent years, so watch for a notice. The garden can also close at short notice in bad weather.

Christmas, New Year and the 2026–27 holiday calendar

Apart from 25 December and 1 January, the Uffizi opens through the holidays. The full holiday timetable usually appears in the second half of December, so this calendar separates what is fixed by the standing rules from what is only expected from recent years.

The first Sundays of 2027 depend on the Ministry’s scheme continuing, which has not yet been confirmed. From 26 December to 6 January the gallery is at its busiest for the winter, so book a timed ticket for those dates and take the first slot of the day. Our guide to the Uffizi in winter covers the rest of that season, from the 4 p.m. ticket at dusk to the coat rules.

Holidays later in 2027

Strike days

On national strike days the Uffizi can open for the afternoon only. For the strike of 30 October 2026 the museum has guaranteed the gallery from 1.30 to 6.30 p.m., with the Boboli Gardens open all day; the notice says nothing about Palazzo Pitti. Strikes appear in the notices banner at the top of uffizi.it, usually a week or more ahead.

If a strike hits your visit:

1. Check the uffizi.it notices in the week before your trip.
2. If you hold an official morning slot, contact the museum’s booking service. Official tickets are non-refundable when you cancel, and the terms do not spell out what happens on a strike day.
3. If you booked through GetYourGuide or another reseller and the supplier cancels, you are normally offered a new date or a refund. A ticket with free cancellation up to 24 hours before, such as the Uffizi Gallery Reserved Entry Ticket & Audioguide ($49, 4.4 from 2,168 reviews), lets you move or drop the visit yourself once a strike is announced.
4. Spend the morning in the Boboli Gardens and go into the Uffizi after 1.30 p.m.

Evening openings in 2026

There is no weekly evening opening of the gallery in 2026. The Tuesday evenings until 10 p.m. that older articles describe ran in 2024 and ended that December. Occasional one-off evenings, two so far in 2026, are announced on the museum’s notices page: the European Night of Museums on 23 May and the European Heritage Days on 26 September, when the second floor opened from 7 to 11 p.m. with last entry at 9.30. The next likely one is the 2027 Night of Museums, usually held in mid to late May.

The one recurring evening is the Vasari Corridor. Every Friday from 3 July to 20 November 2026 the corridor opens from 7 to 11 p.m., with the last group leaving at 9.50 p.m. The ticket is €20 on the day and €24 booked ahead, booking is compulsory, and it covers the corridor only: you pass through the Uffizi but cannot visit any of its rooms. The walk takes about 35 minutes, meets at the entrance beside the Loggia dei Lanzi ten minutes before the slot, and ends through the Rondò di Bacco gate into Piazza Pitti. There is no cloakroom on Friday evenings, so leave the backpack at the hotel. Nothing is announced for the winter after 20 November; for the daytime alternatives, see what winter looks like at the Uffizi. Daytime corridor tickets, which do include the gallery, are on our Vasari Corridor page.

Free days in 2026 and what they are like

The Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti and the Boboli Gardens are free on the first Sunday of every month under the Ministry’s Domenica al Museo scheme, and on 25 April and 2 June. On 4 November, a Wednesday in 2026, only the masterpiece rooms of the second floor open free, not the whole museum.

First Sundays in early 2027 fall on 3 January, 7 February, 7 March and 4 April; the scheme’s continuation into 2027 has not yet been confirmed.

No reservations and no priority passes are accepted on free days, apart from visitors with disabilities, their companions and pregnant women, so the PassePartout, the annual pass and the Firenze Card all lose their priority entry that day. You receive a free ticket at the door after admission, and you cannot go back out and come in again. The one exception is the Vasari Corridor, which still needs an online reservation on free Sundays, at no cost, while slots last.

Expect a line. Visitors report 45 to 90 minutes if they arrive for the 8.15 a.m. opening and two to four hours by mid-morning in peak season, and reported turnout on recent free Sundays has passed 10,000 people in a day. For a first visit I would pay the €25 and go on the Saturday, or arrive before 8 a.m. on the Sunday and treat the wait as part of the morning. Which queues a reservation removes, and which it does not, is set out in our Uffizi in winter guide.

Tickets, the afternoon discount and when to book

Standard entry costs €25 at the ticket office on the day and €29 booked before the day; the €4 is the museum’s advance-booking surcharge. From 4 p.m. the afternoon ticket costs €16 on the day or €20 in advance and leaves two and a half hours before the exit call, which covers the museum’s own “Fast” route of 1½ to 2 hours around the second floor. The 2025 early-bird ticket has been withdrawn and replaced by this afternoon discount. EU citizens aged 18 to 25 pay €2, and under-18s of any nationality enter free with ID. Every ticket has been nominal since 13 October 2025: names go on at booking and are checked against ID at the door. Every ticket type, discount and pass is on our guide to Uffizi ticket prices, discounts and free entry.

Reseller tickets bundle the €29 entry with a slot and an audio guide or a live guide. The Uffizi Gallery Reserved Entry Ticket & Audioguide ($49, 4.4 from 2,168 reviews) comes with an audio-guide app and staff at a meeting point on Via dei Gondi who hand over the tickets; cancellation is free up to 24 hours before. If you would like a person instead of an app, the Renaissance Masterpieces Guided Tour ($84, 4.6 from more than 6,000 reviews) is a 1½-hour guided visit with earpieces and a luggage deposit at the operator’s office. More options are on our tickets page and guided tours page.

Last admission and arriving late

The gallery closes at 6.30 p.m., but nobody gets in after 5.30. This catches out more visitors than anything else in the timetable: turn up at 5.35 p.m. and you are turned away with the doors still open for another hour. What your arrival time buys you:

• 8.15 a.m.: the whole day, and the emptiest Botticelli rooms.
• 4 p.m., on the afternoon ticket: up to two and a half hours, enough for the highlights at a steady pace.
• 5 p.m.: about 90 minutes, a dash rather than a visit.
• After 5.30 p.m.: no entry.

Most people need two to three hours, so be through the doors by 4 p.m. at the latest. With a booked slot, arrive 15 minutes early to clear security. Visitors who arrive late report that they could still collect their ticket but lost priority entry and had to queue; the strict 15-minute cancellation window quoted on some websites is not in the Uffizi’s terms. The Vasari Corridor is the exception: miss your meeting time there and you lose the place.

Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens hours

Palazzo Pitti keeps the Uffizi’s timetable: 8.15 a.m. to 6.30 p.m., Tuesday to Sunday, last admission an hour before closing, closed Mondays, 1 January and 25 December. Tickets are €16 on the day and €19 in advance.

The Boboli Gardens open at 8.15 a.m. every day except the first and last Monday of the month and close with the daylight: 4.30 p.m. from November to February, 5.30 p.m. in March and October while standard time applies, 6.30 p.m. in the daylight-saving weeks of spring and autumn, and 7.10 p.m. from June to August. A garden ticket is €10 (€13 in advance), and a combined Pitti and Boboli ticket €22 (€25). The PassePartout 5 Days, at €40, covers all three sites over five consecutive days, with the Uffizi visited first at a booked time and the other two needing no reservation; the validity stretches to a sixth day if a Monday, 25 December or 1 January falls inside it. Resellers sell the same pass bundled with a booking service, such as the Uffizi, Pitti Palace & Boboli Combined 5-Day Pass ($77, 4.4 from 1,915 reviews).

Boboli closing times by month

The clocks went back on 25 October 2026 and go forward on 28 March 2027, which is also Easter Sunday; that is when Boboli moves to its later spring closing.

The Vasari Corridor in winter

Daytime visits run from Tuesday to Sunday all winter, in groups of 25. Your Uffizi entry is booked about two hours before your corridor slot, so you see the gallery first. Tickets and rules are in our Vasari Corridor guide, and guided options are on our Vasari Corridor tours page.

Magnifico 1492

The Uffizi Galleries’ exhibition on Lorenzo de’ Medici’s collection is announced for 3 December 2026 to 1 March 2027; the Ministry of Culture’s listing gives 30 November and places it in the Treasury of the Grand Dukes at Palazzo Pitti, so it would follow Pitti’s hours. Ticketing has not been published yet.

Accademia opening hours, for the same trip

If you are seeing Michelangelo’s David on the same trip, the Accademia keeps longer hours than the Uffizi.

The Accademia’s ticket page puts last admission 30 minutes before closing, which would be 6.20 p.m., so plan on 6.10. The holiday dates and the Monday 30 November evening opening are on our page of Accademia opening hours and winter tips, and our Uffizi and Accademia in one day guide fits both into a single day.

Hours that other websites get wrong

Frequently asked questions

What are the Uffizi Gallery’s opening hours?

The Uffizi is open Tuesday to Sunday from 8.15 a.m. to 6.30 p.m., all year round, with no seasonal timetable. The ticket office closes and last admission is at 5.30 p.m., and at 6.30 p.m. visitors are asked to make their way to the exit.

Is the Uffizi open on Mondays?

No. The Uffizi is closed every Monday, and also on 1 January and 25 December. The museum occasionally opens on a holiday Monday, as it did on 6 April and 1 June 2026, and announces these on its notices page, which is the place to check.

When is the Uffizi free?

Entry is free on the first Sunday of every month, and on 25 April and 2 June. On 4 November only the second-floor masterpiece rooms open free. The next first Sunday is 6 December 2026, and no reservations are taken on any of them.

Can I book a ticket for the free Sunday?

No. On free days the museum takes no reservations and honors no priority passes, apart from visitors with disabilities, their companions and pregnant women. Everyone joins the same line, and visitors report waits from 45 minutes at opening to several hours by mid-morning in busy months.

Is the Uffizi open in the evening?

Not on a regular basis in 2026. The weekly Tuesday evening openings ended in December 2024. The Vasari Corridor opens on Friday evenings from 7 to 11 p.m. until 20 November 2026, but that €20 ticket covers the corridor only and does not allow a visit to the gallery rooms.

What is the last entry time at the Uffizi?

Last admission is 5.30 p.m., when the ticket office closes, which leaves one hour before the 6.30 p.m. exit call. For a visit without hurry, aim to be inside by 4 p.m.; the €16 afternoon ticket starts then and gives two and a half hours, enough for the second floor.

Is the Uffizi open on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day?

No. The Uffizi is closed on 25 December and 1 January. It normally opens on 24 and 26 December and on 6 January. On 1 January 2026 only the Boboli Gardens opened, from 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.

Is the Uffizi open on Easter Monday 2027?

It is expected to open on 29 March 2027, as it did on Easter Monday in 2024, 2025 and 2026. The Vasari Corridor does not run on Mondays, and Palazzo Pitti has stayed closed on recent special Mondays.

What happens at the Uffizi on a strike day?

For the strike of 30 October 2026 the museum has guaranteed the gallery only from 1.30 to 6.30 p.m., while the Boboli Gardens stay open all day. Strikes are announced on the uffizi.it notices page, usually a week or more ahead.

Do the Uffizi and Palazzo Pitti open on the same days?

Mostly, from Tuesday to Sunday with the same hours. Palazzo Pitti has stayed closed on the Uffizi’s recent special Monday openings.

What time do the Boboli Gardens close in winter?

At 4.30 p.m. from November to February, with last admission at 3.30 p.m.

Related reading

• Visiting the Uffizi in winter
• Best time to visit the Uffizi Gallery
• What to expect at the Uffizi Gallery
• Which Uffizi ticket or tour is right for you?

Reserved-entry tickets for a specific slot are compared on our Uffizi tickets page.