Currency and formatting
- Currency
- Kuwaiti Dinar (KWD)
- Symbol
- د.ك — placed after the amount
- Decimal places
- 3
- Formatted example
- 123,456.780 د.ك
- Thousands separator
- ,
- Decimal separator
- .
- Digit grouping
- threes (3)
- Live rate
- No central-bank source publishes KWD yet
Watch out: KWD has three decimal places, not two.
Tax
Kuwait has no single national consumption tax that applies at a checkout. We report this as a null rather than inventing a rate.
Payment methods in Kuwait
Roughly ordered by real-world use — not by what a card processor would prefer you offer.
- 01 knet
- 02 card
- 03 apple pay
Card schemes that work domestically: knet, visa, mastercard. 3-D Secure is standard practice; strong customer authentication is not legally mandated.
Locale
- Primary
- ar-KW
- Also used
- en-KW
- Official languages
- Arabic
- Direction
- right-to-left
- Date format
- DD/MM/YYYY
- Measurement
- metric
- GDPR applies
- no
Phone numbers
- Calling code
- +965
- Mobile format
- +965 XXXX XXXX
- Digits
- 8
Kuwait: common questions
What currency does Kuwait use?
Kuwait uses the Kuwaiti Dinar (KWD), symbol د.ك. It uses 3 decimal places, formatted as 123,456.780 د.ك.
How many decimal places does KWD have?
KWD has 3 decimal places. Charging with the wrong number of minor units is a 100× error, so this is worth getting right.
Is there sales tax in Kuwait?
Kuwait has no single national consumption-tax rate that applies to a checkout.
What payment methods are used in Kuwait?
The methods that matter in Kuwait, in rough order of use: knet, card, apple pay.
What is the dialling code for Kuwait?
Kuwait's country calling code is +965. Mobile numbers are formatted +965 XXXX XXXX (8 digits after the country code).
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