If you live in Guinea-Bissau, or hold your wealth there, this is your starting page — and is paid, in practice, in XOF, at local prices, through local channels. It brings together the Nisab in your currency — XOF 361,868 on the silver standard and XOF 4,031,189 on the gold standard, indicatively — the way Zakat is commonly paid in Guinea-Bissau, 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 XOF on the day you actually calculate.
The two thresholds a payer in Guinea-Bissau is judged against, at this guide's reference prices, are XOF 4,031,189 — the value of 87.48 grams of gold at XOF 46,081 per gram — and XOF 361,868, the value of 612.36 grams of silver at XOF 591 per gram, with the conversion running at 603 XOF per US dollar. Read them as the shape of the answer rather than its final digit: metal prices and exchange rates move every day, and the live calculator on this site fetches current prices before it tests your wealth. The practical consequence in Guinea-Bissau: net savings that pass XOF 361,868 and stay there for a lunar year are zakatable at 2.5% under the silver standard most scholars recommend for cash.
As a rule, the Zakat of most households leaves through a few familiar channels: local Zakat committees that collect and distribute within the community, mosque collections, especially around Jumu'ah and during Ramadan and charity platforms and mobile giving apps. Whichever route you choose, delivery must be to recipients whom Quran 9:60 names as eligible, with ownership genuinely passing to them (tamlik). Many households in Guinea-Bissau calculate at home first, often against a fixed Ramadan date, then spread the payment over two or three trusted channels. Put the practical questions first: file the confirmation with your PDF report, and check whether administration costs come out of the Zakat itself where an organisation deducts them. In Guinea-Bissau, community life runs in Portuguese, so instructions left with family should be in the language they actually use.
Ramadan 2027 is planned from Monday 8 February 2027 across Guinea-Bissau, subject to the sighting of the new moon and the announcement your community follows. The final ten nights open from Maghrib on 27 February, 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 last fast is expected on 8 or 9 March 2027, followed by Eid al-Fitr on 9–10 March 2027. For daily times in Guinea-Bissau, use the Ramadan 2027 timetables by city, and Fitrana must be paid before the Eid prayer.
Imagine savings in Guinea-Bissau of XOF 1,121,791 across cash and savings accounts — some 3.1 times the silver Nisab — with nothing owed. It has passed the Nisab and sat for a full lunar year, so the Zakat due is 2.5% × XOF 1,121,791 = XOF 28,045. Add any gold, stock or foreign currency in XOF first; the 2.5% then applies to the combined net total.
The short answer for Guinea-Bissau: the gold threshold is XOF 4,031,189 for 87.48 grams of gold and silver's is XOF 361,868 for 612.36 grams of silver. Behind those figures sit gold at XOF 46,081 the gram and a silver gram at XOF 591 in Guinea-Bissau at the 603 XOF reference rate. Both metals trade daily, so the live calculator gives the binding figure on your due date; silver is the standard most scholars advise for cash.
Zakat in Guinea-Bissau is calculated in XOF, the West African CFA franc. Foreign balances is brought into XOF at the rate of your Zakat due date and added before the Nisab test — a balance kept in Comoros, for example, enters at its XOF value on that date, not at the rate from when it was earned. What travels is the method, not the money: 2.5% of net zakatable wealth above the Nisab, after one full lunar year.
Work in XOF throughout: cash and savings, metals priced today, stock, investments and receivables. Take off the debts due now, and test what remains against the Nisab — XOF 361,868 on the silver standard, or XOF 4,031,189 on the gold standard. If it reaches the Nisab and a lunar year has passed, pay 2.5% of the net total to eligible recipients — the worked example on this page turns XOF 1,121,791 of net savings into XOF 28,045 of Zakat.
Fitrana follows the food, not the calculator: it is the local cash value of one sa' of staple food — roughly 2–3 kilograms of wheat, flour, rice or dates — for each person. Local scholars and councils announce the XOF rate each Ramadan, and community announcements there are commonly made in Portuguese. Pay it for each person in the household, children included, with the Eid prayer as the deadline. The Fitrana calculator multiplies Guinea-Bissau's announced rate by your household size so nobody is missed.
Guinea-Bissau is listed in the Africa region, with Portuguese recorded as its community languages. Use code GW for the short page — (zakatsuite.com/gw) — and this address for the full guide. Every one of the 209 tools accepts Guinea-Bissau with XOF, so nothing on the platform is closed to a payer here.