Getting online in Germany
A travel eSIM is a data plan you install before departure and switch on when you land, so your phone is online in Germany 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 Germany
These are the airports in Germany 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Berlin Brandenburg Airport | BER | Berlin |
| Bodensee Airport Friedrichshafen | FDH | Friedrichshafen |
| Bremen Airport | BRE | Bremen |
| Cologne Bonn Airport | CGN | Köln (Cologne) |
| Dortmund Airport | DTM | Dortmund |
| Dresden Airport | DRS | Dresden |
| Düsseldorf Airport | DUS | Düsseldorf |
| Erfurt-Weimar Airport | ERF | Erfurt |
| Frankfurt Main Airport | FRA | Frankfurt am Main |
| Frankfurt-Hahn Airport | HHN | Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) |
| Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport | HAM | Hamburg |
| Hannover Airport | HAJ | Hannover |
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 Germany tend to be.
- Berlin3 426 354 people
- Hamburg1 973 896 people
- Köln1 024 621 people
- Frankfurt am Main650 000 people
- Düsseldorf618 685 people
- Stuttgart612 663 people
- Essen593 085 people
- Dortmund588 462 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.