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Saudi Arabia

29 cities in the atlas · 29 airports with scheduled flights

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Al-Ahsa Oasis · Photo: Aqeel Khalid · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Capital: Riyadh
Currency: SAR; Saudi Riyal
Local time: Arabian Standard TimeUTC+03:00
Calling code: +966
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type G

Facts

Saudi Arabia in figures

From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.

Capital: Riyadh
Currency: Saudi Riyal SARToday's indicative rate: SAR 1 ≈ USD 0.267Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: ArabicSpoken: Arabic
Time zones: Arabian Standard TimeUTC+03:00
Calling code: +966
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type G220 V / 230 V · 60 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 911all emergencies, in Riyadh, Makkah, Madinah and the Eastern Province999police997ambulance998civil defenceOfficial source: Communications, Space & Technology Commission and Saudi Press Agency. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 36,973,555 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 1,960,582 km²
Internet domain: .sa
Land borders: Iraq Jordan Kuwait Oman Qatar United Arab Emirates Yemen

When to go

Climate across Saudi Arabia

In November to March, more than half of the 13 cities with figures in Saudi Arabia have a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain.

Mild to warm and dry
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The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Riyadh	21°	24°	29°	34°	40°	43°	44°	44°	40°	35°	27°	22°
Mecca	28°	30°	33°	36°	40°	43°	41°	41°	41°	37°	32°	29°
Madinah	24°	27°	31°	35°	40°	43°	43°	43°	42°	37°	30°	26°
Jeddah	29°	30°	33°	36°	39°	41°	41°	40°	40°	37°	33°	30°
Dammam	21°	22°	27°	32°	37°	40°	42°	42°	39°	35°	28°	23°
Ta'if	24°	26°	29°	32°	35°	37°	37°	37°	36°	32°	28°	25°
Tabuk	17°	20°	25°	30°	35°	39°	40°	40°	38°	32°	24°	19°
Buraydah	20°	23°	28°	33°	39°	42°	44°	44°	40°	35°	26°	21°
Ha'il	18°	21°	25°	30°	36°	40°	41°	41°	39°	33°	24°	19°
Najrān	26°	29°	31°	33°	36°	38°	38°	38°	35°	30°	27°	25°
Cities good for going, of 13	12	13	11	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	11	13

Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).

On the map

Where Saudi Arabia is

The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.

Land borders

Cities

Cities in Saudi Arabia

All 29 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.

Airports

Airports in Saudi Arabia

Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.

Large airports

Medium airports · 13

Photographs

Saudi Arabia in pictures

Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.

Riyadh
Photo: B.alotaby · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Madinah
Photo: Bluemangoa2z · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Jeddah
Photo: Kolaiel · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Guides

Our guides in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia
Riyadh

Visas and entry

Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.

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Plan it

Plan a trip to Saudi Arabia

Tell us where in Saudi Arabia, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.

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Sources for this page

All sources and licences

GeoNames — Place data © GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.
OurAirports — Airport data from OurAirports (ourairports.com), public domain.
NASA POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources), Climatology API v2 — These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
Wikidata — Facts from Wikidata (wikidata.org), CC0.
Wikimedia Commons — Each photograph's author and licence are printed beside it.
Unicode CLDR 48.2.2 (cldr-json) — Unicode CLDR data, © Unicode, Inc., Unicode License v3.
Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m admin-0 map units — Made with Natural Earth. Licence: Public domain
World Bank, World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) — Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0.