Zakat in Sri Lanka follows the same revelation as Zakat everywhere, for Zakat calculated and paid in LKR. Below you will find today's indicative Nisab values in Sri Lankan rupee, local thresholds, a local worked example worth LKR 724,936 of savings, local payment channels and local Ramadan dates. Sri Lanka is one of 195 countries covered by ZakatSuite, in the Asia region, and every figure on this page is given in the currency a payer in Sri Lanka actually faces.
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 302 LKR per US dollar — the gold Nisab in Sri Lanka is LKR 2,018,937 (87.48g × LKR 23,079 per gram) and the silver Nisab is LKR 181,234 (612.36g × LKR 296 per gram). Treat both figures as indicative: on your actual due date the live tool will quote the thresholds afresh in Sri Lankan rupee. The practical consequence in Sri Lanka: net savings that pass LKR 181,234 and stay there for a lunar year are zakatable at 2.5% under the silver standard most scholars recommend for cash.
In daily practice, payers settle their Zakat 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. The channel matters less than the conditions: Zakat must actually reach people inside Quran 9:60's eight categories, and become theirs in law and fact (tamlik). Many households in Sri Lanka the calculation is settled at home, then the payment is split across two or three trusted routes. Ask distributors how the money is separated, file the confirmation with your PDF report, noting the Hijri date of payment beside the Gregorian one. Because community life in Sri Lanka runs in Sinhala, Tamil, make sure family instructions are understood in that language.
The Ramadan of 1448 AH is expected to begin on Monday 8 February 2027 across Sri Lanka, always subject to moon sighting which local announcements confirm. The last ten nights begin at Maghrib on 27 February 2027, with Laylat al-Qadr sought on the odd nights that open on 27 February, 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. For Colombo, day one runs between Fajr 05:17 and Maghrib 18:21, with the whole month tabulated in the Ramadan 2027 timetable for Sri Lanka — Colombo.
Take a saver in Sri Lanka with LKR 724,936 in cash and savings — about 4.0 times the silver Nisab — with no debts due. It has passed the Nisab and sat for a full lunar year, so the Zakat due is 2.5% × LKR 724,936 = LKR 18,123. If the same saver also held gold, business stock or foreign currency, those values would be added in LKR first and the 2.5% applied to the combined net total.
Indicatively, gold stands at LKR 2,018,937 — 87.48 grams of gold — and silver's is LKR 181,234 for 612.36 grams of silver. Behind those figures sit gold at LKR 23,079 the gram and silver at LKR 296 the gram in Sri Lanka at the 302 LKR reference rate. Prices move daily, so the live calculator gives the exact threshold on your Zakat date; most scholars recommend the silver Nisab for cash and savings.
Calculations for Sri Lanka run in LKR — the Sri Lankan rupee. Foreign balances converts into LKR at your due date's rate then judged with everything else . The rules themselves do not change with the currency: the same calculation a payer runs in Iraq, settled here in Sri Lankan rupee.
Total the zakatable side in LKR — balances, metals at today's price, stock bought for resale, investments and money owed to you. Deduct debts that are due now, then set the net figure against the Nisab — start with the silver figure, LKR 181,234. Once the threshold and the hawl are both met, pay 2.5% of the net total to eligible recipients : on savings of LKR 724,936, the example on this page, the payment is LKR 18,123.
Fitrana (Zakat al-Fitr) is not a fixed ZakatSuite figure: it is the local cash value of one sa' of staple food (about 2–3 kg of wheat, rice, flour or dates) for each person. Councils in Sri Lanka set the rate in LKR each year, and community announcements there are commonly made in Sinhala, Tamil. Every household member counts, children included, and must reach the poor before the Eid prayer. The Fitrana calculator on this site multiplies the announced local rate by your household size.
Sri Lanka belongs to the Asia region on this site, with community languages Sinhala, Tamil. Use code LK for the short page — (zakatsuite.com/lk) — and this address for the full guide. The full set of 209 tools runs for Sri Lanka in LKR, including live Nisab conversion and PDF reports; neighbouring coverage includes the Zakat calculator for Iraq.