RIYADH ENDPOINTFree VPN for Saudi Arabia
VPNmine's servers in Riyadh and Jeddah give any VPNmine app a Saudi IP address for free, over a WireGuard tunnel encrypted with ChaCha20-Poly1305. We record which server you used and when, never the sites, lookups or content. For Saudi banking and government portals from abroad; pick whichever city is nearer.
2 cities: Riyadh, Jeddah
What people use it for
- Reach Saudi banks, government portals and services while abroad
- Pick Riyadh for the interior or Jeddah for the Red Sea coast
- Encrypt everything you send over hotel and public Wi-Fi in the Kingdom
- Test how a site behaves for a visitor in Saudi Arabia
Estimated round trip
- Saudi Arabia3-30 ms
- Dubai, Doha or Manama15-35 ms
- Cairo or Mumbai40-100 ms
Estimates from route distance, not measurements. Your provider's routing decides the real figure, and our speed test measures it in about twenty seconds.
Why Riyadh and Jeddah
Riyadh is the capital and the centre of the domestic network, home to the national exchange and to most of the Kingdom's data centres. Jeddah is the other end of the country and the reason for the second server: the Red Sea is the corridor for nearly every cable between Europe and Asia, and Jeddah's landing stations sit directly on it, which puts Cairo within roughly 40 ms and Mumbai and Marseille closer than they are from the interior. Pick whichever is nearer; the two are about 15 to 25 ms apart and both give a Saudi address.
How Saudi Arabia filters
All international traffic passes through gateways operated under the regulator CST, formerly CITC, which applies a national blocklist covering adult content, gambling, material deemed contrary to religion or public order, and some political sites. Voice calling in WhatsApp and similar apps was blocked until 2017 and has been permitted since. The Anti-Cyber Crime Law of 2007 covers online offences, and the Personal Data Protection Law, in force since 2023 and enforced by the data authority SDAIA, sets the commercial data rules along broadly European lines.
What this means for a VPN user
Using a VPN is not itself an offence in Saudi Arabia and businesses use them universally, but using one to reach content that is unlawful to access is, and the blocklist is applied by the gateway rather than by individual providers. With the tunnel up, the gateway sees encrypted traffic to one VPNmine address and sites see the Riyadh or Jeddah server. That is a description of how the network works, not advice to break Saudi law, and the choice of what to do with the tunnel is yours.
Confirm it rather than assume it
Connect to Riyadh, then check what changed. Our IP checker shows the address and country sites now see. The DNS leak test shows whether your domain lookups are still going to your own provider, which is the most common way a tunnel protects less than it appears to. The WebRTC leak test catches the browser handing out your real address through an API the VPN never sees.
What we store while you are connected is the same in Saudi Arabia as everywhere else: which server the session used and when, and nothing about the traffic. The full list is in the privacy policy.
Saudi Arabia VPN questions
How do I get a Saudi IP address for free?
Install VPNmine on your desktop, phone, TV or browser, sign in, and choose Saudi Arabia from the server list, then Riyadh or Jeddah. The app opens a WireGuard tunnel to that server, and every site you open afterwards sees its address instead of yours. No charge, no advertising and no card required.
Are VPNs legal in Saudi Arabia?
Using one is not an offence, and Saudi businesses rely on them. What the law penalises is accessing content that is unlawful to access, with or without a tunnel, and the Anti-Cyber Crime Law is what applies. A VPN changes who can see your traffic in transit, not what you are permitted to do with it.
Riyadh or Jeddah?
Whichever is closer. Riyadh serves the interior and the Gulf coast; Jeddah serves the Red Sea coast and, because the Red Sea cables land there, is a few tens of milliseconds nearer to Egypt, Europe and India. From abroad the difference is small and both give a Saudi address.
Does the tunnel hide my browsing from the Saudi gateway?
It hides the contents. With the tunnel up the gateway sees encrypted traffic to a single VPNmine address, plus how much you sent and when, and it cannot apply the blocklist to what it cannot see. Confirm that your DNS lookups go through the tunnel too, with the DNS leak test, or the domains you resolve are still visible.
Step by step: How can I get a Saudi IP address?
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