India at a glance for Zakat payers: currency INR (Indian rupee), region Asia, community languages Hindi, English. This short-form page carries the essentials — today's indicative Nisab in INR (INR 50,109 silver, INR 558,216 gold), a worked example, the practical channels for paying in India, Ramadan 2027 dates and the quick links into every calculator with INR pre-selected. For the long-form guide with the full method, continue to the India Zakat guide after this page.
At this page's reference prices — INR 6,381 per gram of gold and INR 82 per gram of silver, converted at 83.5 INR per dollar — the two weights price out as follows for India. Multiply up: 87.48 grams of gold puts the gold Nisab at INR 558,216, and 612.36 grams of silver puts the silver Nisab at INR 50,109. Snapshots is the right word: on the due date itself, the live INR values inside the calculators are the ones that count.
Take a concrete case in India: a resident holds 225 grams of gold — worth about INR 1,435,741 at the indicative per-gram price on this page — plus INR 75,164 in savings. Combined zakatable wealth is INR 1,510,905. That clears the Nisab comfortably and, after a full lunar year, the Zakat is 2.5% of the combined figure: INR 37,773. 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 INR and tested once, which is how the calculators on this page proceed.
In practice, most Zakat is paid through the same short list of routes: bank transfer to registered Zakat charities, local Zakat committees that collect and distribute within the community and mosque collections, especially around Jumu'ah and during Ramadan. What is owed was settled before any channel was chosen — net wealth tested against the INR Nisab (INR 50,109 on the silver standard) and charged at 2.5% — the channel only has to deliver that figure intact, to recipients who are genuinely eligible. For international giving, check the recipient end is genuinely Zakat-eligible rather than a general appeal, and note the transfer date beside your hawl anniversary in your records.
The zakatable list for a payer in India is the universal one — cash, deposits, gold and silver however held, trading stock, money owed to you, and investments priced in INR at market value. What does not count: your home in India, your car, household furniture and personal effects, plus anything you do not truly own or cannot reach. Debts due now come off before the Nisab test; then, if the net total has reached the threshold — INR 50,109 on the silver standard most scholars apply to cash in India and a lunar year has passed over it, 2.5% is the right of the poor in that wealth.
Ramadan 1448 AH is expected to open on Monday 8 February 2027 in India, always subject to moon sighting and the announcement followed locally. The last ten nights begin 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 — and the 27th night falling on the evening of Friday 5 March 2027. Expect the last fast on 8 or 9 March 2027, followed by Eid al-Fitr on 9–10 March 2027. Day-by-day fasting times are listed in the Ramadan 2027 timetable for India — New Delhi; and Fitrana must reach the poor before the Eid prayer. In New Delhi, day one runs from Fajr 05:45 to Maghrib 18:06. Other cities in India with their own calendars: Mumbai, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Kolkata, Bengaluru — browse them all from the Ramadan 2027 timetables index.
Indicatively INR 558,216 for 87.48 grams of gold at INR 6,381 per gram. The live figure moves with the gold market, and the calculator's live INR value on your due date is the binding one. Of the two thresholds it is the higher, and for wealth held purely as gold it is the agreed test in every school.
With cash and mixed holdings, most scholars and fatwa councils recommend the silver Nisab (INR 50,109 indicatively) — the threshold the majority of contemporary councils advise, in India as elsewhere. Gold-only wealth is tested against the gold Nisab by agreement. If your wealth sits between the two thresholds, precisely so that borderline cases in India can be settled knowingly, with a scholar, instead of by default.
On your own hawl date: the Hijri anniversary of the day your wealth first reached the Nisab. Because a hawl is 354 days, in Gregorian terms the date arrives about eleven days sooner each year. Many people in India choose Ramadan for the reward — Ramadan 2027 begins on 8 February 2027 — but paying in Ramadan does not move a hawl that fell earlier; paying early is permitted, paying late without excuse is not.
Online payment from India is well established; what matters is the destination, not the medium. Two conditions govern it: that the recipient is Zakat-eligible under Quran 9:60 and that ownership of the money genuinely passes to them or their appointed agent. Use a platform's Zakat-specific fund where one exists, and note the Hijri date beside the Gregorian one — future-you, reconciling next year's hawl, will be grateful.
The full 30-day table for the capital is on the Ramadan 2027 timetable for India, starting 8 February 2027. The table is computed for the capital, so distance matters: across India, minutes shift with longitude, and your local mosque's published times win any close argument.