The short-form United Arab Emirates page: everything a payer here needs first, in AED, without the long guide's full method. Everything here is in AED: the Nisab converted at reference metal prices, an example calculation in UAE dirham, the usual ways people pay in United Arab Emirates, and Ramadan 2027 with its timetable links. The full guide version of this page, with the step-by-step method, is the Zakat calculator guide for United Arab Emirates.
Using the reference prices behind this page (gold USD 76.42/g, silver USD 0.98/g, at 3.6725 AED per dollar), one gram of gold is worth AED 281 and one gram of silver AED 4 in United Arab Emirates. So the thresholds a saver in United Arab Emirates watches are AED 2,204 (silver) and AED 24,551 (gold). Snapshots is the right word: on the due date itself, the live AED values inside the calculators are the ones that count.
Take a concrete case in United Arab Emirates: a resident holds 100 grams of gold — worth about AED 28,065 at the indicative per-gram price on this page — plus AED 3,306 in savings. Combined zakatable wealth is AED 31,371. That clears the Nisab comfortably and, after a full lunar year, the Zakat is 2.5% of the combined figure: AED 784. Notice that the gold is not tested against the gold Nisab on its own here — in a mixed portfolio the assets are valued together in AED and tested once, which is how the calculators on this page proceed.
In United Arab Emirates today, most payers hand their Zakat over through a small number of well-worn channels: payroll deduction schemes offered by some employers, community collection points and food banks during Ramadan and bank transfer to registered Zakat charities. None of these routes changes what is owed , the net figure against the AED Nisab and the 2.5% rate — so choose for reliability: a channel that identifies eligible recipients properly and transfers ownership fully. Payers who give internationally should confirm the recipient end is genuinely Zakat-eligible rather than a general appeal, and note the transfer date beside your hawl anniversary in your records.
In United Arab Emirates, as everywhere, the test falls on owned, accessible wealth: cash in hand and in the bank, savings and deposits, gold and silver in any form, stock bought for resale, business inventory and receivables, investments and crypto at market value — all of it converted into AED where necessary. What does not count: your home in United Arab Emirates, your car, household furniture and personal effects, plus anything you do not truly own or cannot reach. The order never changes in United Arab Emirates: value in AED, deduct what is due, test the net against the Nisab, and charge one-fortieth of the whole net figure once a lunar year has passed.
The Ramadan of 1448 AH should begin on Monday 8 February 2027 across United Arab Emirates, always subject to moon sighting and your community's announcement. The last ten nights begin at Maghrib on 27 February 2027, and Laylat al-Qadr is sought on the odd nights that open on 27 February, 1, 3, 5 and 7 March and the 27th night falling on the evening of Friday 5 March 2027. Expect the last fast on 8 or 9 March 2027, followed by Eid al-Fitr on 9–10 March 2027. Daily times are tabulated in the Ramadan 2027 timetable for United Arab Emirates — Abu Dhabi; remember that Fitrana is due before the Eid prayer, not after it. In Abu Dhabi, day one runs from Fajr 05:43 to Maghrib 18:16. Other cities in United Arab Emirates with their own calendars: Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Ras Al Khaimah, Fujairah — browse them all from the Ramadan 2027 timetables index.
On reference prices, AED 24,551 for 87.48 grams of gold at the reference AED 281 per gram used on this page. The live figure moves with the gold market, and the calculator's live AED value on your due date is the binding one. For mixed wealth most scholars reach for the lower, silver threshold instead — in United Arab Emirates that is AED 2,204 at the same reference prices.
With cash and mixed holdings, most scholars and fatwa councils recommend the silver Nisab (AED 2,204 indicatively) because it obligates more wealth and benefits more poor people. Wealth held purely as gold is a different case: there, all schools test against the gold threshold (AED 24,551). Between AED 2,204 and AED 24,551 the choice is the duty, precisely so that borderline cases in United Arab Emirates can be settled knowingly, with a scholar, instead of by default.
Your due date is personal, not national: of the day your wealth first reached the Nisab in United Arab Emirates. Count it in lunar years of 354 days; so the Gregorian date moves about eleven days earlier each year. Many people in United Arab Emirates choose Ramadan for the reward — Ramadan 2027 begins on 8 February 2027 — pay the coming year's duty early rather than this year's late: the hawl, not the season, sets the deadline.
Yes — the channels listed above are exactly how most Zakat now leaves United Arab Emirates, and online payment changes nothing about the duty itself. Eligibility and transfer are the tests — the recipient must fall within the eight categories of Quran 9:60, and ownership of the AED amount must genuinely transfer to them or their agent. File the receipt with the calculation it settles; the same discipline applies if you also pay from Brunei on wealth held there, and note the Hijri date beside the Gregorian one — future-you, reconciling next year's hawl, will be grateful.
The full 30-day table for the capital is on the Ramadan 2027 timetable for United Arab Emirates, thirty rows for the capital, from the first Fajr on 8 February 2027 to the last Maghrib of the month. Capital times are the reference, not the last word — across United Arab Emirates, minutes shift with longitude, and your local mosque's published times win any close argument.