Internet conditions in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Measured as the district of Ar RiyadLocal time Asia/RiyadhMeasured every hour since February 2019Data to 16 Jul 2026
Sites
Grade within Saudi Arabia
Ebottom fifth of 13 districts
High confidence · the district’s own measurement
Score
Connectivity score
52/ 100
51th percentile worldwide · 12th of 13 in Saudi Arabia
Conditions
Typical week
210ms latency
Jitter 54 ms · steadier than 87% of districts worldwide
Sites
Disruptions, last 12 months
1episode · 8 days
Latest ended 16 Jul 2026
Conditions

Where this is

The district the measurement describes.

District outline, KASPR boundary layer

Conditions

The week, hour by hour

Chance of a rough hour, local time. Darker is rougher.

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Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
Steadiest Wed 03:00 (23% chance of a rough hour)Roughest Wed 22:00 (68%)Swing 9.5 points: the hour of the week matters a little here
Score

What makes the score

Five parts, each a percentile among scored districts worldwide (100 = best). The second mark is the same part ranked within Saudi Arabia.

Speed
63 · 17
Stability
87 · 0
Evening
22 · 0
Reliability
17 · 8
Trend
78 · 92
worldwide percentilewithin Saudi ArabiaWeights 30 / 25 / 20 / 20 / 5
Score

Two years of months

Monthly mean latency and jitter. The connectivity index compares responding addresses with the district’s own norm.

2085721057Jul2025Jul2026
latency, msjitter, msConnectivity index +35.4% against a year earlier
Sites

Disruptions

Falls in responding addresses against the district’s own baseline. The record says when, where and how deep, not why.

9 Jul 2026 – 16 Jul 2026Collapse, 8 days, 62% below baselinelatest

Worst hours of a typical week: Wed 22:00, Wed 21:00, Thu 17:00. Chance of a rough hour at the peak: 68%.

Sites

Other cities

Grades within each country. Each links to its own page.

CDubai197 ms
ABaghdad244 ms
CTehran254 ms
BTel Aviv218 ms
DCairo221 ms
CKhartoum212 ms
EAlexandria227 ms
BAddis Ababa203 ms

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What to do with this

Three ways in, one per product.

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When to connect from Riyadh

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Monitor Riyadh

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Questions people ask

Is the internet in Riyadh good?
By world standards Riyadh sits in the 51th percentile of 15,460 scored districts, with 210 ms typical latency and 54 ms jitter. Within Saudi Arabia it ranks 12th of 13, in the bottom fifth.
When is the internet in Riyadh worst?
The roughest slot of a typical week is Wed 22:00, when the chance of a rough hour peaks at 68%. The steadiest is Wed 03:00 at 23%. Between them, the hour of the week matters a little here.
Were there internet outages in Riyadh recently?
One episode in the last twelve months, 8 days in all. The latest ran from 9 Jul 2026 to 16 Jul 2026, with responding addresses 62% below the district’s baseline.
How is this measured?
KASPR sends round-trip requests to geolocated IPv4 addresses from the outside, every hour since February 2019, and aggregates the answers by district. No apps, no speed tests, the same method everywhere. The figures describe the district a city centre falls in, at one data vintage.

Source: KASPR Datahaus (pulse.kasprdata.com) · Data to 2026-07-16 · the measurement records timing and depth, not cause · How KASPR measures