The Paris taxe de séjour
In Paris you pay between €0.65 and €15.93 per person per night, depending on the type of accommodation and its stars. Children under 18 don't pay, and there is no cap on nights.
In French it is the taxe de séjour, and that is the line on a Paris hotel bill. Dutch visitors know it as the toeristenbelasting and Italian ones as the tassa di soggiorno. Every French town sets its own rate within national limits: the tourist tax in France.
What you pay, and for how long
Paris's taxe de séjour is charged per adult per night and rises with the star rating, from €2.60 in a 1-star hotel to €15.93 in a palace hotel (2026 rates). The totals include three surcharges on top of the city's own rate: 10% for the département, a regional 15% that the city passes on to the Société du Grand Paris, and 200% for Île-de-France Mobilités, the region's transport authority. That 200% surcharge, added in 2024, is why the Paris tax nearly tripled.
Unclassified rentals, which covers most Airbnb-style flats, pay 5% of the price per person per night before VAT, plus the same surcharges, capped at the palace rate of €15.93 per person per night. There is no cap on nights. Under-18s pay nothing.
Elsewhere in France each town sets its own rate within national limits: the tourist tax in France.
The rate for each kind of stay
The more stars, the more you pay. Other kinds of accommodation have their own rates.
| Where you stay | Tax |
|---|---|
| Palace hotel | €15.93 per person per night |
| 5-star hotel, residence or classified furnished let | €11.70 per person per night |
| 4-star hotel, residence or classified furnished let | €8.45 per person per night |
| 3-star hotel, residence or classified furnished let | €5.53 per person per night |
| 2-star hotel, residence or classified furnished let | €3.25 per person per night |
| 1-star hotel, residence or classified furnished let, holiday village, chambre d'hôtes | €2.60 per person per night |
| Unclassified let (most Airbnb and holiday rentals) | 16.25% of the price per person per night, up to €15.93 5% of the price per person per night before VAT, plus the surcharges (×3.25 in all), up to €15.93. |
| 3 to 5-star campsite | €1.95 per person per night |
| 1 or 2-star campsite | €0.65 per person per night |
What a real booking costs
4-star hotel, residence or classified furnished let
- €8.45 per person per night2 paying guests × 4 nights × €8.45
- €67.60
Tax on this stay€67.60
Some children pay less or nothing because of their age.
Exemptions
- Under-18s.
- Seasonal workers employed in Paris, and people in emergency or temporary housing.
Who collects the money
Your hotel or host collects it and files a monthly return with the City of Paris. Platforms that take the payment (such as Airbnb and Booking.com) collect it for the host.
Still unconfirmed
Not everything is published officially yet, and these points we could not confirm.
- The effective rate for unclassified lets (16.25%, that is 5% plus the surcharges) is from a specialist site; the official page gives the 5% and the €15.93 ceiling.
- The exemptions are the national rules as reported; we could not open the legal text.
Work out your own trip
Put in your own trip. Hosts round and apply discounts in their own way, so treat the result as a close estimate.
Planning a trip to Paris
Check whether a listing includes the tax or collects it on arrival. The price breakdown on the booking page tells you.
Where these figures come from
Checked against these on 23 October 2026. If you're a host filing a return, go by the official pages, which change first.
- Service-Public (French government): 2026 taxe de séjour rates official
- Service-Public: taxe de séjour rules official
- Ville de Paris: the taxe de séjour and its surcharges (French) official
- Ville de Paris: declaring the taxe de séjour online official
- Naps: Paris taxe de séjour 2026 (French)