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Route · Middle East and the Gulf hubs

JED Jeddah ⇄ RUH Riyadh

King Abdulaziz International Airport (Saudi Arabia) and King Khalid International Airport (Saudi Arabia): great-circle distance, estimated scheduled flight time each way, time difference and jet lag.

Distance852 km529 mi460 nautical miles
JED → RUH2 hestimated block time
RUH → JED2 h 05 minestimated block time
Clock change±0 hRiyadh vs Jeddah, today
Great-circle route from Jeddah (JED) to Riyadh (RUH)JEDJeddahRUHRiyadh
The shortest path over the Earth’s surface (great circle), drawn on a Natural Earth projection. Real flight paths bend around weather, winds and closed airspace.

Flight time each way

JED → RUH

2 h

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 63° (ENE).

Leave Jeddah Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Riyadh Sat 7 Nov, 12:00 local.

RUH → JED

2 h 05 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 246° (WSW).

Leave Riyadh Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Jeddah Sat 7 Nov, 12:05 local.

The two directions differ by 6 minutes in our estimate: this route is short, so the wind has little effect on the total. How we estimate it.

Distance

Great-circle distance852 km · 529 mi · 460 nmi
Initial heading63° (ENE) from JED; 246° (WSW) from RUH
Farthest from the equator25.0°N
Crossesneither the equator nor the 180th meridian
Share of the longest possible trip4% of the 20,015 km to the far side of the Earth

Time zones and jet lag

JEDAsia/Riyadh — UTC+3 now; UTC+3 all year (no daylight saving time)
RUHAsia/Riyadh — UTC+3 now; UTC+3 all year (no daylight saving time)
DifferenceRiyadh is on the same clock as Jeddah today.

Jet lag, flying JED → RUH. No time-zone change, so no jet lag from the clock — only the usual tiredness of travel.

General information, not medical advice.

The two airports

JED King Abdulaziz International AirportJeddah, Saudi Arabia · longest runway 13,123 ft4,000 m RUH King Khalid International AirportRiyadh, Saudi Arabia · longest runway 13,796 ft4,205 m

More routes from JED and RUH

JEDCAI Jeddah – Cairo 1,216 km756 mi · 2 h 30 min DXBRUH Dubai – Riyadh 874 km543 mi · 2 h 05 min RUHCAI Riyadh – Cairo 1,612 km1,002 mi · 3 h

Routes of a similar length

BSBGRU Brasília – São Paulo 854 km531 mi · 2 h MIACUN Miami – Cancún 855 km531 mi · 2 h 05 min BCNFCO Barcelona – Rome 848 km527 mi · 1 h 55 min CDGBCN Paris – Barcelona 858 km533 mi · 2 h

Need a different pair? The flight-time calculator works for any two of 3,245 airports. Not covered: which airlines fly this route, schedules, fares and live status — that data is proprietary and we don’t guess it.

Photos on airport pages are credited there. Estimates are rounded to 5 minutes; typical error about 13 minutes (validation).