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What's Open in Venice on a Monday?

By Marco, MEVAYA Redaktion · Published on · Updated on · 4 min read

Monday is the day Venice is most likely to catch you out. Here is what closes, what stays open, and a Monday route that avoids every closed door.

Closed on Mondays
2 curated sights, including Gallerie dell'Accademia and Museo di Storia Naturale
Open on Mondays
Rialto Bridge, St Mark's Square and St Mark's Basilica and more
Monday route
7 stops, about 3.0 km on foot, 09:00–17:53
Suits
Any trip that includes a Monday

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In this article · 4 min read

The route

  1. 09:00Rialto Bridge · about 40 min

  2. Walk · 0.2 km · about 9 min

    09:49Traghetto crossing · about 22 min

  3. Walk · 0.7 km · about 16 min

    10:27Scuola Grande di San Rocco · about 81 min

  4. Walk · 0.3 km · about 10 min

    11:58Campo Santa Margherita · about 46 min

  5. 12:44Lunch break · about 60 min

  6. Walk · 0.4 km · about 11 min

    13:55Ca' Rezzonico · about 92 min

  7. Walk · 1.3 km · about 23 min

    15:50St Mark's Basilica · about 69 min

  8. Walk · 0.1 km · about 8 min

    17:07St Mark's Square · about 46 min

Monday ties with Tuesday as the day that closes the most of Venice's ten best-known sights: 1 of 10. Counting all 27 curated sights in MEVAYA's data, 2 are closed on Mondays. If your trip includes a Monday, plan it differently rather than discovering a locked door on arrival.

Everything below comes from MEVAYA's verified opening-hours data. Where a venue has special rules or conflicting sources, the note from our verification is included as-is.

Closed on Mondays

Gallerie dell'Accademia — Tue–Sun 09:00–19:00, ticket sales end 18:00. Not open on Mondays according to the official website (as of 12 October 2026) – check before you visit.

Museo di Storia Naturale — Tue–Sun 10:00–18:00 (1 June–30 September), 09:00–17:00 (1 October–31 May); closed Monday. Last admission 1 hour before closing. Check holiday exceptions.

Open on Mondays

Rialto Bridge — open-air, no ticket, no closing day.

St Mark's Square — open-air, no ticket, no closing day.

St Mark's Basilica — Mon–Sat 09:30–17:15, Sun 14:00–17:15, last entry 16:45. Listed by the Basilica among its ticketed visits, together with the Pala d'Oro, the Museum/Loggia and the Campanile. On Sundays and holidays the Museum and Loggia open at 09:30. Access can be closed without notice for high tide, state visits or religious functions.

Doge's Palace — Apr–Oct daily 09:00–19:00 (last admission 18:00); Nov–Mar daily 09:00–18:00 (last admission 17:00). Closed 25 December and 1 January. Extended hours during Carnival.

Libreria Acqua Alta — Daily roughly 09:00–20:00.

Murano.

Burano — open-air, no ticket, no closing day.

Peggy Guggenheim Collection — Daily 10:00–18:00; closed Tuesday. Closed on 25 December. Last entrance and ticket office 17:00.

A Monday route that avoids every closed door

The schedule above is what the MEVAYA planner builds for a Monday. It only contains stops that are open that day — the planner reads each stop's closing days and will not route you to a closed venue, even one marked as essential.

The day covers about 3.0 km on foot, with no public transport needed.

Only one stop needs booking: St Mark's Basilica. Everything else is free or sold at the door.

The Monday route, stop by stop

09:00–09:40 — Rialto Bridge. Four hundred years old, built of Istrian stone on twelve thousand timber piles, and for centuries the only way to cross the Grand Canal on foot. Free, always open, and completely different at seven in the morning. It is a public open-air space with no ticket and no closing day.

09:49–10:11 — Traghetto crossing. A working gondola ferry that crosses the Grand Canal where there is no bridge, for about two euros. Venetians stand for the crossing. It is the same boat, the same oarsmen and the same water as a ninety-euro gondola ride, for a minute and a half.

10:27–11:48 — Scuola Grande di San Rocco. Tintoretto spent twenty-three years covering this building with more than sixty paintings, and they are still in the rooms he painted them for. Mirrors are handed out at the door so you can look at the ceilings without breaking your neck. Verified opening hours: Daily roughly 09:30–17:30.

11:58–12:44 — Campo Santa Margherita. The big student square in Dorsoduro — market stalls in the morning, children playing football in the afternoon, and the cheapest spritz in Venice in the evening. The closest thing the city has to normal life. It is a public open-air space with no ticket and no closing day.

12:44–13:44 — Lunch. The planner reserves time to eat right after Campo Santa Margherita, so the afternoon continues from where the morning ended instead of detouring for food.

13:55–15:27 — Ca' Rezzonico. A Grand Canal palazzo kept as an 18th-century Venetian house — ballroom, frescoed ceilings, period rooms — so you get the interior of the buildings you have been admiring from the water. Closed Tuesdays. Verified opening hours: Wed–Mon 10:00–18:00 (Apr–Oct), 10:00–17:00 (Nov–Mar); closed Tuesday. Extended hours during Carnival period.

15:50–16:59 — St Mark's Basilica. Eight thousand square metres of gold mosaic above your head, and a floor of buckled marble that shows you the city sinking. The Pala d’Oro and the loggia with the bronze horses are separate small tickets and both worth it. Verified opening hours: Mon–Sat 09:30–17:15, Sun 14:00–17:15, last entry 16:45. Listed by the Basilica among its ticketed visits, together with the Pala d'Oro, the Museum/Loggia and the Campanile. On Sundays and holidays the Museum and Loggia open at 09:30. Access can be closed without notice for high tide, state visits or religious functions. Book ahead: this stop needs a reservation or a timed ticket.

17:07–17:53 — St Mark's Square. Napoleon called it the drawing room of Europe. The basilica at one end, the campanile in the middle, arcades down both sides — and pigeons, water and marble everywhere. It is a public open-air space with no ticket and no closing day.

Before you go

Built by the MEVAYA planner from MEVAYA's curated Venice data. Opening hours were checked against official and independent sources in September 2026; the route, times and durations are the planner's own output, not estimates written by hand.

A day in Venice without locked doors

Pick your date. The planner knows the closing days in this article and builds the day around what is open.

Quick Start is free and needs no account. A personalised plan needs a City Pass.

Quick questions

Is Gallerie dell'Accademia open on Monday?

No. Gallerie dell'Accademia — Tue–Sun 09:00–19:00, ticket sales end 18:00. Not open on Mondays according to the official website (as of 12 October 2026) – check before you visit.

Is Museo di Storia Naturale open on Monday?

No. Museo di Storia Naturale — Tue–Sun 10:00–18:00 (1 June–30 September), 09:00–17:00 (1 October–31 May); closed Monday. Last admission 1 hour before closing. Check holiday exceptions.

What is open in Venice on a Monday?

Among MEVAYA's curated stops, Rialto Bridge, St Mark's Square, St Mark's Basilica and Doge's Palace are open on Mondays.

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