🔥 MNL → Riyadh from ₱3,800 — deal expires soon
View Deal →
Prices last updated: 2026-08-18 · MNL → Riyadh (RUH) · Sourced from Travelpayouts
MNL → RUH · 🇸🇦 Visa Required
Cheap Flights Manila to
Riyadh 🇸🇦
Piso fare deals, seat sales, and cheapest prices on MNL → Riyadh. Philippine Airlines, Saudia & Cebu Pacific fly nonstop — tracked 24/7, updated daily.
From
₱45,942
roundtrip incl. taxes
~10h
direct flight
🛂 Required
Visa (tourist/family)
5
deals found
Direct flight
~10h
Airport
RUH (only one)
Currency
SAR (﷼)
Time difference
-5 hrs (RUH behind PHT)
Best weather
Nov–Feb
Best to book
8–10 weeks ahead
🔥 Best MNL → Riyadh Deal Right Now
Manila → Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Usually ₱46,000
₱45,942
↓ Best price found today
You save ₱58 (0% off)
🔍 Search MNL → Riyadh flights
Compare live prices across all airlines — book instantly.
🔍
Loading flight search…
🛂 Visa required for Philippine passport holders — apply before booking
The Philippines is not on Saudi Arabia's e-visa eligible list, so Filipino tourists apply through VFS TasHeel (Makati, Cebu, Davao) — roughly ₱2,000+ and 3–5 working days. Already hold a used US, UK, or Schengen visa? You qualify for the faster online Saudi e-Tourist visa. Visiting OFW family requires a Family Visit Visa sponsored by their Iqama. Start the visa process before you shop for flights — it's the real bottleneck on this route.
Visa Required
ℹ️
Real prices from real searches. Sourced from Travelpayouts — refreshed regularly. Click Check price to confirm the live fare before booking.
MNL → Riyadh flight deals today
Cheapest roundtrip fares from Manila Ninoy Aquino (MNL) to Riyadh King Khalid International (RUH) · Prices in PHP
Updated 2026-08-18
📅 MNL → Riyadh Price Calendar
See the cheapest days to fly — click any date to book at that price.
Best time to fly MNL → Riyadh
Month-by-month price guide for Manila to Riyadh flights
💡 Pro tip: The cheapest months are January, June, and September — often ₱18,500–₱23,000 roundtrip without any seat sale. Avoid the two weeks around Christmas and the weeks bracketing Ramadan / Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha (Hajj season) — those are the most expensive windows of the year on this route, and because the Islamic calendar shifts about 10 days earlier every year, the exact dates move — always check the current year's calendar before booking.
📅 Riyadh events & fare surges
MNL → Riyadh fares spike hard around these dates — book early or avoid entirely
🎄 Christmas — OFW holiday exodus
December 10 – January 5
+80%
avg fare surge
The single biggest fare event on this route, by far. 13th-month pay lands in most OFW households by early December, and thousands of Filipino workers book flights home for the holidays in the same three-week window — against a nonstop schedule that doesn't meaningfully expand. Normal ₱26,500 fares climb to ₱40,000–₱48,000 roundtrip. Seats at reasonable prices are gone by September.
💡 Book by September for December travel — or shift to January once the OFW rush clears and fares drop 30–40%.
🌙 Ramadan & Eid al-Fitr
~Feb 8 – Mar 12, 2027 (moves ~10 days earlier yearly)
+55%
avg fare surge
Umrah pilgrims and OFW families visiting for Ramadan push demand up through the month, peaking around Eid al-Fitr when workers travel to be with family. Because this follows the lunar Hijri calendar, the exact dates shift roughly 10–11 days earlier every Gregorian year — don't assume last year's dates apply. Confirm the moon-sighting-confirmed dates for your travel year before booking.
💡 Check the confirmed Ramadan dates for your specific year — Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court announces the official start only after moon sighting, a day or two before it begins.
🕋 Eid al-Adha & Hajj season
~May 7 – 16, 2027 (Dhul Hijjah, moves yearly)
+45%
avg fare surge
Hajj brings millions of pilgrims through Saudi airports over several weeks, and while most dedicated Hajj travel routes through Jeddah, the demand ripple pushes MNL–Riyadh fares up too as OFWs combine family visits with the Eid al-Adha holiday. Fares typically climb from June through mid-July as this compounds with school-break family travel.
💡 If your trip isn't Hajj-related, book for late May or wait until August once pilgrim traffic clears — fares normalize within 2–3 weeks after Eid al-Adha.
🎪 Riyadh Season opens
Mid-October – late March
+25%
avg fare surge
Riyadh Season is the Kingdom's flagship entertainment festival — concerts, Formula E, world-title boxing, MDLBeast Soundstorm — drawing over 20 million visitors across the six-month run. The opening weeks in October see a modest fare bump as both leisure travellers and OFWs timing visits around the festival book up. It's mild compared to Christmas or the religious holidays, but noticeable on Cebu Pacific's limited seat inventory.
💡 If you want Riyadh Season without the opening-week premium, fly in November or January — the festival runs the whole season, not just opening night.
🇵🇭 Philippine Holy Week
March–April (moves with the Christian calendar)
+20%
avg fare surge
Holy Week itself doesn't drive huge demand on this specific route the way it does on leisure routes like Bangkok, since most Riyadh travel is OFW-driven rather than tied to the Philippine school calendar. But it occasionally overlaps with the tail end of Ramadan or Eid al-Fitr depending on the year, and when it does, the two surges compound. Check both calendars together before locking in a March or April date.
💡 Cross-reference Holy Week against the year's Ramadan/Eid dates — some years they barely overlap, other years they stack directly on top of each other.
📊 How to read this: Surge percentages are averages vs the same route in a non-event window. An +80% surge on a ₱26,500 base fare means roughly ₱47,700. Unlike Bangkok or Seoul, the two biggest surges on this route aren't tied to Gregorian holidays — one follows the Philippine 13th-month payroll calendar, the other follows the lunar Hijri calendar and shifts every year. The single best thing you can do: subscribe for alerts, and check the actual Ramadan/Eid dates for your travel year before you book anything.
💸 What Filipinos actually spend in Riyadh
Real daily breakdown in PHP — not the sanitised version travel blogs write for Americans
Budget Filipino Traveller
₱2,300–3,200 / day
🍽️ Food (shawarma + Filipino eatery)₱650–1,150
🚇 Metro + occasional Careem₱250–500
🏨 Al Murabba budget hotel₱2,460–4,510
🕌 Sightseeing (mostly free)₱0–820
📶 eSIM / water / extras₱200–400
5 days + flights (₱19,000 seat sale)
~₱35,000–₱42,000 all-in
Comfortable Filipino Traveller
₱4,500–6,500 / day
🍽️ Mix of restaurants + traditional meal₱1,640–2,950
🚇 Careem/Uber for most trips₱984–1,968
🏨 Olaya 3–4 star hotel₱5,740–9,020
🕌 Guided AlUla/Diriyah day trip₱1,640–4,920
🛍️ Mall shopping & pasalubong₱1,000–2,500
5 days + flights (₱26,500 regular fare)
~₱65,000–₱90,000 all-in
Is Riyadh cheaper than Dubai? Roughly comparable on day-to-day costs, but Riyadh has no bar or nightclub spending because alcohol is illegal Kingdom-wide — that alone removes a category that eats a huge chunk of a Dubai leisure budget. Where Riyadh gets more expensive than Bangkok or KL is flights (long-haul, ~10 hours, ₱26,500 normal vs ₱9,500 for Bangkok) and hotels (Olaya mid-range runs close to Dubai pricing). The honest framing: this is not a cheap weekend trip like Southeast Asia — it's a family-visit or work-related route where the real savings come from timing the flight, not skimping on the ground.
🇵🇭 Filipino traveller intel — Riyadh edition
Things a Skyscanner page would never tell you
Saudi Arabia has the largest concentration of OFWs anywhere in the world — commonly cited around 700,000 to 900,000 depending on the source. This shapes the entire route's demand pattern. Fares here don't spike for tourist seasons; they spike for the Philippine 13th-month payroll calendar and the Islamic holiday calendar. If you're booking around either, expect to pay double what the "normal" fare shows on this page — and book months, not weeks, ahead.
Your OFW relative's Iqama has to outlive your visa — check this before you book anything. A Family Visit Visa is sponsored against your relative's residence permit (Iqama). If their Iqama expires while you're still in the Kingdom, or doesn't have at least 3 months of remaining validity when they apply to sponsor you, the visa can be rejected or your stay can become a genuine legal problem. Confirm their Iqama status with them directly before you buy a single flight ticket.
Verify your balikbayan box forwarder is BOC-accredited before you pay — the industry had a serious trust crisis in 2025–2026. Roughly 54,000 boxes worth ₱330 million were abandoned at Philippine ports after several deconsolidators failed to release shipments, and the Bureau of Customs suspended multiple forwarders' licenses over it. From Riyadh, expect roughly SAR 150–300 (~₱2,460–4,920) per box door-to-door. Check BOC accreditation status before handing over a box that took a year of pasalubong shopping to fill.
Don't compare Cebu Pacific's headline fare to PAL or Saudia without checking the baggage. This is a 10-hour route where almost nobody flies with carry-on only — OFWs and family visitors routinely check 20–30kg. Cebu Pacific's cheapest fare classes often exclude baggage entirely, adding ₱1,500–₱2,500 each way. A PAL or Saudia sale fare that includes baggage sometimes ends up cheaper all-in than a Cebu Pacific "bargain" once you add the bag back.
Because demand here is need-based, not leisure-based, seat sales on MNL–Riyadh sell out to a genuinely different crowd than Bangkok or Seoul piso fares. There's no discretionary "maybe I'll go" traveller filling the empty seats — every seat sale gets absorbed by families and workers who were going to fly this route regardless of price. That means the cheap fares disappear fast and don't come back mid-cycle. piso-fare.com tracks Cebu Pacific's promo windows (typically January and June) and alerts subscribers the moment one goes live.
Airlines flying MNL → Riyadh
Nonstop daily service on 3 airlines, plus one-stop options via Doha, Dubai & Abu Dhabi
Riyadh travel guide for Filipinos
Everything you need to know before you fly — written from a Filipino perspective · See the full Riyadh guide →
Riyadh trip budget for Filipinos
Typical costs in SAR — 1 SAR ≈ ₱16.40 as of mid-2026
6 tips to get the cheapest MNL→Riyadh flights
Riyadh is a visa-required, 10-hour direct flight with year-round OFW demand — timing your booking matters more here than almost any other route
🔔 Never miss a MNL → Riyadh fare drop again
Follow this route and get an instant email the moment a seat sale drops — before seats sell out.
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. 100% free.
Frequently asked questions — MNL to Riyadh flights
Content reviewed 2026-07-30 · Prices update automatically every day
Yes. The Philippines is not on Saudi Arabia's e-visa eligible list, so most Filipino tourists apply for a standard tourist visa through a VFS TasHeel centre in Makati, Cebu, or Davao — roughly ₱2,000+ and 3–5 working days. If you already hold a valid, used US, UK, or Schengen visa, you qualify for the faster online Saudi e-Tourist visa instead. Visiting an OFW family member requires a separate Family Visit Visa sponsored by their Iqama, with its own document set and processing time.
Direct nonstop flights from Manila (MNL) to Riyadh take approximately 10 hours. Philippine Airlines, Saudia, and Cebu Pacific all operate nonstop service to King Khalid International Airport (RUH), which is Riyadh's only airport — there's no second-airport confusion like Bangkok's BKK/DMK split. One-stop options via Doha, Dubai, or Abu Dhabi run 13.5–14.5 hours total but occasionally undercut the nonstop fare.
January, June, and September are consistently the cheapest months, with fares dropping to ₱18,500–₱23,000 roundtrip even without a seat sale. The two danger zones are the two weeks around Christmas (OFW 13th-month exodus, fares to ₱40,000–₱48,000) and the weeks around Ramadan/Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha (Hajj season). Because the Islamic calendar shifts about 10 days earlier every Gregorian year, always check the confirmed dates for your specific travel year rather than assuming last year's calendar applies.
Cebu Pacific is usually cheapest on base fare, with Qatar Airways and Etihad's one-stop itineraries sometimes undercutting it during their own promo periods. Always check the all-in price — Cebu Pacific's lowest fare classes often exclude checked baggage, which matters on this route since almost every OFW or family traveller checks 20–30kg. Add ₱1,500–₱2,500 each way for baggage before comparing to a PAL or Saudia fare that includes it.
Not in the classic ₱1-base-fare sense you see on short-haul Southeast Asian routes — this is a 10-hour long-haul flight with real operating costs that don't compress to piso-fare levels. What Cebu Pacific does run is periodic seat sales, typically in January and June, that push the all-in roundtrip fare from a normal ₱26,500 down to roughly ₱18,000–₱21,000. Subscribe to piso-fare.com alerts to catch these windows — they don't last long given how consistent demand is on this route.
Your relative sponsors a Family Visit Visa using their Iqama (residence permit), which needs at least 3 months of remaining validity beyond your planned stay. You'll typically need proof of the relationship (DFA-authenticated birth or marriage certificate), your relative's Iqama copy, a valid passport (6+ months), and a confirmed return ticket. Processing commonly takes about a week — start this well before you commit to flight dates, since the visa timeline, not fare availability, is usually the real constraint on this route.
Yes. All prices are sourced from Travelpayouts based on real flight searches and refreshed regularly. Always click through to confirm the current fare on the booking page before paying — prices can change within hours, especially around seat sales and the Christmas/Ramadan surge windows. piso-fare.com earns a small commission when you book through our links, which never affects the price you pay.
More deals from Manila
Other popular international routes from MNL