Which eSIM is best for your trip?
A guide for each kind of trip and each destination: what to compare, how much data a trip really uses, and the cases where a local SIM, another provider or no eSIM at all suits you better than we do.
Guides by trip
What suits a working nomad is not what suits a cruise or a family holiday.
- Best eSIM for digital nomadsWorking travellers moving every few weeks across a region, who need a connection the day they arrive and a laptop online.Read the guide →
- Best eSIM for a Europe multi-country tripInterrailing, multi-city holidays and any European trip touching three or more countries.Read the guide →
- Best eSIM for business travelShort international trips where you need email, maps and a laptop hotspot from the moment you land.Read the guide →
- Best eSIM for a cruisePort days on Mediterranean, Caribbean, Baltic and Asian itineraries, where you are ashore most days.Read the guide →
- Best eSIM for a family holidayTwo weeks abroad with children, where most of the group is together most of the time.Read the guide →
Guides by country
Local coverage, prices and what to know before you land.
Best eSIM for JapanTwo-week city trips where maps, train apps and translation are used all day but video is watched on hotel Wi-Fi.Read the guide →
Best eSIM for United StatesRoad trips and multi-city visits where you need reliable maps well outside the big metros.Read the guide →
Best eSIM for TürkiyeIstanbul city breaks and Aegean or Mediterranean coast holidays of one to two weeks.Read the guide →
Best eSIM for ThailandIsland-hopping and backpacking trips where you move often and cannot rely on one hotel's Wi-Fi.Read the guide →
Best eSIM for United KingdomCity breaks and multi-stop trips taking in London, Edinburgh or the countryside.Read the guide →
Best eSIM for FranceParis trips and longer European tours that start or end in France.Read the guide →
Best eSIM for SpainBeach holidays, island trips and city breaks in Barcelona, Madrid or Seville.Read the guide →
Best eSIM for ItalyMulti-city trips (Rome, Florence, Venice) and driving holidays in Tuscany or the lakes.Read the guide →
Best eSIM for GermanyBusiness trips, Christmas market tours and rail-based travel between German cities.Read the guide →
Best eSIM for United Arab EmiratesDubai stopovers and week-long holidays where data is used heavily for maps and social media.Read the guide →
Best eSIM for GreeceIsland-hopping trips where you are booking ferries and rooms as you go, and a dead phone means a missed boat.Read the guide →
Best eSIM for NetherlandsShort city trips and Schiphol layovers where you want maps, trains and tickets working the moment you land.Read the guide →
Best eSIM for PortugalTrips that mix a city with a coast or wine region, where you are driving between places and depending on maps.Read the guide →
Best eSIM for South KoreaCity trips where translation, navigation and messaging run all day, and where little is written in an alphabet you can read.Read the guide →
Best eSIM for VietnamMulti-stop trips the length of the country, where you are booking trains, buses and Grab rides as you go.Read the guide →
Best eSIM for IndonesiaTrips that go past Bali, where the gap between networks stops being theoretical.Read the guide →
Best eSIM for Saudi ArabiaUmrah and Hajj travel, where you need maps, the Nusuk app and a way to reach your group the moment you land.Read the guide →
Best eSIM for GeorgiaTrips that combine Tbilisi with Kazbegi, Svaneti or the wine country, where you are driving unfamiliar roads.Read the guide →
Best eSIM for ChinaAnyone who needs their usual apps to keep working in mainland China, which is almost every visitor and most business travellers.Read the guide →
Best eSIM for MexicoTrips that move around - Mexico City, then a coast, then somewhere inland - where a single-city plan would leave you offline between them.Read the guide →
Best eSIM for EgyptTwo-week trips taking in Cairo, Luxor and the Red Sea, where you are booking transfers and guides as you go.Read the guide →
Best eSIM for IndiaTrips of a week to a month, where the registration wait for a local SIM would cost you the first day.Read the guide →
Best eSIM for SwitzerlandAnyone travelling from the EU who has been caught out by the assumption that Swiss roaming behaves like the rest of Europe.Read the guide →
Best eSIM for MalaysiaTrips that combine the mainland with Langkawi, Penang or Borneo, where coverage quality changes sharply between them.Read the guide →
Best eSIM for AlbaniaRoad trips down the Riviera and into the mountains, where you are finding rooms and restaurants as you travel.Read the guide →
Best eSIM for PhilippinesIsland-hopping trips where ferries, flights and rooms are booked as you go, and being offline costs you a connection.Read the guide →
Looking for somewhere else? Every destination we cover has plans and local coverage details on the destinations page.