Pisa or Florence: which Tuscan airport to book

Book the airport nearest your first bed: Pisa is the bigger of the two, 5,977,227¹ passengers in 2025 against Florence's 3,847,658², which gives you more flights to pick from, and Florence is the one that serves Florence itself.

Pisa and Florence airports side by side

Together the two handled just under ten million passengers in 2025, out of 230,080,945³ across all Italian airports.

Pisa is the main airport of Tuscany

Pisa handled 5,977,227¹ passengers in 2025, up 7.8% on 2024, and ranks 11th in Italy; Florence handled 3,847,658², up 9.4%, and ranks 17th. Pisa carries roughly half as much traffic again as Florence.

For you, that difference is mostly about choice of flights. A bigger airport has more routes and more airlines to compare, and if you're flying in from far away the connection that works may simply not exist to the smaller one. Our sources don't list routes by airport, so check the specific flight.

One company runs both

Pisa and Florence are both operated by Toscana Aeroporti S.p.A. That's worth knowing because it changes the question: you're not choosing between two rival airports competing on service, you're choosing between two doors of the same system.

It also explains why the growth figures move together. Both airports grew faster in 2025 than Italy's airport system as a whole, which gained 5.0% to reach 230,080,945³ passengers by the operators' count.

Landing in Pisa puts the tower on your way

From Pisa airport the PisaMover takes you to Pisa Centrale, and from there the Line 1+ bus runs every 10 minutes from the Stazione 1 stop to Torre 1, next to the Leaning Tower. Line 4 runs every 20 minutes to Del Parlascio, and at night Line 21 every 30 minutes.

That's the practical argument for Pisa if your first stop is the coast or you want the Piazza dei Miracoli before you move on. Climbing the tower costs 20 euro in 2026, with no reductions for children, students or school groups; the only free entry is for a person with a disability and one companion, booked by email at least 5 days ahead.

What we could not verify

The PisaMover's fare and journey time, Florence airport's link to the city center, and the train time between Pisa and Florence are not in our verified sources. Those three numbers decide whether flying into Pisa and sleeping in Florence makes sense, and we can't give them to you yet.

We've logged them as gaps rather than repeating what a booking site says. Check the operators' own pages for the day you travel.

Pick which

Pick Florence if you're sleeping in Florence on the first night and your airline flies there: the smaller airport is the one that serves the city.

Pick Pisa if the flight you want lands there, if you're heading for the coast or western Tuscany first, or if you want the tower before anything else. More on both airports is on Tuscany's airports, and on reaching the Piazza dei Miracoli on getting to Pisa.

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