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Arfaja
Arfaja shows where the desert in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait turned green, from satellite pictures usually 2 to 5 days apart, each with its date. In a dry season, the map says so.
App in development, coming to iPhone and Android.
Visit arfaja.com
What it will do
The app is in development: this may change before launch.
Free
- Where the desert turned green, at map scale
- The rain of the last days, estimated from satellites in squares of 25 by 25 km
- Last spring, out of season
- Search for a rawdah by its name
- No account, no sign-up
Arfaja Plus, yearly
- The exact green spots, up close
- The nearest green places, with their pages
- Maps and search without network
- Saved places
- A free 7-day trial for new subscribers, where their store offers it
Why we built it
The green after rain does not come everywhere. A photo goes round, and nobody knows when it was taken. You drive for hours and find the ground dry, and out there, there is no network to check.
Arfaja shows where the satellites saw green, and on which day.
How it sees the green
Arfaja compares each new Sentinel-2 satellite picture with the same ground in the dry season and marks what turned green. It shows what the satellite saw on the date shown, at about 20 m; thin grass can be missed.
The map covers 11 regions, their desert interior: Riyadh, the Eastern Province, Al-Qassim, Ha’il, Al-Jawf, the Northern Borders, Tabuk, Madinah, Makkah, Najran and Kuwait. Not in this first version: Asir, Jazan, Al-Bahah, and the highlands of Taif and Najran, where the green comes with the summer rains.
Seen, never promised
Every green place carries the date of the picture it was seen in. Clouds can hide the ground for days. Arfaja shows what the satellites saw; it cannot say a place is still green today, and it says nothing about the roads.
The rain layer is a satellite estimate, not a flood warning. Wadis can flood fast after rain: follow the official warnings.
How it runs
The website is in Arabic, with an English version, and sets no cookies and no analytics. It is hosted on Cloudflare, which also holds its email list; its emails go through Brevo. The list sends a confirmation, then two emails at most: the first green, and the app’s launch.
Map pictures: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026.
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