California Sales Tax Rate by County and City

Counties (58)

The county rate applies outside any city that levies its own tax. Alphabetical.

Cities and towns (483)

Inside city limits the city's tax applies on top of the county's. Alphabetical; the county shown is the one the DOR assigns to the city.

Methodology

How the combined rate is built

A sales tax rate is a sum. The state sets one rate for every sale in the state; the county, the city and any special district (transit authority, hospital district, improvement district) the address sits in each add their own. The combined rate is those components added together, and the page lists every one with the authority that levies it and the date it took effect, so the total can be checked line by line.

Combined rate  =  state rate + county rate + city rate + district rates
Tax            =  purchase amount × combined rate ÷ 100

Source and effective date

Every rate on this page comes from the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, City & County Sales & Use Tax Rates, the file dated October 1, 2026 with rates effective October 1, 2026, read on October 8, 2026. The file states one effective date for the whole table and none per jurisdiction, so every component is dated by it. Sales tax rates are not tax-year figures: they change on the first day of a quarter, most often January, April, July and October 1. The snapshot behind these pages is rebuilt from the DOR file on the fifth of those months.

• CDTFA publishes one combined rate per city and county. The 7.25% statewide base is split as CDTFA describes it (6.00% state, 1.25% uniform local); everything above it is district tax, which CDTFA lists by district on its district-tax page, not in this file.
• The spreadsheet carries no per-jurisdiction effective date; every component is dated by the spreadsheet's own effective date.

Limitations

• General merchandise only. Groceries, prepared food, lodging, motor vehicles, fuel, alcohol and services are taxed at different rates or not at all, and that differs by state and within California.
• A ZIP code is not a jurisdiction. ZIP codes cross county, city and district lines, so a receipt's ZIP does not set the rate; the taxing jurisdictions the address sits in do. That is why there are no ZIP pages here.
• Where the rate is measured. California is mixed sourcing: the state and uniform local portions follow the seller's location while district taxes follow the delivery address (and some transactions follow other rules).
• Special districts that cover part of a jurisdiction (an address-range improvement district, a transit area that stops at a road) are listed under "other rate areas" where the DOR lists them and left out where it lists them only by address.
• Caps and thresholds (a surtax that applies only to the first $5,000 of an item, a maximum tax per sale) are not modeled; the split assumes the full rate on the full amount.

Last reviewed: October 2026. The state table was checked against each revenue department's page on October 8, 2026; the local snapshots are refreshed from the DOR files every quarter and checked by scripts/check-sales-tax.mjs before each deploy.