Europe eSIM

One eSIM covers 34 countries across Europe, and the list is wider than most travellers assume.

It runs: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye, Ukraine and the United Kingdom (coverage read 28 October 2026).

Four of those are the ones people check for and expect to be missing. **The United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland are not in the European Union**, and plenty of "Europe" plans stop at the EU border. This one does not. If your trip is London then Zurich, or a Nordic run through Oslo and Reykjavík, it is one plan rather than three.

What it costs

Fifteen Europe plans, starting at $2 for a 500 MB day and running to $73 for the largest (catalogue read 28 October 2026).

Those 15 come in two shapes, and which suits you depends on the trip rather than on the price.

Five are Day Passes. You choose a daily allowance and how many days you are away, so a long trip does not force you into a bigger daily allowance than you need, and a short one is not padded out to the nearest package size.

Ten are fixed bundles — a total amount of data valid for a period, the largest being **50 GB over 180 days at $73**. There is no daily cap inside a bundle, so the data pools: a heavy day in Rome borrows from a quiet one in the Dolomites.

For most travellers, 1 GB a day is comfortable: maps running while you navigate an unfamiliar city, messaging, ride-hailing, and photographs going home. Raise it if you plan to stream on trains.

One thing stated plainly: there is no unlimited Europe plan. All 15 are metered — five by a daily allowance, ten by a total bundle size. If unmetered data is what you need, we are not the right provider for that trip, and it is better to know that now.

Why one plan beats several

The case for a regional plan is not really price. It is the absence of decisions.

A country-by-country approach means a purchase at every border, or a plan that quietly stops working at the moment you are least equipped to deal with it — in transit, on a train, with a connection to make. The classic European trip crosses two or three borders without much ceremony, and your phone should not be the thing that notices.

Install it before you fly, on your home Wi-Fi. The plan stays dormant until it first connects somewhere in the 34, so buying ahead costs nothing.

Choosing the daily allowance

If you have picked a Day Pass, the only decision left is how much data per day, and the honest answer is that most people over-estimate it. (On a fixed bundle the same reasoning applies to the total: multiply the daily figure below by your days.)

500 MB a day suits a trip where you are mostly somewhere — a week in one city, hotel Wi-Fi in the evenings, maps for the walk to dinner and messages home. It is the entry plan, and for a lot of travellers it is genuinely enough.

1 GB a day is the common choice and the one we would suggest if you are unsure. It covers navigation running for long stretches, ride-hailing, photographs going out as you take them, and the odd video call, without any rationing.

2 GB or more is for people who will stream on trains, work from the laptop over a hotspot, or travel with someone sharing the connection.

A useful calibration: look at your own phone's mobile data usage for a normal week at home, then add for navigation. Maps running continuously in an unfamiliar city is the single largest consumer on most European trips, and it is the one that catches people who assumed a city break would be light.

If you guess low, you can buy another plan mid-trip. If you guess high, you have paid for headroom you never touched — which is precisely what per-day pricing exists to avoid.

Where it will and will not work

Coverage across western and central Europe is dense — cities, intercity rail, motorways and most rural areas are well served.

Expect thinner service in the places you would expect: Alpine valleys, the Scottish Highlands, Norwegian fjords away from towns, the Icelandic interior, and long rural stretches in the Balkans and eastern Türkiye. Trains through mountain country drop in cuttings and tunnels and come back.

Download offline maps before a mountain or island leg. That advice is the same on any network.