John Hancock California Tax-Free Income Fund (the “fund”)
Supplement dated 12-14-2012 to the current Prospectus

In the “Fund Summary” section, under the “Past performance” subsection, the following benchmark index descriptions are added and the “Average annual total returns” table is amended and restated as follows:

Barclays California Municipal Bond Index is an unmanaged index composed of California investment grade municipal bonds.

Barclays Municipal Bond Index is an unmanaged index representative of the tax-exempt bond market.

Average annual total returns (%)	1 Year		5 Year		10 Year
as of 12-31-11
Class A before tax		6.97		3.11		4.10
After tax on distributions		6.97		3.10		4.09
After tax on distributions, with sale		6.18		3.28		4.15
Class B before tax		6.15		2.86		3.88
Class C before tax		10.15		3.20		3.70
Barclays California Municipal Bond Index*		11.20		6.28		5.53
Barclays Municipal Bond Index*		10.70		5.22		5.38

* Prior to December 14, 2012, the fund compared its performance solely to the Barclays Municipal Bond Index. After this date, the fund added the Barclays California Municipal Bond Index as the primary benchmark index and retained the Barclays Municipal Bond Index as the secondary benchmark index to which the fund compares its performance to better reflect the universe of investment opportunities based on the fund's investment strategy.