This page is the complete Zakat guide for Saint Lucia, written for payers who calculate and pay in XCD (East Caribbean dollar). Below you will find today's indicative Nisab values in East Caribbean dollar, practical notes on paying Zakat in Saint Lucia, a step-by-step method, a worked example with real XCD figures, and answers to the questions payers in Saint Lucia ask most. Saint Lucia is one of 195 countries covered by ZakatSuite, in the Americas region, and every figure on this page is given in the currency a payer in Saint Lucia actually faces.
The two thresholds a payer in Saint Lucia is judged against, at this guide's reference prices, are XCD 18,050 — the value of 87.48 grams of gold at XCD 206 per gram — and XCD 1,620, the value of 612.36 grams of silver at XCD 3 per gram, with the conversion running at 2.7 XCD per US dollar. 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 East Caribbean dollar. So the line that matters most in Saint Lucia is the silver one, XCD 1,620: cross it with net wealth held for a hawl, and 2.5% of everything above zero — not just of the excess — is due.
In Saint Lucia today, the Zakat of most households leaves through the same short list of routes: 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, the money has to arrive with recipients within the eight categories of Quran 9:60, and it must transfer into their ownership (tamlik). Plenty of households here the calculation is settled at home, then the payment is split across two or three trusted routes. Ask distributors how the money is separated, keep your payment receipt with your calculation report, and check whether administration costs come out of the Zakat itself where an organisation deducts them. In Saint Lucia, community life runs in English, so instructions left with family should be in the language they actually use.
Ramadan 2027 is planned from Monday 8 February 2027 in Saint Lucia, subject to the sighting of the new moon and your community's announcement. Ramadan's last ten nights start at Maghrib on 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, with Eid al-Fitr on 9–10 March 2027. Sehri and Iftar times across Saint Lucia are collected via the Ramadan 2027 timetables by city, and remember Fitrana falls due before the Eid prayer.
Take a saver in Saint Lucia with XCD 4,213 held as cash and savings — about 2.6 times the silver Nisab — with no debts due. It clears the Nisab and completes a hawl, so 2.5% is due: XCD 105. Gold, business stock or foreign currency would be added in XCD first, with the 2.5% applied to the combined net total.
At this page's reference prices, gold's Nisab is XCD 18,050 — 87.48 grams of gold — and silver's is XCD 1,620 (612.36 grams of silver). They are priced from gold at XCD 206 the gram and a silver gram at XCD 3 for Saint Lucia, converted at 2.7 XCD to the dollar. Both metals trade daily, so the live calculator gives the binding figure on your due date; silver is the standard most scholars advise for cash.
For Saint Lucia, the money of the calculation is XCD — the East Caribbean dollar. Foreign balances are converted into XCD at your due date's rate and added to the total before the Nisab test — a balance kept in Belize, for example, enters at its XCD value on that date, not at the rate from when it was earned. Method is portable; money is local: the Nisab, the hawl and the 2.5% rate are identical in Saint Lucia to everywhere else.
Work in XCD throughout: cash and savings, metals priced today, stock bought for resale, investments and money owed to you. Take off the debts due now, then set the net figure against the Nisab — XCD 1,620 on the silver standard, or XCD 18,050 on the gold standard. Once the threshold and the hawl are both met, is charged at 2.5% of the whole amount — XCD 105 on the XCD 4,213 example worked through above.
There is no single ZakatSuite rate for Saint Lucia: it is one sa' of staple (about 2–3 kg of wheat, rice, flour or dates) for each person. Scholars and councils in Saint Lucia publish the XCD figure every Ramadan, because it tracks the price of staple food in XCD, 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.
Saint Lucia belongs to the Americas region on this site, the languages of its Muslim community here are English. Its two-letter code is LC — the short page lives at zakatsuite.com/lc, while this long guide stays at the country address. The full set of 209 tools runs for Saint Lucia in XCD, so nothing on the platform is closed to a payer here.