Saudi land border traffic tops 70.7 million passengers in 2025.

GASTAT’s Road Transport Statistics put full-year land-port arrivals and departures above 70.7 million, with King Fahd Causeway carrying nearly half the flow.

ByOmnia DeskThe Omnia Markets news desk2 min read1 source

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Saudi Gazette reported on 5 November 2026 that the General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT) Road Transport Statistics 2025 recorded saudi land border traffic of more than 70.7 million arriving and departing passengers through the Kingdom’s land ports in 2025, a 7.2 percent rise on the prior year. Arrivals exceeded 37 million, or 52.3 percent of the total; departures reached approximately 33.7 million, or 47.7 percent. The authority gave King Fahd Causeway 49.1 percent of passenger movements and Al-Khafji Port 12.2 percent. January was the busiest month at more than 7.4 million passengers; March was the lightest at approximately 4.6 million.

The same GASTAT report put registered and roadworthy vehicles above 16.7 million by the end of 2025, a 5.3 percent rise, with private vehicles at 71.2 percent. New vehicle registrations reached approximately 1.1 million, up 3.6 percent on 2024. Road freight through land ports exceeded 26.8 million tons, up 4.4 percent, with exports at 14.3 million tons and imports at 12.5 million tons. Valid driving licences exceeded 11.3 million; newly issued licences were approximately 1.2 million, down 8.1 percent. Serious traffic accidents totalled 17,805.

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Our take

Omnia Desk

Land-port volume backs the visitor story; freehold maps still set what a foreign buyer can hold.

GASTAT’s land-border counts sit beside the wider visitor picture we already tracked in Saudi Arabia tourism and its 30 million international visitors: roughly 30 million international arrivals and about 122 million total visitors in 2025. Heavier King Fahd Causeway and Eastern Province flows are a mobility signal for hotels, short-stay stock and second homes near those corridors, not a rewrite of who may buy freehold.

For anyone weighing a Riyadh or Diriyah purchase, the passenger tape does not change title rules, designated zones or the fee stack a non-Saudi still faces under live law. Schemes such as Four Seasons Private Residences Diriyah sit in the tourism-and-heritage belt that benefits from higher cross-border movement, yet zone maps and escrow checks do not move because land-port traffic rose. Treat the 70.7 million figure as demand colour; run the freehold and escrow file as before.