Dominica at a glance for the Zakat payer: and is paid, in practice, in XCD, at local prices, through local channels. Everything that follows is the universal Shariah method expressed entirely in local terms — the way Zakat is commonly paid in Dominica, a worked example, and the dates and timetable links you need for Ramadan 2027. Everything is free, and the calculators linked from this page run in your browser with live prices, converting the thresholds into XCD on the day you actually calculate.
Priced from the reference metal values behind this guide (gold USD 76.42/g, silver USD 0.98/g, at 2.7 XCD to the dollar), one gram of gold is worth XCD 206 in Dominica and one gram of silver XCD 3. The thresholds those prices produce are XCD 18,050 for gold (87.48g) and XCD 1,620 for silver (612.36g). Both are snapshots, not fixtures — 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 Dominica whose net savings pass XCD 1,620 for a full lunar year owes 2.5% of the total.
In daily practice, payers settle their Zakat through a small number of well-worn channels: 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. Whatever the channel, the money has to arrive with recipients inside Quran 9:60's eight categories, and become theirs in law and fact (tamlik). A common pattern in Dominica: 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 your payment receipt with your calculation report, and confirm whether any administration deduction touches the Zakat itself. Because community life in Dominica runs in English, make sure family instructions are understood in that language.
Ramadan 1448 AH is expected to begin on Monday 8 February 2027 for Dominica as for most of the world, pending the sighted crescent and your community's announcement. 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. Expect the last fast on 8 or 9 March 2027, and Eid al-Fitr on 9–10 March 2027. For daily times in Dominica, use the Ramadan 2027 timetables by city, and remember Fitrana falls due before the Eid prayer.
Suppose a saver in Dominica holds XCD 5,833 in cash and savings , roughly 3.6 times the silver Nisab, and no debts due. Above the Nisab and held for a full lunar year, so 2.5% is due: XCD 146. If the same saver also held gold, business stock or foreign currency, those values would be added in XCD first and the 2.5% applied to the combined net total.
The short answer for Dominica: gold stands at XCD 18,050 (87.48 grams of gold) and the silver Nisab is XCD 1,620 (612.36 grams of silver). They are priced from per-gram values of XCD 206 for gold and XCD 3 for silver for Dominica, converted at 2.7 XCD to the dollar. Since prices shift daily, so let the live calculator quote the threshold of your actual due date; silver is the standard most scholars advise for cash.
For Dominica, the money of the calculation is XCD, the East Caribbean dollar. Wealth held in other currencies converts into XCD using the rate on your Zakat date and added to the total before the Nisab test . The rules themselves do not change with the currency: the same calculation a payer runs in Dominican Republic, settled here in East Caribbean dollar.
Total the zakatable side in XCD — cash, savings, gold and silver at today's prices, stock bought for resale, investments and money owed to you. Deduct debts that are due now, and test what remains against the Nisab — XCD 1,620 on the silver standard, or XCD 18,050 on the gold standard. A net figure over the threshold, held a full hawl, pays one-fortieth of the net total — the worked example on this page turns XCD 5,833 of net savings into XCD 146 of Zakat.
There is no single ZakatSuite rate for Dominica: it is the local cash value of one sa' of staple food — roughly 2–3 kilograms of wheat, flour, rice or dates — per person. Local scholars and councils announce the XCD rate each Ramadan, because it tracks the price of staple food in XCD, not any international figure. It is paid for every member of the household, including children, with the Eid prayer as the deadline. The Fitrana calculator on this site multiplies the announced local rate by your household size.
On ZakatSuite, Dominica sits in the Americas region with English recorded as its community languages. The country code is DM, (zakatsuite.com/dm) — and this address for the full guide. All 209 tools work for Dominica with XCD selected, with PDF reports for the record.