Jamaica at a glance for the Zakat payer: and is paid, in practice, in JMD, at local prices, through local channels. It brings together the Nisab in your currency — JMD 93,618 on the silver standard and JMD 1,042,895 on the gold standard, indicatively — the gold and silver Nisab expressed in Jamaican dollar, how giving is usually organised in Jamaica, what Ramadan 2027 will look like, and the calculators that do the arithmetic for you. The calculators linked here run in your browser, free, with the Nisab converted into JMD at live metal prices rather than printed from a table that went stale last month.
At the reference prices used for this guide — gold at USD 76.42 per gram and silver at USD 0.98 per gram, converted at 156 JMD per US dollar — the gold Nisab in Jamaica is JMD 1,042,895 (87.48g × JMD 11,922 per gram) and the silver Nisab is JMD 93,618 (612.36g × JMD 153 per gram). Read them as the shape of the answer rather than its final digit: on your actual due date the live tool will quote the thresholds afresh in Jamaican dollar. On the silver standard most scholars recommend for cash, a payer in Jamaica whose net savings pass JMD 93,618 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. Whatever the channel, the money has to arrive with recipients within the eight categories of Quran 9:60, and become theirs in law and fact (tamlik). Many households in Jamaica 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, and confirm whether any administration deduction touches the Zakat itself. Because community life in Jamaica runs in English, make sure family instructions are understood in that language.
Ramadan 1448 AH is expected to begin on Monday 8 February 2027 across Jamaica, subject to the crescent's sighting and your community's announcement. The last ten nights begin at Maghrib on 27 February 2027, with Laylat al-Qadr sought on the odd nights — 27 February, then 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. Sehri and Iftar times across Jamaica are collected via the Ramadan 2027 timetables by city, with Fitrana due before the Eid prayer, not after it.
A resident of Jamaica holding JMD 187,235 in cash and savings — about 2.0 times the silver Nisab — with no debts due. It clears the Nisab and completes a hawl, so the Zakat due is 2.5% × JMD 187,235 = JMD 4,681. Any gold, stock or foreign currency joins the same JMD total before the 2.5% is applied.
Indicatively, gold's Nisab is JMD 1,042,895 — 87.48 grams of gold — and silver's is JMD 93,618 for 612.36 grams of silver. Behind those figures sit a gold gram at JMD 11,922 and a silver gram at JMD 153 in Jamaica at the 156 JMD reference rate. Since prices shift daily, so check the live calculator for the exact threshold on your Zakat date; silver is the standard most scholars advise for cash.
For Jamaica, the money of the calculation is JMD, the Jamaican dollar. Money held abroad is converted into JMD at the rate of your Zakat due date and added to the total before the Nisab test . Method is portable; money is local: the same calculation a payer runs in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, settled here in Jamaican dollar.
Start with the gross in JMD — cash, savings, gold and silver at today's prices, stock, investments and receivables. Deduct debts that are due now, then compare the net figure with the Nisab — start with the silver figure, JMD 93,618. Once the threshold and the hawl are both met, pay 2.5% of the net total to eligible recipients — JMD 4,681 on the JMD 187,235 example worked through above.
There is no single ZakatSuite rate for Jamaica: the duty is one sa' of local staple food — some 2–3 kilograms of wheat, rice, flour or dates — per person. Councils in Jamaica set the rate in JMD each year, because it tracks the price of staple food in JMD, 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 multiplies Jamaica's announced rate by your household size so nobody is missed.
Jamaica belongs to the Americas region on this site, the languages of its Muslim community here are English. The country code is JM, the short page lives at zakatsuite.com/jm, while this long guide stays at the country address. Every one of the 209 tools accepts Jamaica with JMD, so nothing on the platform is closed to a payer here.