How we calculatethe Nisab
Every figure on this site is one multiplication: the Nisab weight of silver or gold, times today's price per gram. Here is each step with today's numbers, so you can check it.
How it's worked out
First, the coins are weighed.
20 dinars × 4.25 g = 85 g of gold. 200 dirhams × 2.975 g = 595 g of silver. Both weights are valid; use the one your scholar follows.
Then, today's price is put on each gram.
Silver USD 1.6628 a gram, gold USD 131.3866 a gram.
From the international spot prices per troy ounce (31.1035 g): silver USD 51.72, gold USD 4,086.58. Refreshed once a day, last 6 November 2026.
So today's Nisab is
USD 989.37in silver: 595 g × USD 1.6628
USD 11,167.86in gold: 85 g × USD 131.3866
Two weights for one dirham
The Nisab is 200 dirhams of silver or 20 dinars of gold. Scholars agree on the coins but convert them to grams with slightly different weights, so the Hanafi figure comes out about 3% higher. Both are valid: follow the one your scholar uses.
We use 85 g and 595 g by default, and 87.48 g and 612.36 g for Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. You can switch between them above, in the Zakat calculator and on the Nisab by country.
595 g
200 dirhams of 2.975 g, and 85 g of gold. AAOIFI and most scholars.
612.36 g
52.5 tola of silver, and 7.5 tola (87.48 g) of gold. Hanafi scholars in South Asia.
Where the numbers come from
New prices and exchange rates arrive once a day, every morning at02:00 UTC
Gold and silver
International spot prices in US dollars from MetalpriceAPI, with two backup providers in case it is unavailable.
Exchange rates
Mid-market rates from ExchangeRate-API, fetched at the same time as the prices.
If an update fails
We keep showing the last good prices with a notice saying how old they are. We never estimate or make up prices.
Why other sites show different figures
Gold and silver trade at one spot price worldwide, in US dollars. The metal is not worth more in one country than another; the differences come from what each site does with that price.
- Different gram weights
- Some sites use 85 g of gold and 595 g of silver, others the Hanafi tola weights of 87.48 g and 612.36 g. That alone makes about a 3% difference.
- Shop prices, not spot prices
- Jewellers and dealers add making charges, taxes and their own margin, so a Nisab based on local shop prices comes out higher. We use the international spot price. If your scholar prefers local market prices, check with a dealer near you.
- Live prices, not a daily price
- Some sites show prices that move throughout the day. We refresh once a day, so on a day when gold moves a lot the figures can differ by a percent or two.
- Different exchange rates
- We convert at the mid-market rate. Where a local or parallel market rate differs from the official one, sites using it can show a very different figure in local currency.
- Gold purity
- The Nisab is pure gold, so we use the 24 karat price. A site using the price of 22 or 21 karat jewellery gold will show a lower figure.
To see the Nisab in your own currency with all of this applied, use the Nisab by country or the Zakat calculator.
Pictures: Silver dirham of Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik, CC0, Wikimedia Commons; Gold dinar of Abd al-Malik 697-698, public domain, Wikimedia Commons; Glass weight of Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, public domain, Wikimedia Commons; Coin weight, 808-810, CC0, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
