Riyadh to Mecca flight

Flights from Riyadh to Mecca start at €82.73 and take 5h 57m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Riyadh to Mecca starts at €82.73 and takes 5h 57m door to door, run by 3 operators over 951 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 21 days before departure.

Checked 22 September 2026Priced for 13 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 5h 57mDoor to door
  • 2h 20mMoving
  • €101.03 to €242.04From
  • 07:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 2Per day
  • 175.6 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 13 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€101.03 to €242.04 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €188.35Wed23
  2. about €232.60Thu24
  3. about €242.04Fri25
  4. about €180.68Sat26
  5. about €160.03Sun27
  6. about €134.07Mon28
  7. about €127.58Tue29
  8. about €123.45Wed30
  9. about €167.70Thu1
  10. about €130.53Fri2
  11. about €125.22Sat3
  12. about €109.29Sun4
  13. about €101.03Mon5
  14. about €106.92Tue6

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 13 October 2026

Cheapest€82.73
  1. Royal Air Maroc RA229707:301h 40m09:10King Khalid International Airport RUHKing Abdulaziz International Airport JED
  2. Saudi Arabia Railways SA231410:5040m11:30Jeddah Railway StationMakkah Railway Station

Changes at Jeddah, with 100 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 5h 57mCO2 185.2 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Lowest CO2€118.14
  1. flyadeal AI244707:301h 24m08:54King Khalid International Airport RUHPrince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz Airport MED
  2. Saudi Arabia Railways SA200609:542h 32m12:26Madinah StationMakkah Railway Station

Changes at Madinah, with 60 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 6h 53mCO2 166.1 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Royal Air Maroc740 km/hFixed fareNot published
Saudi Arabia Railways140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi
flyadeal740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Royal Air Maroc
  • Saudi Arabia Railways
  • flyadeal

The flight gets you into Mecca. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Mecca for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Makkah Railway Station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Riyadh to Mecca

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €86.2890 days
  2. €102.8060 days
  3. €98.0845 days
  4. €98.0830 days
  5. €82.7321 days
  6. €106.9214 days
  7. €127.587 days
  8. €242.043 days
  9. €188.351 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €82.73.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 193 percent. The dearest point is €242.04, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 21 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €115.78Sun
  2. €111.64Mon
  3. €106.92Tue
  4. €123.45Wed
  5. €167.70Thu
  6. €130.53Fri
  7. €125.22Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Riyadh

Air
  • RUH
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 951 km against 793 km in a straight line, a detour of 28 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Madinah, Jeddah. The gap between arriving and leaving is 60 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Riyadh at 07:30 and the last at 07:30, across 2 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Riyadh to Mecca

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Flight from Riyadh to Mecca take?

The Flight from Riyadh to Mecca takes 5h 57m door to door, of which 2h 20m is spent moving. The route runs 951 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Flight from Riyadh to Mecca cost?

The Flight from Riyadh to Mecca starts at €82.73 for one passenger, as of 22 September 2026. A typical fare is €100.44. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Riyadh to Mecca?

3 operators run the Flight from Riyadh to Mecca: Royal Air Maroc, Saudi Arabia Railways, flyadeal. Between them they file around 2 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Flight from Riyadh to Mecca use?

The Flight from Riyadh to Mecca leaves from King Khalid International Airport RUH and arrives at Makkah Railway Station. Allow about 1h 57m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Flight from Riyadh to Mecca?

Fares for the Flight from Riyadh to Mecca bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €82.73. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 193 percent, measured on 22 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Riyadh to Mecca produce?

The Flight from Riyadh to Mecca produces about 175.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 951 km, which works out at roughly 185 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Flight from Riyadh to Mecca?

Operators on the Flight from Riyadh to Mecca publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 3 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 5h 57m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Riyadh to Mecca on 22 September 2026: 951 km of route against 793 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 3 operators a cheapest fare of €82.73, and 5h 57m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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