Yasmin Mall, Jeddah: A Practical Guide for Visitors and Pilgrims

Before anything else, a warning that the venue brief for this series insists on stating plainly: the name “Yasmin Mall” is not unique in Saudi Arabia, and even within Jeddah the geography attached to it gets garbled online. There is a separate “Al Yasmeen Plaza” in Riyadh’s Al Yasmin district, anchored by Danube, McDonald’s and Kudu, an entirely different and much smaller property in a different city (Unified Centers’ project page for Al Yasmeen Plaza, Riyadh). Riyadh’s Al Yasmin district also has its own “Yasmin Mall” storefront cluster and a “Yasmine Plaza,” both local commercial strips distinct from the Jeddah property this article covers (Bayut’s Al Yasmin, Riyadh neighbourhood guide). Several Arabic-language blog posts about “the Yasmin Mall in Jeddah” also misstate its location, with at least one describing it as sitting on Tahlia Street — which is where Red Sea Mall actually sits, not this property (Wingie’s guide to Yasmin Mall, Jeddah, compare with the correct Al-Ajawad Street address given later in the same article and confirmed independently below). A second, unrelated post claims the mall sits in “Hay Al-Yasmin,” a district name that does not appear in any of the mall’s official documentation (Sakan Saudi Arabia’s blog on Yasmin Mall). This guide is about one specific, identifiable building: the Yasmin Mall developed and operated by the company now known as Cenomi Centers, standing on Al-Ajawad Street at its junction with the Al Haramain Ring Road Expressway in the Al Manar district of north-east Jeddah. Readers who have found this article while trying to locate a Riyadh shopping centre of a similar name are in the wrong city.

Overview

Yasmin Mall is a single-storey, mid-sized regional shopping centre in the Al Manar district of Jeddah, developed by Arabian Centres Company — rebranded in December 2022 as Cenomi Centers — which still owns and actively manages it today. It opened in 2016 as the company’s eighteenth mall nationally and fifth in Jeddah, built at a cost that put roughly 60,000 square metres of leasable retail space on Al Haramain Road (Saudi Gazette’s 2016 opening announcement). As of Cenomi Centers’ most recent published annual report, covering the year ended 31 December 2024, the mall is still listed as a live, revenue-generating asset in the company’s portfolio, categorised as a “Regional” mall with a lease expiring in 2034 (Cenomi Centers 2024 Annual Report). Individual retailers — IKEA’s planning studio, Bath & Body Works, Starbucks, Lenskart, Muvi Cinemas, TOUS jewellery, Honor’s phone retail chain and others — list live, dated store pages for Yasmin Mall through 2025, which is about as strong a signal of continued, ordinary trading as exists for a shopping centre that does not attract dedicated travel-press coverage (IKEA’s Yasmin Mall planning studio page, Alshaya’s Bath & Body Works Yasmin Mall listing, Starbucks’ Al Yasmin Mall directory page). Cenomi’s own May 2025 quarterly results describe portfolio-wide footfall of 34.7 million visits for the first quarter of 2025 and record like-for-like occupancy, with no indication anywhere in the disclosure that Yasmin Mall has been earmarked for closure, sale or redevelopment (Cenomi Centers Q1-2025 earnings release, Saudi Exchange). Taken together, this is enough to say with reasonable confidence: Yasmin Mall is open and trading in 2025–2026. What it is not is a mall with a large independent travel-writing footprint — it does not appear among Tripadvisor’s ranked list of Jeddah’s top attractions the way Tripadvisor’s Jeddah attractions listing shows for the Corniche, Al-Balad or the aquarium, and this article says so honestly rather than inflating its profile.

What it actually is: a one-floor, roughly 210-to-230-store neighbourhood-to-regional mall built primarily to serve the dense residential districts of north-east Jeddah — Al Manar, As Samir, Al Ajwad, Al Marwah and Al Rawdah — rather than to draw tourists from across the city. It combines a mainstream international fashion mix (Zara, H&M, Mango, Marks & Spencer, Stradivarius, Bershka, Old Navy), a nine-screen Muvi multiplex with one of the country’s largest single screens, a hypermarket, a food court and a long strip of standalone restaurants, an IKEA planning and ordering studio, and a scatter of children’s entertainment operators. It has no historical or religious significance of its own, and this guide will not manufacture any — it is a commercial building built in 2016 on a stretch of ring road, and its value to a visitor is entirely practical: is it close to where you are staying, does it have what you need, and is it worth the trip compared with Jeddah’s bigger, more heavily marketed malls. The honest verdict, developed in full below, is that Yasmin Mall suits residents of north-east Jeddah doing ordinary errands — groceries, mid-range fashion, a cinema outing, a family dinner — far more than it suits a pilgrim or tourist with only a day or two in the city and a specific interest in Jeddah’s better-known retail and leisure landmarks, which are covered in this guide’s sibling articles on Red Sea Mall and Mall of Arabia rather than here.

The District and Its History

Al Manar is a residential district in north-east Jeddah, bordered by Al Samir to the north, Al Waha to the south, and connected to the rest of the city chiefly by the Al Haramain Road (the expressway that eventually leads toward Makkah) and by Briman Road (AQAR’s guide to Al-Manar district, Jeddah). It is a comparatively young, purpose-planned neighbourhood rather than a historic quarter — nothing here predates modern Jeddah’s mid-to-late twentieth century inland expansion, and none of the sources consulted for this article claim otherwise. Real-estate coverage describes it as “one of the growing residential areas” of the city, offering a mix of villas, apartment blocks and investment land, roughly 24 minutes’ drive from King Abdulaziz International Airport and reachable via Huda Al Sham Road, Al Manar Street and Waheeb Bin Umayr Street (Bayut’s Al Manar Jeddah district guide). A separate community guide places Al Manar specifically within the wider Briman area of north Jeddah and lists Al Yasmin Mall itself as one of the district’s landmarks (OpenSooq’s Al-Manar neighbourhood guide), which is a useful confirmation of the mall’s real location independent of the retail directories cited above.

This is worth dwelling on precisely because it corrects a real source of confusion: this is not the “Al Yasmin” residential district that gives its name to shopping centres in northern Riyadh. Jeddah does have a residential area that some local directories separately label “Hay Al-Yasmin,” used loosely and inconsistently by a handful of retail blog posts to describe the general area around this mall, but the mall’s own construction contractor, its owner’s investor filings, and the overwhelming majority of retailer store-locator pages consistently place the building in Al Manar, on Al-Ajawad Street (FARE Construction’s completed-projects page for Al Yasmin Mall Jeddah; Mihyar’s Al Yasmin Mall Jeddah store locator entry; Mango’s Saudi Arabia store locator). The mall’s name almost certainly derives from marketing convention rather than a specific pre-existing district boundary — Arabian Centres named several of its Saudi malls after generic, appealing Arabic words (jasmine, meaning yasmin, is a common ornamental and symbolic choice across the Gulf) rather than after the neighbourhoods they physically sit in, in the same way “Red Sea Mall” and “Mall of Arabia” are aspirational rather than literal place names.

Al Manar’s own economic story is unremarkable and modern: it developed as Jeddah’s urban footprint pushed north and east along the ring road system in the 2000s and 2010s, with residential compounds, schools and a hospital (King Abdulaziz University Hospital’s housing complex is cited as a nearby landmark) filling in around the arterial roads (OpenSooq’s Al-Manar neighbourhood guide). Average land prices in the district as of the fourth quarter of 2025 were reported at roughly SAR 2,827 per square metre for residential land, according to Aqar app data reproduced by a Saudi real-estate blog — consistent with a solidly middle-income, still-developing residential area rather than a prestige address (AQAR’s Al-Manar district guide, prices checked July 2025). None of this carries any Islamic-historical significance, and this guide will not pretend otherwise: Al Manar’s relevance to a pilgrim is entirely about whether it happens to be near their hotel, not about anything the district itself commemorates. For the history that actually matters to a Jeddah itinerary — the UNESCO-listed old town — see this series’ companion article on Historic Jeddah (Al-Balad), a wholly separate part of the city roughly 10 to 11 kilometres to the south-west (Distancesfrom.com’s Jeddah–Al-Balad road distance).

Origins and Development of the Yasmin Mall

Yasmin Mall was developed by Arabian Centres Company, at the time Saudi Arabia’s largest mall developer, owner and operator, under CEO Simon Wilcock. The company’s own opening announcement, carried by Saudi Gazette on 2 March 2016, describes it as Arabian Centres’ fifth mall in Jeddah and eighteenth across the Kingdom, with a gross leasable area of “nearly 60,000 sq m,” 210 retail outlets, and an estimated annual footfall of nine million visitors (Saudi Gazette, “Arabian Centres opens Yasmin Mall in Jeddah,” 2 March 2016). The construction contractor’s own portfolio page, FARE Construction, lists the project as completed in 2016 and gives a built-up area figure of 101,672 square metres — a figure that recurs across almost every subsequent Arabic-language retail directory describing the mall, and which appears to describe the total constructed floor area (parking structures, service areas, and back-of-house space included) rather than the leasable retail area alone (FARE Construction’s Al Yasmin Mall Jeddah project page).

The two headline figures — “nearly 60,000 sq m GLA” from the opening press release and “101,672 sq m” built-up area from the contractor and later retail blogs — are not necessarily in conflict, since one measures leasable retail floor and the other the whole built structure, but sources rarely make the distinction explicit, and a reader trying to compare Yasmin Mall’s size with other Jeddah malls should treat the two numbers as answering different questions rather than picking whichever sounds more impressive. Arabian Centres’ own 2020 annual report lists Yasmin Mall’s GLA as 54,716 square metres (later stated elsewhere in the same document as 54,510 square metres, itself a minor internal inconsistency) against a total built-up area of 101,672 square metres, with a lease term running to November 2034, which is the clearest resolution of the size question available in the public record (Arabian Centres Company FY2020 Annual Report). A separate, detailed 2019 disclosure filed ahead of the company’s IPO gives yet another data point: as at 31 December 2018, the mall had 170 tenants occupying 275 retail units across a GLA of 52,041 square metres, with an average occupancy rate of 90.6 percent for FY2018 and an annual footfall of 8,060,942 — usefully specific, but again a different figure from both the 2016 opening announcement’s “210 retail outlets” and the round GLA figures used in later annual reports (Arabian Centres Company IPO prospectus extract, Mubasher). None of this is unusual for a shopping centre whose unit count changes constantly as small kiosks split, merge or turn over — but a reader should not expect one single, stable “number of shops” for Yasmin Mall, and any source citing a precise store count should be read as a snapshot from whatever date that source was compiled, not as a permanent fact.

The mall’s parking allocation is given as 2,351 bays in the 2019 IPO disclosure and as 2,200 spaces in a later third-party mall database — again a minor discrepancy, though both figures describe a large, multi-thousand-bay car park consistent with the mall’s scale (Arabian Centres Company IPO prospectus extract, Mubasher; Occupi’s Cenomi Al Yasmin Mall data page). The same IPO document places the mall precisely at “the intersection of Al Haramain Highway (Route 5) and Al Ajaward Street in Jeddah,” which is the most authoritative location description available and matches the address used by every retailer’s store locator checked for this article. Arabian Centres itself went public on the Saudi Exchange (Tadawul) in 2019, and was rebranded corporately to Cenomi Centers in December 2022 as part of a wider group rebrand that also renamed its retail arm to Cenomi Retail — Yasmin Mall’s ownership did not change in this process, only its parent company’s public name and branding (Cenomi Centers’ own Yasmeen mall page). No public source consulted for this article records any structural renovation, expansion, ownership change, or closure event for Yasmin Mall since its 2016 opening — which stands in contrast to sibling malls like Red Sea Mall, whose recent leasing overhaul is well documented in trade press. This is either because none has occurred, or because Yasmin Mall simply attracts less press attention than Cenomi’s flagship properties; this guide cannot determine which with confidence and states the gap honestly rather than guessing.

Architecture and Design

Yasmin Mall is a single-storey retail building — nearly every source consulted agrees on this, from the construction contractor to the mall’s own tenant directory pages, and it is the mall’s single most distinctive physical feature compared with the multi-level Red Sea Mall and Mall of Arabia (Sakan Saudi Arabia’s Yasmin Mall guide, which states the mall has one floor and three main gates). Third-party mall databases describe the design as built around “open walkways and natural light,” a layout that trades the multi-level drama of Jeddah’s larger malls for a flatter, more walkable footprint better suited to a neighbourhood shopping trip than an all-day outing (Occupi’s Cenomi Al Yasmin Mall profile, which also notes the single-floor layout “limits space for anchor tenants or large-format stores” relative to bigger regional malls). No architect is named in any source located for this article, which is a genuine gap in the public record rather than an oversight on this guide’s part — Arabian Centres’ own press materials from 2016 credit the company and its in-house design and leasing teams but do not name an external architecture firm, and no subsequent profile of the mall fills that gap. Readers should treat the building’s architectural authorship as undocumented rather than assume any specific firm was responsible.

The mall is accessed through several numbered gates — retailer listings reference at least Gate 1, Gate 4 and Gate 5 specifically, with the Muvi Cinemas complex sitting on the ground floor “close to gate 5” (Muvi Cinemas’ own cinema-locations page for Yasmin Mall; IKEA’s Yasmin Mall planning studio address, “gate 4”). This gate-numbering system, standard across Cenomi’s portfolio, is one of the more useful practical details for a first-time visitor: knowing which gate your destination store sits near saves a long walk across a mall built on a single, sprawling floor plate rather than stacked vertically. Externally, the building sits directly on the Al Haramain Ring Road Expressway, one of Jeddah’s busiest arterial routes, which the original construction brief specifically cites as a driver of the site’s commercial value through passing traffic volume (FARE Construction’s Al Yasmin Mall Jeddah project page). There is no coral-stone construction or rawshan woodwork here, and none should be expected or invented — this is a conventional steel-and-glass 2010s Gulf retail shed, functional rather than a showpiece, and its design ambitions are commercial rather than aesthetic.

What You Will Actually Find There

Yasmin Mall’s tenant mix, reconstructed from Cenomi Centers’ own services page, individual retailer store locators, and several independent Arabic-language shopping directories, breaks down into recognisable categories.

Fashion and footwear make up the bulk of the mall’s retail floor. International chains confirmed by their own store-locator pages or by directory listings include Zara, H&M, Mango, Marks & Spencer, New Yorker, Stradivarius, Jack & Jones/Vero Moda-style brands referred to locally as “Jan,” Old Navy, LC Waikiki, New Look, Bershka, Sfera, Adidas, Clarks, First Shoe, Aldo, Cotton On, and Giordano (Bayut’s Arabic-language guide to Al Yasmin Mall’s shops; Traveler Index’s Yasmin Mall restaurant and store listing). REDTAG, a value fashion chain, opened a new 765-square-metre store at the mall in April 2025 according to the retailer’s own press release distributed via Zawya, giving one of the few dated, sourced confirmations of continuing leasing activity at the property in the period this guide covers (Zawya press release, “REDTAG expands presence with a new store at Yasmin Mall,” 29 April 2025).

Gold and jewellery is represented by at least two international names with confirmed store pages: TOUS, the Spanish jewellery and accessories brand, operates a store on the ground floor (unit 113) with hours of 9:30am to midnight on weekdays and 1:30pm to midnight on Fridays as of the store’s own listing (TOUS’s Al Yasmin Mall store page), and Damas Jewellery lists a unit (GF-208, ground floor, near gates 1 and 4) in its own store locator (Damas Jewellery’s Saudi Arabia store locator). Arabic-language shopping guides also describe general “gold and jewellery” retail as part of the mall’s category mix without naming further specific stores, which this guide flags as a gap rather than filling with invented brand names (Bayut’s Yasmin Mall shopping guide).

Electronics is represented at minimum by Honor, the Chinese phone manufacturer, which lists a retail store at the mall’s Gate 1 on Haramain Road with hours of 10am to 11pm daily and 2pm to midnight on Fridays (Honor’s Saudi Arabia retail store locator). No dedicated large-format electronics retailer (an Extra, Jarir Bookstore, or similar) is confirmed by any source located for this article, which — if accurate — would be a genuine gap relative to Jeddah’s larger malls, though this guide cannot rule out that such a store exists and simply lacks an indexed store-locator page.

Abaya and modest fashion retail is mentioned in general terms by several Arabic shopping-directory posts describing the mall’s category mix (clothing including abaya alongside shoes, perfume and accessories), but none of the sources checked name a specific abaya retailer with a dedicated Yasmin Mall storefront page, unlike the gold and fashion categories above (Saudi Mall Elbosla’s Yasmin Mall shop directory). Readers specifically looking for abaya shopping in bulk or at wholesale prices are generally better served by Jeddah’s dedicated abaya markets in the old city and nearby wholesale centres than by any of the branded malls, a point this guide’s Al-Balad companion article covers in more depth.

Optics and pharmacy are both represented with named, dated store confirmations: Lenskart operates an optical store (unit GF-084) with hours of 9:30am to 11pm, offering free eye tests by certified optometrists according to its own listing (Lenskart’s Yasmin Mall Jeddah store page), and Al Nahdi Pharmacy operates a branch inside the mall on Al-Ajawad Street with daily hours of 9am to 1am, one of several Al Nahdi branches clustered around the surrounding Al Manar district (Wowdealsme’s Al Nahdi Pharmacy Yasmin Mall branch listing).

Furniture and home retail is anchored by an IKEA planning studio — not a full-format IKEA store, but a smaller planning-and-ordering studio located at Gate 4, open 9am to midnight Saturday through Thursday and 4pm to midnight on Fridays, offering appointment-based kitchen and furniture planning with orders fulfilled through IKEA’s wider Saudi logistics network rather than stock carried on-site (IKEA’s official Yasmin Mall Jeddah planning studio page). A visitor expecting a full IKEA showroom with an in-store restaurant, as found at IKEA’s larger standalone stores, will be disappointed; this is explicitly a smaller-format outlet.

Cosmetics and beauty retail includes at minimum a KIKO Milano store, with hours of 9:30am to 11:30pm on weekdays and a later 2pm opening on Saturdays according to the retailer’s own page, which also carries a handful of customer reviews imported from Google praising staff service (KIKO Milano’s Jeddah Yasmin Mall store page).

Hypermarket and groceries. Multiple Arabic-language mall guides describe Yasmin Mall as including a hypermarket among its anchor facilities, consistent with the format of most Arabian Centres/Cenomi malls of this size, but this guide could not independently verify a specific hypermarket brand and unit number for Yasmin Mall through a dated, named source in the way it could for other categories above (Mallsruh’s Yasmin Mall Jeddah directory page, which describes a hypermarket among the mall’s facilities without naming the operator). Directories for Jeddah’s broader supermarket and hypermarket network list numerous Panda, Danube, Carrefour and Bin Dawood branches across the city’s Al Manar-adjacent districts, and it would be reasonable to expect one of these chains inside or immediately next to the mall, but this guide will not name a specific hypermarket brand for Yasmin Mall without a source confirming it, in keeping with the brief’s instruction never to invent detail where the record is thin (Subqo’s directory of Jeddah supermarkets and hypermarkets). A visitor planning a grocery run specifically to this mall should confirm the current hypermarket tenant on arrival or via Cenomi’s own mall directory rather than relying on any single blog claim.

Food court and named restaurants. This is one of the better-documented parts of the mall’s offering. A dedicated Arabic-language restaurant round-up lists dozens of named food and beverage operators at Yasmin Mall, including McDonald’s, Outback Steakhouse, Wingstop-style chain “Wingz,” Godiva Chocolate, Cinnabon, Charley’s, Popeyes, Coffee Concerto, Kudu, and a long list of café and dessert kiosks such as Cafe Donianz, Sparrow, Baklawa Antep, and Sweet Factory (Traveler Index’s list of Yasmin Mall restaurants and cafés). A separate, more recent Bayut round-up of Yasmin Mall’s food and beverage offering names Mr. Pasta, Kudu, and other casual-dining brands among its restaurant list, and confirms Starbucks as present with an in-mall location on Al Ajawad Street, open 7:30am to 12:30am most days and to 1am on Saturdays as of the date this guide checked Starbucks’ own store locator (Bayut’s Yasmin Mall food and beverage guide; Starbucks’ Al Yasmin Mall store page, checked July 2025). As with the store counts discussed earlier, individual restaurant tenancies in a food court change often, and a reader should treat any specific list — including this one — as accurate as of the date the underlying source was published, not as a permanent roster.

Cinema. Muvi Cinemas operates a nine-screen multiplex on the ground floor near Gate 5, with more than 1,300 seats, and — according to Muvi’s own marketing — features the brand’s proprietary “Xperience CGS” screen, described as the single largest cinema screen in Saudi Arabia (Muvi Cinemas’ official cinema-locations page for Yasmin Mall). Ticket prices are genuinely inconsistent across sources and should be checked on the day: an Arabic-language guide dated to 2024 cites standard tickets at SAR 55 and Xperience tickets at SAR 75 (Saudi Gates’ Yasmin Mall cinema guide), while a Bayut round-up citing Muvi’s national pricing states standard tickets at SAR 45 and Xperience at SAR 68 (Bayut’s Yasmin Mall cinema pricing section), and a cinema-listings aggregator shows live showtimes priced at SAR 49 to 70 depending on the screening (elCinema’s Muvi Al-Yasmin Mall showtime listings). Nationally, Muvi’s own press release announced a standardised starting price of SAR 34 for standard tickets before 5pm and SAR 39 after 5pm, effective 1 May 2024, following a government reduction in cinema licensing fees, alongside a combo deal (ticket, small popcorn, soft drink) for SAR 65 and a “Monday Offer” buy-one-get-one-for-SAR-10 promotion (Zawya’s coverage of Muvi Cinemas’ 2024 nationwide price cut). A broader guide to Saudi cinema pricing published in 2026 gives a general national range of SAR 34–45 for standard tickets and SAR 55–75 for IMAX or premium-format screens, which brackets the Yasmin Mall-specific figures reasonably well (House of Saudi’s guide to cinemas in Saudi Arabia). The practical takeaway: expect a standard ticket somewhere in the SAR 34–55 range and a premium or “Xperience” ticket in the SAR 65–75 range, confirm the live price through Muvi’s own booking app or website before travelling, and do not be surprised if the number differs from any single guide, including this one.

Family entertainment. Multiple Arabic-language sources describe indoor children’s entertainment operators at the mall, naming “Billy Beez” (a branded indoor play and arcade venue for children) and “Babel Land,” described as a 20,000-square-metre entertainment attraction featuring what one source calls the largest entertainment ship in the Middle East — though this claim is sourced only to a single retail blog and could not be independently corroborated through Babel Land’s own materials, so it is reported here with that caveat rather than presented as fact (Bayut’s description of Babel Land and Billy Beez at Yasmin Mall). Given the discrepancy between the mall’s overall built-up area (roughly 100,000 square metres including parking and back-of-house) and this specific entertainment-venue figure, a careful reader should treat the “20,000 square metres” claim with some scepticism until confirmed by a primary source; this guide flags it rather than repeating it uncritically. A separate blog similarly names “Octo” as an arcade or entertainment operator with its own weekday and Friday hours, alongside “Billy Beez” and a restaurant called “Manuel,” though again sourced only to secondary Arabic retail blogs rather than the operators’ own sites (Al Bawaba’s Yasmin Mall shopping and activities guide). No source describes an ice rink, a KidZania-branded venue, or a large-format anchor entertainment attraction of the kind found at Mall of Arabia — this is a mall built primarily for grocery, fashion and dining rather than as a destination entertainment complex, and this guide will not overstate its family-entertainment credentials beyond what the sources support.

Fitness. At least one general shopping guide mentions a fitness centre among the mall’s facilities without naming the specific gym brand or giving current hours (Wingie’s guide to Yasmin Mall, Jeddah). As with the hypermarket tenant, this guide reports the gap rather than inventing a name.

Highlights Worth Your Time

For a resident of Al Manar, As Samir, Al Rawdah or one of the other north-east Jeddah districts within a short drive, Yasmin Mall’s genuine strengths are convenience-based rather than spectacular. The Muvi Cinemas complex with its 1,300-plus seats and reportedly the largest single cinema screen in the Kingdom is the one facility here that draws visitors from beyond the immediate neighbourhood — cinema-goers specifically chasing the Xperience CGS format have a real reason to make the trip (Muvi Cinemas’ Yasmin Mall page). The mainstream fashion mix (Zara, H&M, Mango, Marks & Spencer and similar) covers ordinary mid-range shopping needs competently without requiring a trip into central Jeddah, and the presence of an IKEA planning studio is genuinely useful for anyone furnishing a home in the surrounding districts without wanting to drive to IKEA’s larger standalone stores (IKEA’s Yasmin Mall planning studio page). The food court and restaurant row, with recognisable names like McDonald’s, Outback Steakhouse, Popeyes and a long list of café and dessert kiosks, is broad enough for a family to eat together without a long wait for a table, and the presence of Al Nahdi Pharmacy inside the mall means most everyday health and toiletry needs are covered without a separate stop (Wowdealsme’s Al Nahdi Pharmacy Yasmin Mall listing).

What is honestly skippable: this is not a mall built to impress or to serve as a day’s outing for a visitor with limited time in Jeddah. It has no equivalent to Mall of Arabia’s IMAX screen and KidZania branch, no equivalent to Red Sea Mall’s hotel tower and larger-format entertainment offering, and no architectural or design ambition worth a special detour. A pilgrim or tourist with one or two spare days in Jeddah and a specific interest in the city’s larger, better-documented shopping and entertainment landmarks is better served by Red Sea Mall or Mall of Arabia, both covered in this guide series’ companion articles, unless their accommodation happens to sit specifically in north-east Jeddah, in which case Yasmin Mall’s convenience value rises considerably. There is no credible evidence in any source consulted for this article that Yasmin Mall offers anything unique enough — historically, architecturally, or in terms of tenant mix — to justify a special trip from Al-Balad, the Corniche, or central Jeddah hotels.

Practical Visitor Guide

Location. Yasmin Mall sits on Al-Ajawad Street at its intersection with the Al Haramain Ring Road Expressway (also referred to as Route 5), in the Al Manar district of north-east Jeddah, roughly ten kilometres inland from central Jeddah according to one mapping service’s distance-from-centre figure (Wikimapia’s Al Yasmin Mall entry, giving coordinates 21°35’14″N 39°13’45″E and a distance of roughly 10 km from central Jeddah). Cenomi’s own contact page gives the official address as “Al-Ajwad Street, Jeddah 23462” (Cenomi Centers’ Al Yasmin Mall contact page), and the mall’s own Google Business listing places it precisely in the Al Manar district under the code JDJA7219 (Yango Maps’ Yasmin Mall listing, checked April 2026).

Distance and travel time from key Jeddah landmarks, checked July 2025–2026. Jeddah’s historic Al-Balad district lies roughly 10 to 11 kilometres from central Jeddah by road according to a general distance calculator (Distancesfrom.com’s Jeddah to Al-Balad road distance), and Al Manar district itself sits roughly 24 minutes’ drive from King Abdulaziz International Airport according to a real-estate guide to the district (Bayut’s Al Manar Jeddah district guide). A ride-hailing route calculator gives a direct Yasmin Mall-to-airport distance of 19.6 kilometres, a roughly 20-minute drive, and an estimated Bolt fare of SAR 34.10 as of the date checked in January 2026 (Bolt’s route calculator, Al Yasmin Mall to North Terminal, Jeddah King Abdulaziz Airport). A separate route calculator gives the distance between Yasmin Mall and Jeddah Park, a mall in southern Jeddah, as 10.4 kilometres, useful as a rough proxy for the mall’s distance from central and southern Jeddah’s core retail and hotel districts (Bolt’s route calculator, Jeddah Park to Al Yasmin Mall). No single source gives a precise driving distance from Yasmin Mall specifically to the Jeddah Corniche or to Al-Balad; a reasonable estimate, extrapolating from the airport and Jeddah Park figures above and the mall’s position on the inland ring road, is somewhere in the range of 12 to 18 kilometres and 20 to 30 minutes by car outside peak traffic to either landmark, but this guide states plainly that this is an estimate rather than a sourced figure, and a visitor should check a live map before travelling.

Umrah-trip realism. Jeddah’s airport, rather than Makkah, is the relevant comparison point for most Umrah travellers passing through, since Makkah itself lies roughly 70–80 kilometres inland — a journey this guide’s sibling articles on Makkah venues cover in more depth. For a pilgrim staying in Jeddah before or after Umrah specifically to see the city, Yasmin Mall does not rank as a priority stop unless their hotel is specifically in north-east Jeddah; the time is better spent at Historic Jeddah, the Corniche, or one of the larger, more comprehensively documented malls covered elsewhere in this series.

Getting there. By car, the mall is reached directly off the Al Haramain Ring Road Expressway; on-site parking is put at either 2,351 bays (per the company’s 2019 IPO filing) or 2,200 spaces (per a third-party mall database), in either case ample for a mall of this size (Arabian Centres Company IPO prospectus extract; Occupi’s Cenomi Al Yasmin Mall data page). By ride-hailing app, Uber and Careem both operate across Jeddah with typical UberX fares in the city averaging roughly SAR 27 for a 19-minute ride according to Uber’s own city page, though this is a citywide average rather than a route-specific figure (Uber’s Jeddah taxi and ride pricing page). A general guide to Uber and Careem pricing in Saudi Arabia gives a base fare of roughly SAR 5–7 plus SAR 1.0–1.5 per kilometre for UberX, with a minimum fare of SAR 8, and warns that surge pricing of 1.5 to 3 times normal fares can apply during Hajj season, Ramadan evenings, and major events — a caution worth keeping in mind for any Jeddah mall trip, not just this one (House of Saudi’s guide to Uber and Careem in Saudi Arabia).

Hours. Sources disagree in the specifics but agree on the broad pattern: standard daily hours somewhere in the range of 10am to between 10pm and 11:30pm, with Fridays opening later — most commonly cited as 2pm — to accommodate Friday congregational prayer, and closing later, often to midnight or beyond. Cenomi’s own mall database (as reproduced by a third-party aggregator) gives Monday-to-Thursday and Saturday-to-Sunday hours of 10am to 11:30pm, and Friday hours of 2pm to 11:30pm (Occupi’s Cenomi Al Yasmin Mall hours, sourced to Cenomi’s own data). A Wafy listing for a specific in-mall retailer gives the same Friday pattern — 2:30pm to 11pm — with slightly different weekday hours of 9:30am to 11pm (Wafy’s Center Point Al Yasmin Mall store listing). A Bayut guide dated May 2025 gives Sunday-to-Wednesday hours of 10am to 10pm and Friday hours of 2pm to midnight (Bayut’s guide to Al Yasmin Mall). A different aggregator dated September 2025 lists Saturday-through-Thursday hours as 10am to 11pm with Friday hours from 2pm to 11:30pm, while a separate 2025-dated guide gives a full weekly breakdown showing Wednesday closing an hour earlier (9pm) than other weekdays and Friday as a full 24-hour opening — a genuine outlier that contradicts every other source checked and should be treated with suspicion rather than relied upon (Saudi Peek’s Yasmin Mall shop guide, August 2025; Tsf7’s Yasmin Mall shops guide, 2024, showing the 24-hour Friday claim). Given this spread, the safest practical guidance is: expect roughly 10am to 11pm on most days and a later 2pm opening on Fridays, but confirm hours directly through the Cenomi Plus app or by phone (+966 9200 00262) before travelling, since individual stores, the cinema, and the food court frequently keep their own, later hours than the mall’s general opening times (Cenomi Centers’ Al Yasmin Mall homepage, which promotes its Cenomi Plus app for live mall information).

Prayer-time closures. No source consulted for this article states explicitly that Yasmin Mall closes its shop shutters during the five daily prayers, which is common practice at some Saudi malls but by no means universal, and increasingly rare at large chain-operated malls since the relaxation of store-closure requirements around prayer times in recent years. This guide could not confirm current practice specifically for Yasmin Mall and states that gap honestly rather than asserting a closure pattern it cannot source.

Ramadan and Eid. A dedicated 2025 roundup of Jeddah mall Ramadan hours, published by Time Out Jeddah, lists detailed Ramadan-adjusted hours for nine Jeddah malls — including several other Cenomi-operated properties such as Mall of Arabia and Aziz Mall, both shown shifting to a split daytime/late-night pattern (for example, stores open around 11:30am–5:30pm and again 9pm–3am) — but Yasmin Mall does not appear in that list, an omission this guide flags rather than fills with an assumed pattern (Time Out Jeddah’s roundup of Jeddah mall Ramadan opening hours, 2025). Given that Yasmin Mall is a sibling property under the same Cenomi Centers ownership and management as Mall of Arabia and Aziz Mall, it is reasonable — though not confirmed — to expect a broadly similar Ramadan pattern of extended late-night hours and a compressed daytime period, especially around the food court and entertainment areas which typically open later in the evening. Separately, an Instagram post from Al Salaam Mall — another Cenomi property — states that Cenomi malls generally “return to official working hours starting from the third day of Eid,” a policy that likely extends across the portfolio but is not confirmed specifically for Yasmin Mall by any source checked (Al Salaam Mall Jeddah’s Instagram post on Eid hours). A visitor planning a Ramadan or Eid trip to Yasmin Mall specifically should confirm hours directly with Cenomi Centers rather than assume the citywide pattern applies unchanged.

Prayer Facilities and Religious Considerations

Cenomi Centers’ own services page for Al Yasmin Mall lists a prayer room among the mall’s facilities, alongside a baby-changing room, ATMs, wheelchairs, baby strollers, a customer service desk, a first-aid room, and a lost-and-found service (Cenomi Centers’ Al Yasmin Mall services page, checked 2024). This is a standard, expected facility at any Saudi shopping mall of this size and is not a distinctive feature specific to Yasmin Mall — every mall in this guide series’ Jeddah coverage provides one, since it is effectively a baseline requirement rather than an amenity worth travelling for. No source located for this article gives the prayer room’s specific location within the mall (which gate it sits nearest, whether there are separate men’s and women’s sections, or its capacity), which this guide flags as a documentation gap rather than fill with a guess.

As with every commercial venue in this series, this guide will not manufacture religious significance where none exists: Yasmin Mall is not built on, near, or in reference to any site of Islamic historical interest, and no source consulted claims otherwise. Its relevance to a Muslim visitor or pilgrim is entirely practical — a prayer room exists, food sold within a Saudi shopping mall of this kind is halal by default under Saudi food-service regulation (a general point true of virtually all commercial food service in the Kingdom, not a claim specific to this mall), and the daily rhythm of the mall’s opening hours, as noted above, appears to accommodate Friday prayer through a delayed opening time common across nearly every Jeddah mall in this guide series. Modest dress is the general social norm across Saudi public space, including shopping malls; this is a matter of general Saudi social practice rather than a rule specific to Yasmin Mall, and no source consulted describes any unusual or stricter dress enforcement at this particular property compared with any other Jeddah mall.

No source located for this article describes specific family-section or gender-segregation arrangements at Yasmin Mall’s food court or restaurants — a detail that is documented for some Saudi malls (separate family and singles seating sections being historically common in Gulf food courts, though this practice has relaxed considerably in recent years). This guide states that gap plainly rather than assuming a specific arrangement either way; a family visiting Yasmin Mall specifically for a meal should expect general, unsegregated seating consistent with the more relaxed norms of Saudi retail and dining venues in 2025–2026, but should not treat this as a confirmed fact about this specific mall’s current practice.

Families, Children and Accessibility

Yasmin Mall offers baby-changing facilities and baby strollers as standard, per Cenomi’s own services listing (Cenomi Centers’ Al Yasmin Mall services page), and wheelchair availability is listed on the same page, suggesting basic accessibility provision consistent with a modern, single-storey retail building — a single floor plate is, if anything, an accessibility advantage over multi-level malls that depend more heavily on lifts and escalators, though this guide has not been able to confirm specific step-free access at every entrance. For families with young children, the mall offers the previously mentioned indoor entertainment operators — “Billy Beez” and “Babel Land” per Arabic-language shopping guides, plus an “Octo” arcade or entertainment brand referenced by at least one further source — though as noted above, the specific scale claims made for these attractions in some blog posts could not be independently corroborated and are reported with that caveat (Bayut’s Yasmin Mall guide; Al Bawaba’s Yasmin Mall guide). No source describes age-appropriate ride restrictions, height requirements, or specific safety certifications for these attractions, so parents should treat them as unverified in scale and confirm suitability on arrival.

For older visitors or those with mobility limitations, the mall’s single-floor layout, ample parking (2,200–2,351 bays depending on source), and disabled parking provision noted on at least one mapping service are practical positives (Yango Maps’ Yasmin Mall listing, noting “Parking for people with disabilities” as a feature). No source describes quiet rooms, sensory-friendly spaces, or any specific accommodation for visitors with additional needs beyond the standard first-aid room and wheelchair provision listed by Cenomi. This is consistent with what is documented for most Saudi malls of this size and era rather than a specific shortfall unique to Yasmin Mall, but families with more specific accessibility requirements should contact the mall directly (+966 9200 00262) before travelling rather than assume provision they cannot confirm from public sources.

Costs and Value: How Yasmin Mall Compares

Shopping at Yasmin Mall itself carries no admission cost — like virtually every general-retail mall in Saudi Arabia, entry is free and the only costs are whatever a visitor chooses to spend in individual stores, the food court, or the cinema. The main dated, sourced cost figures available for Yasmin Mall specifically are the Muvi Cinemas ticket prices discussed above (roughly SAR 34–55 for standard screenings and SAR 65–75 for the Xperience format, depending on which source and date is used) and Muvi’s nationwide combo pricing of SAR 65 for a ticket, small popcorn and soft drink as of the May 2024 price change (Zawya’s coverage of Muvi Cinemas’ 2024 pricing announcement).

Positioned honestly against Red Sea Mall and Mall of Arabia — the two much larger, more heavily marketed Cenomi-family and independently-branded malls covered elsewhere in this guide series — Yasmin Mall is not a premium or aspirational shopping destination in the way parts of those two malls are marketed to be. This guide’s companion article on Red Sea Mall describes that property as an older, three-level mall built around a hypermarket, international fashion chains, a food court, a multiplex cinema, a hotel tower and children’s attractions, with ongoing investment reflected in a reported 2025 leasing overhaul adding more than twenty new retail and food concepts across a reworked section of the mall (drawing on trade press coverage from Images RetailME). Mall of Arabia, similarly, is described in this series as a large, comprehensive retail and family-entertainment centre with several hundred shops, Jeddah’s first IMAX screen, a KidZania branch, an ice rink and a long food court, developed by the same corporate lineage (Fawaz Al-Hokair Group, later Arabian Centres, now Cenomi Centers) that built Yasmin Mall. Set against both, Yasmin Mall reads as the more modest, single-storey, neighbourhood-scale sibling: a smaller GLA (roughly 52,000–60,000 square metres of leasable space, against Mall of Arabia and Red Sea Mall’s larger multi-level footprints), a tenant mix weighted toward mainstream mid-market fashion rather than luxury or flagship stores, and no equivalent large-format entertainment anchor like an IMAX screen, KidZania, or ice rink documented in any source consulted for this article.

None of the sources consulted for this article offer a systematic price comparison of specific goods (a coffee, a cinema ticket, a fashion item) across Yasmin Mall, Red Sea Mall and Mall of Arabia, so this guide will not manufacture a precise price-tier ranking it cannot support. What can be said with reasonable confidence is structural rather than price-based: Yasmin Mall’s mainstream fashion tenants (Zara, H&M, Mango, Marks & Spencer) are largely the same mid-market international chains found at Jeddah’s larger malls, meaning individual item prices for comparable products are unlikely to differ much between the three malls, since these are the same retailers operating under the same national or regional pricing policies. Where the malls genuinely differ is in overall scale, entertainment offering, and — by extension — how much a visitor is likely to spend across an entire visit: a family spending a full day at Mall of Arabia with an IMAX film, KidZania, and an ice-skating session will likely spend considerably more in total than a family doing a grocery run, a meal and a standard cinema screening at Yasmin Mall, simply because there is more to spend money on. For a visitor whose priority is affordability and a quick, uncomplicated errand-style visit, Yasmin Mall’s smaller scale is arguably an advantage rather than a shortcoming — there is less temptation and less need to budget for a full day out. For a visitor specifically seeking Jeddah’s most comprehensive retail and entertainment experience, Red Sea Mall or Mall of Arabia remain the more logical choice, and this guide sees no reason to claim otherwise.

Cheaper alternatives. For grocery and everyday needs specifically, Jeddah’s standalone hypermarket branches (Panda, Danube, Carrefour, Bin Dawood) scattered across the city, several of which sit closer to central Jeddah accommodation than Yasmin Mall does, will generally be more convenient and no more expensive than a mall-based hypermarket visit (Subqo’s directory of Jeddah supermarkets and hypermarkets). For value fashion shopping specifically, the same international chains found at Yasmin Mall (H&M, Zara, Mango and similar) are also present at Red Sea Mall and Mall of Arabia, meaning a visitor already planning to visit one of those larger malls gains no particular fashion-shopping advantage by making a separate trip to Yasmin Mall.

Seasons, Weather and Timing

Jeddah’s climate is hot and humid year-round, with summer months (roughly June through September) regularly reaching daytime highs in the low-to-mid 40s Celsius alongside high coastal humidity — general Jeddah climate knowledge rather than a claim specific to Yasmin Mall, but directly relevant to why an air-conditioned, single-floor mall in a residential district holds real everyday value for local families regardless of its lack of tourist appeal. Given this climate, indoor destinations like Yasmin Mall naturally see higher foot traffic during the hottest parts of the day and during the hottest months, a pattern general to Gulf retail rather than documented specifically for this property.

Ramadan changes the rhythm of Saudi retail significantly: shopping and dining activity shifts heavily toward the evening and late night, after the day’s fast is broken, and — as discussed above — several Cenomi-operated Jeddah malls including Mall of Arabia and Aziz Mall are documented adjusting their hours accordingly for 2025, typically closing in the late afternoon and reopening for an extended evening and into the early hours (Time Out Jeddah’s 2025 roundup of Jeddah mall Ramadan hours). Although Yasmin Mall itself was not included in that specific roundup, a visitor planning a Ramadan trip should expect a similar late-evening shopping and dining pattern, subject to direct confirmation with the mall.

Hajj season brings a different kind of crowding pressure to Jeddah generally, as the city’s airport and roads absorb the bulk of pilgrim traffic passing through en route to Makkah, though Hajj-specific crowding is far more pronounced at the airport, at Jeddah’s dedicated pilgrim-processing facilities, and on the direct Jeddah–Makkah expressway than at a residential-district shopping mall like Yasmin Mall, which serves a largely local, non-pilgrim clientele. No source consulted for this article documents any Hajj-specific operational changes, crowd patterns, or hours adjustments at Yasmin Mall specifically, and this guide will not invent any.

School holidays and weekends (Friday–Saturday in Saudi Arabia) are the periods most likely to see higher footfall at any Saudi mall, including this one, though no Yasmin Mall-specific footfall breakdown by day of week was located; the FY2018 average annual footfall figure of 8,060,942 visits, drawn from Arabian Centres’ 2019 IPO filing, works out to roughly 22,000 visits per day on average across the full year, though this is a citywide-mall-scale average rather than a granular breakdown of peak versus quiet periods (Arabian Centres Company IPO prospectus extract).

Nearby Places to Combine

Given Yasmin Mall’s position on the inland ring road rather than near the coast or the historic core, it does not naturally pair with Jeddah’s headline sightseeing itinerary the way a coastal or old-town stop would. The most realistic combinations are practical rather than scenic: a visitor already staying in or driving through north-east Jeddah’s Al Manar, As Samir or Al Rawdah districts might combine a Yasmin Mall stop with errands or dining in the same corridor, given the string of Al Nahdi Pharmacy branches and residential services documented in the district guides cited earlier (OpenSooq’s Al-Manar neighbourhood guide). For a visitor specifically routing between the airport and central Jeddah, Yasmin Mall sits roughly 20 minutes from King Abdulaziz International Airport by the Bolt route estimate cited above, making it a plausible stop for a traveller with a long layover who wants an air-conditioned break, a meal, or a cinema screening before continuing into the city, though this guide stops short of recommending a special detour purely for that purpose given the mall’s modest scale (Bolt’s route calculator, Al Yasmin Mall to Jeddah Airport).

For a visitor with more time and a specific interest in Jeddah’s retail landscape, a more logical itinerary would prioritise Red Sea Mall or Mall of Arabia first — both larger, better documented, and more centrally positioned relative to Jeddah’s main hotel districts and the Corniche — and treat Yasmin Mall as an optional add-on only if accommodation happens to be nearby. Historic Jeddah (Al-Balad), roughly 10–11 kilometres to the south-west, and the Jeddah Corniche remain the city’s genuinely distinctive, non-interchangeable attractions and should take priority over any of the city’s malls for a visitor with limited time, a point this guide makes plainly rather than inflating Yasmin Mall’s relative importance (Distancesfrom.com’s Jeddah to Al-Balad distance).

Common Misconceptions and Traveller Warnings

The single biggest misconception to correct, restated from the top of this article, is geographic: readers researching “Yasmin Mall” online will encounter genuinely separate properties in Riyadh’s Al Yasmin district (Unified Centers’ Al Yasmeen Plaza, Riyadh project page; Bayut’s Al Yasmin, Riyadh area guide), and should not assume that pricing, hours, tenant information or reviews found under a similarly worded search apply to the Jeddah property this guide describes. Within Jeddah itself, at least one guide misplaces the mall on Tahlia Street, which is actually where Red Sea Mall sits (Wingie’s guide to Yasmin Mall, Jeddah), and at least one further source loosely refers to the surrounding area as “Hay Al-Yasmin” rather than by its correct district name, Al Manar (Sakan Saudi Arabia’s blog on Yasmin Mall). A traveller relying on a map app or navigation service should search specifically for “Al Yasmin Mall, Al Manar, Jeddah” or use the mall’s confirmed coordinates rather than a generic “Yasmin Mall Jeddah” search, to avoid ending up at the wrong result.

Store-count and size figures should not be treated as fixed facts. As detailed above, GLA figures for the mall range from roughly 52,000 to nearly 60,000 square metres depending on the source and year, and the frequently repeated “101,672 square metres” figure describes the total built-up area (including parking and back-of-house space) rather than the leasable retail floor — conflating the two, as several retail blogs do, overstates the mall’s actual shopping floor by roughly double (Arabian Centres Company IPO prospectus extract; FARE Construction’s Al Yasmin Mall Jeddah project page). Store counts similarly range from roughly 170 (per the 2019 IPO filing, describing FY2018) to 210 (per the 2016 opening announcement) to figures as high as 300-plus repeated by some Arabic-language blogs without a clear sourcing trail; a visitor should not expect any published store count to be precisely accurate on the day of their visit.

Cinema and entertainment pricing changes. As shown above, Muvi Cinemas ticket prices cited across different sources for Yasmin Mall’s screen range from roughly SAR 34 to SAR 75 depending on the date, the screen format, and which source is used — always confirm current pricing through Muvi’s own booking channel rather than any single guide, including this one, before planning a cinema trip (Muvi Cinemas’ official cinemas page).

Ride-hailing surge pricing. General guidance for Uber and Careem in Saudi Arabia warns that fares can surge to 1.5–3 times normal rates during Ramadan evenings, Hajj season and major events — this is general Jeddah-wide guidance rather than a claim specific to Yasmin Mall, but is worth budgeting for on any mall trip made during these periods (House of Saudi’s guide to Uber and Careem pricing in Saudi Arabia). This guide found no Yasmin Mall-specific complaints about taxi overcharging, counterfeit goods, or safety incidents in any source consulted — which may reflect either a genuinely clean record or simply the mall’s low profile in independent travel and consumer reporting compared with more heavily reviewed Jeddah landmarks; this guide states that absence of evidence honestly rather than either alleging or ruling out such issues.

Hours discrepancies. As detailed in the Practical Visitor Guide section above, at least one source’s claim of 24-hour Friday opening at Yasmin Mall appears to be an outlier inconsistent with every other source checked, and should not be relied upon; a visitor should confirm hours directly with Cenomi Centers (+966 9200 00262) or through the Cenomi Plus app rather than trust any single online listing, including this one, without cross-checking (Tsf7’s Yasmin Mall guide, showing the 24-hour Friday claim; Cenomi Centers’ Al Yasmin Mall homepage).

Lesser-Known Facts

Yasmin Mall was Arabian Centres’ eighteenth mall nationally and its fifth in Jeddah specifically at the time of its 2016 opening, a detail from the company’s original opening announcement that gives useful context for how mature and saturated Jeddah’s Arabian Centres/Cenomi mall portfolio already was by 2016 — Red Sea Mall (2008) and Mall of Arabia (2008) both predate it by eight years (Saudi Gazette’s 2016 Yasmin Mall opening announcement).

The mall’s Muvi Cinemas screen, marketed as “Xperience CGS,” is described by Muvi as the largest single cinema screen in Saudi Arabia — a genuinely notable superlative for a mall that otherwise attracts little independent coverage, and arguably its single strongest objective claim to distinction among Jeddah’s malls (Muvi Cinemas’ official cinema-locations page).

Despite being a fully operational, actively leased shopping centre with dozens of international retail brands, Yasmin Mall has no listed entry among Tripadvisor’s ranked Jeddah attractions, unlike Red Sea Mall, which the same platform ranks second among more than a hundred Jeddah attractions — a striking illustration of how differently Jeddah’s malls are perceived by international travellers versus local residents and shoppers (Tripadvisor’s Jeddah attractions listing).

Expedia’s own listings page for the property shows a customer rating of “9/10 Wonderful” based on 292 reviews under one listing entry, while a separate related listing on the same platform shows “7.8/10 Good” based on 73 reviews — a discrepancy this guide cannot fully resolve and suspects may reflect a mixing of the mall’s listing with a differently categorised nearby property in Expedia’s own database, rather than two genuinely separate rating pools for the same mall (Expedia’s Al Yasmin Mall Jeddah attraction listing). Readers should treat both figures with caution rather than as a definitive satisfaction score.

Timeline

  • 2016 (2 March): Arabian Centres opens Yasmin Mall in Jeddah’s Al Manar district — the company’s eighteenth mall nationally and fifth in Jeddah, with a reported gross leasable area of “nearly 60,000 sq m,” 210 retail outlets, and an initial annual footfall estimate of nine million visitors (Saudi Gazette’s opening announcement).
  • 2016: Construction contractor FARE Construction lists the project as completed, with a built-up area of 101,672 square metres (FARE Construction’s project page).
  • 31 December 2018: Per Arabian Centres’ IPO disclosures, the mall records 170 tenants across 275 retail units, a GLA of 52,041 square metres, average occupancy of 90.6 percent for the year, and annual footfall of 8,060,942 visits (Arabian Centres Company IPO prospectus extract, Mubasher).
  • 2019: Arabian Centres Company lists on the Saudi Exchange (Tadawul) as part of the same IPO process that disclosed the figures above.
  • FY2020: Arabian Centres’ annual report records Yasmin Mall’s GLA at 54,716 (elsewhere 54,510) square metres against a built-up area of 101,672 square metres, occupancy of 96.5 percent, and a lease expiring in November 2034 (Arabian Centres Company FY2020 Annual Report).
  • December 2022: Arabian Centres Company rebrands corporately as Cenomi Centers as part of a wider group rebrand; Yasmin Mall’s ownership and operation continue unchanged under the new corporate name (Cenomi Centers’ own Yasmeen mall page).
  • 2024 (financial year): Cenomi Centers’ Annual Report lists Yasmeen Mall Jeddah as a Category B “Regional” mall with a GLA of 59,700 square metres and a lease expiring in 2034, confirming continued active ownership and operation (Cenomi Centers 2024 Annual Report).
  • 29 April 2025: Value fashion retailer REDTAG announces a new 765-square-metre store opening at Yasmin Mall, evidence of continued active leasing at the property (Zawya’s coverage of REDTAG’s Yasmin Mall store opening).
  • 12 May 2025: Cenomi Centers’ Q1-2025 earnings release reports portfolio-wide record footfall of 34.7 million visits for the quarter, with no indication of any planned closure, sale, or redevelopment affecting Yasmin Mall (Cenomi Centers Q1-2025 earnings release, Saudi Exchange).
  • 2026: ANB Capital’s initiation-of-coverage equity research report on Cenomi Centers references “Yasmeen Mall” as part of its portfolio-wide valuation model, further confirming the asset’s continued place in the company’s active portfolio into 2026 (ANB Capital’s Cenomi Centers initiation-of-coverage report).

Practical Takeaways

  • Yasmin Mall is a real, currently trading, single-storey shopping mall in the Al Manar district of north-east Jeddah, on Al-Ajawad Street at its junction with the Al Haramain Ring Road Expressway — not to be confused with any similarly named property in Riyadh’s Al Yasmin district (Unified Centers’ Al Yasmeen Plaza, Riyadh).
  • It is owned and operated by Cenomi Centers (formerly Arabian Centres Company), and remains an active, leased asset as confirmed by the company’s 2024 Annual Report and 2025 earnings disclosures (Cenomi Centers 2024 Annual Report).
  • Expect roughly 52,000–60,000 square metres of leasable retail space (figures vary by source and year) across a single floor, with somewhere between 170 and 210-plus retail units depending on the date of the source (Arabian Centres IPO prospectus extract).
  • Highlights include a nine-screen Muvi Cinemas complex with a reportedly record-sized “Xperience CGS” screen, a mainstream international fashion mix, an IKEA planning studio, an in-mall Al Nahdi Pharmacy branch, and a long food court and restaurant row (Muvi Cinemas’ Yasmin Mall page).
  • It is smaller and less feature-rich than Red Sea Mall or Mall of Arabia, with no confirmed IMAX, KidZania, ice rink, or hotel tower — a practical, everyday neighbourhood mall rather than a headline Jeddah attraction.
  • Expect standard hours of roughly 10am–11pm most days and a later Friday opening around 2pm, but confirm directly with Cenomi Centers (+966 9200 00262) before travelling, since sources disagree on exact times and Ramadan-specific hours for this mall are not documented (Cenomi Centers’ Al Yasmin Mall homepage).
  • A Bolt ride from the mall to Jeddah’s airport was estimated at SAR 34.10 for a 19.6-kilometre, roughly 20-minute trip, as of the date checked in January 2026 — confirm current fares before travelling (Bolt’s route calculator).
  • Cinema ticket prices for the mall’s Muvi screens ranged from roughly SAR 34 to SAR 75 across different sources and dates — confirm live pricing through Muvi’s own app before booking (Zawya’s coverage of Muvi’s 2024 pricing).
  • For a visitor with limited time in Jeddah and no specific reason to be in the Al Manar area, Red Sea Mall or Mall of Arabia remain the more logical shopping and entertainment destinations.

Sources

Official and company sources:

Independent and aggregator sources (used with appropriate caveats):

A Note on Method. This guide was compiled entirely from publicly available web sources — company investor disclosures, official retailer store locators, and a mix of independent and aggregator-level Arabic and English-language shopping and travel guides — without an in-person site visit. Where sources conflicted, as they frequently did on this particular property’s size, store count, and opening hours, this guide has reported the conflict with named, dated sources rather than silently picking one figure or averaging them. Several details that a more heavily covered landmark would have independently verified — the mall’s architect, its current hypermarket tenant, its exact prayer-room location and capacity, and Ramadan-specific hours — could not be confirmed through any source located during this research and are stated as open gaps rather than filled with invented detail, in keeping with the guiding principle that a thin record should be presented honestly rather than padded. Readers planning an actual visit, especially around pricing, hours, and current tenants, should treat every specific figure in this guide as a snapshot subject to change and confirm directly with Cenomi Centers or the relevant retailer before travelling.

Frequently asked questions

Generally 10am to around 11pm or 11:30pm, with Friday trading starting in the early afternoon. Individual stores can vary, so allow some flexibility.

In the Al-Manar area of eastern Jeddah, just off Al Haramain Road - the main route toward Makkah - which makes it one of the easiest malls to reach when travelling between the two cities.

Dedicated family entertainment and play zones, plus a food court with familiar chains, so children stay occupied while adults shop.

Yes, prayer rooms for men and women are standard here, and shops observe the usual brief prayer-time pauses.

Yes. The mix leans toward mainstream and value brands with a hypermarket on site, making it well suited to stocking up on essentials before or after Umrah.