California: Sales Tax Handbook

2021 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%, and allows local governments to collect a local option sales tax of up to 4.75%. There are a total of 513 local tax jurisdictions across the state, collecting an average local tax of 2.492%.

Combined with the state sales tax, the highest sales tax rate in California is 10.75% in the cities of Hayward, San Leandro, Alameda, Union City and Newark (and one other cities).

California sales tax rates last updated September 2021