Zakat, step by step
Calculate your 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%) —
- 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.
Why one question at a time
A long form full of boxes can make zakat feel harder than it is. Here you answer one short question per screen, skip anything that doesn’t apply with a 0 or a “No”, and get a plain answer at the end, with every figure shown so you can see how it was reached. You can go back and change any answer.
It suits a phone, works in any currency and takes a few minutes. When you have reached your figure, the “Print or save” button gives you a copy to keep with your records.
Have these to hand
- The balance of each bank account on your zakat day.
- Roughly how much cash you keep at home.
- The weight and carat of any gold, or what it would sell for. The carat is stamped on most pieces: 916 means 22 carat, 750 means 18 carat.
- What your shares or funds would sell for today.
- Any bills, rent or repayments due now.
Before you start
What if I don’t know how much my gold weighs?
Choose “By value” on the gold question and enter what it would sell for instead. A jeweller can weigh it for you another time.
Which currency should I pick?
The one your savings are in. We hold starting gold and silver prices in pounds, Australian dollars and US dollars; for any other currency, type today’s price per gram on the nisab question.
What is a zakat day?
The day each year when you work your zakat out: a lunar year after your wealth first reached the nisab, since “there is no zakat on wealth until a year has passed over it” (Sunan Ibn Majah 1792). Many keep a day in Ramadan.
Will you see my answers?
No. The questions are answered and added up inside your browser. Nothing is sent to us and nothing is saved.