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Public transport in Florence and your pass
The short answer first: no Florence pass carries the bus or the tram. In a city this compact that matters less than it sounds.
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No Florence pass carries the network
This is the shortest chapter on the site. Bus and tram in Florence run under Autolinee Toscane, and no pass compared here includes them. The Firenzecard is a museum pass and says so. The Florence City Pass bundles admissions and tours. The Florence Pass and the Uffizi & Accademia Pass are packages of museum modules, and the Brunelleschi Pass opens the monuments of one square. If you need a ride, you buy the ticket from the operator, whatever you hold in your hand.
Why that costs most visitors nothing
Florence keeps its sights inside a walkable centre. The Uffizi, Palazzo Vecchio, the Duomo, the Baptistery, Orsanmichele and Santa Maria Novella sit within a few minutes of each other, and the Accademia is a short walk north of the cathedral. Across the Arno the Pitti Palace and the Boboli Gardens are reached over the Ponte Vecchio on foot. A visitor with a museum pass in a central hotel can spend three days in Florence and never board anything.
Where you do need a ticket
The airport breaks that rule. Peretola lies outside the centre, and the tram is the way in, with the T1 line running between the airport and Careggi and the T2 line beside it. Anything beyond the old town, out towards the hills or the suburbs, is a bus journey on the same network. Tickets come from Autolinee Toscane and belong to no pass on this site. Anyone arriving by rail skips the question entirely, because Santa Maria Novella station stands in the middle of the old town.
The hop-on hop-off bus is a tour
The one bus that appears in a pass is not a network ticket. The Florence City Pass offers a 24-hour hop-on hop-off ticket as a paid extra in its booking step, and it stays an extra you choose rather than part of the pass; the Florence Flex Pass counts a ride as one of your two to seven choices. What you get is a sightseeing loop that stops at the sights on its route. What you do not get is a ride to the airport, a ride to an address of your choosing or any use at all once the 24 hours have run. Treat it as a tour you might enjoy, and buy a tram ticket for the journeys that have to happen.
Passes and the bus
The pass that sells a bus ticket
Transport is outside every Florence pass. Only the two Turbopass passes offer a bus: the City Pass as a hop-on hop-off add-on, the Flex Pass as one of its choices.
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Questions about public transport
Is public transport included in a Florence pass? +
In none of them. The Firenzecard, the Florence City Pass, the Tiqets packages and the Brunelleschi Pass are all admission products. Buses and trams are bought separately from Autolinee Toscane, and for most visitors the centre needs neither.
How do I get in from the airport? +
By tram, not by pass. The tram runs from Peretola airport into the city, and the ticket is bought from Autolinee Toscane like any other. If you arrive by train you need nothing at all: Santa Maria Novella station stands in the centre, a short walk from the Duomo and from the Accademia.
Is the hop-on hop-off bus a substitute for the tram? +
No. It is a sightseeing loop with fixed stops, sold as a 24-hour ticket you can add in the booking step of the Florence City Pass. It shows you the city from the top deck along its own route, but it is not a network ticket and it replaces no tram ride.
Transport sorted, pass next
Pick the pass that fits your museums. Whether you need a tram ticket on top follows from where you sleep.