This page is the complete Zakat guide for Botswana, Africa region, Botswana pula (BWP) as the money of the calculation, and a Muslim community whose main languages include English, Setswana. Below you will find today's indicative Nisab values in Botswana pula, the gold and silver Nisab expressed in Botswana pula, how giving is usually organised in Botswana, what Ramadan 2027 will look like, and the calculators that do the arithmetic for you. Botswana is one of 195 countries covered by ZakatSuite, in the Africa region, and every figure on this page is given in the currency a payer in Botswana actually faces.
Priced from the reference metal values behind this guide (gold USD 76.42/g, silver USD 0.98/g, at 13.6 BWP to the dollar), one gram of gold is worth BWP 1,039 in Botswana and one gram of silver BWP 13. The thresholds those prices produce are BWP 90,919 for gold (87.48g) and BWP 8,162 for silver (612.36g). Both are snapshots, not fixtures — on your actual due date the live tool will quote the thresholds afresh in Botswana pula. On the silver standard most scholars recommend for cash, a payer in Botswana whose net savings pass BWP 8,162 for a full lunar year owes 2.5% of the total.
As a rule, the Zakat of most households leaves 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. On every route, delivery must be to recipients whom Quran 9:60 names as eligible, with ownership genuinely passing to them (tamlik). Plenty of households here settle the calculation at home first — often on a fixed Ramadan date — and then distribute through two or three trusted channels rather than one. 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. A Zakat-specific fund, where a platform offers one, keeps the money out of general spending — the distinction is recorded in BWP on your statement.
Ramadan 2027 is expected to open on Monday 8 February 2027 in Botswana as elsewhere, pending the sighted crescent and your community's announcement. 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. The final fast should fall on 8 or 9 March 2027, followed by Eid al-Fitr on 9–10 March 2027. Daily fasting times for Botswana are gathered through the Ramadan 2027 timetables by city, with Fitrana due before the Eid prayer, not after it.
Imagine savings in Botswana of BWP 32,646 across cash and savings accounts , roughly 4.0 times the silver Nisab, and no debts due. It clears the Nisab and completes a hawl, so 2.5% is due: BWP 816. If the same saver also held gold, business stock or foreign currency, those values would be added in BWP first and the 2.5% applied to the combined net total.
The short answer for Botswana: gold's Nisab is BWP 90,919 — 87.48 grams of gold — with the silver Nisab at BWP 8,162 for 612.36 grams of silver. The working behind them: gold at BWP 1,039 the gram and BWP 13 for silver in Botswana at the 13.6 BWP reference rate. Prices move daily, so the live calculator gives the binding figure on your due date; and most scholars test cash against the silver figure.
Calculations for Botswana run in BWP — the Botswana pula. Wealth held in other currencies converts into BWP at the due-date rate then judged with everything else — a balance kept in Chad, for example, enters at its BWP value on that date, not at the rate from when it was earned. The rules themselves do not change with the currency: 2.5% of net zakatable wealth above the Nisab, after one full lunar year.
Total the zakatable side in BWP — cash, savings, gold and silver at today's prices, stock, investments and receivables. Net off debts due, then set the net figure against the Nisab in BWP — silver first (BWP 8,162). If it reaches the Nisab and a lunar year has passed, pay 2.5% of the net total to eligible recipients — BWP 816 on the BWP 32,646 example worked through above.
There is no single ZakatSuite rate for Botswana: Fitrana is one sa' of the local staple — roughly 2–3 kilograms of wheat, flour, rice or dates — per person. Scholars and councils in Botswana announce the BWP rate each Ramadan, and community announcements there are commonly made in English, Setswana. Pay it for each person in the household, children included, and must reach the poor before the Eid prayer. The Fitrana calculator multiplies Botswana's announced rate by your household size so nobody is missed.
On ZakatSuite, Botswana sits in the Africa region and its community languages are recorded as English, Setswana. Its two-letter code is BW — (zakatsuite.com/bw) — and this address for the full guide. All 209 tools work for Botswana with BWP selected, so nothing on the platform is closed to a payer here.