Florence is the easiest base in Italy for a day out, and the coach parked outside Santa Maria Novella at seven in the morning is going to one of four places: the hill towns of Siena and San Gimignano, a Chianti winery, the coast at Cinque Terre, or Pisa for an hour under the tower. Prices run from €35 for a half day among the vines to €95 for the full Tuscany loop with lunch. Every trip below is scored on its traveller rating weighted by how many people left one, and the small-group wine tours beat the large-coach itineraries by a wider margin here than in any other city on this site.
62 day trips compared from €35 refreshed August 30, 2026
One score sets the order, the review-weighted rating, and no operator buys a place in it. At most four trips of any one kind are seated, because Florence sells more Chianti afternoons than anything else and a flat ranking would read as a wine list. Trips with fewer than 250 reviews wait until enough travellers have rated them.
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20 of 62 day trips on sale in Florence make the list: products with fewer than 250 reviews are held back until enough travellers have rated them, and no kind of experience takes more than 4 rows. For the city's full picture, see every tour and ticket in Florence.
23 compared from €49 typically 9h 4.76 average
The default Tuscan day and the most-reviewed trip in the city: the shell-shaped square in Siena, the towers of San Gimignano, a winery lunch, and on the longer versions a stop in Pisa. From €49 on a full coach, €119 for the small-group version that rates near 4.9. Twelve hours is normal and about four of them are on the road, so treat it as the day, not as the morning.
10 compared from €45 typically 12h30 4.71 average
Three and a half hours each way to five fishing villages on the cliffs, usually with a train pass between them and a couple of free hours in Monterosso or Vernazza. From €45, typically €79, and the longest day on this page at twelve to thirteen hours. Reviews split on the coach time and agree on the villages. The versions with a boat leg rate highest, because arriving by sea is the view people came for.
7 compared from €55 typically 6h 4.84 average
You drive, in convoy behind a guide, through the hills south of the city with a lunch and a tasting attached. From €55 for a self-guided e-bike morning, around €133 for a Vespa or a vintage Fiat 500, which needs a driving licence. Five to seven hours, small groups, and ratings above 4.8 across the board. The best-rated way to see the countryside if you do not want a coach seat.
15 compared from €35 typically 6h30 4.70 average
Two or three estates, a cellar walk, four or five glasses and a plate of salumi. From €35 for a half-day escape with two tastings, around €76 for the small-group trips that lead this group. Five hours is the median, so it fits an afternoon and still leaves the evening in Florence. The cheap coach versions pour the same wine to fifty people, and the gap in reviews between them and a group of eight is the widest on this page.
4 compared from €39 typically 6h 4.37 average
An hour on the train each way and about ninety minutes on the grass at the Campo dei Miracoli. From €39 for a half day, and tower access is almost always an optional extra rather than part of the price. It rates lowest of the five kinds, not because the tower disappoints but because the trip is short and most people book it as a filler. If Pisa is the only thing you want, the regional train from Santa Maria Novella costs under ten euros and runs every half hour.
€95 median price, from €35
A half day has a €55 median and a full day €79, so the coach hours are what you are paying for. Chianti is the cheapest way out of the city at €35, Pisa next at €39. The Tuscany loop runs from €49 to €119 depending almost entirely on group size, and Cinque Terre from €45. Lunch is included on most wine trips and on almost none of the coast trips, which is worth checking before you compare two prices.
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Eight hours is the median and the range is wide: five hours for a Chianti afternoon, up to thirteen for Cinque Terre with a boat. Wine tours leave late morning and are back for dinner. The hill-town and coast trips leave between seven and eight and return after six. Every trip in the catalogue offers free cancellation, so booking a week out for a small-group departure costs nothing and is the only way to get one in May, June and September.
Practical answers on prices, neighbourhoods and booking windows, written against the same data the ranking uses.
By traveller reviews, the small-group wine tours into Chianti and the Siena and San Gimignano loop share the top of the ranking, both rating near 4.9 from thousands of reviews. Cinque Terre rates almost as well and takes twice as long. If you have one free day and have never been to Tuscany, the hill-town loop from €49 covers the most ground.
From €35 for a half day in Chianti with two tastings, with a €95 median across everything on sale. Cinque Terre starts at €45, Pisa at €39, and a Vespa day in the hills at €55. Prices come from the latest data refresh, so they are what is actually on sale rather than a headline rate.
Yes if you accept the travel. Seven hours of the day are spent getting there and back, and reviewers who rate it below four almost always say so. What lifts the rating is the sequence: a train between the villages, two free hours by the water, and on the better trips a boat leg into Vernazza. Book the version with the boat if it is running.
Small-group departures fill about a week out from May to September and the large-coach versions almost never sell out. Free cancellation is offered on every trip in the catalogue, so there is no reason to wait. For a Vespa tour, book earlier: a handful of products cover the whole city and groups are capped at eight or ten.
Yes, and it is the most-booked itinerary in Tuscany. A standard day gives about two hours in Siena, ninety minutes in San Gimignano and a winery lunch between them, with Pisa added on the twelve-hour versions. Anything promising four towns and Pisa in one day gives you forty minutes in each, which is what the lower-rated listings are.
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Street food walks, market visits and wine tastings led by local guides, compared by rating and price per person.
from €25 108 activities · 4.83 average
