This site records one silver figure a day next to the gold columns: a gram of 999 silver in Egyptian pounds. Between 2026-06-29 and 2026-09-02 it took 52 of those readings. The last one, for 2026-09-02, put silver 999 at 105.7 EGP a gram. Across the window it moved from 91.0 to 105.7 — a rise of 16.15% — with a high of 113.0 on 2026-08-23 and a low of 91.0 on 2026-06-29.
Silver reaches an Egyptian counter the same way gold does. There is an international price in dollars per troy ounce, it is converted at the pound, and it is divided down to a gram. What differs is scale and temperament: a gram of silver costs a small fraction of a gram of gold, so the same money buys far more of it, and it travels further on an ordinary day.
One note on how fast the numbers here change. The live silver price this site shows arrives over a streaming connection, so it updates as the market moves; the gold gram prices are polled about every five minutes. The figures on this page are neither. They are a fixed daily record — one stored reading per session, kept as recorded and never rewritten afterwards.
| Reading | Value | Recorded |
|---|---|---|
| Silver 999, one gram | 105.7 EGP | 2026-09-02 |
| Highest in this window | 113.0 EGP | 2026-08-23 |
| Lowest in this window | 91.0 EGP | 2026-06-29 |
| Grams of silver per gram of 21K gold | 59.0 g | 2026-09-02 |
| Grams of silver per gram of 24K gold | 67.4 g | 2026-09-02 |
| Silver Zakat nisab, 595 g | 62,892 EGP | 2026-09-02 |
| Gold Zakat nisab, 85 g of 24K | 605,804 EGP | 2026-09-02 |
Of the 51 session-on-session comparisons in this window, 24 closed higher and 22 lower. The largest single move was +4.79% on 2026-08-20. These are reference metal prices for 999 silver: a shop selling silver jewellery or tableware adds workmanship and its own margin on top, exactly as it does with gold, and our series does not record a buy-back figure for silver — only for the gold karats.
At the prices recorded for 2026-09-02, one gram of 21K gold was worth 59.0 grams of 999 silver, and one gram of 24K was worth 67.4 grams. That second figure is the gold-to-silver ratio in its usual form, and it is the cleanest single number for comparing the two metals, because it strips the pound out of both sides — when the currency moves, both prices move with it and the ratio does not.
Across 52 recorded sessions the 24K-to-silver ratio averaged 69.4. It was widest at 73.5 on 2026-07-19, when silver was cheapest relative to gold, and narrowest at 66.2 on 2026-08-31. A falling ratio means silver gained on gold over that stretch; a rising one means it lost ground. Our window is 52 sessions long, which is a season, not a cycle — it says what happened here, not what the ratio does over years.
Over the same sessions, the mean absolute day-on-day move was 1.55% for silver and 0.77% for the 21K gold gram. Silver moved about 2.0 times as much as gold on a typical day in this record.
That cuts both ways, and it is worth being plain about it. The same volatility that makes a good week in silver look dramatic makes a bad one look the same. It also means the round-trip cost of buying and selling matters more per unit of time in silver than in gold, and it is why the sums people describe as "saving in silver" behave less like saving than the equivalent in gold does. This page does not tell you which metal to hold — that is not a question a price record can answer.
Zakat is due at 2.5% of the value of qualifying holdings once they have been held for a lunar year and reach the nisab. There are two classical thresholds: 85 grams of pure gold, or 595 grams of silver.
At the prices we recorded for 2026-09-02, those two thresholds are nowhere near each other. The silver nisab of 595 g comes to 62,892 EGP. The gold nisab of 85 g of 24K comes to 605,804 EGP — about 9.6 times as much. Anyone whose holdings sit between those two figures is above the silver threshold and below the gold one, which is exactly why the choice between them is not a rounding detail.
Many scholars prefer the silver threshold precisely because it is lower and therefore captures more people, which benefits recipients. Which threshold applies to your own holdings is a question of fiqh, not arithmetic, and it belongs with a qualified scholar. What this page can give you is the arithmetic: both thresholds priced at the figures we recorded. The Zakat calculator applies the same rule to the live price.
Every figure on this page is computed from this site's own stored daily snapshots — the same series published in full on our price history page — and from nothing else. Each snapshot is one reading per session, saved as recorded and never revised afterwards. Sessions with no trading carry no snapshot, so the counts above are sessions, not calendar days.
These are reference metal prices, not offers. This site does not buy or sell silver, does not quote for any dealer, and has no way of knowing what a particular shop will charge or pay on a given day — silver jewellery and tableware carry workmanship and a dealer margin on top of the metal, and our series records neither. Nothing here is investment advice. For the gold side of the same record, including what dealers pay back, see selling gold back in Egypt.