eSIM Fares

Saudi Arabia travel eSIM

Getting online in Saudi Arabia

A travel eSIM is a data plan you install before departure and switch on when you land, so your phone is online in Saudi Arabia without roaming charges and without hunting for a SIM counter at arrivals. Your home number stays where it is — the eSIM sits alongside it.

See Saudi Arabia eSIM plans

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 Saudi Arabia

These are the airports in Saudi Arabia with scheduled flights and an IATA code. The minute you step off one of them is the minute an eSIM stops being optional.

AirportCodeCity
Abha International AirportAHBAbha
Al-Ahsa International AirportHOFHofuf
King Abdulaziz International AirportJEDJeddah
King Fahd International AirportDMMAd Dammam
King Khalid International AirportRUHRiyadh
Prince Abdulmohsen Bin Abdulaziz International AirportYNBYanbu
Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz AirportMEDMedina
Prince Naif bin Abdulaziz International AirportELQQassim
Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International AirportTUUTabuk
Taif International AirportTIFTaif
Jizan Regional Airport / King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz AirportGIZJizan
Najran Domestic AirportEAMNajran

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 Saudi Arabia tend to be.

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.