Enter each piece with its weight and carat. The calculator takes out the alloy, applies the position you follow on worn jewellery, and shows what the other position would give.
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Today's price
Filled in from the market, in the currency you pick. Change either figure if your local rate differs.
Currency
Market price on 2026-09-07, filled in for you. Change it if your local rate differs.
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What is in the box
Weigh each piece as it is, alloy and all — the carat takes the alloy back out. Zakat is owed on the gold, not on the copper it is mixed with.
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Which position on worn jewellery
This is the one question that changes the answer most, and the schools genuinely differ on it. Neither position is the calculator's to pick.
Zakat due at 2.5%
201.22
on 8,048.93 of zakatable wealth
Pure gold
56.67 g
Pure silver
0.00 g
Metal value
8,048.93
Nisab (silver)
1,302.49
Piece by piece
Piece
Weighed
Pure metal
Counted
BanglesWorn, but counted — the Hanafi position makes no exception for use
40.0 g
36.67 g
5,208.13
CoinsStored as wealth, which every school counts
20.0 g
20.00 g
2,840.8
This is one part only
The nisab is measured against everything you hold. If you entered your other wealth above it is already included; if not, add it there or use the full calculator, which walks through every kind of zakatable asset and the lunar year as well.
This is a calculator, not a fatwa. The position on worn jewellery is a genuine difference between the schools, not a setting with a right answer, and scholars also differ on jewellery held beyond normal use, on gemstones set into a piece, and on what counts as excessive. Weigh the metal, take the working to someone qualified.
Carat is the first thing most calculators get wrong
Zakat is owed on gold, not on the copper and silver that gold is mixed with to make it hard enough to wear. Carat measures that in twenty-fourths: 24 carat is pure, 22 carat is 91.67% gold, 21 carat is 87.5%, 18 carat is three quarters.
A jewellery box of 22-carat bangles and 18-carat rings is therefore not one weight. A 40-gram bangle at 22 carat holds 36.67 grams of gold; the same 40 grams at 18 carat holds 30. Enter each piece as it sits on the scale and the carat takes the alloy back out — which is why this page asks piece by piece rather than for a single total.
The question the schools answer differently
Whether a woman owes zakat on the jewellery she actually wears is one of the oldest live differences in the subject, and in many households it decides most of the answer.
The Hanafi position is that gold and silver are wealth by their nature, so what they are used for does not change their standing: all of it is zakatable. The Maliki, Shafi’i and Hanbali positions exempt jewellery worn lawfully and in normal quantity, treating it as something in use rather than wealth being stored — much as a house is not zakatable however valuable it is.
The exemption is about use, and only about use. Coins, bars, investment gold and jewellery kept in a safe are zakatable on every view, with no exception. This page marks each piece accordingly and tells you what the other position would have produced, because a reader deciding between two schools deserves both numbers rather than one presented as the answer.
The threshold is measured on everything
The nisab — 87.48 grams of gold or 612.36 grams of silver — is not measured against the jewellery on its own. It is measured against everything zakatable that you hold: the metal, your cash, your bank balances, your investments, your business stock. A jewellery box below the threshold on its own can still be zakatable once your savings sit beside it.
That is why there is a field above for your other wealth, and why this page ends by pointing at the full zakat calculator rather than claiming to be one. It also does not ask about the lunar year, which the full calculator does — zakat falls due once your wealth has stood above the nisab for a complete hawl.