Zakat in Canada follows the same revelation as Zakat everywhere, and is paid, in practice, in CAD, at local prices, through local channels. It brings together the Nisab in your currency — CAD 816 on the silver standard and CAD 9,092 on the gold standard, indicatively — the way Zakat is commonly paid in Canada, a worked example, and the dates and timetable links you need for Ramadan 2027. The calculators linked here run in your browser, free, with the Nisab converted into CAD 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 1.36 CAD per US dollar — the gold Nisab in Canada is CAD 9,092 (87.48g × CAD 104 per gram) and the silver Nisab is CAD 816 (612.36g × CAD 1 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. So the line that matters most in Canada is the silver one, CAD 816: cross it with net wealth held for a hawl, and 2.5% of everything above zero — not just of the excess — is due.
In Canada today, payers settle their Zakat through the same short list of routes: charity platforms and mobile giving apps, payroll deduction schemes offered by some employers and community collection points and food banks during Ramadan. Whatever the channel, Zakat must actually reach people within the eight categories of Quran 9:60, with ownership genuinely passing to them (tamlik). Many households in Canada 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 distributors how the money is separated, file the confirmation with your PDF report, and check whether administration costs come out of the Zakat itself where an organisation deducts them. In Canada, community life runs in English, French, so instructions left with family should be in the language they actually use.
Ramadan 2027 is planned from Monday 8 February 2027 across Canada, subject to the crescent's sighting and the announcement followed locally. The closing ten nights begin from Maghrib on 27 February, and Laylat al-Qadr is 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, with Eid al-Fitr on 9–10 March 2027. For Ottawa, day one runs from Fajr at 05:52 to Maghrib at 17:20, and the full month for the capital is tabulated in the Ramadan 2027 timetable for Canada — Ottawa. Other cities in Canada with their own calendars: Toronto, Mississauga, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal — browse them all from the Ramadan 2027 timetables index.
A resident of Canada holding CAD 1,796 across cash and savings accounts , roughly 2.2 times the silver Nisab, and no debts due. The wealth is above the Nisab and has been held for a full lunar year, so the Zakat due is 2.5% × CAD 1,796 = CAD 45. Add any gold, stock or foreign currency in CAD first; the 2.5% then applies to the combined net total.
Indicatively, gold's Nisab is CAD 9,092 for 87.48 grams of gold and the silver threshold is CAD 816 (612.36 grams of silver). They are priced from per-gram values of CAD 104 for gold and a silver gram at CAD 1 for Canada, converted at 1.36 CAD to the dollar. Since prices shift daily, so use the live calculator for the threshold of your actual due date; silver is the standard most scholars advise for cash.
For Canada, the money of the calculation is CAD, the Canadian dollar. Balances in other currencies is brought into CAD using the rate on your Zakat date and added to the total before the Nisab test . Method is portable; money is local: the Nisab, the hawl and the 2.5% rate are identical in Canada to everywhere else.
Add up everything zakatable you own in CAD — cash, savings, gold and silver at today's prices, stock, investments and receivables. Deduct debts that are due now, and test what remains against the Nisab in CAD — silver first (CAD 816). If it reaches the Nisab and a lunar year has passed, pay 2.5% of the net total to eligible recipients — CAD 45 on the CAD 1,796 example worked through above.
No fixed figure exists for Canada: Fitrana is one sa' of the local staple (about 2–3 kg of wheat, rice, flour or dates) per person. Scholars in Canada announce the CAD rate each Ramadan, because it tracks the price of staple food in CAD, not any international figure. The count is per person, including children, and deliver it before the Eid prayer. Enter the announced CAD rate in the Fitrana calculator and it totals the household's duty.
Canada is listed in the Americas region, and its community languages are recorded as English, French. Use code CA for the short page — the short page lives at zakatsuite.com/ca, while this long guide stays at the country address. Every one of the 209 tools accepts Canada with CAD, so nothing on the platform is closed to a payer here.