Getting online in India
A travel eSIM is a data plan you install before departure and switch on when you land, so your phone is online in India 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 India
These are the airports in India 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alluri Sitarama Raju International Airport (Vizag) | VTZ | Visakhapatnam |
| Biju Patnaik International Airport | BBI | Bhubaneswar |
| Calicut International Airport | CCJ | Calicut |
| Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport | LKO | Lucknow |
| Chennai International Airport | MAA | Chennai |
| Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport | BOM | Mumbai |
| Cochin International Airport | COK | Kochi |
| Coimbatore International Airport | CJB | Coimbatore |
| Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport | NAG | Nagpur |
| Goa Dabolim International Airport | GOI | Vasco da Gama |
| Indira Gandhi International Airport | DEL | New Delhi |
| Jaipur International Airport | JAI | Jaipur |
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 India tend to be.
- Mumbai12 691 836 people
- Delhi11 034 555 people
- Chennai4 681 087 people
- Pune3 124 458 people
- Jaipur3 046 163 people
- Kanpur2 823 249 people
- Navi Mumbai2 600 000 people
- Lucknow2 472 011 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.