Chile at a glance for the Zakat payer: written for payers who calculate and pay in CLP (Chilean peso). It brings together the Nisab in your currency — CLP 570,107 on the silver standard and CLP 6,350,961 on the gold standard, indicatively — the way Zakat is commonly paid in Chile, a worked example, and the dates and timetable links you need for Ramadan 2027. Chile sits in the Americas region, and the main languages of its Muslim community include Spanish — the rules below are the universal Shariah rules, expressed entirely in local terms.
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 950 CLP per US dollar — the gold Nisab in Chile is CLP 6,350,961 (87.48g × CLP 72,599 per gram) and the silver Nisab is CLP 570,107 (612.36g × CLP 931 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. On the silver standard most scholars recommend for cash, a payer in Chile whose net savings pass CLP 570,107 for a full lunar year owes 2.5% of the total.
As a rule, payers settle their Zakat through a small number of well-worn channels: bank transfer to registered Zakat charities, local Zakat committees that collect and distribute within the community and mosque collections, especially around Jumu'ah and during Ramadan. Whichever route you choose, Zakat must actually reach people whom Quran 9:60 names as eligible, with ownership genuinely passing to them (tamlik). A common pattern in Chile: the calculation is settled at home, then the payment is split across two or three trusted routes. Put the practical questions first: keep your payment receipt with your calculation report, noting the Hijri date of payment beside the Gregorian one. A Zakat-specific fund, where a platform offers one, keeps the money out of general spending — the distinction is recorded in CLP on your statement.
Ramadan 1448 is planned from Monday 8 February 2027 in Chile, subject to the sighting of the new moon and the announcement your community follows. The closing ten nights begin from Maghrib on 27 February, with Laylat al-Qadr sought on the odd nights — 27 February, then 1, 3, 5 and 7 March — the likeliest, the 27th, opening on the evening of Friday 5 March 2027. The last fast is expected on 8 or 9 March 2027, followed by Eid al-Fitr on 9–10 March 2027. Daily fasting times for Chile are gathered through the Ramadan 2027 timetables by city, and Fitrana must be paid before the Eid prayer.
A resident of Chile holding CLP 3,306,622 in cash and savings — some 5.8 times the silver Nisab — with nothing owed. The wealth is above the Nisab and has been held for a full lunar year, so the Zakat due is 2.5% × CLP 3,306,622 = CLP 82,666. If the same saver also held gold, business stock or foreign currency, those values would be added in CLP first and the 2.5% applied to the combined net total.
The short answer for Chile: gold's Nisab is CLP 6,350,961 (87.48 grams of gold) and the silver Nisab is CLP 570,107 — 612.36 grams of silver. They are priced from per-gram values of CLP 72,599 for gold and silver at CLP 931 the gram in Chile at the 950 CLP reference rate. Prices move daily, so use the live calculator for the binding figure on your due date; most scholars recommend the silver Nisab for cash and savings.
For Chile, the money of the calculation is CLP, the Chilean peso. Wealth held in other currencies are converted into CLP using the rate on your Zakat date and added before the Nisab test . The rules themselves do not change with the currency: 2.5% of net zakatable wealth above the Nisab, after one full lunar year.
Start with the gross in CLP — balances, metals at today's price, business stock, investments and money owed to you. Net off debts due, then compare the net figure with the Nisab — CLP 570,107 on the silver standard, or CLP 6,350,961 on the gold standard. Once the threshold and the hawl are both met, is charged at 2.5% of the whole amount — the worked example on this page turns CLP 3,306,622 of net savings into CLP 82,666 of Zakat.
Fitrana (Zakat al-Fitr) is not a fixed ZakatSuite figure: Fitrana is one sa' of the local staple — some 2–3 kilograms of wheat, rice, flour or dates — for each person. Scholars and councils in Chile set the rate in CLP each year, and community announcements there are commonly made in Spanish. Pay it for each person in the household, children included, and deliver it before the Eid prayer. The Fitrana calculator on this site multiplies the announced local rate by your household size.
Regionally, Chile is grouped with the rest of Americas; with Spanish recorded as its community languages. Its two-letter code is CL — the short page lives at zakatsuite.com/cl, while this long guide stays at the country address. Every one of the 209 tools accepts Chile with CLP, so nothing on the platform is closed to a payer here.