Egypt at a glance for Zakat payers: currency EGP (Egyptian pound), region Africa, community languages Arabic. Below: the Nisab in EGP at reference prices, a worked example in Egyptian pound, the channels people in Egypt actually pay through, what counts as zakatable wealth here, and the Ramadan 2027 dates. For the long-form guide with the full method, continue to the Egypt Zakat guide after this page.
The arithmetic for Egypt starts per gram: gold at EGP 3,790, silver at EGP 49, from reference prices of USD 76.42/g and USD 0.98/g at 49.6 EGP per dollar. Scaled to the Nisab weights, that is EGP 331,587 for 87.48 grams of gold and EGP 29,766 for 612.36 grams of silver. Both are indicative snapshots — the calculators fetch live prices the moment you use them, and Zakat law judges your wealth against the Nisab of your actual due date, not of the day you happened to read a web page.
Take a concrete case in Egypt: a resident holds 150 grams of gold — worth about EGP 568,565 at the indicative per-gram price on this page — plus EGP 44,648 in savings. Combined zakatable wealth is EGP 613,213. That clears the Nisab comfortably and, after a full lunar year, the Zakat is 2.5% of the combined figure: EGP 15,330. Notice that the gold is not tested against the gold Nisab on its own here — in a mixed portfolio the assets are valued together in EGP and tested once, which is how the calculators on this page proceed.
In Egypt 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. None of these routes changes what is owed , the net figure against the EGP Nisab and the 2.5% rate — the channel only has to deliver that figure intact, to recipients who are genuinely eligible. If your Zakat leaves Egypt, confirm the recipient end is genuinely Zakat-eligible rather than a general appeal, then file the confirmation with the year's PDF report.
What counts in Egypt is what counts everywhere: cash in hand and in the bank, savings and deposits, gold and silver in any form, stock bought for resale, business inventory and receivables, investments and crypto at market value — all of it converted into EGP where necessary. Personal-use property stays out — the home you live in, your car, furniture and personal effects, and wealth you do not truly own or cannot access. The order never changes in Egypt: and the worked example above shows the shape of it in Egypt: 150 grams of gold and a savings balance, combined, tested once, and charged at 2.5% after a hawl.
Ramadan 2027 is expected to open on Monday 8 February 2027 in Egypt as elsewhere, subject to the sighting of the new moon and your community's announcement. The final ten nights open at Maghrib on 27 February 2027, the search for Laylat al-Qadr falling on the odd nights — 27 February, then 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, with Eid al-Fitr on 9–10 March 2027. The day-by-day table lives in the Ramadan 2027 timetable for Egypt — Cairo; remember that Fitrana is due before the Eid prayer, not after it. In Cairo, day one runs from Fajr 05:13 to Maghrib 17:38. Other cities in Egypt with their own calendars: Alexandria, Giza — browse them all from the Ramadan 2027 timetables index.
On reference prices, the gold Nisab is EGP 331,587, the value of 87.48 grams of gold priced at EGP 3,790 the gram. The live figure moves with the gold market, and the calculator's live EGP value on your due date is the binding one. For mixed wealth most scholars reach for the lower, silver threshold instead — it is the relevant one for wealth held purely as gold under all schools.
With cash and mixed holdings, start with silver (EGP 29,766) since it brings more wealth into the duty and directs more to the poor. Gold-only wealth is tested against the gold Nisab by agreement. If your wealth sits between the two thresholds, the choice changes your duty, so it is worth a question to a scholar you trust — the calculator shows both figures so the conversation starts from real numbers.
On your own hawl date: of the day your wealth first reached the Nisab in Egypt. Because a hawl is 354 days, the Gregorian date slides roughly eleven days earlier with each passing year — a payer in Egypt who fixed a solar date will drift late without noticing. Many people in Egypt choose Ramadan for the reward — Ramadan 2027 begins on 8 February 2027 — provided an earlier hawl is not left unpaid in the meantime; advance payment is valid, delay without excuse is not.
Yes — the channels listed above are exactly how most Zakat now leaves Egypt, and online payment changes nothing about the duty itself. The conditions are that the recipient falls within Quran 9:60's categories, and that the money is truly theirs once sent, not merely pledged. Use a platform's Zakat-specific fund where one exists, keep the confirmation email or receipt with your calculation report, and record the Hijri date of payment as well as the Gregorian one.
The full 30-day table for the capital is on the Ramadan 2027 timetable for Egypt, with Sehri (Fajr), Sunrise, Dhuhr, Asr, Iftar (Maghrib) and Isha for every day from 8 February 2027 onwards. Times are calculated for the capital; in a country in the Africa region, local timetables adjust for where in Egypt you actually fast.