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Italy

Venice

A city where canals stand in for streets. Cars stop at the gateway square; beyond it, walk or ride the vaporetto.

Taxi and water taxi (taxi acqueo)

Two separate taxi regimes. Cars reach only Piazzale Roma, Tronchetto and the cruise terminal on the island; only a water taxi (motoscafo), with its own tariff, pulls up at a hotel's water door.

Updated 18 days ago

How to ride

  1. 1
    Decide land or water first
    Only a water taxi reaches a hotel's water door in the islands; a land taxi stops at Piazzale Roma.
  2. 2
    Take one at a rank, or call
    Land taxis have seven ranks; water taxis wait at municipal stations or any public jetty, or call 199 48 49 50.
  3. 3
    Ask for the fixed price before you start
    Ask, or it will not apply. It covers only a direct trip by the shortest route - you cannot ask for stops or detours.
  4. 4
    A radio booking starts the meter early
    When you order by phone or app, the meter starts as the car sets off towards you, not when you board.
  5. 5
    Check the water-taxi price before boarding
    Each station's board, published as a PDF, carries the prices; the airport has no board, so ask the staff there.

Typical costs

Fixed-price routes8

Land taxi
Marco Polo airport to Piazzale Roma
Piazzale Roma is as far into Venice as a car goes; the price is per car, all supplements included.
40 EUR ≈ $46
Marco Polo airport to Mestre Centro
It covers any address inside the mapped Mestre Centro zone; leaving it, only rank or street hails qualify.
35 EUR ≈ $41
Piazzale Roma to Mestre Centro
The fixed price for crossing the causeway between the islands and the mainland.
23 EUR ≈ $27
From the cruise terminal
EUR 20.00 to Piazzale Roma, 35.00 to Mestre Centro, 45.00 to the airport; the rank works only for cruises.
20〜45 EUR ≈ $23–52
Marco Polo airport to the Favaro tram terminus
From a free call point, daily 07:00-22:00; the tram runs on from there towards Mestre.
12 EUR ≈ $14
On a street hail in Mestre
EUR 5.00 to the station from inside Mestre Centro, EUR 10.00 from San Giuliano or via Righi to Piazzale Roma.
5〜10 EUR ≈ $6–12
Water taxi
Base price to a station in the historic centre
EUR 40 to the station, Piazzale Roma or Tronchetto, 50 Rialto, 60 San Marco and Murano, 70 the Lido.
40〜70 EUR ≈ $46–81
Airport to the historic centre
The amount posted at the municipal stations; residents and disabled passengers pay 20% less, EUR 88.00.
110 EUR ≈ $130

How the meter adds up8

Land taxi
Starting fare
The fixed amount added as the ride starts; it counts towards the minimum fare.
3.2 EUR ≈ $4
Minimum fare
EUR 8.00 by day and on weekdays, EUR 11.00 at night and on holidays; supplements come on top.
8〜11 EUR ≈ $9–13
Metered rate per km (level 1)
EUR 1.70/km around Mestre, EUR 1.63/km on the Lido; below 20 km/h or stopped, a time rate replaces it.
1.63〜1.7 EUR ≈ $2
Metered rate per km (level 2)
EUR 2.15/km in Mestre and 2.07/km on the Lido, once the meter passes 16.52 or, on the Lido, 19.65.
2.07〜2.15 EUR ≈ $2
Airport or cruise terminal supplement
The airport and the cruise terminal carry the same charge, which cannot be doubled; fixed prices include it.
4.8 EUR ≈ $6
Holiday and night supplement
On holidays and daily between 22:00 and 06:00; a fixed price already includes it.
3.2 EUR ≈ $4
Luggage supplement
For each piece of luggage over 50 cm on one side, and for small dogs; up to 20. Included in a fixed price.
1.2 EUR ≈ $1
Water taxi
Fixed charge at departure
Then EUR 2.00 a minute, plus EUR 10.00 between 22:00 and 06:00 and EUR 5.00 if you call one to a pier.
15 EUR ≈ $17

Estimates use exchange rates as of September 5, 2026

Wait at a rank, or order by phone or app. Land taxis have seven ranks - Mestre station, Ospedale dell'Angelo, Mestre Centro (via Poerio), Marco Polo airport, Piazzale Roma, the Lido and the Stazione Marittima - but the cruise terminal rank only operates when cruises are in. For a water taxi, go to a municipal taxi station (14 of them, in the historic centre and on the Lido) or any public or private jetty, or call the water radio taxi on 199 48 49 50; the land radio line is 041 5964. On land, NCC private-hire cars may not stand at public ranks and cannot be flagged down. On the water, 200 of the 250 licences are bivalenti - one boat holding both a taxi licence and an NCC authorisation - so what decides whether you can hail it is not the licence but whether that boat is working as a taxi.

Payment

Card payment on board
Required by law unless technically impossible; POS on the boats unconfirmed
App tickets
appTaxi
In the wallet: appTaxi takes a card, Satispay or a digital wallet
Cash Unverified
On board: Neither the city nor the operators state whether cash is accepted

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Quick facts

Fares from
40 EUR+

Heads-up

  • Open the water-taxi tariff board before you set out

    The city sets water-taxi fares, and the authority is the board posted at each of the 14 municipal taxi stations. The city does publish every board, as a per-station PDF anyone can download, but each one is a scan with no text layer, so it never turns up in a search. Before you set out, open the sheet for the station you will use and read the base price for your destination and the supplements: EUR 5.00 for each passenger beyond four (EUR 10.00 where it applies to a station-to-station base price) and EUR 3.00 for each bag beyond four. The municipal stations are in the historic centre and on the Lido only - there is none at the airport, so there ask the staff the price before boarding, as the airport's own guidance says. Figures quoted on third-party sites are not guaranteed to match the posted tariff.

  • A phone or app booking normally loses the fixed price

    A land taxi's fixed price is a rank-to-rank fare, valid during the departure rank's own shift hours, and as a rule it does not apply to a ride ordered by phone. The exceptions are the call points at Marghera-Piazza Mercato and Favaro-Piazza Pastrello, between 07:00 and 22:00. So if you want the fixed price from the airport or the cruise terminal, join the queue at the rank rather than ordering through an app.

Timetable

Check the official site for the latest times and service status