If you live in Guyana, or hold your wealth there, this is your starting page — for Zakat calculated and paid in GYD. Below you will find today's indicative Nisab values in Guyanese dollar, practical notes on paying Zakat in Guyana, a step-by-step method, a worked example with real GYD figures, and answers to the questions payers in Guyana ask most. Guyana is one of 195 countries covered by ZakatSuite, in the Americas region, and every figure on this page is given in the currency a payer in Guyana actually faces.
The two thresholds a payer in Guyana is judged against, at this guide's reference prices, are GYD 1,397,211 — the value of 87.48 grams of gold at GYD 15,972 per gram — and GYD 125,424, the value of 612.36 grams of silver at GYD 205 per gram, with the conversion running at 209 GYD per US dollar. 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 Guyana whose net savings pass GYD 125,424 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: 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: delivery must be to 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. Before paying, ask how funds are distributed, keep the receipt beside your calculation report, and confirm whether any administration deduction touches the Zakat itself. A Zakat-specific fund, where a platform offers one, keeps the money out of general spending — the distinction is recorded in GYD on your statement.
Ramadan 2027 is planned from Monday 8 February 2027 for Guyana as for most of the world, subject to the sighting of the new moon and the announcement followed locally. The closing ten nights begin at Maghrib on 27 February 2027, the search for Laylat al-Qadr falling on the odd nights that open on 27 February, 1, 3, 5 and 7 March the likeliest, the 27th, opening on the evening of Friday 5 March 2027. Expect the last fast on 8 or 9 March 2027, with Eid al-Fitr on 9–10 March 2027. Sehri and Iftar times across Guyana are collected via the Ramadan 2027 timetables by city, with Fitrana due before the Eid prayer, not after it.
Suppose a saver in Guyana holds GYD 351,186 held as cash and savings — about 2.8 times the silver Nisab — with no debts due. Above the Nisab and held for a full lunar year, so the Zakat due is 2.5% × GYD 351,186 = GYD 8,780. Any gold, stock or foreign currency joins the same GYD total before the 2.5% is applied.
At this page's reference prices, the gold threshold is GYD 1,397,211 for 87.48 grams of gold with the silver Nisab at GYD 125,424 (612.36 grams of silver). Behind those figures sit per-gram values of GYD 15,972 for gold and a silver gram at GYD 205 in Guyana, at 209 GYD per US dollar. Markets move every day, so check the live calculator for the threshold of your actual due date; silver is the standard most scholars advise for cash.
For Guyana, the money of the calculation is GYD — the Guyanese dollar. Balances in other currencies is brought into GYD at your due date's rate and added before the Nisab test . Method is portable; money is local: the same calculation a payer runs in Honduras, settled here in Guyanese dollar.
Work in GYD throughout: cash, savings, gold and silver at today's prices, stock bought for resale, investments and money owed to you. Net off debts due, and test what remains against the Nisab in GYD — silver first (GYD 125,424). If it reaches the Nisab and a lunar year has passed, pay 2.5% of the net total to eligible recipients — GYD 8,780 on the GYD 351,186 example worked through above.
No fixed figure exists for Guyana: the duty is one sa' of local staple food (about 2–3 kg of wheat, rice, flour or dates) per household member. Councils in Guyana publish the GYD figure every Ramadan, and community announcements there are commonly made in English. It is paid for every member of the household, including children, with the Eid prayer as the deadline. The Fitrana calculator multiplies Guyana's announced rate by your household size so nobody is missed.
Regionally, Guyana is grouped with the rest of Americas; and its community languages are recorded as English. The country code is GY, (zakatsuite.com/gy) — and this address for the full guide. The full set of 209 tools runs for Guyana in GYD, including live Nisab conversion and PDF reports; neighbouring coverage includes the Zakat calculator for Honduras.