Getting online in Uzbekistan
A travel eSIM is a data plan you install before departure and switch on when you land, so your phone is online in Uzbekistan 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 Uzbekistan
These are the airports in Uzbekistan 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Namangan International Airport | NMA | Namangan |
| Nukus International Airport | NCU | Nukus |
| Samarkand International Airport | SKD | Samarkand |
| Tashkent International Airport | TAS | Tashkent |
| Urgench International Airport | UGC | Urgench |
| Andijan International Airport | AZN | Andijan |
| Fergana International Airport | FEG | Fergana |
| Navoi International Airport | NVI | Navoi |
| Termez Airport | TMJ | Termez |
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 Uzbekistan tend to be.
- Tashkent1 978 028 people
- Andijon747 800 people
- Namangan713 220 people
- Samarkand595 200 people
- Yunusobod352 000 people
- Nukus332 500 people
- Fergana299 200 people
- Bukhara280 187 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.