Vaporetto prices: every ACTV fare in one place

ACTV fares 2026 at a glance

Vaporetto prices follow one rule: you buy a duration, not a distance. Inside that window you ride the whole ACTV urban network as often as you like, so a crossing to Murano costs exactly what one stop on the Grand Canal costs. Every amount below is the official ACTV fare per person.

The vaporetto ticket price is the same whichever line you take and however far you go. The 75-minute ticket is the single journey: inside those 75 minutes you may change boats, switch lines and even break the journey and board again, with no rule tying you to one direction. Children travel free until their sixth birthday; from then on the adult fare applies, because the water bus has no standard child discount. How the durations differ in practice is set out on vaporetto tickets and passes.

When a vaporetto pass pays off

Every pass has a ride count at which it overtakes single tickets. A 75-minute ticket costs €9.50, so three rides cost €28.50 against €25 for the day pass; four rides cost €38 against €35 for 48 hours; five cost €47.50 against €45 for 72 hours; and seven cost €66.50 against €65 for the week. Spread across the days of a stay, that gives the table below. A day here means one 24-hour window from the first validation.

Two cases sit close to the line. Four days with two rides each come out at €64 with a 72-hour ticket and two single tickets; the 7-day ticket costs one euro more and takes the counting away. And when three rides fall inside one 24-hour window and a fourth comes later, a day pass plus one single ticket undercuts the 48-hour ticket by 50 cents. In both cases the longer pass costs next to nothing extra.

The realistic count is usually higher than planned. Santa Lucia station down the Grand Canal on ACTV line 1 to St Mark's, the boat to Murano from Fondamente Nove and the way back to the hotel are three rides on their own. The two passes bought most often have pages of their own: the 24-hour ticket and the 72-hour ticket.

Rolling Venice and the wheelchair fare

Travellers aged 6 to 29 can buy the Rolling Venice card for €6 at the Venezia Unica ticket offices, and with it the 72-hour ticket costs €27 instead of €45. Card and ticket together come to €33, which beats single tickets from the fourth ride and undercuts even the €35 for 48 hours. For this age group it is the cheapest vaporetto pass as soon as a stay of two or three days holds four rides. The Aerobus supplement can be added to it like to any other timed ticket. The details are on Rolling Venice.

Wheelchair users and holders of the EU Disability Card pay €1.50 per 75 minutes on every ACTV water bus line except 16, 19 and the Casinò line, and the person accompanying a wheelchair user travels free. There is no senior discount for visitors: the ACTV reductions for older passengers are tied to residence in the Comune di Venezia.

Paying by bank card instead of buying a pass

ACTV also sells the pass without a voucher and without a machine. Tap a contactless bank card or a phone wallet on the reader as you board: the first water bus ride costs €9.50, and from then on the same card stops paying at the familiar caps of €25 over 24 hours, €35 over 48 hours, €45 over 72 hours and €65 over 168 hours. ACTV calls this Best Fare. You never choose a duration in advance; the cap picks the cheapest one for you.

If you would rather hold a printed ticket, book online and print it at an ACTV machine with the code from your voucher; how that works is on buying online.

What the fare covers

Which line goes where, and how often, is on the vaporetto lines page and in the vaporetto timetable.

What the vaporetto fare does not cover

The airport is where most fare plans come unstuck. No timed ACTV ticket is valid on a journey that starts or ends at Marco Polo Airport, so the way into the city is a separate ticket. These are the fares for each route, one way per person.

The Aerobus supplement is the one bridge between the two systems: bought together with a timed ticket it costs €7 one way or €13 return, and it works with the Rolling Venice ticket too. Outside the airport, the vaporetto fare also leaves out lines 16 and 19, the Casinò line and vehicles on the car ferries. Luggage beyond three pieces needs a luggage ticket at the passenger fare, and pieces over 150 cm in combined dimensions are not carried at all.