Band H · all 32 Scottish councils
How much is Band H council tax?
Band H costs between £4,683 and £5,387 a year in Scotland depending on your council, water and waste water included.
What this means
A Band H home pays about £427.19 a month in a typical Scottish council area.
Band H is 882/360of your council's Band D rate. That fraction is fixed by law and identical in every council.
Scotland only. Bands and rates work differently in England and Wales.
Every council
Band H in all 32 Scottish councils
A year, water included
1Midlothian£5,3872Aberdeen City£5,3143Argyll and Bute£5,2874Stirling£5,2545Glasgow City£5,2526East Ayrshire£5,2407Dundee City£5,2388East Dunbartonshire£5,2249Clackmannanshire£5,21110East Lothian£5,17411Falkirk£5,16812Orkney Islands£5,16213Moray£5,16014Renfrewshire£5,15815South Ayrshire£5,15016City of Edinburgh£5,13517West Dunbartonshire£5,12618North Ayrshire£5,11119Inverclyde£5,10520Perth and Kinross£5,07021Aberdeenshire£5,06022East Renfrewshire£5,04923Highland£5,04624West Lothian£5,01725Fife£4,97726Scottish Borders£4,95927Angus£4,88528Dumfries and Galloway£4,86929North Lanarkshire£4,86430Na h-Eileanan Siar£4,70431Shetland Islands£4,70232South Lanarkshire£4,683
Other bands
Not sure which band you are? Check with your postcode, or look the property up free on the Scottish Assessors site.
Straight answers
Questions people ask
How much is Band H council tax?
It depends on the council. Across Scotland, Band H runs from £4,683 a year in South Lanarkshire to £5,387 in Midlothian, water included — about £427.19 a month in a typical area.
How much is Band H council tax a month?
Between £390.23 and £448.90 a month over 12 instalments. Most Scottish councils spread it over 10 from April to January instead, so payments are larger but February and March are free.
Does Band H council tax include water?
Your bill does. At Band H Scottish Water charges £603.90 for water and £700.74 for waste water, £1,304.64 in total, collected with the council tax.
Where these figures come from
- Council Tax by band 2025-26, council tax datasets — Scottish Government
- Your charges explained 2026-27 — Scottish Water
Council tax 2025-26, water and waste water 2026-27. Some councils have announced rises for 2026-27 that are not in the national dataset yet.