The short-form Canada page: everything a payer here needs first, in CAD, without the long guide's full method. Below: the Nisab in CAD at reference prices, a worked example in Canadian dollar, the channels people in Canada actually pay through, what counts as zakatable wealth here, and the Ramadan 2027 dates. The full guide version of this page, with the step-by-step method, is the Zakat calculator guide for Canada.
At this page's reference prices — CAD 104 per gram of gold and CAD 1 per gram of silver, converted at 1.36 CAD per dollar — the two weights price out as follows for Canada. So the thresholds a saver in Canada watches are CAD 816 (silver) and CAD 9,092 (gold). Both are indicative snapshots — the calculators fetch live prices the moment you use them, and Zakat law judges your wealth against the Nisab of your actual due date, not of the day you happened to read a web page.
Take a concrete case in Canada: a resident holds 150 grams of gold — worth about CAD 15,590 at the indicative per-gram price on this page — plus CAD 1,224 in savings. Combined zakatable wealth is CAD 16,814. That clears the Nisab comfortably and, after a full lunar year, the Zakat is 2.5% of the combined figure: CAD 420. 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 CAD and tested once, which is how the calculators on this page proceed.
In daily practice, most payers hand their Zakat over through a few familiar channels: local Zakat committees that collect and distribute within the community, mosque collections, especially around Jumu'ah and during Ramadan and charity platforms and mobile giving apps. The route changes nothing about the amount when the net wealth met the Nisab and the 2.5% was applied — so choose for reliability: a channel that identifies eligible recipients properly and transfers ownership fully. If your Zakat leaves Canada, confirm the destination is a Zakat fund, not a general appeal, and keep the confirmation alongside the PDF report for that year.
The zakatable list for a payer in Canada is the universal one — 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 CAD where necessary. Personal-use property stays out — the house, the car, the furniture — as does wealth that is not genuinely yours or not accessible to you. Debts due now come off before the Nisab test; then, if the net total has reached the threshold — CAD 816 on the silver standard most scholars apply to cash in Canada and a lunar year has passed over it, 2.5% is the right of the poor in that wealth.
The Ramadan of 1448 AH is planned from Monday 8 February 2027 for Canada as for most of the world, subject to the sighting of the new moon which local announcements confirm. Ramadan's last ten nights start with the Maghrib of 27 February 2027, and Laylat al-Qadr is sought on the odd nights that open on 27 February, 1, 3, 5 and 7 March with the 27th night opening the evening of Friday 5 March 2027. Expect the last fast on 8 or 9 March 2027, and Eid al-Fitr on 9–10 March 2027. Daily times are tabulated in the Ramadan 2027 timetable for Canada — Ottawa; remember that Fitrana is due before the Eid prayer, not after it. In Ottawa, day one runs from Fajr 05:52 to Maghrib 17:20. Other cities in Canada with their own calendars: Toronto, Mississauga, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal — browse them all from the Ramadan 2027 timetables index.
At this page's reference price, the gold Nisab is CAD 9,092, the value of 87.48 grams of gold priced at CAD 104 the gram. Gold trades daily, so confirm the amount in the calculator on your due date. For mixed wealth most scholars reach for the lower, silver threshold instead — and for wealth held purely as gold it is the agreed test in every school.
For money-like wealth in Canada, start with silver (CAD 816) since it brings more wealth into the duty and directs more to the poor. Holdings that are gold and nothing else follow the gold Nisab under every school — the disagreement is only about money and mixed wealth. If your wealth sits between the two thresholds, the choice changes your duty, so it is worth a question to a scholar you trust — the calculator shows both figures so the conversation starts from real numbers.
On your own hawl date: of the day your wealth first reached the Nisab in Canada. Because a hawl is 354 days, so the Gregorian date moves about eleven days earlier each year. Aligning payment to Ramadan is common in Canada and permitted — Ramadan 2027 opens on 8 February 2027 — but paying in Ramadan does not move a hawl that fell earlier; paying early is permitted, paying late without excuse is not.
Yes, and most online giving from Canada flows through the channels described on this page. Two conditions govern it: that the recipient falls within Quran 9:60's categories, and that the money is truly theirs once sent, not merely pledged. Use a platform's Zakat-specific fund where one exists, and note the Hijri date beside the Gregorian one — future-you, reconciling next year's hawl, will be grateful.
Every day's six times for the capital — Fajr to Isha — are tabulated on the Ramadan 2027 timetable for Canada, starting 8 February 2027. Times are calculated for the capital; across Canada, minutes shift with longitude, and your local mosque's published times win any close argument.