This page is the complete Zakat guide for India, written for payers who calculate and pay in INR (Indian rupee). Everything that follows is the universal Shariah method expressed entirely in local terms — practical notes on paying Zakat in India, a step-by-step method, a worked example with real INR figures, and answers to the questions payers in India ask most. The calculators linked here run in your browser, free, with the Nisab converted into INR at live metal prices rather than printed from a table that went stale last month.
The two thresholds a payer in India is judged against, at this guide's reference prices, are INR 558,216 — the value of 87.48 grams of gold at INR 6,381 per gram — and INR 50,109, the value of 612.36 grams of silver at INR 82 per gram, with the conversion running at 83.5 INR 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 India: net savings that pass INR 50,109 and stay there for a lunar year are zakatable at 2.5% under the silver standard most scholars recommend for cash.
In practice, most Zakat is paid 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, Zakat must actually reach people whom Quran 9:60 names as eligible, with ownership genuinely passing to them (tamlik). Many households in India the calculation is settled at home, then the payment is split across two or three trusted routes. Put the practical questions first: file the confirmation with your PDF report, noting the Hijri date of payment beside the Gregorian one. In India, community life runs in Hindi, English, so instructions left with family should be in the language they actually use.
The Ramadan of 1448 AH is planned from Monday 8 February 2027 across India, always subject to moon sighting which local announcements confirm. The final ten nights open with the Maghrib of 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 with the 27th night opening the evening of Friday 5 March 2027. Expect the last fast on 8 or 9 March 2027, followed by Eid al-Fitr on 9–10 March 2027. The first fast in New Delhi is timed between Fajr 05:45 and Maghrib 18:06, and the full month for the capital is tabulated in the Ramadan 2027 timetable for India — New Delhi. Other cities in India with their own calendars: Mumbai, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Kolkata, Bengaluru — browse them all from the Ramadan 2027 timetables index.
Suppose a saver in India holds INR 205,449 across cash and savings accounts , roughly 4.1 times the silver Nisab, and no debts due. Above the Nisab and held for a full lunar year, making the Zakat INR 5,136 at 2.5%. Gold, business stock or foreign currency would be added in INR first, with the 2.5% applied to the combined net total.
The short answer for India: the gold threshold is INR 558,216 for 87.48 grams of gold and the silver Nisab is INR 50,109 — 612.36 grams of silver. Behind those figures sit a gold gram at INR 6,381 and silver at INR 82 the gram for India, converted at 83.5 INR to the dollar. Since prices shift daily, so let the live calculator quote the binding figure on your due date; and most scholars test cash against the silver figure.
The working currency for India is INR (Indian rupee). Balances in other currencies converts into INR at your due date's rate and tested once, with the local total — a balance kept in Nepal, for example, enters at its INR value on that date, not at the rate from when it was earned. Method is portable; money is local: the same calculation a payer runs in Nepal, settled here in Indian rupee.
Work in INR throughout: cash, savings, gold and silver at today's prices, business stock, investments and money owed to you. Net off debts due, then compare the net figure with the Nisab — start with the silver figure, INR 50,109. If it reaches the Nisab and a lunar year has passed, is charged at 2.5% of the whole amount — the worked example on this page turns INR 205,449 of net savings into INR 5,136 of Zakat.
No fixed figure exists for India: Fitrana is one sa' of the local staple — some 2–3 kilograms of wheat, rice, flour or dates — per household member. Scholars and councils in India set the rate in INR each year, with announcements commonly made in Hindi, English. Every household member counts, children included, and must reach the poor before the Eid prayer. Enter the announced INR rate in the Fitrana calculator and it totals the household's duty.
On ZakatSuite, India sits in the Asia region and its community languages are recorded as Hindi, English. The country code is IN, (zakatsuite.com/in) — and this address for the full guide. The full set of 209 tools runs for India in INR, with PDF reports for the record.