Emergency Fund Calculator
How many months of cover your situation calls for, and what shifts the number up or down.
Your numbers
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₹30 thousand
Rent, food, bills, transport, medicines. Not everything — what you could not cut.
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Emergency Fund Calculator
Worked out on 13/8/2026
| Essential monthly spending | 30000 |
|---|---|
| Monthly EMIs | 0 |
| Your income | salaried_stable |
| What you have set aside now | 0 |
My scenarios (0/10)
Snapshots of your inputs, so you can flip between them — “20 years at 9%” against “15 years at 9.5%”. Stored in this browser only, no account needed.
6–12 months of your ₹30,000 monthly outgo
- You currently have
- 0 months
- Gap to the lower end
- ₹1.8 lakh
Of cover
What moved the range
| Factor | |
|---|---|
| Stable salaried income — a shorter buffer is usually workable. | |
| No health cover. A single hospitalisation in a metro can cost several lakh, and an emergency fund is a very expensive substitute for a health policy. |
What this means
- This is a range produced by a rule of thumb, not a calculation of what will happen to you. Adjust it for how easily you could find similar work, and for who depends on you.
- Where an emergency fund is held matters as much as its size: it has to be reachable in a day or two without a loss. A savings account, a sweep-in deposit or a liquid fund all qualify. Equity does not — the moment you need it is disproportionately likely to be a moment markets are down.
- Buying health cover usually reduces the emergency fund you need by more than the premium costs.
Questions people actually ask
- What matters about where an emergency fund is kept?
- Two properties: the money is reachable within a day or two, and getting it out does not force a loss. Market-linked holdings lack the second — the moment you need the fund is disproportionately likely to be a moment prices are down. Which account or product to use is your call.
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