How Much Is a Flight to Italy (2026 Data)

So how much is a flight to Italy from the USA? Right now a round trip averages about $937¹, counting every US departure airport and every Italian arrival airport. The month you travel moves that price more than anything else: the median round trip runs from $441¹ in November to $709¹ in June. Which Italian city you land in matters too, and so does the fixed block of taxes inside every ticket.

Demand has never been higher. A record 5.83 million² passengers flew nonstop between the US and Italy in 2025, 30.1%³ more than in 2019. Below: fares by Italian city, month, weekday and arrival airport, the taxes and airport charges in a ticket, 36 years of official traffic data, and the airports and airlines that carry the load.

The average fare to Italy in 2026

Round trips from the US to Italy averaged $937¹ in fare searches over the past month. That is prices seen in the month to September 25, 2026, cabin mix not stated, all US origins, not a quote for the next search.¹ Over a full year, the four main Italian gateways sit between $766⁴ and $953⁵. Those city figures cover the past 12 months, so they are compared with one another, not with the one-month country average.

How much is a flight to Rome?

Rome averages $853⁷ for a round trip from the US over the past 12 months. By monthly median, February is the cheapest month at $609⁷ and June the most expensive at $1,140⁷, a spread of $531³. Tuesday departures average $859⁷, and night flights $772⁷.⁷ Rome also has by far the most nonstop service: its Fiumicino airport handled 62.9%³ of all US-Italy passengers in 2025.²

How much is a flight to Milan?

Milan is the cheapest of the four at $766⁴, $87³ below Rome. By monthly median, January is its cheapest month ($540⁴) and June its priciest ($1,003⁴); Tuesday is again the cheapest day, at an average of $770⁴.⁴ Milan Malpensa is the second-busiest US gateway in Italy, with 1,261,256² nonstop passengers in 2025.

How much is a flight to Venice?

Venice averages $927⁶, $74³ more than Rome. It has the widest seasonal swing after Naples: a median of $642⁶ in February against $1,234⁶ in June.⁶ Nonstop traffic through Venice grew 43.6%³ between 2019 and 2025, to 473,082² passengers.

How much is a flight to Naples, Italy?

Naples is the priciest of the four main gateways at $953⁵. By monthly median, January is the cheapest month ($593⁵) and June the dearest ($1,249⁵), a range of $656³.⁵ It is also the fastest-growing: nonstop passengers rose from 52,611² in 2019 to 327,365² in 2025, 6.22³ times as many. The table sets out the best and worst times to fly to each city.

Two patterns hold for all four cities. June is the most expensive month everywhere and July the second, while the cheapest month is January or February.⁷⁴ Early-week departures, Monday or Tuesday, are cheapest in every city, and three of the four are cheapest on night flights.⁶⁵

The cheapest time to fly to Italy

Average flight prices to Italy by month follow the holiday calendar. Measured as the median round trip over the past year, November is the cheapest month at $441¹, followed by February at $446¹ and January at $453¹. June is the most expensive at $709¹, and May comes second at $663¹.¹ A June ticket costs 1.61³ times a November one.

Late summer is cheaper than many travelers expect: the July and August medians, $543¹ and $541¹, sit well below June's. October, at $489¹, is the cheapest month of the warm season.¹ The monthly medians and the $937¹ average come from different periods and price sets and are not compared.

Traffic follows the same calendar. In 2025, August carried 767,079² passengers between the US and Italy and February only 140,431², 5.46³ times fewer.² June to September together carried 51.3%³ of the year's passengers.

The cheap months are also the quiet months. November and February, two of the three lowest-priced months, carried 333,290² and 140,431² passengers, against at least 710,421² in each month from June to September.² A shoulder-season trip trades some weather for a lower fare.

Which Italian airport is cheapest to fly into

Across all US departure cities, Rome Fiumicino has the lowest average fare of the six Italian airports listed, $585¹, with Milan Malpensa close behind at $606¹. Naples is the most expensive of the six airports listed, at $920¹, $335³ more than Rome.¹ These airport averages come from a different part of the same fare pages than the city averages above, built from another set of prices, so read each chart on its own.

How much is a flight to Sicily?

Sicily's two main airports sit in the middle: Catania averages $664¹ and Palermo $718¹.¹ Catania is $79³ above Rome. Both now have some nonstop service from the US: Catania handled 56,990² US-Italy passengers in 2025 and Palermo 36,122².²

Nonstop routes and how long the flight takes

The 20 busiest route-airline pairs each carried at least 97,832² passengers in 2025. The busiest was New York JFK to Rome on Delta, with 358,359² passengers, 6.1%³ of all US-Italy traffic, ahead of Atlanta to Rome on Delta (329,988²) and Newark to Rome on United (282,357²).² Rome is the Italian end of most of them.

The flight itself is shorter than many expect. Nonstops from the Northeast to northern Italy take about seven and a half to just over eight hours; from the South and Midwest they take closer to nine.⁴ Boston to Milan is the shortest in the table at 7h 30m⁴ and Atlanta to Naples the longest at 9h 40m⁵.⁵

Rome is also served nonstop from New York, Atlanta, Boston, Dallas/Fort Worth, Philadelphia, Miami, San Francisco, Denver and Charlotte, among others.⁷ Wherever the flight starts, part of the ticket price never reaches the airline.

Taxes and fees inside an Italy ticket

Every round trip between the US and Italy carries $70.63³ in US federal taxes and fees: the international departure and arrival taxes of $23.40⁸ each, a $5.60⁹ security fee, a $7.39¹⁰ customs fee, a $7.00¹¹ immigration fee and a $3.84¹² agricultural inspection fee.⁸¹¹ Two of them rise on October 1, 2026: the customs fee to $7.61¹³ and the agricultural fee to $3.98¹² for tickets bought from that date, which lifts the federal total to $70.99³. The US departure airport also charges a passenger facility charge of up to $4.50¹⁴ per boarding;¹⁴¹⁵ a nonstop round trip has one US boarding, since the return starts abroad, so US government charges come to $75.13³, or $75.49³ from October 1. On the way home, Italy adds a municipal boarding surcharge set by law: €6.50¹⁶ per departing passenger at most Italian airports, including Rome and Milan,¹⁶ plus €0.50¹⁷ since April 1, 2025 on flights leaving the EU from airports with 10 million or more passengers in the previous year.¹⁷ Rome's airports add a further €1¹⁸ for the city, the law's maximum, which is the rate applied.¹⁸¹⁶ A US flight therefore pays €8.00³ from Rome Fiumicino, about $9.17³, and €7.00³ from Milan Malpensa, about $8.02³.

The departure airport adds its own charges on top. At Rome Fiumicino they come to €30.56¹⁹ per departing passenger, about $35.03³; at Milan Malpensa €17.63²⁰, about $20.21³, at 1.1464²¹ dollars per euro.¹⁹²⁰

Added up, a round trip that returns from Rome carries $119.33³ in taxes and charges, and one returning from Milan $103.36³, a gap of $15.97³. From October 1, 2026 the totals become $119.69³ via Rome and $103.72³ via Milan; the gap stays the same. The Rome total equals 12.7%³ of the $937¹ all-Italy average fare, 12.8%³ from October 1. Both totals count one US boarding for the passenger facility charge.

Children aged 2 to 12 pay half the airport boarding charge at both airports and infants under 2 pay none, but the US charges apply to every ticketed passenger.²⁰ Airline fuel surcharges are separate and not included here.

How many people fly between the US and Italy

Nonstop traffic between the US and Italy reached 5.83 million² passengers in 2025, the highest in 36 years of data and 30.1%³ above 2019.² The route has grown 4.06³-fold since 1990, when 1,436,476² passengers flew it. Growth came in waves: a peak of 3.00 million² in 2000, a fall of 34.8%³ by 2003, a long plateau, then a steep climb after 2014. The chart leaves out 2020-2022, when the pandemic cut traffic to 8.3%³ of its 2019 level in 2020.

The straight-line trend through these years, extended to 2050, is our calculation, not a forecast: it shows where the long-run pace would lead, and the recent climb has run well above it.

The number of passenger flights tells the same story. There were 25,590²² nonstop passenger flights between the two countries in 2025, about 70.1³ a day across both directions and 29.9%³ more than in 2019.²² That is 4.04³ times the 6,336²² passenger flights of 1990. All-cargo flights (FedEx, Cargolux and others) are left out.

Our calculation of passengers per flight divides passengers by passenger flights each year. It is an average over all aircraft and does not show how full the planes are, since seat counts are not included. In 2025 the average nonstop carried 227.7³ passengers, close to the 1990 level of 226.7³ and far above the low of 165.3³ in 2002.²

Where do these passengers land in Italy, where do they board in the US, and which airlines fly them?

Gateways and airlines

Which Italian airport handles the most US traffic?

Rome Fiumicino dominates. It handled 3,663,856² passengers on nonstop US flights in 2025, more than Milan, Venice and Naples together (2,061,703³), and 59.0%³ of all US-Italy passenger flights.²²² Milan Malpensa follows with 1,261,256², then Venice and Naples.

Rome's lead is growing. Its US traffic rose 37.1%³ from 2019 to 2025, while Milan's fell 10.4%³.² Five more airports saw a trickle of nonstop US traffic in 2025, between 21² and 154² passengers each: Olbia, Pisa, Turin, Bologna and Cagliari. The map groups every airport by region.

Behind the passenger totals are very different operations. Rome's 15,109²² passenger flights averaged 242.5³ passengers each in 2025, while Naples averaged 170.9³.²² The table adds the 2019 baseline.

Which US city flies the most to Italy?

New York JFK is the main US gateway, with 1,994,423² Italy passengers in 2025, 34.2%³ of the total. With Newark and Atlanta, the top three handle 56.4%³.² The fastest growth since 2019 came from San Francisco, whose Italy traffic grew 4.92³ times, and from Washington Dulles (92.9%³). Miami went the other way, down 40.9%³.

Denver and Minneapolis-St Paul had no nonstop Italy passengers reported in 2019 and together carried 109,043³ in 2025.² More departure cities with a nonstop means fewer travelers need a connection.

Which airline carries the most passengers?

Delta carried 1,708,970² US-Italy passengers in 2025, 29.3%³ of the total, ahead of United (23.3%³), American (19.8%³) and ITA Airways (17.0%³).² Together the four carry 89.4%³; everyone else shares the remaining 10.6%³.

Three US airlines carry 72.4%³ of the traffic between them, and Italy's flag carrier, ITA Airways, the other 17.0%³.²

What these numbers mean for your trip

For a family of four, the calendar alone is worth real money. Four tickets at the $441¹ November median come to $1,764³; four at June's $709¹ median come to $2,836³, $1,072³ more. At the current $937¹ average, four tickets cost $3,748³.¹ Of every ticket, about $119.33³ per person via Rome is taxes and airport charges that no sale removes, $477.32³ for four adults, or $478.76³ from October 1, 2026; children aged 2 to 12 pay less.

The destination matters almost as much. Flying into Milan instead of Naples saves $187³ per ticket on the 12-month averages, and Milan's departure charges are lower than Rome's.⁴ The cheapest combination on this page stacks the patterns¹: a November or late-winter trip, an early-week departure, into Rome or Milan. June and July are both the priciest and among the busiest months.²

How Italy compares with other destinations

Measured the same way, over the past month, Italy's $937¹ is the highest of six popular European destinations from the US. France ($895²³) and Germany ($891²⁴) are close; Spain, at $747²⁵, is $190³ cheaper.²³²⁴²⁵

Italy's premium over France ($42³) and Germany ($46³) is small, so flying into France or Germany instead saves little on the average fare.²³²⁴

Conclusions

1. The month sets the price. The median round trip runs from $441¹ in November to $709¹ in June, and every one of the four main cities is dearest in June.
2. Rome is the main door, and one of the cheapest. Rome Fiumicino handles 59.0%³ of US-Italy passenger flights and has the lowest average of the six arrival airports listed, $585¹.
3. Demand is at a record. 5.83 million² passengers flew nonstop in 2025, 30.1%³ above 2019, and Naples grew 6.22³ times over the same years.
4. Four airlines carry almost everyone. Delta, United, American and ITA Airways had 89.4%³ of 2025 passengers.
5. About $119.33³ of a Rome round trip is fixed, $119.69³ from October 1, 2026. US taxes and fees, the US passenger facility charge, Italy's municipal surcharge and Rome's airport charges equal about 12.7%³ of the $937¹ all-Italy average, and no sale reduces them.