California: Sales Tax Handbook

2017 California Sales Tax Map by County

This interactive sales tax map map of California shows how local sales tax rates vary across California's 58 counties. Click on any county for detailed sales tax rates, or see a full list of California counties here.

California has state sales tax of 6.00%, and allows local governments to collect a local option sales tax of up to 3.75%. There are a total of 221 local tax jurisdictions across the state, collecting an average local tax of 2.135%.

Combined with the state sales tax, the highest sales tax rate in California is 9.75% in the cities of Long Beach, Hayward, Compton, San Leandro and Santa Monica (and eight other cities).

California sales tax rates last updated June 2017