A complete of 5,443,393 pilgrims from Saudi Arabia and overseas carried out Umrah within the second quarter of 2025, in keeping with statistics launched on Thursday by the Basic Authority for Statistics (GASTAT).
Males made up 61.6% of the pilgrims (3,352,506), whereas girls made up 38.4% (2,090,887).
The variety of pilgrims arriving from exterior the Kingdom reached 1,324,418, together with 653,513 males (49.3%) and 670,905 girls (50.7%). When it comes to journey strategies, 71.6% arrived by air, 28.2% by land, and 0.2% by sea.
The report additionally confirmed that 62.9% of home pilgrims did Umrah with their households, whereas 28.7% did it alone. The smallest group throughout Q2 2025 was the 8.4% who did Umrah with buddies.
Pilgrims from the Makkah area represented the very best share of home pilgrims, reaching 1.7 million (43.1%). Greater than 600,000 pilgrims got here from the Riyadh area (14.6%), whereas over 9,000 pilgrims got here from the Northern Borders area (0.2%).
Madinah welcomes over 3.7 million guests in Q2 2025
Madinah obtained 3,767,000 guests from inside and out of doors the Kingdom throughout the second quarter of 2025, in keeping with GASTAT.
The bulletin confirmed that 2,102,425 guests arrived from overseas, with 53.9% girls and 46.1% males.
Guests from inside Saudi Arabia for spiritual functions reached 1,665,341, together with 766,165 Saudi nationals (46%) and 899,176 non-Saudi residents (54%). Amongst these home guests, 68.5% have been males and 31.5% have been girls.
