Free tipping calculator

A free tipping calculator for 20 countries, with no sign-up. The percentage is the easy part. What actually decides your tip is whether service is already on the bill, whether locals round up instead of calculating, and whether the smallest note in your pocket makes a percentage practical. Pick the country and it handles the rest — including the ones where the right answer is nothing at all.

Where you are

Bill total (JPY)

0.00 JPYtip · 0.0% · pay 50.00 JPY total

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Tipping isn't expected here. Pay the bill as printed.

In practice: Don't tip. Cash left on a table is often handed back — it can read as the staff being underpaid. Service is built into the price; first-class hotels add a 10–15% service charge and izakaya add a small per-person table charge (otōshi).

Usual range: No tipping expected · ¥ JPY

Every country we've travelled

Tap through for the detail behind each rule — these come from what we actually did on the road, not from a generic etiquette list.

The three things that actually change your tip

Service charge. In Thailand a “++” on the menu means 10% service plus 7% VAT are already added, so a 1,000-baht dinner costs about 1,177 and needs no tip. In Budapest, paying the szervizdíj and then leaving cash on top is tipping twice — the commonest mistake visitors make there.

Rounding. In Albania nobody leaves 7,342 lek; you round to the nearest two hundred. In Montenegro the benchmark is 10% or the nearest €10, whichever is easier on the tray.

Not tipping at all. Japan and South Korea genuinely don't want it — cash left on a table is often handed back. Italy expects the coperto instead, a per-person cover charge that is not a tip. Getting this wrong the other way — tipping where it isn't expected — is at worst awkward, but over-tipping in a place where service staff are well paid can read as pity.

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