Amalfi Coast Day Trips

You can see the Amalfi Coast in a day from Naples, and a shared road tour is the simplest way to do it. These day trips collect you in central Naples in the morning, drive 1 to 1.5 hours to the first town and bring you back in the early evening, 8 to 9.5 hours in all. The tours compared here cost from $62 to $122 per person (checked October 2026).

Start with the Amalfi Coast Day Trip in Positano & Amalfi by Tramvia (Beducci Travel Bus) if you want long stops: the listing gives about 3 hours in Positano and 2 in Amalfi, from $73 per person, with 4.6 from 3,136 GetYourGuide reviews. If you also want Sorrento, the Sorrento, Positano & Amalfi Premium Tour by Worldtours costs $71 and is the most-reviewed tour on this site (4.8 from 18,989 reviews).

Quick picks for a day by road

• Longest stops in two towns: the $73 Positano and Amalfi coach day, 9 hours, with a ferry between the towns from April to October. Our breakdown
• Sorrento, Positano and Amalfi with hotel pickups: the $71 Worldtours day, 8.5 hours, or $99 with lunch. Our breakdown
• Four stops including Ravello: Giromondo’s Exclusive Tour of Amalfi Coast, $95 for 9.5 hours, though Positano is only a 15-minute stop outside town. Our breakdown
• A boat ride built in: the Naples Official Tour with boat ride, $93 with the 30-minute boat ride or $79 without, 4.8 from 2,216 reviews. Our breakdown
• A guide in every town: Gray Line’s Positano, Amalfi & Ravello Day Trip, $122, with an official local guide all day. Our breakdown

What a coach day from Naples looks like

On the Positano and Amalfi coach day, the bus starts at Molo Beverello at 08:10 and makes seven more stops in central Naples, the last at Via Ferraris at 08:55. There is no hotel pickup, so choose the stop nearest your hotel and be there 5 to 10 minutes early. The operator asks you to follow its own timetable, not the times shown on GetYourGuide.

You reach Positano around 11:00. From April to October you continue to Amalfi by ferry, leaving Positano at 13:30 if the sea allows, and the bus home leaves Amalfi at 17:30. From 1 November to 31 March the transfer goes by bus and the return leaves Amalfi at 16:30. Allow about 1.5 hours for the drive back, longer in traffic.

Minibus tours such as the Worldtours day work differently. They collect you at hotels and fixed points (11 on that tour, including the Archaeological Museum, with the Stazione Marittima for cruise passengers only) and move the group from town to town by road. Each stop is shorter, and the day ends with a drive of about 75 minutes back to Naples. Booking less than 8 hours ahead puts you at a single meeting point, Starhotels Terminus at 08:30.

Sorrento, Positano and Amalfi, or Positano and Amalfi only

Most day trips from Naples follow one of two patterns. The three-stop day adds Sorrento, which sits on the Sorrentine Peninsula facing the Bay of Naples and is not one of the Amalfi Coast towns. You get its old town and a limoncello tasting on several tours, then Positano and Amalfi on the coast itself.

The two-stop day skips Sorrento and gives that time to Positano and Amalfi. On the coach day that means about 3 hours in Positano, against 75 minutes on the Worldtours day. One low-star reviewer on the coach day would have preferred more time in Amalfi and less in Positano, and two others found both towns very crowded.

Our itineraries page sets these routes against the Ravello days stop by stop, and the Sorrento, Positano and Amalfi guide walks through that day hour by hour.

Free time, lunch and the Amalfi boat ride

Treat listed free time as a guide. Several operators say timings change with traffic and season, and the most common complaint in 3-star reviews across these tours is feeling rushed, with about an hour per town once you allow for walking down to the sea and back up.

Lunch is not included on most of these days. Worldtours sells a with-lunch option at $99 against $71 without, and Giromondo’s Sorrento day costs $135 with lunch against $101 without. On the others you eat during your free time, so a sit-down lunch comes out of your hours in town.

In Amalfi, many tours offer a short boat ride along the coast. On the Worldtours day it costs €15 per person, paid on site, or $89 if you book the option with the boat. On the Naples Official Tour it is part of the $93 option, and €15 is refunded if the sea cancels it. Reviewers who took the boat enjoyed it, though one couple found it left no time for a proper lunch.

Coach, minibus or small group

The coach day uses a full-size bus, and its listing states no group cap; one low-star reviewer found the bus too big for the coast road. Minibus tours such as the Worldtours day sell a small-group option, and HP Travel’s Positano, Amalfi and Sorrento Small Group Tour caps groups at 13 for $62, the lowest real-date price among the 24 tours on this site. Our small-group tours page compares the caps and vehicles.

Season and weather

Road tours run all year. What changes is the sea: the coach day’s Positano to Amalfi ferry runs April to October, and from November the transfer goes by bus. Some Worldtours days need at least 2 travelers from April to October and 4 from November to March.

October and November are the wettest months in Naples, with 135.5 mm and 152.1 mm of rain on average. Heavy rain can close the coast road, so read the operator’s messages the evening before. If you want to travel by sea, the season and the boat options are on our boat tours page.

Which day trip to book

Book the $73 coach day if you want the most time in Positano and Amalfi and can walk to a central bus stop. Pick the $71 Worldtours day if Sorrento matters to you or you want collection from a hotel, and add $28 if you want lunch arranged. Giromondo says its two day trips are not recommended for cruise passengers, so if you are coming off a ship, start with our cruise excursions page.

Prices and timetables can change, so confirm your exact date before you plan around it. When you are ready, check availability for the Positano and Amalfi coach day.