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Funeral cost calculator
Estimate a UK funeral from real published prices. A direct cremation has a UK median all-in price of £1,595; an attended cremation funeral a median funeral director’s charge of £2,900 before third-party fees. Choose a service and your area for an itemised estimate from the live medians.
Estimated total
around £4,349
Based on the UK median · prices captured to 9 November 2026
| Funeral director's charges (attended funeral) | £2,900 |
| Cremation fee (paid to the crematorium) | £1,149 |
| Minister or celebrantestimate, not a captured price | £300 |
| Estimated total | £4,349 |
This is a guide, not a quote. Funeral director figures are medians from captured CMA Standardised Price Lists, the crematorium fee is the nearest crematorium’s captured standard fee (or the national median), and burial fees are medians from local-authority fee schedules. Only the celebrant fee is an estimate (a £300 celebrant estimate (not a captured price)). Always confirm the current price with the funeral director, crematorium or cemetery.
How the calculator works
Every funeral director figure is a median of the prices funeral directors publish on their CMA Standardised Price List, captured by Funeral Cost Index. When you pick an area, the calculator uses that area’s median; otherwise it uses the UK median across 363 council areas. Cemetery burial fees are national medians from local-authority fee schedules.
What’s included — and what isn’t
A direct cremation figure is all-in: it already includes the cremation fee. An attended cremation combines the funeral director’s own charges with the crematorium’s cremation fee and a celebrant. An attended burial combines the funeral director’s charges with the new-grave (Exclusive Right of Burial) and interment fees and a celebrant. None of the estimates include flowers, catering, an order of service, a headstone or memorials, which are extra. See funeral disbursements for the third-party fees in detail.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a funeral cost in the UK?
A direct (unattended) cremation has a UK median all-in price of £1,595, from 3,018 CMA Standardised Price Lists captured by Funeral Cost Index up to 9 November 2026. A fully attended cremation funeral comes to a modelled £4,349 (a sum of medians, not a captured or quoted price): the median funeral director's charge for an attended cremation (£2,900, 3,491 CMA Standardised Price Lists, captured April–November 2026), the median crematorium fee (£1,149, 329 crematoria, captured May–November 2026) and a £300 celebrant estimate (not a captured price). An attended burial replaces the crematorium fee with burial fees: a median new grave of £1,229 plus a median adult interment fee of £1,097 (resident rate where published), from the published fee schedules of 56 burial authorities, mainly in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and northern England; no London authorities captured yet (captured by Funeral Cost Index in June 2026).
Is the calculator an estimate or a quote?
The calculator gives a guide, not a quote. Funeral director figures are medians of captured CMA Standardised Price Lists and use the median for your chosen area; the crematorium fee is the nearest crematorium's captured standard fee (or the national median). Only the celebrant fee is an estimate: a £300 celebrant estimate (not a captured price). Always confirm the current price with the funeral director, crematorium or cemetery before deciding.
How is my local funeral cost calculated?
When you choose an area, the calculator uses the median funeral director price captured for that area from published CMA Standardised Price Lists, and - for an attended cremation - the captured standard fee of the nearest crematorium to that area. Where an area has no captured figure it falls back to the UK median. Burial cemetery fees are national medians from local-authority fee schedules.
See the real published prices
The calculator gives a median-based estimate. For the actual prices funeral directors publish near you, search by postcode or browse your area.