This page is the complete Zakat guide for Ethiopia, Africa region, Ethiopian birr (ETB) as the money of the calculation, and a Muslim community whose main languages include Amharic. This page translates the universal rules into that local reality: the way Zakat is commonly paid in Ethiopia, a worked example, and the dates and timetable links you need for Ramadan 2027. Ethiopia 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 Ethiopia actually faces.
Priced from the reference metal values behind this guide (gold USD 76.42/g, silver USD 0.98/g, at 124 ETB to the dollar), one gram of gold is worth ETB 9,476 in Ethiopia and one gram of silver ETB 122. The thresholds those prices produce are ETB 828,967 for gold (87.48g) and ETB 74,414 for silver (612.36g). Treat both figures as indicative: the ETB rate and the metal markets move daily, which is why the calculator reprices the thresholds at the moment of use. So the line that matters most in Ethiopia is the silver one, ETB 74,414: cross it with net wealth held for a hawl, and 2.5% of everything above zero — not just of the excess — is due.
In 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. The channel matters less than the conditions: the money has to arrive with recipients whom Quran 9:60 names as eligible, and it must transfer into their ownership (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. Ask distributors how the money is separated, keep the receipt beside your calculation report, and check whether administration costs come out of the Zakat itself where an organisation deducts them. In Ethiopia, community life runs in Amharic, so instructions left with family should be in the language they actually use.
Ramadan 1448 AH should begin on Monday 8 February 2027 in Ethiopia, pending the sighted crescent and the announcement your community follows. The final ten nights open with the Maghrib of 27 February 2027, and Laylat al-Qadr is sought on the odd nights (27 February, 1, 3, 5 and 7 March) with the 27th night opening 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 Ethiopia, use the Ramadan 2027 timetables by city, with Fitrana due before the Eid prayer, not after it.
Take a saver in Ethiopia with ETB 312,539 in cash and savings , roughly 4.2 times the silver Nisab, and no debts due. The wealth is above the Nisab and has been held for a full lunar year, so 2.5% is due: ETB 7,813. Gold, business stock or foreign currency would be added in ETB first, with the 2.5% applied to the combined net total.
The short answer for Ethiopia: gold's Nisab is ETB 828,967 (87.48 grams of gold) and the silver Nisab is ETB 74,414 for 612.36 grams of silver. Those conversions rest on per-gram values of ETB 9,476 for gold and silver at ETB 122 the gram in Ethiopia, at 124 ETB per US dollar. Both metals trade daily, so the live calculator gives the threshold of your actual due date; and most scholars test cash against the silver figure.
Zakat in Ethiopia is calculated in ETB — the Ethiopian birr. Money held abroad is brought into ETB at your due date's rate and tested once, with the local total . What travels is the method, not the money: the Nisab, the hawl and the 2.5% rate are identical in Ethiopia to everywhere else.
Work in ETB throughout: cash, savings, gold and silver at today's prices, stock bought for resale, investments and money owed to you. Take off the debts due now, then compare the net figure with the Nisab in ETB — silver first (ETB 74,414). Once the threshold and the hawl are both met, pays one-fortieth of the net total : on savings of ETB 312,539, the example on this page, the payment is ETB 7,813.
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 — per person. Scholars and councils in Ethiopia announce the ETB rate each Ramadan, and community announcements there are commonly made in Amharic. Every household member counts, children included, and deliver it before the Eid prayer. The Fitrana calculator on this site multiplies the announced local rate by your household size.
On ZakatSuite, Ethiopia sits in the Africa region with Amharic recorded as its community languages. The country code is ET, (zakatsuite.com/et) — and this address for the full guide. All 209 tools work for Ethiopia with ETB selected, with PDF reports for the record.