Tourist tax 2026: what you pay, city by city

The tourist tax is the line that is almost always missing from the estimate: you pay it at the property, per person and per night, and for a family of four spending a week in Rome or Paris it is the difference between the budget and the bill. The problem is that every city decides for itself, changes often, and the sites that summarise it copy old numbers.

This table has one rule: every row has its source, and it is either the city's official page read between 15 and 21 September 2026, or the VoyAVer dossier that verified that entry in the last few weeks. All one hundred VoyAVer destinations are here, including those where there is no tax at all: that is a fact too, and it was checked.

The table: 100 cities, A to Z

Figures are per person, per night. Where the tax is a percentage it is calculated on the room price net of VAT, so on a €200 hotel in Vienna that is about €6 per person until June 2026 and about €10 after.

What changes in 2026

The Winter Olympics year pushed Milan to the €10 ceiling for 4- and 5-star hotels and to €9.50 for B&Bs and short lets, the highest figure in Italy for non-hotel accommodation. Naples raised everything by one euro from 1 May. Bologna confirmed the Jubilee-increased rates for all of 2026. Cagliari and Barcelona have new rates from 1 April, Lecce too; Turin raised everything from 2026, Catania from 1 February, Genoa raises B&Bs and apartments from 1 August.

Outside Italy there are two new things: Edinburgh introduces the UK's first tourist tax from 24 July 2026, 5% of the accommodation price for the first five nights, and Vienna goes from 3.2% to 5% from 1 July 2026, with 8% already announced for 2027. In Spain only Catalonia and the Balearics charge it: the Basque Country has approved one, but Bilbao and San Sebastián will collect it from 1 January 2027.

The traps that matter more than the figure

The number of nights counts as much as the rate: Venice charges for 5 nights at most, Palermo for 4, Rome for 10, Naples for 14. On a long stay, a city with a higher rate but a lower cap can cost less. Alberobello and the Cinque Terre stop at 3 nights, Siracusa has no fixed figure but 4% of the price capped at €5.

The exemption age changes from city to city: up to 10 in Venice, 12 in Florence, Palermo and Porto, 14 in Naples, 17 in Barcelona. In Paris the rates are per adult. And there are cities with no tax at all, such as Seville, Madrid, Nerja, Valencia, the Canaries, Munich, where Bavaria bans it by law, Kraków, Warsaw and Wrocław, and the whole North: Oslo, Bergen and Tromsø until 2027, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki and Tallinn, and then Dublin and London, where the law does not allow it yet, plus Lagos, which is however surrounded by municipalities that charge it. In Brussels and across Greece, on the other hand, you pay per room and not per person: a 4-star in Athens costs €10 a night for two as for four. In France you pay only from age 18 and surcharges of up to 44% are added to the base rate: the figure in the resolution is not the one on the bill, in Bordeaux a 4-star comes to €3.74, not €2.60.

One last thing: the tourist tax has nothing to do with Venice's access fee for day visitors, nor with the landing fees of the islands. They are three different things, with different rules.