Getting online in Spain
A travel eSIM is a data plan you install before departure and switch on when you land, so your phone is online in Spain 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 Spain
These are the airports in Spain 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport | MAD | Madrid |
| Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport | ALC | Alicante |
| Asturias Airport | OVD | Ranón |
| Bilbao Airport | BIO | Bilbao |
| César Manrique-Lanzarote Airport | ACE | San Bartolomé |
| Fuerteventura Airport | FUE | El Matorral |
| Girona-Costa Brava Airport | GRO | Girona |
| Gran Canaria Airport | LPA | Gran Canaria Island |
| Ibiza Airport | IBZ | Ibiza (Eivissa) |
| Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport | BCN | Barcelona |
| Menorca Airport | MAH | Mahón (Maó) |
| Málaga-Costa del Sol Airport | AGP | Málaga |
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 Spain tend to be.
- Madrid3 255 944 people
- Barcelona1 686 208 people
- Valencia824 340 people
- Málaga592 346 people
- Murcia471 982 people
- Palma438 234 people
- Las Palmas de Gran Canaria383 516 people
- Alicante348 901 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.