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Visitor levy calculator

Work out the visitor levy on a booking in a Scottish council area or in Cardiff. It applies each council’s rate, night cap, start date and advance booking cut-off for you. Nothing you type leaves your device.

Based on each council’s published scheme and gov.wales, last checked 29 October 2026 · A guide only

Where is the accommodation? Edinburgh (5%, first 5 nights) Glasgow (5%, from 25 January 2027) Aberdeen (7%, from 1 April 2027) Stirling (3%, from 14 June 2027) West Dunbartonshire (5%, from 1 July 2027) Cardiff (£1.30 per person per night, from 1 April 2027)

Check-in date

Number of nights

Date the booking was made Optional: bookings made before the council’s cut-off date have no levy

Accommodation price for the whole stay Without VAT if you’re VAT registered. Leave out meals, parking and other extras

£

Adults

Under-18s

It’s a tent pitch, or a dorm or shared-room bed in a hostel (75p rate)

Everyone is entitled to stay more than 31 nights

Work out the levy

The schemes the calculator uses

• In Scotland the levy is a percentage of the accommodation price without VAT. In Wales it’s a fixed amount per person per night.
• For a stay that starts before the levy and ends after it, only the nights from the start date count.
• In Wales, at the 75p rate under-18s aren’t counted on the first night. Everyone in Wales who takes short-stay bookings must register with the Welsh Revenue Authority by 31 March 2027, whether or not their council charges the levy.
• Some guests are exempt under some schemes, for example people receiving certain disability benefits, and Stirling residents in Stirling.

Full guides: Scotland’s visitor levy and the Wales register and visitor levy. Sources: visitorlevy.scot and Visitor levy on gov.wales.