Zakat in Madagascar follows the same revelation as Zakat everywhere, and is paid, in practice, in MGA, at local prices, through local channels. It brings together the Nisab in your currency — MGA 2,730,513 on the silver standard and MGA 30,417,758 on the gold standard, indicatively — practical notes on paying Zakat in Madagascar, a step-by-step method, a worked example with real MGA figures, and answers to the questions payers in Madagascar ask most. The calculators linked here run in your browser, free, with the Nisab converted into MGA at live metal prices rather than printed from a table that went stale last month.
The two thresholds a payer in Madagascar is judged against, at this guide's reference prices, are MGA 30,417,758 — the value of 87.48 grams of gold at MGA 347,711 per gram — and MGA 2,730,513, the value of 612.36 grams of silver at MGA 4,459 per gram, with the conversion running at 4550 MGA per US dollar. Both are snapshots, not fixtures — on your actual due date the live tool will quote the thresholds afresh in Malagasy ariary. On the silver standard most scholars recommend for cash, a payer in Madagascar whose net savings pass MGA 2,730,513 for a full lunar year owes 2.5% of the total.
As a rule, payers settle their Zakat through the same short list of routes: payroll deduction schemes offered by some employers, community collection points and food banks during Ramadan and bank transfer to registered Zakat charities. On every route, the wealth must reach recipients whom Quran 9:60 names as eligible, and become theirs in law and fact (tamlik). A common pattern in Madagascar: settle the calculation at home first — often on a fixed Ramadan date — and then distribute through two or three trusted channels rather than one. 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 Madagascar runs in Malagasy, French, make sure family instructions are understood in that language.
Ramadan 2027 should begin on Monday 8 February 2027 in Madagascar, always subject to moon sighting and your community's announcement. The closing ten nights begin with the Maghrib of 27 February 2027, the search for Laylat al-Qadr falling 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 final fast should fall on 8 or 9 March 2027, followed by Eid al-Fitr on 9–10 March 2027. Daily fasting times for Madagascar are gathered through the Ramadan 2027 timetables by city, and remember Fitrana falls due before the Eid prayer.
Imagine savings in Madagascar of MGA 6,007,129 across cash and savings accounts , roughly 2.2 times the silver Nisab, and no debts due. The wealth is above the Nisab and has been held for a full lunar year, so the Zakat due is 2.5% × MGA 6,007,129 = MGA 150,178. If the same saver also held gold, business stock or foreign currency, those values would be added in MGA first and the 2.5% applied to the combined net total.
On reference prices, gold stands at MGA 30,417,758 — 87.48 grams of gold — with the silver Nisab at MGA 2,730,513 (612.36 grams of silver). Those conversions rest on a gold gram at MGA 347,711 and MGA 4,459 for silver in Madagascar at the 4550 MGA reference rate. Prices move daily, so let the live calculator quote the exact threshold on your Zakat date; and most scholars test cash against the silver figure.
Calculations for Madagascar run in MGA — the Malagasy ariary. Money held abroad is brought into MGA at the rate of your Zakat due date and added to the total before the Nisab test . The rules themselves do not change with the currency: 2.5% of net zakatable wealth above the Nisab, after one full lunar year.
Total the zakatable side in MGA — cash, savings, gold and silver at today's prices, business stock, investments and money owed to you. Net off debts due, and test what remains against the Nisab — MGA 2,730,513 on the silver standard, or MGA 30,417,758 on the gold standard. A net figure over the threshold, held a full hawl, pays one-fortieth of the net total — the worked example on this page turns MGA 6,007,129 of net savings into MGA 150,178 of Zakat.
Fitrana (Zakat al-Fitr) is not a fixed ZakatSuite figure: it is one sa' of staple (about 2–3 kg of wheat, rice, flour or dates) for each person. Councils in Madagascar set the rate in MGA each year, because it tracks the price of staple food in MGA, not any international figure. 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.
Madagascar belongs to the Africa region on this site, with Malagasy, French recorded as its community languages. Use code MG for the short page — and the short version of this page is at zakatsuite.com/mg. The full set of 209 tools runs for Madagascar in MGA, including live Nisab conversion and PDF reports; neighbouring coverage includes the Zakat calculator for Tanzania.