Short-term rentals across Ontario

Can I run an Airbnb here? Do I need a licence?

73 of 444 municipalities in Ontario have an adopted bylaw on short-term rentals on file. Each row links the municipality's answer page and, where transcribed, the full text of the document.

MunicipalityAdopted documentKey factsVerified
Algonquin Highlands
Township
Short-Term Rental Licensing By-law 2024-81
adopted 2024-08-15
licence required: True 2026-08-28
Alnwick/Haldimand
Township
Short Term Rental Licensing By-Law (BL 46-2024)
adopted 2024-06-25
licence required: True 2026-08-28
Amherstburg
Town
By-law 2023-059 - Short Term Rentals licence required: True 2026-08-28
Ashfield–Colborne–Wawanosh
Township
By-law 68-2025 - Short-Term Rental Licensing licence required: True · owner occupancy required: False 2026-08-28
Assiginack
Township
Short-Term Accommodations By-law 22-07 (Consolidated) licence required: True · zones allowed: Within geographic limits of the Township where permitted by the applicable zoning By-law. · fee: STA Licencing Fee (1-year term) $1,000.00; Non-Refundable Application Submission Fee $50.00 2026-08-28
Augusta
Township
3724-2024 License & Regulate Short Term Rentals
adopted 2024-06-24
licence required: True · owner occupancy required: False 2026-08-28
Baldwin
Township
Short-Term Rental By-law 2024-007
adopted 2024-06-10
licence required: True · owner occupancy required: False · zones allowed: Zone R4 only 2026-08-28
Barrie
City
Municipal Accommodation Tax (Internet-Based Accommodation Sharing Platforms) By-law No. 2019-022
+1 more
adopted 2019-03-25
2026-08-28
Belleville
City
Short-Term Accommodations By-law No. 2025-176
adopted 2025-12-01
2026-08-28
Bonfield
Township
Short-Term Rental Accommodation By-law 2025-17
adopted 2025-05-13
licence required: True · owner occupancy required: False · zones allowed: Permitted for residential dwellings as a permitted use within the geographic limits of the Township. 2026-08-28
Brampton
City
Short-Term Rental By-law 165-2021 licence required: True · owner occupancy required: True · fee: $150.00 2026-08-28
Burlington
City
Short-Term Accommodation Licence By-law 01-2025
adopted 2025-01-13
2026-08-28
Chatham-Kent
Municipality
Short-Term Dwelling Rentals licence required: True 2026-08-28
Dutton/Dunwich
Municipality
Short-term Accommodations - Bylaw No. 2022-20 2026-08-28
Dysart et al
Municipality
By-law No. 2024-14 - Short Term Rental By-law 2026-08-28
French River
Municipality
Short-Term Rental Licensing By-law 2023-60
adopted 2023-11-15
licence required: True · owner occupancy required: False · zones allowed: All properties in the Municipality of French River, excluding Non-Permitted Areas (NIL), subject to Zoning By-law. 2026-08-28
Gananoque
Town
By-law No. 2019-123 - Short-Term Accommodations Licensing By-law
adopted 2019-12-17
licence required: True · owner occupancy required: True · zones allowed: areas where it is a permitted use as set out in the Town's Development Permit By-law 2026-08-28
Georgian Bay
Township
Short-Term Rentals By-law 2023-116 — Office Consolidation licence required: True 2026-08-28
Georgian Bluffs
Township
Short Term Accommodations Licensing Requirements licence required: True · owner occupancy required: False · fee: Annual Primary $500; Annual Secondary $750; Seasonal Primary $250; Seasonal Secondary $500 2026-08-28
Georgina
Town
By-law 2019-0061 (LI-3) - Short-Term Rental Accommodation Licensing
+2 more
adopted 2019-10-09
licence required: True · zones allowed: Single Family Dwelling or a lawfully permitted and registered Accessory Apartment on the same lot as a Single Family Dwelling · fee: $250.00 2026-08-28
Gordon/Barrie Island
Municipality
Short-Term Accommodation By-Law 2022-13 licence required: True · owner occupancy required: False · zones allowed: All properties in the Municipality of Gordon/Barrie Island; only single home dwellings permitted. 2026-08-28
Gore Bay
Town
By-law 2023-16 - Short-Term Rental Accommodations Regulation
adopted 2023-05-08
licence required: True · zones allowed: All properties within the Town of Gore Bay, limited to single home dwellings. 2026-08-28
Greater Madawaska
Township
License, Regulate, and Govern Short-Term Rental Accommodations By-Law 19-2024 licence required: True 2026-08-28
Grey Highlands
Municipality
Short Term Accommodation Licensing By-law (Consolidated By-law No. 2019-122) licence required: True 2026-08-28
Guelph
City
Short Term Rental / Business Licence Amendment By-law (2023)-20825
adopted 2023-10-24
licence required: True · owner occupancy required: False 2026-08-28
Hamilton
City
By-law No. 23-005 - To Amend By-law No. 07-170 (Short-Term Rental Licensing)
adopted 2023-01-25
2026-08-28
Huntsville
Town
Short Term Rental Accommodations, Consolidated By-law 2025-19 2026-08-28
Innisfil
Town
Short-Term Accommodations — Bed and Breakfast Regulations 2026-08-28
Kawartha Lakes
City
By-law to License, Regulate and Govern Short-Term Rental Accommodation Businesses 2023-111
+1 more
adopted 2023-06-20
licence required: True · owner occupancy required: False 2026-08-28
Kenora
City
By-law No. 173-2024 - A By-law to Establish a Municipal Accommodation Tax
adopted 2024-12-17
2026-08-28
Kingston
City
Short-term Rental Licensing By-law 2021-10
+1 more
licence required: True 2026-08-28
Lake of Bays
Township
By-law 2024-065 — Licence, Regulate and Govern Short-term Rentals 2026-08-28
Lambton Shores
Municipality
Short-Term Rental Licensing By-Law 43 of 2022, amended December 20, 2022 licence required: True · fee: as set out in the Municipal Fees and Charges By-Law 2026-08-28
Lincoln
Town
Short-Term Accommodation By-law No. 2024-61 2026-08-28
London
City
Business Licensing By-law No. L.-131-16, Schedule 21 - Short-Term Accommodation
adopted 2017-12-12
2026-08-28
Magnetawan
Municipality
By-law 2025-50 - Short-term Accommodation licence required: True · owner occupancy required: False 2026-08-28
Mississauga
City
Short Term Rental Accommodation Licensing By-law No. 0289-2020
adopted 2020-12-09
2026-08-28
Muskoka Lakes
Township
Short Term Rental Accommodation Licensing By-law 2025-049
adopted 2025-04-16
2026-08-28
Niagara Falls
City
By-law No. 2025-033 - Owner-Occupied Short-Term Rentals (amends By-law 2021-57)
+5 more
adopted 2025-07-08
licence required: True · owner occupancy required: True 2026-08-28
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Town
Short Term Rental By-law 2025-032 2026-08-28
Norfolk
City
Business Licensing By-law No. 2020-17 - Schedule 4 (Hotels, Motels, Bed & Breakfasts) 2026-08-28
North Bay
City
Short-Term Rental By-law 2026-08-28
Oakville
Town
Short-Term Accommodation Licensing By-law 2026-08-30
Orillia
City
Municipal Code Chapter 730 — Short-Term Rental Accommodations 2026-08-29
Oshawa
City
Municipal Accommodation Tax By-law 93-2020 (consolidated)
adopted 2020-10-26
2026-08-29
Ottawa
City
Short-Term Rental (By-law No. 2021-104) 2026-08-29
Owen Sound
City
Short-Term Rental Licensing By-law No. 2023-115
adopted 2023-12-04
2026-08-29
Penetanguishene
Town
STR Licensing By-law 2022-58
adopted 2022-09-14
licence required: True · fee: $500.00 (two or less guest rooms); $900.00 (three or more guest rooms) 2026-08-29
Peterborough
City
By-law No. 19-063 (Municipal Accommodation Tax)
adopted 2019-06-24
2026-08-29
Port Colborne
City
Short-Term Rental Accommodation Licensing By-law 7388/79/25 licence required: True 2026-08-29
Prince Edward
City
By-Law 108-2021 A By-Law to Regulate and Govern the Operation of Short Term Accommodation Dwelling Rentals
+1 more
2026-08-29
Ramara
Township
Short-Term Rental Accommodation By-law 2020.11 2026-08-29
Sarnia
City
Short-Term Accommodation By-Law No. 15 of 2020 (Consolidated certified copy)
adopted 2020-02-10
2026-08-29
Sault Ste. Marie
City
Short Term Rentals By-law No. 2022-178 2026-08-29
Smooth Rock Falls
Town
Short-Term Rental By-Law 2026-08-29
South Bruce Peninsula
Town
Short-Term Rental Accommodation Licensing By-Law 11-2026 licence required: True 2026-08-29
South Dundas
Municipality
By-law 2022-33 Short Term Rentals (Air Bnb) licence required: True · owner occupancy required: False · fee: $500 annual flat fee 2026-08-29
South Frontenac
Township
Short-Term Rental Licensing By-law 2026-08-29
St. Catharines
City
Short-Term Rental and Bed and Breakfast Licensing By-law No. 2023-060
+1 more
licence required: True · owner occupancy required: True · zones allowed: Residential areas permitted under Zoning By-law; must be secondary use, not primary use of property 2026-08-29
St.-Charles
Municipality
Short-Term Rental Licensing By-Law 2024-28 licence required: True · owner occupancy required: False · zones allowed: All properties in the Municipality of St.-Charles; no non-permitted areas designated 2026-08-29
Temiskaming Shores
City
Municipal Transient Accommodation Tax (MAT) By-law No. 2025-019
adopted 2025-02-18
2026-08-29
Thunder Bay
City
Municipal Accommodation Tax By-law No. 74/2018
adopted 2018-08-13
2026-08-29
Timmins
City
Amend By-law 2019-8306 re: Municipal Accommodation Tax (By-law No. 2026-9328)
+1 more
adopted 2026-04-14
2026-08-29
Tiny
Township
By-law 22-017 - Licence, Regulate and Govern Short-Term Rental Accommodation
adopted 2022-08-11
licence required: True 2026-08-29
Toronto
City
Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 547, Licensing and Registration of Short-Term Rentals licence required: True · owner occupancy required: True 2026-08-29
Trent Lakes
Municipality
Short Term Rental Accommodation Registration By-law B2025-024 licence required: True · zones allowed: Anywhere in the Municipality; excludes hunt camps, trailers, park models, duplexes, triplexes, multi-unit residential dwellings 2026-08-29
Vaughan
City
Municipal Accommodation Tax, Short-Term Rental By-law 183-2019 (Consolidated)
+1 more
2026-08-29
Waterloo
City
Rental Housing Licensing Bylaw No. 2011-047 (consolidated, as amended by By-law 2025-044, effective July 1 2026)
adopted 2025-06-23
2026-08-29
Wawa
Municipality
BL 3704-24 - Short-Term Rental Accommodation licence required: True 2026-08-29
Welland
City
Short Term Rentals By-law No. 2021- (licensing and inspecting of short-term rentals)
adopted 2021-11-02
2026-08-29
Whitchurch-Stouffville
Town
Short-Term Rental By-law 2024-049-LI Consolidated September 25, 2024 licence required: True 2026-08-29
Whitestone
Municipality
By-law No. 34-2022 - Amendment to Zoning By-law 07-2018, Short Term Rental Unit definition zones allowed: Rural (RU), Rural Residential (RR), Waterfront Residential (WF1, WF2, WF3) zones 2026-08-29
Windsor
City
Short-Term Rental Licensing By-law 115-2022
adopted 2022-08-08
2026-08-29

Nothing on file for short-term rentals

Absence here is explicit, not a gap: each municipality below was checked, and its status says why there is no document.

Other bylaws on file, none on this topic (360) — Addington Highlands, Adelaide Metcalfe, Adjala-Tosorontio, Admaston/Bromley, Ajax, Alberton, Alfred and Plantagenet, Amaranth, Armour, Armstrong, Arnprior, Arran–Elderslie, Asphodel–Norwood, Athens, Atikokan, Aurora, Aylmer, Bancroft, Bayham, Beckwith, Billings, Black River-Matheson, Blandford-Blenheim, Blind River, Bluewater, Bonnechere Valley, Bracebridge, Bradford West Gwillimbury, Brant, Brantford, Brighton, Brock, Brockton, Brockville, Brooke-Alvinston, Bruce County, Bruce Mines, Brudenell, Lyndoch and Raglan, Burk's Falls, Burpee and Mills, Caledon, Callander, Calvin, Cambridge, Carleton Place, Carling, Carlow/Mayo, Casey, Casselman, Cavan Monaghan, Central Elgin, Central Frontenac, Central Huron, Central Manitoulin, Centre Hastings, Centre Wellington, Champlain, Chapleau, Chapple, Charlton and Dack, Chatsworth, Chisholm, Clarence-Rockland, Clarington, Clearview, Cobalt, Cobourg, Cochrane, Cockburn Island, Collingwood, Conmee, Cornwall, Cramahe, Dawn-Euphemia, Dawson, Deep River, Deseronto, District Municipality of Muskoka, Dorion, Douro-Dummer, Drummond/North Elmsley, Dryden, Dubreuilville, Dufferin County, Ear Falls, East Ferris, East Garafraxa, East Gwillimbury, East Hawkesbury, East Zorra-Tavistock, Edwardsburgh/Cardinal, Elgin County, Elizabethtown-Kitley, Elliot Lake, Emo, Englehart, Enniskillen, Erin, Espanola, Essa, Essex, Essex County, Evanturel, Faraday, Fort Erie, Fort Frances, Front of Yonge, Frontenac County, Frontenac Islands, Gillies, Goderich, Grand Valley, Gravenhurst, Greater Napanee, Greater Sudbury, Greenstone, Grey County, Grimsby, Guelph/Eramosa, Haldimand, Haliburton County, Halton Hills, Hamilton, Hanover, Harley, Harris, Hastings County, Hastings Highlands, Havelock-Belmont-Methuen, Hawkesbury, Head, Clara and Maria, Hearst, Highlands East, Hilliard, Hilton, Hilton Beach, Hornepayne, Horton, Howick, Hudson, Huron County, Huron East, Huron Shores, Huron-Kinloss, Ignace, Ingersoll, Iroquois Falls, James, Jocelyn, Johnson, Joly, Kapuskasing, Kearney, Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards, Killarney, Kincardine, King, Kingsville, Kirkland Lake, Kitchener, La Vallee, LaSalle, Laird, Lake of the Woods, Lakeshore, Lambton County, Lanark County, Lanark Highlands, Larder Lake, Latchford, Laurentian Hills, Laurentian Valley, Leamington, Leeds and the Thousand Islands, Lennox and Addington County, Limerick, Loyalist, Lucan Biddulph, Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional, Machar, Machin, Madawaska Valley, Madoc, Malahide, Manitouwadge, Mapleton, Marathon, Markham, Markstay-Warren, Marmora and Lake, Matachewan, Mattawa, Mattawan, Mattice-Val Côté, McDougall, McGarry, McKellar, McMurrich/Monteith, McNab/Braeside, Meaford, Melancthon, Merrickville–Wolford, Middlesex Centre, Middlesex County, Midland, Milton, Minden Hills, Minto, Mississippi Mills, Mono, Montague, Moosonee, Morris-Turnberry, Mulmur, Nairn and Hyman, Neebing, New Tecumseth, Newbury, Newmarket, Nipigon, Nipissing, North Algona Wilberforce, North Dumfries, North Dundas, North Frontenac, North Glengarry, North Grenville, North Huron, North Kawartha, North Middlesex, North Perth, North Stormont, Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands, Northern Bruce Peninsula, Northumberland County, Norwich, Oil Springs, Oliver Paipoonge, Orangeville, Oro-Medonte, Otonabee–South Monaghan, Oxford County, Papineau-Cameron, Parry Sound, Pelee, Pelham, Pembroke, Perry, Perth, Perth County, Perth East, Perth South, Petawawa, Peterborough County, Petrolia, Pickering, Pickle Lake, Plummer Additional, Plympton–Wyoming, Point Edward, Port Hope, Powassan, Prescott, Prescott and Russell, Prince, Puslinch, Quinte West, Rainy River, Red Lake, Red Rock, Regional Municipality of Durham, Regional Municipality of Halton, Regional Municipality of Niagara, Regional Municipality of Peel, Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Regional Municipality of York, Renfrew, Renfrew County, Richmond Hill, Rideau Lakes, Russell, Ryerson, Sables-Spanish Rivers, Saugeen Shores, Schreiber, Scugog, Seguin, Selwyn, Severn, Shelburne, Shuniah, Simcoe County, Sioux Lookout, Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls, Smiths Falls, South Algonquin, South Bruce, South Glengarry, South Huron, South River, South Stormont, South-West Oxford, Southgate, Southwest Middlesex, Southwold, Spanish, Springwater, St. Clair, St. Joseph, St. Marys, St. Thomas, Stirling-Rawdon, Stone Mills, Stratford, Strathroy-Caradoc, Strong, Sundridge, Tarbutt, Tay, Tay Valley, Tecumseh, Tehkummah, Temagami, Terrace Bay, Thames Centre, The Archipelago, The Blue Mountains, The Nation, The North Shore, Thessalon, Thorold, Tillsonburg, Trent Hills, Tudor and Cashel, Tweed, Tyendinaga, United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Uxbridge, Val Rita-Harty, Wainfleet, Warwick, Wasaga Beach, Wellesley, Wellington County, Wellington North, West Elgin, West Grey, West Lincoln, West Nipissing, West Perth, Westport, Whitby, White River, Whitewater, Wilmot, Wollaston, Woodstock, Woolwich, Zorra.

No bylaws published online (8, verified negatives) — Brethour, Chamberlain, Fauquier-Strickland, Gauthier, Kerns, Moonbeam, O'Connor, Thornloe.

Unconfirmed (3, leads but nothing verified) — Coleman, Morley, Opasatika.

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