The standard rule is one Rawdah permit per person every 365 days. The exception: when you’re physically near the Prophet’s Mosque, the app can offer same-day “Instant Track” appointments — letting some visitors return even if a full year hasn’t passed.

How Instant Track works

Instant Track slots are unlocked by your location, not the calendar. The key conditions:

  • You are in or right next to Masjid an-Nabawi in Madinah.
  • You’ve enabled GPS / location permission for the Nusuk app.
  • You request the booking at that moment — these are short-notice, same-day seats.

If those conditions are met, it’s not necessary for 365 days to have passed since your last visit.

Step by step

  1. Travel to the Prophet’s Mosque area first.
  2. Turn on Location and allow it for Nusuk (also enable it inside the app if prompted).
  3. Open Rawdah and start a booking; look for same-day / Instant times based on your location.
  4. Grab an available time, confirm, then head to your gate.
Why it might not showIf location is off, you’re too far away, or all near-term seats are taken, Instant Track won’t appear. Move closer, confirm location is on, and re-check on the 20-minute marks.
Pre-Hajj windowsFor short periods around Hajj the 365-day limit has sometimes been eased. These aren’t announced in advance, so it’s worth simply trying to book.