eSIM Fares

South Africa travel eSIM

Getting online in South Africa

A travel eSIM is a data plan you install before departure and switch on when you land, so your phone is online in South Africa 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 South Africa 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 South Africa

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

AirportCodeCity
Bram Fischer International AirportBFNBloemfontein
Cape Town International AirportCPTCape Town
Chief Dawid Stuurman International AirportPLZGqeberha (Port Elizabeth)
George AirportGRJGeorge
Kimberley AirportKIMKimberley
King Phalo AirportELSEast London
King Shaka International AirportDURDurban
Lanseria International AirportHLAJohannesburg
O.R. Tambo International AirportJNBJohannesburg
Polokwane International AirportPTGPolokwane
Eastgate Airport / Air Force Base HoedspruitHDSHoedspruit
Hendrik Van Eck AirportPHWPhalaborwa

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 South Africa 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.