If you live in Switzerland, or hold your wealth there, this is your starting page — for Zakat calculated and paid in CHF. Everything that follows is the universal Shariah method expressed entirely in local terms — the gold and silver Nisab expressed in Swiss franc, how giving is usually organised in Switzerland, what Ramadan 2027 will look like, and the calculators that do the arithmetic for you. Switzerland sits in the Europe region, and the main languages of its Muslim community include German, French, Italian, Romansh — 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 0.9 CHF per US dollar — the gold Nisab in Switzerland is CHF 6,017 (87.48g × CHF 69 per gram) and the silver Nisab is CHF 540 (612.36g × CHF 1 per gram). Both are snapshots, not fixtures — metal prices and exchange rates move every day, and the live calculator on this site fetches current prices before it tests your wealth. On the silver standard most scholars recommend for cash, a payer in Switzerland whose net savings pass CHF 540 for a full lunar year owes 2.5% of the total.
In Switzerland today, most Zakat is paid through a few familiar channels: charity platforms and mobile giving apps, payroll deduction schemes offered by some employers and community collection points and food banks during Ramadan. On every route, Zakat must actually reach people within the eight categories of Quran 9:60, and become theirs in law and fact (tamlik). Plenty of households here settle the calculation at home first — often on a fixed Ramadan date — and then distribute through two or three trusted channels rather than one. Ask any intermediary how they distribute, keep your payment receipt with 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 CHF on your statement.
Ramadan 1448 is expected to open on Monday 8 February 2027 across Switzerland, pending the sighted crescent and your community's announcement. Ramadan's last ten nights start with the Maghrib of 27 February 2027, Laylat al-Qadr being sought on the odd nights that open on 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, and Eid al-Fitr on 9–10 March 2027. For daily times in Switzerland, use the Ramadan 2027 timetables by city, and remember Fitrana falls due before the Eid prayer.
A resident of Switzerland holding CHF 2,430 held as cash and savings — about 4.5 times the silver Nisab — with no debts due. It clears the Nisab and completes a hawl, making the Zakat CHF 61 at 2.5%. Gold, business stock or foreign currency would be added in CHF first, with the 2.5% applied to the combined net total.
Indicatively, the gold threshold is CHF 6,017 — 87.48 grams of gold — with the silver Nisab at CHF 540 (612.36 grams of silver). They are priced from a gold gram at CHF 69 and a silver gram at CHF 1 in Switzerland at the 0.9 CHF reference rate. Since prices shift daily, so the live calculator gives the binding figure on your due date; silver is the standard most scholars advise for cash.
The working currency for Switzerland is CHF — the Swiss franc. Foreign balances are converted into CHF at the due-date rate and added to the total before the Nisab test — a balance kept in Czechia, for example, enters at its CHF value on that date, not at the rate from when it was earned. Method is portable; money is local: the same calculation a payer runs in Czechia, settled here in Swiss franc.
Start with the gross in CHF — cash and savings, metals priced today, stock, investments and receivables. Deduct debts that are due now, then compare the net figure with the Nisab in CHF — silver first (CHF 540). If it reaches the Nisab and a lunar year has passed, pay 2.5% of the net total to eligible recipients — the worked example on this page turns CHF 2,430 of net savings into CHF 61 of Zakat.
Fitrana (Zakat al-Fitr) is not a fixed ZakatSuite figure: it is one sa' of staple — roughly 2–3 kilograms of wheat, flour, rice or dates — per person. Councils in Switzerland set the rate in CHF each year, and community announcements there are commonly made in German, French, Italian, Romansh. Pay it for each person in the household, children included, and deliver it before the Eid prayer. The Fitrana calculator on this site multiplies the announced local rate by your household size.
On ZakatSuite, Switzerland sits in the Europe region with community languages German, French, Italian, Romansh. The country code is CH, and the short version of this page is at zakatsuite.com/ch. Every one of the 209 tools accepts Switzerland with CHF, so nothing on the platform is closed to a payer here.