130 Saudi Arabia Tourism Statistics for 2026

How many international tourists visit Saudi Arabia?

International arrivals have grown by more than half since before the pandemic, but slipped slightly in 2025, a year when visitors from the other Gulf states fell sharply. The counts below are overnight tourists; same-day visitors are left out.

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International overnight tourists by year, in millions. The Vision 2030 report rounds each year down to the whole million, so 17 means 17 million or more.

Period	Value
2016	18m+
2017	16m+
2018	16m+
2019	17m+
2020	4m+
2021	3m+
2022	16m+
2023	27m+
2024	29m+
2025	29m+

• International tourists rose from 18.04 million in 2016 to 29.7 million in 2024. (Vision 2030, May 2025)
• International tourist numbers in 2024 were 69% above 2019, and international tourism revenues 148% above. (Vision 2030, May 2025)
• The Vision 2030 annual report rounds the 2025 international figure differently, as "30M+ international visitors"; this page uses the Ministry of Tourism's overnight count. (Vision 2030, Jun 2026)
• International tourists spent 548 million nights in Saudi Arabia in 2025, down 2.2% on 2024. (DataSaudi, 2025)
• 15.7 million of 2025's international tourists were men and 13.6 million women; women spent more per trip, SAR 6,263 against SAR 5,842. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• 37% of international tourists were aged 26 to 45, some 10.8 million people. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)

All figures count overnight tourists only. The Vision 2030 chart shows whole millions rounded down, so it is a guide to the trend, not an exact count.

Where do Saudi Arabia's international visitors come from?

Most international visitors come from Asia and the Middle East, and many of them are pilgrims. Egypt sends the most people and Pakistan spends the most, while visitor numbers from the other Gulf states fell sharply in 2025.

1. 1 Asia and the Pacific 10.5m
2. 2 Middle East and North Africa 8.8m
3. 3 Gulf states (GCC) 5.7m
4. 4 Europe 2.9m
5. 5 Africa 0.7m
6. 6 Americas 0.6m

• Asia and the Pacific was the largest source region in 2025, with 10.5 million tourists, 36% of the total, and SAR 82.9 billion of spending, 47% of the total. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• Tourists from the other Gulf states fell 28.7% to 5.7 million, while the wider Middle East and North Africa, counted separately, rose 5.1% to 8.8 million. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• Europe grew fastest: arrivals rose by nearly 18% to 2.9 million, and spending by 21%. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• Egypt was the largest single market with 3.2 million tourists, followed by Pakistan with 2.8 million and India with 2.0 million. Pakistan was the biggest spender, at SAR 22.0 billion. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• The ten largest markets supplied 61% of international tourists and 56% of their spending. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)

The Ministry counts the Gulf states (GCC) separately from the rest of the Middle East and North Africa.

Why do international visitors come to Saudi Arabia?

Religion is the largest single reason to visit, and religious visitors spend the most. Business travel grew in 2025, while leisure trips and visits to family and friends fell.

• Religious 14.1m
• Leisure 7.0m
• Visiting friends/relatives 4.4m
• Business 2.3m
• Other 1.5m

• Religious visitors, whose main purpose was Hajj, Umrah or a visit to Madinah, numbered 14.1 million in 2025, up 14%, and spent SAR 110.3 billion, up 18%. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• Leisure visitors fell 6% to 7.0 million, spending SAR 35.0 billion. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• Visits to friends and relatives fell 27% to 4.4 million. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• Business visitors rose 14% to 2.3 million, but their spending slipped 1% to SAR 15.8 billion. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• In 2024 leisure had been the fastest-growing purpose of visit, up 20% on 2023. (Ministry of Tourism (investment report), Jun 2026)
• Business travel brought over 2 million international visitors and over US$4.2 billion of spending in 2024. (Ministry of Tourism (investment report), Jun 2026)

Religious counts only visitors whose main purpose was Hajj, Umrah or visiting Madinah. A visitor who performed Umrah on a trip made mainly for another reason counts under that other purpose.

How much do tourists spend in Saudi Arabia?

International visitors spend more in total than residents on trips at home, and far more per trip. Spending grew faster than visitor numbers in 2025, so the average visitor spent more.

• Accommodation 33%
• Shopping 22%
• Food and drink 13%
• Local transport 8%
• Culture, sport and recreation 3%
• Other 21%

• International tourists spent SAR 176.6 billion in 2025, up 4.8%, with a monthly peak of SAR 27.5 billion in June. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• Residents spent SAR 127.1 billion on trips at home, up 10.2%, peaking at SAR 15.4 billion in July. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• Food and drink took 32% of domestic tourism spending, local transport 27% and accommodation 23%. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• Tourism spending in 2025 was 85% above 2019, and the number of tourists 88% above. (Ministry of Tourism (investment report), Jun 2026)

These figures come from the Ministry of Tourism's visitor surveys. The central bank's balance-of-payments travel exports, in the economy section, use a different method and give a lower total; the two are not compared. Local transport excludes international air fares.

How much do Saudi residents travel at home?

Domestic tourism has roughly doubled since 2019, as Saudis and foreign residents travel more within the country. Most trips are to see family or for leisure, and almost all go by road.

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Domestic tourism trips by year, in millions. The Vision 2030 report rounds each year down to the whole million.

Period	Value
2016	45m+
2017	43m+
2018	43m+
2019	47m+
2020	42m+
2021	63m+
2022	77m+
2023	81m+
2024	86m+
2025	93m+

• Visiting friends and relatives was the main purpose of 37.7 million domestic trips in 2025, up 25%, and leisure of 30.2 million, down 6%; together about 73% of the total. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• Saudi citizens made 76% of domestic overnight trips and foreign residents 24%. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• 43% of domestic tourists, 39.9 million, stayed with friends or relatives or in their own property; 24.5 million stayed in hotels. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• 94% of domestic tourists, 87.5 million, travelled by road; the 5.8 million who flew spent SAR 3,851 per trip. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• Domestic tourists spent 564 million nights away from home in 2025, up 4.7%. (DataSaudi, 2025)
• Domestic tourism trips rose from 45.04 million in 2016 to 86.2 million in 2024. (Vision 2030, May 2025)

Domestic counts are trips by residents, Saudi and foreign, so one person can count several times a year.

How many pilgrims perform Hajj and Umrah?

Hajj is held on fixed dates and limited by quotas, so its numbers change little from year to year. Umrah, which can be made at any time of year, is where the growth is: pilgrims from abroad have roughly tripled since 2016.

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Umrah pilgrims from outside the Kingdom by year, in millions, on the Vision 2030 measure. Numbers fell almost to zero in 2021 during the pandemic.

Period	Value
2016	6.2m
2017	6.5m
2018	6.8m
2019	8.55m
2020	3.85m
2021	0.01m
2022	8.4m
2023	13.56m
2024	16.92m
2025	18.03m

• 1,673,230 pilgrims performed Hajj in 2025, 8.72% fewer than in 2024: 1,506,576 from abroad and 166,654 from inside the Kingdom. (GASTAT, Jun 2025)
• Of the 2026 pilgrims, 160,646 were citizens and residents; 893,396 were men and 813,905 women. (GASTAT, May 2026)
• Pilgrims from abroad in 2026 arrived mostly by air (1,485,729), with 54,429 by road and 6,497 by sea. (GASTAT, May 2026)
• About 171 nationalities were recorded at Hajj in 2025, and 95.3% of pilgrims from abroad flew in. (GASTAT, Jun 2025)
• 314,337 pilgrims from 8 countries used the Makkah Route Initiative in 2025, which completes entry checks at the home airport; that was 20.9% of pilgrims from abroad. (GASTAT, Jun 2025)
• 420,070 public and private sector workers served at the holy sites during Hajj 2025, with 34,540 volunteers giving 2,134,398 hours. (GASTAT, Jun 2025)
• 1,833,164 pilgrims performed Hajj in 2024, 1,611,310 of them from abroad. (GASTAT, Jun 2024)
• In 2023 the total was 1,845,045, with 1,660,915 from abroad. (GASTAT, Jun 2023)
• Over the 50 Hajj seasons to 2019, Saudi Arabia hosted 95,853,017 pilgrims, and numbers passed 2 million in 19 of those seasons. (GASTAT, Aug 2019)
• 15,222,497 people performed Umrah in the first quarter of 2025, a period that included Ramadan: 6,523,630 from abroad, up 10.7%, and 8,698,867 from inside the Kingdom. (GASTAT, Aug 2025)
• The Prophet's Mosque in Madinah received 6,452,696 visitors in the same quarter. (GASTAT, Aug 2025)
• Umrah falls in the Hajj quarter: 5,443,393 people performed it in the second quarter of 2025, 1,324,418 of them from abroad. (GASTAT, Nov 2025)
• The Vision 2030 target is 30 million Umrah pilgrims from abroad by 2030, against a 2016 baseline of 6.2 million. (Vision 2030, Jun 2026)
• Volunteers supporting pilgrims through the year rose from 3,350 in 2021 to over 184,000 in 2025. (Vision 2030, Jun 2026)

The Vision 2030 Umrah series counts pilgrims from abroad and may not match GASTAT's quarterly counts, which also include pilgrims from inside the Kingdom. The year-round volunteer count covers Hajj and Umrah; the Hajj-season count covers the holy sites only.

Which parts of Saudi Arabia do tourists visit?

Makkah Province, which holds the holy city, Jeddah and Taif, leads for residents and international visitors alike. Riyadh draws the most domestic spending, and the far south and north grew fastest in 2025.

1. 1 Makkah 51.1m
2. 2 Riyadh 24.3m
3. 3 Madinah 20.4m
4. 4 Eastern Province 16.6m
5. 5 Aseer 6.2m
6. 6 Jazan 4.3m
7. 7 Tabuk 3.0m
8. 8 Al Jouf 2.1m

• International visitors made 22.5 million visits to Makkah Province in 2025, 20.4 million as their main destination, and spent SAR 108 billion there. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• Madinah Province had 13.9 million international visits, 13.1 million of them as a second stop, and SAR 44.9 billion of international spending. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• Makkah Province also led domestic tourism, with 28.6 million domestic overnight visitors; with Riyadh and the Eastern Province it took about 68% of the total. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• Riyadh Province had 21.8 million domestic overnight visitors and the highest domestic spending of any province, SAR 39.7 billion. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• Riyadh City was the top city for domestic tourists, with 15.7 million overnight visitors spending SAR 35.2 billion, ahead of Makkah city on 12.6 million and Jeddah on 10.4 million. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• Jazan had the fastest growth in visits of any province, up 47%, followed by Al Jouf, up 38%. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)

Province visits overlap: a pilgrim who visits Makkah and Madinah counts in both, so province figures add up to more than the national total.

How many hotel rooms does Saudi Arabia have, and how full are they?

Licensed room supply is growing faster than demand, so occupancy and room rates have eased. Two official series measure occupancy on different bases, GASTAT's quarterly survey and the Ministry of Tourism's figures, so each is named.

1. 1 Madinah 74.7%
2. 2 Jeddah 59.7%
3. 3 Riyadh 58.3%
4. 4 Makkah 56.4%
5. 5 Dammam metro 55.3%
6. 6 Al Ahsa 46.3%
7. 7 Abha and Khamis Mushait 40.5%
8. 8 Tabuk 38.9%
9. 9 Taif 35.3%

• Hotel occupancy was 51.0% in the second quarter of 2026, 2.2 points lower than a year earlier, as licensed hotel rooms grew 13.2% and serviced-apartment rooms 19.7%. (GASTAT, Sep 2026)
• There were about 6,278 licensed hospitality facilities in the second quarter of 2026, 3,020 hotels and 3,258 serviced apartments and others, up 17.9% in a year. (GASTAT, Sep 2026)
• The average hotel room rate was about SAR 563 in that quarter, which included Hajj, down 12.4% from SAR 643. (GASTAT, Sep 2026)
• Hotel guests stayed 5.0 nights on average, up from 4.8 a year earlier. (GASTAT, Sep 2026)
• On the Ministry of Tourism's annual measure, hotels averaged 55.8% occupancy in 2025 and an average daily rate of SAR 449, down 5.5%. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• Makkah Province holds 380,346 licensed room keys, nearly two in three in the country; Madinah Province has 76,642 and Riyadh Province 57,677. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• About 65% of international tourists, 18.9 million, stayed mainly in hotels, and they spent SAR 7,027 per trip on average. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• Madinah city had the highest occupancy of any major destination in the first half of 2025, 74.7% across all licensed accommodation, against 56.6% nationally. (Ministry of Tourism (hotel report), Sep 2025)
• In the same half-year, Riyadh hotels charged the highest average rate in the Kingdom, SAR 801, but that was 17.1% lower than a year earlier. (Ministry of Tourism (hotel report), Sep 2025)
• Jeddah's average rate across all licensed accommodation rose 11.7% to SAR 402 in the first half of 2025. (Ministry of Tourism (hotel report), Sep 2025)
• Newly licensed facilities added over 76,000 room keys in the first half of 2025, from 987 newly licensed facilities. (Ministry of Tourism (hotel report), Sep 2025)

GASTAT's quarterly hotel figures and the Ministry of Tourism's annual and half-year figures come from different surveys, so they are named and not compared. Ministry rates exclude VAT and the municipal fee. Riyadh includes Diriyah; Dammam metro covers Dammam, Khobar and Dhahran.

How do visitors get to and around Saudi Arabia?

Most international tourists fly in, and passenger numbers at the three main airports grew by 7% to 9% in 2025. Inside the country, rail use more than tripled in 2025 as city rail lines filled.

1. 1 Jeddah (King Abdulaziz) 53.5m
2. 2 Riyadh (King Khalid) 40.8m
3. 3 Dammam (King Fahd) 13.7m

• 69% of international tourists, 20.2 million, arrived by air in 2025 and 30%, 8.9 million, by land; air travellers spent SAR 7,096 per trip against SAR 3,617 by land. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• The tourist e-visa launched in 2019 is open to nationals of 66 countries, holders of US, UK and Schengen visas, and residents of the Gulf states. (Ministry of Tourism (investment report), Jun 2026)
• International flights carried 75.8 million arriving and departing passengers in 2025, up 9.4%, and domestic flights 65.1 million, up 9.8%. (GASTAT, May 2026)
• Jeddah's King Abdulaziz International was the busiest airport, with 53.5 million passengers, up 9.0%. (GASTAT, May 2026)
• Riyadh's King Khalid International handled 40.8 million passengers, up 8.7%, and Dammam's King Fahd International 13.7 million, up 7.0%. (GASTAT, May 2026)
• Saudi airports handled 979.8 thousand flights in 2025, up 8.3%, and international routes served 176 destinations. (GASTAT, May 2026)
• Saudi Arabia ranked 18th in the Global Air Connectivity Index 2025, down from 17th in 2024. (GASTAT, May 2026)
• Saudia operated 25.5% of flights in Saudi airspace in 2025, flynas 13.3% and flyadeal 8.6%. (GASTAT, May 2026)
• Rail passengers rose to about 156.4 million in 2025 from 42.7 million in 2024, up 266.5%. (GASTAT, Oct 2026)
• City rail carried 145.4 million passengers, up from 31.1 million, while intercity rail fell to 10.9 million from 11.6 million. (GASTAT, Oct 2026)
• The Haramain High Speed Railway between Makkah, Jeddah and Madinah carried 76.0% of rail passenger-kilometres and had the best on-time rate of any line, 97.8%. (GASTAT, Oct 2026)

Airport passengers are counted on arrival and on departure, so a return trip counts twice. Rail figures include all passengers and are not a tourist count. GASTAT's 2025 air transport publication sits at a web address that says 2024.

How many people go to Saudi Arabia's events and attractions?

Entertainment events now draw tens of millions of visits a year, led by Riyadh Season. Heritage sites such as AlUla and Diriyah draw far smaller numbers but are growing.

• The licensed entertainment sector hosted 1,690 events over 75,661 event days in 2025, the General Entertainment Authority reported. (Saudi Press Agency, Apr 2026)
• Active entertainment destinations rose to 975 in 2025, from 513 in 2024. (Saudi Press Agency, Apr 2026)
• The fifth Riyadh Season, which opened in October 2024, drew a record 20 million visitors, the General Entertainment Authority's chairman announced in February 2025. (Saudi Press Agency, Feb 2025)
• Riyadh Season 2025, which opened in October 2025, had passed 11 million visitors by 30 December 2025, an interim count. (Saudi Press Agency, Dec 2025)
• AlUla received about 320,000 visitors in 2025, about 22% compound annual growth since 2021. (Royal Commission for AlUla, Oct 2026)
• AlUla recorded 286,259 visits in 2024, just short of its target of 291,807. (Royal Commission for AlUla, May 2025)
• Visitors to AlUla stayed 3.6 days on average and gave a 94% satisfaction score; more than 1,280 hotel keys are operating there. (Royal Commission for AlUla, Oct 2026)
• Diriyah, on the edge of Riyadh, had welcomed more than 3.6 million visits by mid-2025 since At-Turaif and Bujairi Terrace opened in December 2022, and aims for 50 million visits a year by 2030. (Diriyah Company, Sep 2025)

Entertainment and Riyadh Season figures count visits, not individual people, and include residents. No closing total for Riyadh Season 2025 had been published. AlUla and Diriyah figures come from the bodies that run them; the Diriyah total is cumulative since opening.

What is tourism worth to the Saudi economy?

Tourism's direct share of the economy has grown every year since the pandemic and is about halfway to the Vision 2030 goal. It earns more foreign currency than any other service export.

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Tourism's direct share of Saudi GDP by year. 2024 is preliminary and 2025 a flash estimate.

Period	Value
2019	3.6%
2020	1.6%
2021	2.5%
2022	3.5%
2023	4.4%
2024	4.9%
2025 est.	5.2%

• Tourism directly accounted for 4.9% of GDP in 2024, up 0.5 points on 2023. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• Tourism direct gross value added reached SAR 218.6 billion in 2024, up 14.1% on 2023. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• Tourism made up 6.6% of non-oil output and 8.4% of private-sector output in 2024, measured by gross value added. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• Investment in tourism assets (gross fixed capital formation) was SAR 82.2 billion in 2024, up 5.4%, and 5.9% of the national total. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• 243,700 Saudi nationals worked in tourism in 2025, 47.0% of them women. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• Travel exports, the central bank's balance-of-payments measure of visitor spending, were SAR 159.9 billion in 2025, 61.4% of all service exports and 25.6% of non-oil exports. (SAMA, Jun 2026)
• The travel account, visitor spending in Saudi Arabia minus residents' travel spending abroad, was in surplus by SAR 49.4 billion, down 1.6%. (SAMA, Jun 2026)
• Tourism employment rose from 683,000 in 2020 to 966,500 in 2024, on the Vision 2030 count. (Vision 2030, May 2025)

GDP figures are direct contribution only, not total impact including suppliers. The 2019 to 2022 values are due to be revised after GASTAT's GDP rebasing. SAMA travel exports and the Ministry of Tourism's survey spending are different measures, so they are not compared. SAMA figures are as published in the Ministry's annual report.

How is Saudi tourism doing in 2026?

Domestic travel kept growing in early 2026, but international arrivals fell, which the Ministry of Tourism linked to the regional conflict. Hotel occupancy and rates were both lower than a year earlier in the first half.

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Hotel occupancy in the first quarter, 2025 and 2026, on GASTAT's quarterly survey.

Period	Value
Q1 2025	63.0%
Q1 2026	60.8%

• 34.9 million tourists travelled in or to Saudi Arabia in the first quarter of 2026 and spent SAR 84.4 billion, on revised preliminary figures published in July 2026. (Ministry of Tourism (Q1 2026 update), Jul 2026)
• International tourists stayed 16.6 nights on average in the quarter, and domestic tourists 6.2 nights. (Ministry of Tourism (Q1 2026 update), Jul 2026)
• The Ministry's first estimate, in April, put international tourists at 8.3 million, 13% fewer than a year earlier, with spending down 7% to SAR 48.0 billion, amid what it called "the ongoing regional conflict". (Ministry of Tourism (Q1 2026 report), Apr 2026)
• The same estimate showed domestic tourists up 16% to 28.9 million. (Ministry of Tourism (Q1 2026 report), Apr 2026)
• The 2026 Ramadan and Eid school holiday brought about 10.0 million domestic overnight tourists, up 14% on the same dates in 2025, spending about SAR 10.2 billion. (Ministry of Tourism (Q1 2026 report), Apr 2026)
• Hotel occupancy was 60.8% in the first quarter of 2026, with the average hotel rate down 11.4% to about SAR 423. (GASTAT, Jul 2026)

The first-quarter totals were revised in July 2026, and the revision lowered the tourist count. The international and domestic split is from the April estimate and may also have been revised.

What are Saudi Arabia's tourism targets for 2030 and beyond?

The goal is for tourism to make up a tenth of the economy by 2030, with large events planned along the way: Expo 2030 in Riyadh and the 2034 FIFA World Cup. These are plans, so the figures below are targets, not results.

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Tourists a year: the first goal, met in 2023, the 2025 result and the 2030 target, as the Vision 2030 annual report rounds them, in millions.

Period	Value
First goal (met 2023)	100m
2025	123m
2030 target	150m

• Vision 2030 sets a target for tourism of 10% of GDP by 2030; its 2025 report says the share "has reached 5%". (Vision 2030, Jun 2026)
• Expo 2030 Riyadh, from 1 October 2030 to 31 March 2031, expects more than 42 million visits, with 197 participating nations. (Expo 2030 Riyadh, 2026)
• For the 2034 World Cup, Saudi Arabia plans 15 stadiums in five host cities, eight of them new builds, with eight in Riyadh and four in Jeddah. (FIFA, Nov 2024)
• The bid targets 230,000 hotel rooms in the five host cities by 2034, and over 65,000 rooms had already been contracted for FIFA groups. (FIFA, Nov 2024)
• FIFA scored the bid 419.8 out of 500. (FIFA, Nov 2024)

Targets are plans, not outcomes. The Vision 2030 report rounds the Ministry's 2025 count up to the nearest million. Tourist counts include domestic trips.

When is the best time to visit Saudi Arabia?

Winter is the main season: it is the coolest time of year and when hotels are fullest. Summer is very hot across most of the country and is the quietest time for hotels. Religious seasons move about 11 days earlier each year, so the busiest months shift too.

• Daytime highs typically run 20-30°C in winter, December to February, 30-40°C in spring, 35-45°C in summer and 25-35°C in autumn; the Asir region in the south-west averages about 300 mm of rain a year. (National Center for Meteorology, Oct 2026)
• International arrivals peaked in January 2025, and domestic trips in March, at 9.3 million. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• Hotels were fullest in January 2025, at around 65%, while hotel rates peaked in May at SAR 875 a night. (Ministry of Tourism, Jun 2026)
• Summer is the low season for hotels: occupancy was 49.1% and the average rate SAR 341 in the third quarter of 2025. (GASTAT, Jan 2026)
• Hotel occupancy rose to 57.3% in the fourth quarter of 2025, 1.4 points higher than a year earlier. (GASTAT, Apr 2026)

Temperature ranges are the National Center for Meteorology's national summary. GASTAT quarterly and Ministry of Tourism monthly hotel figures are separate series.

How safe is Saudi Arabia for visitors?

Nearly all residents say they feel safe walking alone at night. The measure is a survey of how safe people feel, not a count of crime, and it covers residents, not tourists.

• Among women, 94.9% said they feel safe walking alone at night, and 81.7% said they feel highly safe. (GASTAT, Jun 2026)
• 97.0% of Saudi nationals said they feel safe walking alone at night. (GASTAT, Jun 2026)
• An earlier survey put the figure at 92.6% in 2023, but it used a different survey, so the two years are not compared. (GASTAT, Feb 2025)

GASTAT describes this as a subjective measure of perceived safety, from its Quality of Personal Life Survey. No official recorded-crime series was available to cite.

Methodology and sources

Figures come from official statistics bodies, the Ministry of Tourism and the organisations that run each event or destination. Each figure links to the body that produced it, with the date. The Ministry's international figures come from a survey of about 54,000 departing visitors a year, weighted to official arrival records, and its domestic figures from about 48,000 household interviews a year. Its annual statistical report is labelled "Ministry of Tourism" and its other reports are labelled by report. Survey spending, central bank travel exports and the two hotel occupancy series measure different things and are never added or compared. The page is reviewed monthly and the date is shown at the top.

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