Pompeii & Amalfi Coast Tours

Pompeii is not on the Amalfi Coast. The ruins sit on the Gulf of Naples shore south-east of Naples, about 25 km by road from the port, while Positano and Amalfi lie on the far side of the Sorrentine Peninsula. A combo day drives you over the peninsula and back, so plan on 8 to 9 hours. The featured From Naples: Amalfi Coast and Pompeii - Full Experience Tour from Worldtours includes the Pompeii ticket and a 2-hour guided visit, from $90 per person without lunch (checked October 2026). It is rated 4.7 from 3,354 GetYourGuide reviews.

Each group combo compared here visits a single Amalfi Coast town, for two hours at most. If seeing both Positano and Amalfi matters more to you than Pompeii, book a coast day and visit the ruins on another day.

Quick picks for Pompeii and the coast

• Ticket and guide included at the lowest price of the three: Worldtours’ Amalfi and Pompeii day, from $90 per person, 2 hours in Amalfi and 2 guided hours in Pompeii. Check availability
• Pompeii in the morning: NapoliCityVision’s From Naples: Pompeii & Amalfi Coast Full-Day Trip, from $191 with the entry ticket, then 1.5 hours in Amalfi. Our breakdown
• Positano and Sorrento instead of Amalfi: Ciao Naples’ From Naples & Salerno: Amalfi Coast Sorrento, Pompeii Tour, from $117, rated 4.9 from 109 reviews; the Pompeii ticket is extra. Our breakdown

How far apart Pompeii and the coast are

By road, Pompeii is about 25 km from Molo Beverello in Naples, roughly 23 minutes without traffic. From Pompeii it is about 36 km to Positano (around 46 minutes) and about 27 km to Sorrento (around 38 minutes). These are drive times without traffic, so treat them as the best case. The Circumvesuviana train from Naples to Sorrento also stops at Pompei Scavi – Villa dei Misteri.

On your trip, that means the coast part of a combo costs the most driving. The featured tour spends about 1.5 hours reaching Agerola and another 40 minutes to Amalfi, then 75 minutes from Amalfi to Pompeii.

How the featured day runs

Worldtours collects you at one of 11 points in Naples and drives up to Agerola, a town above the coast, for a 15-minute photo stop. You then get 2 hours of free time in Amalfi, with a limoncello tasting at a local shop and time for the Duomo di Sant’Andrea. Lunch is included only on the lunch options ($117 regular group, $135 small group). The boat ride in Amalfi is extra and paid on site.

In the afternoon an expert guide leads a 2-hour visit of Pompeii, ticket included. The listing guarantees a live guide when at least 6 people share your language, and the tour may run in two languages. A small-group option costs $108 without lunch, though a few reviewers who paid for it found themselves in a group of 20 or more.

Other caveats from reviews: a cramped van on a hot day, crowds bottlenecking in Pompeii’s narrow lanes, and too little time in Amalfi. The tour needs at least 2 travelers from April to October and 4 from November to March.

Pompeii tickets and hours to know

• Tickets are named. The park prints each visitor’s name on the ticket, which is why the featured tour asks you to bring a passport or ID card.
• A daily cap of 20,000 visitors applies, and from 16 March to 14 October entry is timed in two slots (9:00–13:00 and 13:00–17:30).
• From 15 October to 15 March the park opens 9:00–17:00 with last entry at 15:30. From 16 March it is 9:00–19:00, last entry 17:30.
• Pompei express (the city) costs €20; Pompei+ (adding the outer villas and a shuttle) €25. EU citizens aged 18 to 25 pay €2.
• Entry is free on the first Sunday of each month, and on 1 and 4 November 2026. The featured tour is discounted on first Sundays, while one private operator warns that free-day tickets cannot be booked ahead and queues are long.
• Only small bags (up to 30 x 30 x 15 cm) are allowed inside.

If your tour excludes the ticket, as Ciao Naples’ group day does, buy it in your own name from Vivaticket, the park’s authorized online seller, and carry ID.

The three combo days side by side

Sorrento sits on the Sorrentine Peninsula and is not an Amalfi Coast town, so the Ciao Naples day reaches one coast town, Positano. Its group option opens for bookings from 6 November 2026; a private version for up to 6 costs $310 to $387 per person. On the NapoliCityVision day, one reviewer reported the driver took a mountain road and skipped the coastal drive, so check the route with the assistant on board.

Who a combo day suits

Book a combo if you have one free day in Naples and want Pompeii’s guided streets plus a first look at the coast. It is a long, hot day in summer, with two hours at each site and a lot of driving between them.

If the coast matters most, a road day such as our Amalfi Coast day trips gives you two or three towns for less, from $62 per person. Cruise passengers should check the return time against their ship on the cruise excursions page. For a private car, see the private tours. When you have settled on your date, check availability for the Worldtours Amalfi and Pompeii day.