How Much Does Umrah Cost from the USA?

For US pilgrims booking with Qibla Gateway, an Umrah package costs between $1,590 and $3,090 per person, and round-trip international airfare sits inside that number every time. The floor is the seven-night Affordable tier on quad occupancy. The ceiling is the nine-day December holiday departure on double occupancy. No land-only rung sits on the ladder, so no separate ticket is waiting for you after you pay.

The seven-night core trip is four nights in Makkah and three in Madinah, offered in three hotel tiers, and within each tier the price moves with how many people share your room. Dated monthly departures are priced by date instead: $1,790 for September 2026, $1,890 for October, $2,090 for November (20-28), $2,690 for the December holiday departure (20-29, eight nights), and $2,190 for January 2027. All are per person on quad occupancy, with triple adding $200 and double adding $400. Umrah-plus-stopover itineraries run nine nights, three in each city: Egypt at $2,090, Istanbul at $2,290, Dubai at $2,490.

Even with the ticket bundled in, it is worth understanding how each line item underneath those numbers is built. It shows you where a quote is genuinely lean, where it has quietly cut a corner you will feel on the ground, and, when you price the same trip yourself piece by piece, why a bundled number can land below the sum of its parts. The rest of this guide takes those line items one at a time.

The Umrah e-visa itself is roughly $100-$130 when issued through the official Nusuk platform, and mandatory Saudi travel insurance is bundled into the visa fee rather than billed separately. If you were arranging the whole trip yourself, around $150 for visa and insurance combined is a safe budget line.

Inside a Qibla Gateway package it is not a line at all. The electronic Umrah visa and medical insurance are both included in the price, and we handle the Nusuk application on your behalf. You supply the passport and documents and we do the rest. The reason to know the standalone figure anyway is comparison: it tells you what a genuine pass-through cost looks like.

So when an agency quotes several hundred dollars for the visa alone, ask what is actually inside that number. Sometimes it folds in processing fees, vaccination documentation, or a service margin. None of that is wrong in itself, and an agency is entitled to charge for its work. What you are owed is the breakdown, rather than one vague figure with everything hidden inside it.

This is the number that reframes everything else on the page. Booked by yourself on a public booking site, round-trip economy from the US to Jeddah (JED) or Madinah (MED) commonly runs $900-$1,500 in shoulder seasons and $1,600-$2,500 during Ramadan, the winter holidays, and summer peak. Carriers like Saudia, Emirates, Qatar Airways, Turkish, and Etihad connect JFK, IAD, ORD, ATL, and LAX with one stop in roughly 14-16 hours of total travel.

Set those figures against a flight-inclusive package that starts at $1,590 per person on quad occupancy and the arithmetic looks impossible. It is not. Packages do not pay published retail fares: seats are contracted in group blocks well ahead of departure, at rates no consumer booking site will ever show you, and exactly the same is true of the hotel rooms. That spread, between the retail price of the parts and the contracted price of the bundle, is the entire reason an all-inclusive package can come in under what you would spend assembling the trip yourself. It is worth understanding rather than taking on trust. It is also the honest answer to anyone who asks how the numbers can possibly work.

Practically, it means the fare calendar is no longer your problem. You are not watching prices for months, not trying to time a booking window, and not exposed if fares spike in the weeks before you travel. Season still shows up in what you pay (it is why the December departure is the priciest one we publish), but it reaches you as one package price rather than as a separate ticket you have to catch at the right moment.

Hotel rates in Makkah are quoted per room per night, and that is exactly where most cost comparisons go wrong. Booked on your own for peak dates, a tower room in the Clock Tower complex can exceed $350-$600 per room per night. A comfortable mid-range property commonly runs $150-$300, and a clean value property further out often runs $80-$160.

Madinah tends to be gentler across the board, with strong options near the Prophet's Mosque courtyard.

Now do the division that package prices already do for you. A room at $350 a night for seven nights is $2,450, but shared four ways on quad occupancy that is roughly $610 per person for the stay, and shared two ways it is about $1,225. This single conversion, from per room per night to per person per stay, explains most of what looks mysterious about package pricing, and it is why occupancy is the single biggest lever you personally control.

It is also why a family of four often pays far less per person than a solo traveler in the identical hotel. Nothing about the room changed; only the division did. When you compare quotes, always establish which occupancy each price assumes before you conclude that one agency is cheaper than another.

Reputable packages include airport transfers and intercity transport between Makkah and Madinah. The Haramain High Speed Railway covers that leg in about 2.5 hours, and every Qibla Gateway package uses it as standard, together with assisted transfers at both ends so you are met rather than left to find a taxi with your luggage. An Umrah guide travels with you for the rites.

Meals are where most packages stop, and ours are no exception. Daily buffet breakfast is included; lunch and dinner are on you. A realistic food budget is $15-$30 per person per day if you eat outside the hotel, and less if you are content with simple local options. One thing to check when you compare offers elsewhere: is the Makkah-Madinah leg the train or a coach? It changes both your comfort and how many hours the journey takes out of your trip.

No package covers everything, and ours is honest about where it stops. The extras that surprise first-timers are small and numerous: ihram garments and a travel prayer mat ($30-$60), a Saudi eSIM or roaming plan ($20-$40), lunches and dinners, Zamzam water and gifts to bring home, tips for drivers and hotel staff, and optional ziyarah tours to historical sites ($30-$80 per person).

Individually these are small. Together they add up faster than anyone expects. Set aside a personal fund of $200-$400 per person beyond your package price, so nothing catches you off guard on the ground and so you can be generous with tips and gifts without doing arithmetic in your head. Traveling on an Umrah-plus-stopover itinerary? Add a little more again for meals and sightseeing in the add-on city.

Two packages at the same headline price can differ by more than $1,000 in real value. Start with the two questions that explain most gaps: does the price include round-trip airfare, and which room occupancy does it assume? A quote that excludes the ticket is not comparable to one that includes it, and a quad price sitting next to a double price for the identical trip can be $400 per person apart before anything else is considered.

Only then move to the rest: the exact hotel names in both cities, how you reach the Haram from each, the number of nights in Makkah versus Madinah, the meal plan, and whether the e-visa, insurance, transfers, and the Haramain train are inside or outside the number.

A slightly pricier package with better-placed hotels and genuinely included transfers is often the better deal once you account for what you would otherwise pay yourself in taxis and add-on fees. Build a simple side-by-side comparison. The true value usually becomes obvious within a few minutes.