Zakat, step by step
Calculate zakat, one question at a time
Ten short questions, then a plain answer: whether zakat is due on your wealth, and how much. Everything stays in your browser.
Question 1 of 10
Which currency do you want to count in?
How much cash do you keep at home?
Notes and coins, in any currency, at what they are worth in your currency. Put 0 if none.
How much is in your bank accounts?
Current and savings accounts, and money held in apps and e-wallets, on your zakat day.
Do you own any gold?
Coins, bars and jewellery. Scholars differ on jewellery that is worn: see “Zakat explained” for both views.
Do you own any silver?
Coins, bars and silverware kept as savings.
Do you hold shares or investment funds?
Enter what they would sell for today. Put 0 if none.
Do you have goods held for sale in a business?
Stock you hold to sell, at what it would sell for. Put 0 if none.
Is anyone due to pay you back money you lent?
Loans you expect to get back. Put 0 if none.
What debts and bills are due now?
Bills, rent and repayments due now; not the whole of a long loan such as a mortgage.
Which nisab should we compare with?
The nisab is the least wealth on which zakat is due: 20 dinars of gold or 200 dirhams of silver (Sunan Abi Dawud 1573). Many use the lower silver nisab for cash and savings; some use gold. If you aren’t sure, ask your mosque which one they follow.
Nisab: —
Nisab: —
Your zakat
Zakat due (2.5%) —
Nisab on 8 October 2026 £881.80 silver · £8,775.99 gold 612.36 g of silver or 87.48 g of gold, 200 dirhams or 20 dinars (Sunan Abi Dawud 1573), at the spot price of pure metal from gold-api.com. Check today’s price.
- Cash at home
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- Bank accounts
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- Gold
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- Silver
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- Shares and funds
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- Business stock
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- Money owed to you
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- Debts due now
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- Wealth that counts
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- Nisab (silver)
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Worked out on this page, in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere or saved.
Lots of jewellery to weigh? Gold Zakat Calculator takes it item by item. Want every line on one page? Zakat Calculator UK.
Have these to hand before you calculate zakat
- Each bank balance on your zakat day.
- The cash you keep at home, roughly.
- Any gold’s weight and carat, or what it would sell for. The stamp tells you: 916 is 22 carat, 750 is 18.
- What your shares or funds would sell for today.
- Bills, rent or repayments due now.
You can calculate your zakat on cash, gold and savings before you choose where it goes.
Questions before you calculate zakat
What if I don’t know what my gold weighs?
Choose “By value” on the gold question and enter what it would sell for. A jeweller can weigh it another time.
Which currency should I pick?
The one your savings are in. Prices start in pounds, euros, rand, rupees and US, Canadian and Australian dollars; for any other, type today’s price per gram on the nisab question.
What is a zakat day?
The day each year you work it out: a lunar year after your wealth first reached the nisab, since there is no zakat until a year has passed over it (Sunan Ibn Majah 1792).
Prefer to do it on paper?
Follow how to calculate zakat: five steps and three worked examples.