This comes days after Saudi forces shot down three missiles over Riyadh. The debris fell on a house killing one person, in what is the first death in the capital from a Yemeni-fired missile.
"The 29th summit of the Arab League will be held in Dhahran on April 15," the ministry said in a statement, without stating the reason for this decision.
The summit was initially planned for late March but was put off by foreign ministers of the 22-nation regional bloc after it coincided with a three-day presidential election in Egypt, a member state.