BLACKOUT MAP

Internet outage history

Saudi Arabia

Operational 50/52 hosts up since Oct 16, 2026 10:00 UTC

Every disruption Blackout Map has recorded in Saudi Arabia since monitoring began on October 16, 2026, with reported government shutdowns and submarine cable incidents.

Live status of Saudi Arabia RSS feed

Northern Borders — Operational · 2/2 hosts upMedina — Operational · 2/2 hosts upAr Riyad — Operational · 2/2 hosts up'Asir — Operational · 3/3 hosts upNajran — Operational · 3/3 hosts upMecca — Operational · 3/3 hosts upMakkah — Operational · 3/3 hosts upJazan — Operational · 3/3 hosts upHa'il — Operational · 3/3 hosts upEastern — Operational · 3/3 hosts upAl-Qassim — Operational · 3/3 hosts upAl Jouf — Operational · 3/3 hosts upAl Bahah — Operational · 3/3 hosts upTabuk — Operational · 3/3 hosts upRiyadh — Operational · 11/11 hosts up
Regions right now Operational Degraded Partial outage Blackout Each dot is a state or province we measure separately, coloured by its status now; bigger dots have more hosts. The country is shaded in its overall status.
0incidents recorded
0total disruption
—longest incident
16outages measured since 2022
0reported shutdowns since 2019

Overview

Last 90 days

Worst status per day, last 90 days
Aug 1, 2026 Operational Degraded Partial outage Blackout Not monitored yet Today

Daily reachability

last 30 days
Oct 16Oct 230%50%100%
Hosts uplowest hour

Our probes · hosts reachable

last 72 hours
Oct 27Oct 28Oct 290%50%100%

IODA · routes and active probing, % of normal

last 72 hours
Oct 27Oct 28Oct 290%50%100%
BGP routesActive probingIODA (Georgia Tech)

Latency from our server (Germany)

last 72 hours
Oct 27Oct 28Oct 290 ms75 ms150 ms
Latency25–75%

The same measurements as the live panel, per 30 minutes. Times in UTC.

Incidents

All incidents

our probes and IODA

No disruptions recorded in Saudi Arabia since monitoring started on October 16, 2026.

Attacks and context

Context only — they don't change the status above.

DDoS attacks aimed at Saudi Arabia · 7 days

Oct 23Oct 24Oct 25Oct 26Oct 27Oct 28Oct 290%50%100%
Network DDoSWeb attacksCloudflare Radar

Per hour; each line is relative to its own busiest hour of the week (100%). Context only — attacks never change a country's status.

Types
Mirai (UDP) Flood 86% · UDP Flood 12% · Mirai (TCP) Flood 1% · ACK Flood 0%
Duration
61% longer than 1 h · 33% under 20 min
Size
81% under 500 Mbit/s · 0% over 10 Gbit/s
Web attacks from
Saudi Telecom Company JSC 49% · Etihad Etisalat, a joint stock company 17%

Routing incidents · 7 days · Cloudflare Radar

0 possible hijacks of networks in Saudi Arabia, 9+ route leaks involving it.

Long-term history

Before our monitoring: IODA archive

16 incidents · 6 blackouts · 6 partial outages

Outages in Saudi Arabia detected by IODA (Georgia Tech) between January 2022 and the start of our own monitoring: drops in the country's internet routes (BGP) or in its reachability from IODA's active probing, compared with the day before. Each is checked against IODA's signal; small dips are left out.

Started (UTC)DurationWorst levelEvidence
Sep 1, 2026 17:1042 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 75% of normal
Jun 20, 2026 11:402 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 32% of normal
May 3, 2026 20:5050 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 41% of normal
Mar 13, 2026 05:3020 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 80% of normal
Oct 1, 2025 03:301 hour Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 75% of normal
Sep 24, 2025 19:2050 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 79% of normal
Aug 10, 2025 07:3030 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 84% of normal
Mar 29, 2025 10:103 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 31% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 22:102 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 85% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 20:101 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 81% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 17:4030 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 88% of normal
Feb 23, 2025 22:4545 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): routes + active probing, lowest 76% of normal
Show all 16
Started (UTC)DurationWorst levelEvidence
Aug 14, 2024 08:1030 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 49% of normal
Jul 6, 2024 11:0030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 75% of normal
Nov 19, 2023 12:4050 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 25% of normal
Jul 2, 2022 05:1040 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 30% of normal

Government shutdowns and blocks

since 2019

The Internet Society Pulse tracker has no recorded government shutdowns or blocks in Saudi Arabia since 2019.

Provided by Internet Society.

Submarine cable incidents

No submarine cable incidents recorded for Saudi Arabia.

Cable incidents: GeoCables (CC BY 4.0). Context only — they never change a country's status.