If you live in Tanzania, or hold your wealth there, this is your starting page — and is paid, in practice, in TZS, at local prices, through local channels. It brings together the Nisab in your currency — TZS 1,560,293 on the silver standard and TZS 17,381,576 on the gold standard, indicatively — the gold and silver Nisab expressed in Tanzanian shilling, how giving is usually organised in Tanzania, what Ramadan 2027 will look like, and the calculators that do the arithmetic for you. The calculators linked here run in your browser, free, with the Nisab converted into TZS at live metal prices rather than printed from a table that went stale last month.
The two thresholds a payer in Tanzania is judged against, at this guide's reference prices, are TZS 17,381,576 — the value of 87.48 grams of gold at TZS 198,692 per gram — and TZS 1,560,293, the value of 612.36 grams of silver at TZS 2,548 per gram, with the conversion running at 2600 TZS per US dollar. 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 Tanzania whose net savings pass TZS 1,560,293 for a full lunar year owes 2.5% of the total.
In practice, payers settle their Zakat 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. On every route, the wealth must reach recipients whom Quran 9:60 names as eligible, and it must transfer into their ownership (tamlik). A common pattern in Tanzania: the calculation is settled at home, then the payment is split across two or three trusted routes. Put the practical questions first: 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 TZS on your statement.
Ramadan 1448 AH is expected to open on Monday 8 February 2027 in Tanzania as elsewhere, pending the sighted crescent and the announcement your community follows. Ramadan's last ten nights start at Maghrib on 27 February 2027, 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 final fast should fall on 8 or 9 March 2027, and Eid al-Fitr on 9–10 March 2027. Sehri and Iftar times across Tanzania are collected via the Ramadan 2027 timetables by city, and Fitrana must be paid before the Eid prayer.
A resident of Tanzania holding TZS 4,368,821 across cash and savings accounts — about 2.8 times the silver Nisab — with no debts due. It clears the Nisab and completes a hawl, making the Zakat TZS 109,221 at 2.5%. Add any gold, stock or foreign currency in TZS first; the 2.5% then applies to the combined net total.
The short answer for Tanzania: gold stands at TZS 17,381,576 (87.48 grams of gold) with the silver Nisab at TZS 1,560,293 — 612.36 grams of silver. The working behind them: per-gram values of TZS 198,692 for gold and a silver gram at TZS 2,548 in Tanzania, at 2600 TZS per US dollar. Since prices shift daily, so the live calculator gives the exact threshold on your Zakat date; and most scholars test cash against the silver figure.
For Tanzania, the money of the calculation is TZS — the Tanzanian shilling. Foreign balances is brought into TZS at the rate of your Zakat due date and added before the Nisab test — a balance kept in Mauritania, for example, enters at its TZS value on that date, not at the rate from when it was earned. The currency changes only the clothing of the numbers: the same calculation a payer runs in Mauritania, settled here in Tanzanian shilling.
Start with the gross in TZS — cash and savings, metals priced today, stock, investments and receivables. Net off debts due, and test what remains against the Nisab — TZS 1,560,293 on the silver standard, or TZS 17,381,576 on the gold standard. If it reaches the Nisab and a lunar year has passed, is charged at 2.5% of the whole amount : on savings of TZS 4,368,821, the example on this page, the payment is TZS 109,221.
No fixed figure exists for Tanzania: Fitrana is one sa' of the local staple — roughly 2–3 kilograms of wheat, flour, rice or dates — for each person. Scholars and councils in Tanzania publish the TZS figure every Ramadan, with announcements commonly made in Swahili, English. It is paid for every member of the household, including children, and deliver it before the Eid prayer. Enter the announced TZS rate in the Fitrana calculator and it totals the household's duty.
Tanzania is listed in the Africa region, the languages of its Muslim community here are Swahili, English. Its two-letter code is TZ — (zakatsuite.com/tz) — and this address for the full guide. All 209 tools work for Tanzania with TZS selected, with PDF reports for the record.