Venice Entry Fee

Information on 2025 entry fee for Venice

Venice has start testing a daily admission fee which is aimed at managing the flow of tourists on spring bank holidays and some summer weekends when visitor numbers are at their peak.

Who is Required to Pay the Fee?

Visitors who DO NOT stay overnight in Venice who plan to visit Venice on the dates when the experiment is active and who DO NOT reside in the Veneto Region.

If you have a hotel/apartment booking, you are not required to pay it.

ENTRY FEE DATES

from 18/04/2025 to 04/05/2025
from 09/05/2025 to 11/05/2025
from 16/05/2025 to 18/05/2025
from 23/05/2025 to 25/05/2025
from 30/05/2025 to 02/06/2025
from 06/06/2025 to 08/06/2025
from 13/06/2025 to 15/06/2025
from 20/06/2025 to 22/06/2025
from 27/06/2025 to 29/06/2025
from04/07/2025 to 06/07/2025
from 11/07/2025 to 13/07/2025
from 18/07/2025 to 20/07/2025
from 25/07/2025 to 27/07/2025

HOURS OF IMPLEMENTATION

From 8.30 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.
AMOUNT: € 5.00 prebooked or € 10.00 on the day

Applies ONLY to the Venice,
NOT to the minor islands of the Venetian
Lagoon.

Documents proving payment must be carried with you

HOW TO PAY?

This entry tax to Venice can be paid on this website: https://cda.ve.it/en/ which will issue a QR code. Keep this on your person.

Read the PDF

REACTIONS TO THE ENTRY FEE

The aim of the fee is to manage the flow of some 30 million tourists drawn in by the city’s history and romantic canals each year and the fee, or tax, will only be implemented on the 29 busiest days of the calendar year

Reactions by a number in the Venice community have been brutally honest

The former mayor of Venice, Massimo Cacciari, said in a statement to Adnkronos news agency that day visitors already pay ‘three times as much as residents’ for public transport in the city, and that travellers all contribute to the longevity of Venice’s restaurants and museums. He went on to say that he would ‘love to see’ city authorities ‘justify in a court the legitimacy of imposing a tax on entering the city’ and suggests visitors should refuse to pay the ‘absurd’ entrance fee, arguing they already ‘pay for everything’.

Critics say that the €5 (£4.30/$5.34) fee is unlikely to alter visitor numbers to Venice and we are told that the scheme only pays for itself. We wonder if prices will rise and it will become a useful tax for the bureaucracy of Venice but without achieving much. Wait and see.

VENICE IN PERIL

Meanwhile, a mention for Venice In Peril, one organisation that raises funds for at risk monuments, buildings and works of art across Venice and its islands. Read more on the charity’s website.

Venice Entry Fee

Information on 2025 entry fee for Venice

Who is Required to Pay the Fee?

ENTRY FEE DATES

HOURS OF IMPLEMENTATION

HOW TO PAY?

REACTIONS TO THE ENTRY FEE

VENICE IN PERIL

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