Getting online in Canada
A travel eSIM is a data plan you install before departure and switch on when you land, so your phone is online in Canada without roaming charges and without hunting for a SIM counter at arrivals. Your home number stays where it is — the eSIM sits alongside it.
Plans, prices, data amounts and validity are set by our partner and shown on their own page. We do not repeat them here because they change and we do not measure them.
Where you land in Canada
These are the airports in Canada with scheduled flights and an IATA code. The minute you step off one of them is the minute an eSIM stops being optional.
| Airport | Code | City |
|---|---|---|
| Calgary International Airport | YYC | Calgary |
| Edmonton International Airport | YEG | Edmonton |
| Halifax / Stanfield International Airport | YHZ | Halifax |
| Kelowna International Airport | YLW | Kelowna |
| Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport | YUL | Montréal |
| Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport | YOW | Ottawa |
| Quebec Jean Lesage International Airport | YQB | Quebec |
| Saskatoon John G. Diefenbaker International Airport | YXE | Saskatoon |
| St. John's International Airport | YYT | St. John's |
| Toronto Pearson International Airport | YYZ | Toronto |
| Vancouver International Airport | YVR | Vancouver |
| Victoria International Airport | YYJ | Victoria |
Where you will actually use the data
The largest towns and cities near those arrival airports, by population (GeoNames). Coverage is the partner's to state, not ours — this is simply where travellers in Canada tend to be.
- Toronto2 794 356 people
- Montréal1 762 949 people
- Calgary1 306 784 people
- Ottawa1 017 449 people
- Edmonton1 010 899 people
- Mississauga717 961 people
- Vancouver662 248 people
- Brampton656 480 people
Before you buy
Two things worth checking on your own handset, because they decide whether any eSIM works at all: the phone must be eSIM capable, and it must be carrier unlocked. Most phones sold in the last few years are both; phones bought on a carrier contract often are not until the contract ends.
We do not test handsets and cannot tell you whether yours qualifies — your phone's settings screen and your carrier can.