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Driving in Saudi Arabia
The rules of the road as our desk recorded them, native unit first.
Right
60 / 110 / 120 km/h · 37 / 68 / 75 mph
urban / rural / motorway
Required · Both accepted
An IDP is required alongside your home licence for rentals. Women may drive; the ban ended in 2018.
0.00% - alcohol is prohibited outright in the country
None on the main network.
Not required by day.
Required for young children; rentals stock them on request.
Roads are excellent and empty outside the cities, and fuel is among the cheapest in the world. Speeds are high and the accident rate is significant. Non-Muslims must not enter Mecca or Medina, and the restricted-area roads around them are signposted with bypass routes - following a satnav blindly is how people end up at a checkpoint they should not be at.