If you live in Bhutan, or hold your wealth there, this is your starting page — Asia region, Bhutanese ngultrum (BTN) as the money of the calculation, and a Muslim community whose main languages include Dzongkha. Everything that follows is the universal Shariah method expressed entirely in local terms — the gold and silver Nisab expressed in Bhutanese ngultrum, how giving is usually organised in Bhutan, what Ramadan 2027 will look like, and the calculators that do the arithmetic for you. The calculators linked here run in your browser, free, with the Nisab converted into BTN at live metal prices rather than printed from a table that went stale last month.
At the reference prices used for this guide — gold at USD 76.42 per gram and silver at USD 0.98 per gram, converted at 83.5 BTN per US dollar — the gold Nisab in Bhutan is BTN 558,216 (87.48g × BTN 6,381 per gram) and the silver Nisab is BTN 50,109 (612.36g × BTN 82 per gram). 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. The practical consequence in Bhutan: net savings that pass BTN 50,109 and stay there for a lunar year are zakatable at 2.5% under the silver standard most scholars recommend for cash.
In Bhutan today, most Zakat is paid through the same short list of routes: mosque collections, especially around Jumu'ah and during Ramadan, charity platforms and mobile giving apps and payroll deduction schemes offered by some employers. Whatever the channel, Zakat must actually reach people inside Quran 9:60's eight categories, with ownership genuinely passing to them (tamlik). Plenty of households here calculate at home first, often against a fixed Ramadan date, then spread the payment over two or three trusted channels. Before paying, ask how funds are distributed, keep the receipt beside your calculation report, and check whether administration costs come out of the Zakat itself where an organisation deducts them. Because community life in Bhutan runs in Dzongkha, make sure family instructions are understood in that language.
Ramadan 1448 is planned from Monday 8 February 2027 in Bhutan, subject to the crescent's sighting which local announcements confirm. The final ten nights open at Maghrib on 27 February 2027, with Laylat al-Qadr sought on the odd nights (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, and Eid al-Fitr on 9–10 March 2027. Daily fasting times for Bhutan are gathered through the Ramadan 2027 timetables by city, and Fitrana must be paid before the Eid prayer.
Take a saver in Bhutan with BTN 250,547 held as cash and savings — about 5.0 times the silver Nisab — with no debts due. The wealth is above the Nisab and has been held for a full lunar year, making the Zakat BTN 6,264 at 2.5%. If the same saver also held gold, business stock or foreign currency, those values would be added in BTN first and the 2.5% applied to the combined net total.
The short answer for Bhutan: the gold threshold is BTN 558,216 for 87.48 grams of gold and the silver threshold is BTN 50,109 (612.36 grams of silver). Behind those figures sit per-gram values of BTN 6,381 for gold and silver at BTN 82 the gram for Bhutan, converted at 83.5 BTN to the dollar. Since prices shift daily, so the live calculator gives the threshold of your actual due date; and most scholars test cash against the silver figure.
The working currency for Bhutan is BTN (Bhutanese ngultrum). Money held abroad is converted into BTN at your due date's rate then judged with everything else . The currency changes only the clothing of the numbers: the Nisab, the hawl and the 2.5% rate are identical in Bhutan to everywhere else.
Total the zakatable side in BTN — cash and savings, metals priced today, stock, investments and receivables. Net off debts due, then compare the net figure with the Nisab in BTN — silver first (BTN 50,109). Once the threshold and the hawl are both met, pays one-fortieth of the net total — the worked example on this page turns BTN 250,547 of net savings into BTN 6,264 of Zakat.
There is no single ZakatSuite rate for Bhutan: it is the local cash value of one sa' of staple food (about 2–3 kg of wheat, rice, flour or dates) for each person. Councils in Bhutan set the rate in BTN each year, with announcements commonly made in Dzongkha. Every household member counts, children included, with the Eid prayer as the deadline. The Fitrana calculator multiplies Bhutan's announced rate by your household size so nobody is missed.
Bhutan is listed in the Asia region, with community languages Dzongkha. Use code BT for the short page — (zakatsuite.com/bt) — and this address for the full guide. All 209 tools work for Bhutan with BTN selected, including live Nisab conversion and PDF reports; neighbouring coverage includes the Zakat calculator for Nepal.