Timor-Leste at a glance for the Zakat payer: and is paid, in practice, in USD, at local prices, through local channels. Below you will find today's indicative Nisab values in United States dollar, local thresholds, a local worked example worth USD 3,301 of savings, local payment channels and local Ramadan dates. Timor-Leste sits in the Asia region, and the main languages of its Muslim community include Tetum, Portuguese — the rules below are the universal Shariah rules, expressed entirely in local terms.
The two thresholds a payer in Timor-Leste is judged against, at this guide's reference prices, are USD 6,685 — the value of 87.48 grams of gold at USD 76 per gram — and USD 600, the value of 612.36 grams of silver at USD 1 per gram, with the conversion running at 1 USD per US dollar. Read them as the shape of the answer rather than its final digit: 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 Timor-Leste whose net savings pass USD 600 for a full lunar year owes 2.5% of the total.
In Timor-Leste today, the Zakat of most households leaves through the same short list of routes: 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, the wealth must reach recipients within the eight categories of Quran 9:60, and it must transfer into their ownership (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, and check whether administration costs come out of the Zakat itself where an organisation deducts them. A Zakat-specific fund, where a platform offers one, keeps the money out of general spending — the distinction is recorded in USD on your statement.
Ramadan 2027 is expected to begin on Monday 8 February 2027 in Timor-Leste, subject to the sighting of the new moon and the announcement followed locally. The closing 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 the likeliest, the 27th, opening on the evening of Friday 5 March 2027. The last fast is expected on 8 or 9 March 2027, with Eid al-Fitr on 9–10 March 2027. Daily fasting times for Timor-Leste are gathered through the Ramadan 2027 timetables by city, and Fitrana must be paid before the Eid prayer.
Take a saver in Timor-Leste with USD 3,301 across cash and savings accounts , roughly 5.5 times the silver Nisab, and no debts due. It clears the Nisab and completes a hawl, so the Zakat due is 2.5% × USD 3,301 = USD 83. If the same saver also held gold, business stock or foreign currency, those values would be added in USD first and the 2.5% applied to the combined net total.
On reference prices, gold's Nisab is USD 6,685 (87.48 grams of gold) and the silver Nisab is USD 600 (612.36 grams of silver). Those conversions rest on a gold gram at USD 76 and silver at USD 1 the gram in Timor-Leste at the 1 USD reference rate. Since prices shift daily, so let the live calculator quote the threshold of your actual due date; most scholars recommend the silver Nisab for cash and savings.
Calculations for Timor-Leste run in USD, the United States dollar. Foreign balances is converted into USD at your due date's rate then judged with everything else . The rules themselves do not change with the currency: the Nisab, the hawl and the 2.5% rate are identical in Timor-Leste to everywhere else.
Add up everything zakatable you own in USD — cash and savings, metals priced today, business stock, investments and money owed to you. Take off the debts due now, and test what remains against the Nisab — start with the silver figure, USD 600. If it reaches the Nisab and a lunar year has passed, pay 2.5% of the net total to eligible recipients : on savings of USD 3,301, the example on this page, the payment is USD 83.
Fitrana (Zakat al-Fitr) is not a fixed ZakatSuite figure: Fitrana is one sa' of the local staple — roughly 2–3 kilograms of wheat, flour, rice or dates — for each person. Councils in Timor-Leste announce the USD rate each Ramadan, with announcements commonly made in Tetum, Portuguese. Pay it for each person in the household, children included, and must reach the poor before the Eid prayer. The Fitrana calculator multiplies Timor-Leste's announced rate by your household size so nobody is missed.
On ZakatSuite, Timor-Leste sits in the Asia region with Tetum, Portuguese recorded as its community languages. The country code is TL, and the short version of this page is at zakatsuite.com/tl. Every one of the 209 tools accepts Timor-Leste with USD, with PDF reports for the record.