Zakat on silver

Silver — utensils, coins, bars and jewellery — is zakatable at 2.5% of today's value. Silver also sets the lower of the two nisab thresholds.

Today's silver figures

Silver per gram	₹199.90
Silver per kg	₹1,99,900
Silver nisab (612.36 g)	₹1,22,411

Rates used: 24k gold ₹13,887/g, silver ₹199.90/g (India, median across cities), as of 2 November 2026.

“When you possess two hundred dirhams and one year passes on them, five dirhams are payable… When you possess twenty dinars and one year passes on them, half a dinar is payable.”Sunan Abi Dawud 1573, narrated by Ali ibn Abi Talib (graded hasan)

Calculating zakat on silver

100 g of silver = ₹19,990	zakat ₹500
250 g of silver = ₹49,975	zakat ₹1,249
500 g of silver = ₹99,950	zakat ₹2,499
1000 g of silver = ₹1,99,900	zakat ₹4,998

As with gold, add silver to your other zakatable wealth and compare the total with nisab. Worn silver jewellery follows the same difference of opinion as gold jewellery.

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Common questions

What is the silver nisab today?

612.36 grams of silver, which is ₹1,22,411 at today's rate of ₹199.90 per gram.

Why is the silver nisab so much lower than gold?

Both were set by the Prophet ﷺ — 200 dirhams of silver and 20 dinars of gold. Silver has fallen in value relative to gold, so the silver threshold is now much lower.