Turin’s licensed taxis are useful for a station transfer with bags, a late return or a direct ride from Turin Airport. You can take one at a rank, telephone for a car or use a taxi app. Uber Black is a separately priced car service, not a request for a licensed taxi. The distinction matters when you compare the price before setting off.
When a taxi is useful
- Dispatch availability
- 24 hours a day, every day, including public holidays
- Requests
- On demand
Walk between nearby sights in Turin’s compact centre, but consider a taxi when bags or a late return make that inconvenient. An airport journey is another reason to choose a direct car ride.
From the Porta Nuova taxi rank to Porta Susa station, the road journey is about 1.8 km and takes about 7 minutes. Allow extra time for a car to arrive: round-the-clock dispatch does not mean an immediate pickup.
If you can manage your luggage, see Turin metro routes and tickets for the public-transport alternative between the stations.
Taxi ranks, calls and boarding
To order a licensed taxi, call +39 011 5730 or +39 011 5737. Give your pickup address, destination, passenger count and luggage details so the dispatcher can arrange a suitable car.
At Porta Nuova, use the taxi rank on Piazza Carlo Felice, convenient for continuing a rail arrival with luggage. Elsewhere, designated ranks provide an alternative to requesting a pickup. You may also hail a licensed taxi in service and available for a fare, but not one that is occupied, off duty or outside its service turn.
- Name
- Porta Nuova taxi rank
- Location
- Piazza Carlo Felice, Torino Maps
- Essential fact
- A taxi pickup rank beside Turin’s Porta Nuova railway station.
For wheelchair-accessible transport, telephone the taxi rank directly and explain your vehicle needs. Say whether you need to remain in your wheelchair and what boarding assistance you require. The city’s subsidised scheme is for eligible Turin residents who have applied and been authorised. It is not a visitor discount.
Requesting, boarding and paying
Do
- Agree the exact pickup point and give a telephone number where you can be reached.
- Specify wheelchair, passenger and luggage needs before a car is sent.
- Keep the meter visible during the journey and request a fare receipt when paying.
Don’t
- Assume every vehicle can accommodate a wheelchair or a large group.
- Leave the pickup location as simply “the station”.
- Confuse a rough fare estimate with the final metered charge.
Taxi apps and Uber
Wetaxi and FREENOW both let you request licensed taxis in Turin. They are alternatives to a telephone call or a rank, rather than the only way to find a car. Wetaxi offers requests for an immediate ride and bookings for later.
Wetaxi’s in-app payment options are a credit or company card, a linked PayPal account, or topped-up Wetaxi credit. If you choose cash, you pay in the taxi, not through the app. FREENOW supports card payments, Apple Pay, Google Pay and PayPal in its app.
Yes, Uber is available in Turin, with Uber Black. Enter your pickup point and destination to see the price, or an estimated range depending on the trip, before booking. The amount depends on the ride option, journey time and distance. An operating fee may apply, and prices can rise temporarily when demand exceeds the number of available drivers.
Choose a taxi-request app if you want a licensed taxi, or choose Black if you prefer that car service and accept its displayed price. Make that choice before confirming, rather than treating the two kinds of request as interchangeable.
Metered fares and supplements
| Charge | Amount | Applies |
|---|---|---|
| Initial meter charge | €3.50 | Start of ride |
| Time-based charge | €38.70/hour | Stopped; initial progression |
| Time-based charge | €31.57/hour | Stopped; applicable progression |
| Night supplement | €2.50 | 22:00–06:00 |
| Public-holiday supplement | €1.50 | 06:00–22:00 |
| Luggage supplement | €0.50 per piece | Larger than 55 × 40 × 20 cm |
For a short city taxi ride, budget roughly €10–€20, with traffic and waiting pushing the bill upwards. Treat that as a planning range, not a guaranteed fare: the destination, route and applicable supplements all affect what you pay.
Within Turin’s urban service, the meter combines distance and time rather than charging a single distance-only rate. Stops and slow progress can therefore increase the fare even when you are not covering much ground. The time-based rates above depend on the meter’s progression. They are not a separate hourly hire price.
A kilometre-based extra-urban tariff applies when the ride ends beyond the urban limits. Give the full destination when discussing a fare estimate, especially for an address outside the city: a central ride and an out-of-town journey do not use the same tariff structure.
Airport taxi pickup
At Turin Airport, take a licensed taxi from the rank at the arrivals exit. A direct ride lets you keep your luggage with you and continue to your accommodation without an interchange. The fare is charged by an approved taximeter.
Budget roughly €35–€50 for an airport-to-centre ride, with traffic and waiting increasing the price. From the airport rank to the Porta Nuova taxi rank, the road journey is about 19 km and takes about 29 minutes. Add any time spent waiting for pickup separately, and allow more room before a train connection.
For a choice of public transport or a direct taxi, see Turin Airport transfer options to compare the train and buses with a car ride according to where you are staying and how much luggage you have.
Valter Micheletti · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Edited
Sources & fact-checking
Checks against the sources below cover: fares and charges and services.
- Città metropolitana di Torino — fares and charges
- City of Turin — fares and charges
- Città di Torino — fares and charges
- Taxi Torino Cooperative — service
- Wetaxi S.r.l. — service
- WeTechnology S.r.l. — service
- Freenow Services & Options
- Taxi Torino | Freenow
- Uber — service
- Uber — fares and charges
- Città Metropolitana di Torino — service
- Città di Torino — service
