Getting online in Greece
A travel eSIM is a data plan you install before departure and switch on when you land, so your phone is online in Greece 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 Greece
These are the airports in Greece 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Athens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport | ATH | Spata-Artemida |
| Chania International Airport | CHQ | Souda |
| Corfu Ioannis Kapodistrias International Airport | CFU | Kerkyra (Corfu) |
| Heraklion International Nikos Kazantzakis Airport | HER | Heraklion |
| Kavala Alexander the Great International Airport | KVA | Kavala |
| Kos International Airport "Ippokratis" | KGS | Kos Island |
| Rhodes International Airport "Diagoras" | RHO | Rhodes |
| Santorini International Airport | JTR | Santorini Island |
| Thessaloniki Macedonia International Airport | SKG | Thessaloniki |
| Aktion National Airport | PVK | Preveza |
| Alexandroupoli Democritus Airport | AXD | Alexandroupolis |
| Chios Island National Airport | JKH | Chios Island |
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 Greece tend to be.
- Athens664 046 people
- Thessaloníki317 778 people
- Pátra168 034 people
- Piraeus163 688 people
- Lárisa146 926 people
- Peristéri139 981 people
- Irákleion137 154 people
- Kallithéa100 641 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.