Getting online in Italy
A travel eSIM is a data plan you install before departure and switch on when you land, so your phone is online in Italy 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 Italy
These are the airports in Italy 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abruzzo Airport | PSR | Pescara |
| Bari Karol Wojtyła International Airport | BRI | Bari |
| Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport | BLQ | Bologna |
| Brindisi Airport | BDS | Brindisi |
| Cagliari Elmas Airport | CAG | Cagliari |
| Catania-Fontanarossa Airport | CTA | Catania |
| Ciampino–G. B. Pastine International Airport | CIA | Rome |
| Falcone–Borsellino Airport | PMO | Palermo |
| Federico Fellini International Airport | RMI | Rimini (RN) |
| Florence Airport, Peretola | FLR | Firenze (FI) |
| Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport | GOA | Genova (GE) |
| Il Caravaggio International Airport | BGY | Orio al Serio (BG) |
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 Italy tend to be.
- Rome2 318 895 people
- Milan1 371 498 people
- Turin847 287 people
- Palermo648 260 people
- Genoa580 097 people
- Bologna394 843 people
- Florence367 150 people
- Bari316 491 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.