Zakat in Panama follows the same revelation as Zakat everywhere, for Zakat calculated and paid in PAB. It brings together the Nisab in your currency — PAB 600 on the silver standard and PAB 6,685 on the gold standard, indicatively — practical notes on paying Zakat in Panama, a step-by-step method, a worked example with real PAB figures, and answers to the questions payers in Panama ask most. The calculators linked here run in your browser, free, with the Nisab converted into PAB 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 1 PAB per US dollar — the gold Nisab in Panama is PAB 6,685 (87.48g × PAB 76 per gram) and the silver Nisab is PAB 600 (612.36g × PAB 1 per gram). 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. So the line that matters most in Panama is the silver one, PAB 600: cross it with net wealth held for a hawl, and 2.5% of everything above zero — not just of the excess — is due.
In practice, the Zakat of most households leaves through a small number of well-worn channels: charity platforms and mobile giving apps, payroll deduction schemes offered by some employers and community collection points and food banks during Ramadan. Whichever route you choose, the money has to arrive with recipients inside Quran 9:60's eight categories, and become theirs in law and fact (tamlik). Many households in Panama 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. A Zakat-specific fund, where a platform offers one, keeps the money out of general spending — the distinction is recorded in PAB on your statement.
Ramadan 1448 is expected to begin on Monday 8 February 2027 across Panama, pending the sighted crescent and the announcement followed locally. The final ten nights open with the Maghrib of 27 February 2027, the search for Laylat al-Qadr falling on the odd nights — 27 February, then 1, 3, 5 and 7 March — and the 27th night falling on 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 Panama are collected via the Ramadan 2027 timetables by city, and remember Fitrana falls due before the Eid prayer.
Imagine savings in Panama of PAB 2,400 in cash and savings — some 4.0 times the silver Nisab — with nothing owed. Above the Nisab and held for a full lunar year, so 2.5% is due: PAB 60. Any gold, stock or foreign currency joins the same PAB total before the 2.5% is applied.
On reference prices, the gold Nisab is PAB 6,685 for 87.48 grams of gold and the silver threshold is PAB 600 for 612.36 grams of silver. The working behind them: a gold gram at PAB 76 and silver at PAB 1 the gram in Panama, at 1 PAB per US dollar. Prices move daily, so use the live calculator for the exact threshold on your Zakat date; and most scholars test cash against the silver figure.
For Panama, the money of the calculation is PAB — the Panamanian balboa. Money held abroad is brought into PAB at the rate of your Zakat due date and tested once, with the local total . The rules themselves do not change with the currency: 2.5% of net zakatable wealth above the Nisab, after one full lunar year.
Add up everything zakatable you own in PAB — balances, metals at today's price, stock, investments and receivables. Net off debts due, then set the net figure against the Nisab — PAB 600 on the silver standard, or PAB 6,685 on the gold standard. If it reaches the Nisab and a lunar year has passed, is charged at 2.5% of the whole amount : on savings of PAB 2,400, the example on this page, the payment is PAB 60.
Fitrana (Zakat al-Fitr) is not a fixed ZakatSuite figure: it is one sa' of staple — some 2–3 kilograms of wheat, rice, flour or dates — per household member. Scholars and councils in Panama publish the PAB figure every Ramadan, with announcements commonly made in Spanish. Every household member counts, children included, and deliver it before the Eid prayer. Enter the announced PAB rate in the Fitrana calculator and it totals the household's duty.
On ZakatSuite, Panama sits in the Americas region the languages of its Muslim community here are Spanish. Use code PA for the short page — the short page lives at zakatsuite.com/pa, while this long guide stays at the country address. The full set of 209 tools runs for Panama in PAB, so nothing on the platform is closed to a payer here.