Welcome to the US home of ZakatSuite — the fast page for Zakat in United States, priced throughout in USD. Below: the Nisab in USD at reference prices, a worked example in United States dollar, the channels people in United States actually pay through, what counts as zakatable wealth here, and the Ramadan 2027 dates. Need the complete method as well? The full United States guide walks the calculation step by step in USD.
At this page's reference prices — USD 76 per gram of gold and USD 1 per gram of silver, converted at 1 USD per dollar — the two weights price out as follows for United States. Scaled to the Nisab weights, that is USD 6,685 for 87.48 grams of gold and USD 600 for 612.36 grams of silver. Both are indicative snapshots — the binding threshold is the live one on your due date, which the calculators fetch in USD when you run them.
Take a concrete case in United States: a resident holds 250 grams of gold — worth about USD 19,105 at the indicative per-gram price on this page — plus USD 900 in savings. Combined zakatable wealth is USD 20,005. That clears the Nisab comfortably and, after a full lunar year, the Zakat is 2.5% of the combined figure: USD 500. 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 USD and tested once, which is how the calculators on this page proceed.
In practice, most payers hand their Zakat over through the same short list of routes: community collection points and food banks during Ramadan, bank transfer to registered Zakat charities and local Zakat committees that collect and distribute within the community. What is owed was settled before any channel was chosen — net wealth tested against the USD Nisab (USD 600 on the silver standard) and charged at 2.5% — so choose for reliability: a channel that identifies eligible recipients properly and transfers ownership fully. For international giving, check that the receiving end is Zakat-eligible and not a general appeal, and note the transfer date beside your hawl anniversary in your records.
In United States, as everywhere, the test falls on owned, accessible wealth: 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 USD where necessary. Excluded by agreement: 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 United States: and the worked example above shows the shape of it in United States: 250 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 United States as elsewhere, subject to the sighting of the new moon and the announcement followed locally. Ramadan's last ten nights start 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. The last fast is expected on 8 or 9 March 2027, followed by Eid al-Fitr on 9–10 March 2027. Daily times are tabulated in the Ramadan 2027 timetable for United States — Washington, D.C.; Fitrana is due before the Eid prayer, not after it. In Washington, D.C., day one runs from Fajr 05:53 to Maghrib 17:37. Other cities in United States with their own calendars: New York, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas — browse them all from the Ramadan 2027 timetables index.
At this page's reference price, USD 6,685 — the value of 87.48 grams of gold at USD 76 per gram. Gold trades daily, and the calculator's live USD 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.
For money-like wealth in United States, the widely recommended standard is silver — USD 600 at reference prices since it brings more wealth into the duty and directs more to the poor. Holdings that are gold and nothing else follow the gold Nisab under every school — the disagreement is only about money and mixed wealth. The calculator displays both USD figures side by side precisely so that borderline cases in United States can be settled knowingly, with a scholar, instead of by default.
On the anniversary, counted in the lunar calendar, of the day your wealth first reached the Nisab in United States. Count it in lunar years of 354 days; so the Gregorian date moves about eleven days earlier each year. If you pay in Ramadan for the multiplied reward, as many in United States do, provided an earlier hawl is not left unpaid in the meantime; advance payment is valid, delay without excuse is not.
Online payment from United States is well established; what matters is the destination, not the medium. Two conditions govern it: the recipient must fall within the eight categories of Quran 9:60, and ownership of the USD amount must genuinely transfer to them or their agent. 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 United States, starting 8 February 2027. The table is computed for the capital, so distance matters: if you live far from it, allow for your local difference or check your mosque's timetable.