Saudi Arabia Postal Code: Find Any City or District ZIP Code

A Saudi Arabia postal code is a five digit number issued by Saudi Post (SPL). It identifies a district or residential community. Riyadh commonly uses 12271, Jeddah 22233, Makkah 24231 and Dammam 34223. Every building also carries a four digit additional number, and the two together form a nine digit National Address code.

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Open Tawakkalna, then tap National Address.
Copy the five digit code shown for your building.

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Saudi Arabia postal code finder 264 cities, governorates and districts. Or paste a code to decode it

Codes shown are district level references. A single district can span several postal zones, so confirm the code for your exact building on the Saudi Post National Address service.

Saudi Postal Code at a Glance

Feature	Detail
Local name	الرمز البريدي (al ramz al baridi)
Format	5 digits, for example 12271
Extended format	5 digits plus a 4 digit additional number, for example 12271 1234
Issued by	Saudi Post (SPL, Saudi Post and Logistics Company)
Coverage	100 percent of the Kingdom, including remote areas
Letters used	None. Saudi codes are numeric only
Range	Codes begin with digits 1 through 8
Also called	ZIP code, pin code, area code, postcode

Source: Saudi Post (SPL) | Verified: 26 August 2026

How a Saudi Postal Code Is Built?

Most guides publish a list of numbers and stop there. The five digits follow a documented structure. Once you know it, you can sanity check any code you are given.

Saudi Post assigns a unique National Address to every residential and commercial location in the Kingdom. The five digit postal code sits at the centre of that system. Reading left to right, each group of digits narrows the geography.

The first digit is the region

First digit	Region covered
1	Riyadh Province
2	Makkah Province, including Jeddah, Makkah and Taif
3	Eastern Province
4	Madinah Province and Tabuk Province
5	Qassim Province and Hail Province
6	Asir, Najran and Al Baha
7	Northern Borders Province and Al Jouf Province
8	Jazan Province

Source: National Address | Verified: 26 August 2026

The second and third digits are the post office

Digits two and three together identify the main post office serving that area. This is why Jeddah codes cluster in the 22 and 23 bands, while Taif sits in the 26 band.

Both begin with 2 because they share a province. They route through different post offices.

The last two digits are the postal zone

The final pair identifies an individual post office or a postal zone inside that city. These are the digits that change from one neighbourhood to the next.

Sanity check any code in five seconds

The first digit is tied to a postal region. A code landing in the wrong part of the country is usually a copying error. This test catches most of them.

Yanbu sits in Madinah Province, so a genuine Yanbu code should begin with 4. Several websites publish 30799 instead.

That code begins with 3, which points to the Eastern Province on the opposite coast. Yanbu’s own code is 42955.

The nine towns that break the pattern

Digits two and three identify the post office serving an area. A post office can serve across a provincial boundary, so nine towns below carry a neighbouring region’s code.

Muhayil Asir and Al Majardah sit on the Tihama coastal plain and route through the Makkah sector. Both carry 28xxx codes despite being in Asir.

Five Al Baha towns do the same, because the province sits on the escarpment between Taif and Al Qunfudhah. Sharurah and Habuna in Najran Province are the last two. Their codes reflect the post offices that have long served them.

These are not errors. If a form rejects one of them, check the National Address service before assuming the code is wrong.

Pro tip: Send the word Hello on WhatsApp to the Saudi Post virtual assistant on +966 11 289 8888, then reply with option 4. It returns your full National Address, including your postal code and Short Address, without opening an app or logging in.

Why the Same City Shows Two Different Postal Codes?

This is the single biggest source of confusion. It explains why two reputable websites give different answers for the same city.

Saudi Arabia runs two layers of postal code that both remain valid today.

The older layer dates from the era when almost all mail went to a PO Box. These are the codes you still see printed on company letterheads, international shipping forms and older government documents. Riyadh appears as 11564 or 11461, Jeddah as 21577 or 21442, and Al Khobar as 31952.

The newer layer belongs to the National Address system. It maps codes to physical districts rather than to post office boxes. Here Riyadh appears in the 12xxx to 14xxx bands, Jeddah in 22xxx and 23xxx, and Dammam in 32xxx to 34xxx.

If the form asks for	Use this
A PO Box address	The older PO Box era code for that city
A delivery or residential address	Your National Address district code
A National Address registration	Your district code, taken from Absher or Tawakkalna
An international shipping label	Your district code, plus your Short Address

Neither layer is obsolete. A PO Box uses the postal code of the branch holding the box. That is why the older numbers survive.

Postal Code, Building Number, Additional Number, Unit Number and Short Address

A Saudi National Address contains several numbers that look similar and get mixed up constantly. Thousands of people each month search for the unit number or additional number in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam. That volume shows how routinely forms confuse them.

Component	Arabic	Digits	What it identifies
Postal code	الرمز البريدي	5	The district or residential community
Building number	رقم المبنى	4	The specific building on its street
Additional number	الرقم الإضافي	4	Coordinates that pinpoint the building
Unit number	رقم الوحدة	Varies	The apartment or office inside the building
Short Address	الرمز المختصر	8 characters	4 letters plus the building number, for example RAGI2929

Source: Saudi Post (SPL) | Verified: 26 August 2026

Saudi Post calls the four digit locator the secondary number in its English documentation. Absher, Tawakkalna and most online forms label the same field the additional number. They are the same figure, so either label points to the same four digits.

The Short Address is not a postal code and cannot replace one. Its four letters are assigned from the postal code, and its four digits are the building number. RAGI2929 therefore describes building 2929 inside the zone coded RAGI.

A written National Address follows a fixed six part order:

Building number and street name
Additional number and district name
Postal code
City

Written out, a complete address reads: 2929 Rayhanah Bint Zaid, 8118 Al Arid District, 13337 Riyadh.

Postal Codes for Every City and Governorate

Every town below has its own five digit code. A second code, where shown, is the older PO Box code. It is still used for post office box addresses and on international shipping forms.

Use the National Address code for a delivery address, a bank form or a government registration.