Samoa at a glance for the Zakat payer: for Zakat calculated and paid in WST. This page translates the universal rules into that local reality: practical notes on paying Zakat in Samoa, a step-by-step method, a worked example with real WST figures, and answers to the questions payers in Samoa ask most. Samoa is one of 195 countries covered by ZakatSuite, in the Oceania region, and every figure on this page is given in the currency a payer in Samoa actually faces.
The two thresholds a payer in Samoa is judged against, at this guide's reference prices, are WST 18,719 — the value of 87.48 grams of gold at WST 214 per gram — and WST 1,680, the value of 612.36 grams of silver at WST 3 per gram, with the conversion running at 2.8 WST 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 Samoan tala. So the line that matters most in Samoa is the silver one, WST 1,680: cross it with net wealth held for a hawl, and 2.5% of everything above zero — not just of the excess — is due.
In daily practice, payers settle their Zakat through the same short list of routes: mosque collections, especially around Jumu'ah and during Ramadan, charity platforms and mobile giving apps and payroll deduction schemes offered by some employers. Whatever the channel, the wealth must reach recipients within the eight categories of Quran 9:60, and become theirs in law and fact (tamlik). Many households in Samoa the calculation is settled at home, then the payment is split across two or three trusted routes. Before paying, ask how funds are distributed, file the confirmation with your PDF report, and check whether administration costs come out of the Zakat itself where an organisation deducts them. Because community life in Samoa runs in Samoan, English, make sure family instructions are understood in that language.
Ramadan 1448 should begin on Monday 8 February 2027 in Samoa, pending the sighted crescent which local announcements confirm. The closing 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. 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 Samoa are gathered through the Ramadan 2027 timetables by city, and Fitrana must be paid before the Eid prayer.
Imagine savings in Samoa of WST 3,865 held as cash and savings — some 2.3 times the silver Nisab — with nothing owed. The wealth is above the Nisab and has been held for a full lunar year, so the Zakat due is 2.5% × WST 3,865 = WST 97. Any gold, stock or foreign currency joins the same WST total before the 2.5% is applied.
Indicatively, gold's Nisab is WST 18,719 for 87.48 grams of gold with the silver Nisab at WST 1,680 (612.36 grams of silver). The working behind them: gold at WST 214 the gram and silver at WST 3 the gram in Samoa at the 2.8 WST reference rate. Since prices shift daily, so check the live calculator for the exact threshold on your Zakat date; and most scholars test cash against the silver figure.
The working currency for Samoa is WST (Samoan tala). Foreign balances converts into WST using the rate on your Zakat date then judged with everything else — a balance kept in Micronesia, for example, enters at its WST value on that date, not at the rate from when it was earned. What travels is the method, not the money: the Nisab, the hawl and the 2.5% rate are identical in Samoa to everywhere else.
Work in WST throughout: balances, metals at today's price, business stock, investments and money owed to you. Take off the debts due now, then set the net figure against the Nisab in WST — silver first (WST 1,680). If it reaches the Nisab and a lunar year has passed, pays one-fortieth of the net total — WST 97 on the WST 3,865 example worked through above.
There is no single ZakatSuite rate for Samoa: the duty is one sa' of local staple food (about 2–3 kg of wheat, rice, flour or dates) per household member. Scholars and councils in Samoa set the rate in WST each year, because it tracks the price of staple food in WST, not any international figure. Pay it for each person in the household, children included, with the Eid prayer as the deadline. The Fitrana calculator multiplies Samoa's announced rate by your household size so nobody is missed.
Samoa belongs to the Oceania region on this site, with community languages Samoan, English. Its two-letter code is WS — the short page lives at zakatsuite.com/ws, while this long guide stays at the country address. Every one of the 209 tools accepts Samoa with WST, so nothing on the platform is closed to a payer here.