If you live in Saint Kitts and Nevis, or hold your wealth there, this is your starting page — written for payers who calculate and pay in XCD (East Caribbean dollar). It brings together the Nisab in your currency — XCD 1,620 on the silver standard and XCD 18,050 on the gold standard, indicatively — practical notes on paying Zakat in Saint Kitts and Nevis, a step-by-step method, a worked example with real XCD figures, and answers to the questions payers in Saint Kitts and Nevis ask most. Saint Kitts and Nevis sits in the Americas region, and the main languages of its Muslim community include English — the rules below are the universal Shariah rules, expressed entirely in local terms.
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 2.7 XCD per US dollar — the gold Nisab in Saint Kitts and Nevis is XCD 18,050 (87.48g × XCD 206 per gram) and the silver Nisab is XCD 1,620 (612.36g × XCD 3 per gram). Read them as the shape of the answer rather than its final digit: the XCD rate and the metal markets move daily, which is why the calculator reprices the thresholds at the moment of use. The practical consequence in Saint Kitts and Nevis: net savings that pass XCD 1,620 and stay there for a lunar year are zakatable at 2.5% under the silver standard most scholars recommend for cash.
In Saint Kitts and Nevis today, most payers hand their Zakat over through a small number of well-worn channels: mosque collections, especially around Jumu'ah and during Ramadan, charity platforms and mobile giving apps and payroll deduction schemes offered by some employers. Whichever route you choose, the wealth must reach recipients within the eight categories of Quran 9:60, and it must transfer into their ownership (tamlik). A common pattern in Saint Kitts and Nevis: calculate at home first, often against a fixed Ramadan date, then spread the payment over two or three trusted channels. Ask distributors how the money is separated, keep the receipt beside your calculation report, noting the Hijri date of payment beside the Gregorian one. A Zakat-specific fund, where a platform offers one, keeps the money out of general spending — the distinction is recorded in XCD on your statement.
Ramadan 2027 is expected to begin on Monday 8 February 2027 for Saint Kitts and Nevis as for most of the world, subject to the crescent's sighting and the announcement followed locally. The closing ten nights begin from Maghrib on 27 February, and Laylat al-Qadr is sought on the odd nights (27 February, 1, 3, 5 and 7 March) the likeliest, the 27th, opening on the evening of Friday 5 March 2027. The last fast is expected on 8 or 9 March 2027, followed by Eid al-Fitr on 9–10 March 2027. Daily fasting times for Saint Kitts and Nevis are gathered through the Ramadan 2027 timetables by city, with Fitrana due before the Eid prayer, not after it.
A resident of Saint Kitts and Nevis holding XCD 9,398 in cash and savings , roughly 5.8 times the silver Nisab, and no debts due. It clears the Nisab and completes a hawl, making the Zakat XCD 235 at 2.5%. Any gold, stock or foreign currency joins the same XCD total before the 2.5% is applied.
At this page's reference prices, the gold Nisab is XCD 18,050 (87.48 grams of gold) and the silver threshold is XCD 1,620 — 612.36 grams of silver. The working behind them: a gold gram at XCD 206 and silver at XCD 3 the gram in Saint Kitts and Nevis at the 2.7 XCD reference rate. Markets move every day, so check the live calculator for the exact threshold on your Zakat date; silver is the standard most scholars advise for cash.
Zakat in Saint Kitts and Nevis is calculated in XCD, the East Caribbean dollar. Money held abroad is converted into XCD at your due date's rate and added before the Nisab test — a balance kept in Antigua and Barbuda, for example, enters at its XCD value on that date, not at the rate from when it was earned. What travels is the method, not the money: the same calculation a payer runs in Antigua and Barbuda, settled here in East Caribbean dollar.
Add up everything zakatable you own in XCD — cash and savings, metals priced today, business stock, investments and money owed to you. Deduct debts that are due now, and test what remains against the Nisab — start with the silver figure, XCD 1,620. Once the threshold and the hawl are both met, pay 2.5% of the net total to eligible recipients — XCD 235 on the XCD 9,398 example worked through above.
There is no single ZakatSuite rate for Saint Kitts and Nevis: Fitrana is one sa' of the local staple — roughly 2–3 kilograms of wheat, flour, rice or dates — per person. Scholars in Saint Kitts and Nevis publish the XCD figure every Ramadan, with announcements commonly made in English. It is paid for every member of the household, including children, and deliver it before the Eid prayer. The Fitrana calculator on this site multiplies the announced local rate by your household size.
On ZakatSuite, Saint Kitts and Nevis sits in the Americas region with community languages English. The country code is KN, the short page lives at zakatsuite.com/kn, while this long guide stays at the country address. Every one of the 209 tools accepts Saint Kitts and Nevis with XCD, with PDF reports for the record.