6 Bus Route: Ar Rusayfah (Haramain Station) to Al Abdeyah — Umm Al-Qura University — Timings, Frequency & Fare (2026)
🚌 Makkah Bus 6 — Ar Rusayfah (Haramain Station) ↔ Al Abdeyah — Umm Al-Qura University
🚌 Route 6: Ar Rusayfah (Haramain Station) ↔ Al Abdeyah — Umm Al-Qura University | 🏢 Makkah Bus (RCMC, operated by Modern Bus Company) | 📍 Mecca City Route
The 6 is a city route on the Makkah Bus network — the Royal Commission for Makkah City and Holy Sites’ bus system, operated day-to-day by the Modern Bus Company. This page gives the published termini, the official timing points and timetable pattern, and the fare — without invented stop lists. For the wider network, see the Mecca city hub.
📋 Route 6 Essential Information
- Route: 6 — Ar Rusayfah (Haramain Station) ↔ Al Abdeyah — Umm Al-Qura University
- Service type: Mecca city bus
- Operator: Makkah Bus (RCMC General Transport Center; operated by Modern Bus Company)
- Hours: 24 hours a day (official grids start at 04:00 and run past 02:00)
- Fare: SR 4 flat (Makkah Bus app / vending machines)
🚏 Termini
- Starts: Ar Rusayfah (Haramain Station)
- Ends: Al Abdeyah — Umm Al-Qura University
🚏 Timing Points (official timetable)
- Al Haramain Train Station (80)
- Al Naseem (388)
- Maternity & Children Hospital (389)
- Al Abdeyah, Umm Al-Qura University (398)
These are the timing points named in RCMC’s official timetable for the 6 — the main stops the schedule is built around. The complete stop list is in the Makkah Bus app.
The 6 is the Haramain station to university corridor: it links the high-speed rail station at Ar Rusayfah with Umm Al-Qura University in Al Abdeyah, passing Al Naseem.
📖 About Route 6
The 6 runs between Ar Rusayfah (Haramain Station) and Al Abdeyah — Umm Al-Qura University. Makkah Bus launched in February 2022 as a free trial and completed its 12-route network in October 2022; the network carries a SR 4 flat fare since November 2023 and runs around the clock for the Grand Mosque’s prayer cycle, with 431 stations across the city (Saudi Press Agency, January 2026).
🎟️ Fares & Payment
SR 4 per ride, flat, on every Makkah Bus route — the fare since the paid launch on 1 November 2023 (Saudi Press Agency). The service was free during its February 2022 to October 2023 trial period; any source still calling Makkah Bus free is out of date. Buy tickets in the Makkah Bus app, on the project website, or at station vending machines.
⏰ Service Pattern
Frequency: about every 12 minutes in the published grid, more often at peak times. Hours: 24 hours a day (official grids start at 04:00 and run past 02:00). For today’s exact departures, use the Makkah Bus app — RCMC publishes each route’s full timetable grid as a PDF, and this page summarises its pattern rather than reproducing hundreds of departure times.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How often does the 6 run?
About every 12 minutes in the published grid, more often at peak times, 24 hours a day (official grids start at 04:00 and run past 02:00).
How much is the fare on the 6?
SR 4 flat — the same on every Makkah Bus route since 1 November 2023.
Is Makkah Bus free?
No — it was free during the 2022-23 trial. The fare has been SR 4 since November 2023.
Sources: RCMC (Royal Commission for Makkah City and Holy Sites) official Makkah Bus timetable PDFs; Gulf News’s September 2024 Makkah Bus route list; Saudi Press Agency network reporting (paid launch November 2023; 431 stations, January 2026). Page verified October 2026.
🌐 Route 6 in the Makkah Bus network
Route 6 (Ar Rusayfah (Haramain Station) to Al Abdeyah) is one of the twelve routes of Makkah Bus — the network run for the Royal Commission for Makkah City and Holy Sites (RCMC) and operated day-to-day by the Modern Bus Company (MBC): some 400 buses over 431 stations (Saudi Press Agency, January 2026), running as a 24-hour network. This is the Haramain station ↔ university corridor — the route that ties the high-speed railway to Umm Al-Qura University and the central area, and the first Makkah Bus most rail arrivals meet. The whole network, with its four central-area stations (Al-Marwa, Jabal Al-Kaaba, Ajyad and Ibrahim Al-Khalil) explained, is in the Mecca public transport guide.
⏱️ Service pattern & fare — the practical facts
Frequency: about every 12 minutes from 04:00 (from the RCMC timetable grid). Hours: the network runs 24 hours (per-route grids in RCMC’s PDFs begin around 04:00 and run past 02:00). Fare: a flat SR 4 — the same since the paid launch on 1 November 2023; anything calling Makkah Bus free today is quoting the 2022–23 trial, which ended. Tickets are sold through the Makkah Bus app, the project website and station vending machines. A flat fare means the full stops of route 6 cost the same end-to-end as for a single hop to the Haram-side stations.
🕋 Riding route 6 during Umrah and Hajj
Makkah Bus exists because of the pilgrim calendar: the network’s 24-hour pattern, its articulated 125-passenger buses and its central-area stations are all designed for the surges around prayers, Umrah seasons and Hajj. On route 6, expect the Haram-side stops to load first at peak prayer times, and expect Hajj-period operations to differ from the ordinary pattern — the Mashaaer Metro, by contrast, is a Hajj-season railway only and never part of the everyday network this page describes. For the rail leg to Madina or Jeddah, the Haramain station (Ar Rusayfah) connects to the network — routes 6 and 7 serve it directly — and this site’s Haramain guide covers the trains.
Appendix compiled October 2026 from this page’s build sources (RCMC timetable PDFs and Gulf News’s Makkah Bus route list) — see our data page for sourcing.
🕋 The four doors of the network
Almost every Makkah Bus journey passes through one of the four central-area stations — Al-Marwa, Jabal Al-Kaaba, Ajyad and Ibrahim Al-Khalil — the network’s doors to the Grand Mosque, each a short walk from the Haram on its own side. Route 6 feeds one of those doors (or the district termini beyond them); learn your door and the network becomes simple: any route in, the right station out, and the Haram a walk away. The Mecca guide above maps the four stations against the routes that use them.
🗺️ The rest of the Mecca network
Every other route on the Mecca network, each with its own page on this site:
- Route 1 — Al Buhayrat to Batha Quraish
- Route 2 — An Nawwariyyah to Jabal Al-Kaaba Station (Jarwal)
- Route 3 — Al Kakiyyah to Ash Shuhada
- Route 4 — Al-Marwa Station (Terminal 2) to Kudai
- Route 5 — Ajyad Station to Al Awali
- Route 7 — Ash Shubaikah to Haramain High-Speed Railway Station
- Route 8 — Al Gazzah (Al-Marwa Station) to Um Ajud
- Route 9 — Ash Shara’i to Al Awali
- Route 10 — Al Gazzah to Ju’ranah
- Route 11 — Ash Shuhada to Ibrahim Al-Khalil Station
- Route 12 — Jabal Al-Kaaba Station (Terminal 1, Jarwal) to Al Umrah
❓ Route questions
What is the fare?
A flat SR 4 — unchanged since the paid launch on 1 November 2023, sold via the Makkah Bus app, the project website and station machines.
How late do the buses run?
The Makkah Bus network runs 24 hours; per-route grids in RCMC’s official PDFs start around 04:00 and run past 02:00.
Where is the full Mecca picture?
The city guide linked in the network section above ties the routes together with the operator, the central stations and the pilgrim and resident context — and the data page explains where every fact on these pages comes from.