If you live in Australia, or hold your wealth there, this is your starting page — Oceania region, Australian dollar (AUD) as the money of the calculation, and a Muslim community whose main languages include English. This page translates the universal rules into that local reality: practical notes on paying Zakat in Australia, a step-by-step method, a worked example with real AUD figures, and answers to the questions payers in Australia ask most. The calculators linked here run in your browser, free, with the Nisab converted into AUD at live metal prices rather than printed from a table that went stale last month.
Priced from the reference metal values behind this guide (gold USD 76.42/g, silver USD 0.98/g, at 1.52 AUD to the dollar), one gram of gold is worth AUD 116 in Australia and one gram of silver AUD 1. The thresholds those prices produce are AUD 10,162 for gold (87.48g) and AUD 912 for silver (612.36g). Treat both figures as indicative: metal prices and exchange rates move every day, and the live calculator on this site fetches current prices before it tests your wealth. On the silver standard most scholars recommend for cash, a payer in Australia whose net savings pass AUD 912 for a full lunar year owes 2.5% of the total.
In daily practice, payers settle their Zakat through the same short list of routes: community collection points and food banks during Ramadan, bank transfer to registered Zakat charities and local Zakat committees that collect and distribute within the community. On every route, delivery must be to recipients inside Quran 9:60's eight categories, and it must transfer into their ownership (tamlik). Many households in Australia settle the calculation at home first — often on a fixed Ramadan date — and then distribute through two or three trusted channels rather than one. Ask any intermediary how they distribute, file the confirmation with your PDF report, and check whether administration costs come out of the Zakat itself where an organisation deducts them. In Australia, community life runs in English, so instructions left with family should be in the language they actually use.
The Ramadan of 1448 AH is planned from Monday 8 February 2027 for Australia as for most of the world, subject to the sighting of the new moon and the announcement your community follows. The closing ten nights begin from Maghrib on 27 February, and Laylat al-Qadr is sought on the odd nights — 27 February, then 1, 3, 5 and 7 March — and the 27th night falling on the evening of Friday 5 March 2027. The last fast is expected on 8 or 9 March 2027, and Eid al-Fitr on 9–10 March 2027. In the capital, Canberra, the opening fast runs from Fajr at 04:55 to Maghrib at 20:06, with the whole month tabulated in the Ramadan 2027 timetable for Australia — Canberra. Other cities in Australia with their own calendars: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth — browse them all from the Ramadan 2027 timetables index.
Imagine savings in Australia of AUD 5,291 across cash and savings accounts — some 5.8 times the silver Nisab — with nothing owed. It has passed the Nisab and sat for a full lunar year, making the Zakat AUD 132 at 2.5%. Add any gold, stock or foreign currency in AUD first; the 2.5% then applies to the combined net total.
The short answer for Australia: the gold Nisab is AUD 10,162 for 87.48 grams of gold and the silver threshold is AUD 912 for 612.36 grams of silver. Behind those figures sit a gold gram at AUD 116 and silver at AUD 1 the gram in Australia, at 1.52 AUD per US dollar. Since prices shift daily, so use the live calculator for the binding figure on your due date; most scholars recommend the silver Nisab for cash and savings.
The working currency for Australia is AUD, the Australian dollar. Money held abroad converts into AUD at the rate of your Zakat due date and added before the Nisab test . What travels is the method, not the money: the same calculation a payer runs in Marshall Islands, settled here in Australian dollar.
Total the zakatable side in AUD — cash, savings, gold and silver at today's prices, business stock, investments and money owed to you. Deduct debts that are due now, then set the net figure against the Nisab — start with the silver figure, AUD 912. Once the threshold and the hawl are both met, pays one-fortieth of the net total — AUD 132 on the AUD 5,291 example worked through above.
Fitrana follows the food, not the calculator: it is the local cash value of one sa' of staple food (about 2–3 kg of wheat, rice, flour or dates) per person. Councils in Australia set the rate in AUD each year, with announcements commonly made in English. Every household member counts, children included, and must reach the poor before the Eid prayer. The Fitrana calculator on this site multiplies the announced local rate by your household size.
Regionally, Australia is grouped with the rest of Oceania; and its community languages are recorded as English. Its two-letter code is AU — (zakatsuite.com/au) — and this address for the full guide. All 209 tools work for Australia with AUD selected, including live Nisab conversion and PDF reports; neighbouring coverage includes the Zakat calculator for Marshall Islands.