The short answer
Every travel eSIM sells Antalya as part of a Turkey plan. We took the same day's prices for six of them, for a short break, a week and a fortnight, and looked at what a beach and old town holiday asks of your phone, from the arrivals hall to the ruins inland.
Unlimited data at full speed: 3 days at $8.99, 2 weeks at $16.99, 30 days at $26.99. Nothing renews. Its 2 weeks costs less than a 7-day plan anywhere else in this table.
10 GB for 30 days at $13, a sale price against $15 regular when we looked. Ubigi charges the same $13.
The same $13 for 10 GB, on Türk Telekom and Turkcell. Its app and site stop opening once you are inside Turkey, so install it at home.
Priced in days, with no daily cap stated for your own phone. A week costs $27.50, and sharing the connection is held to 1 GB a day.
Prices read on 25 October 2026: Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi on their own sites or listings, Ringo Light from its catalogue. All in US dollars unless stated. Treat every number as a snapshot.
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The prices, charted
US dollars, 25 October 2026, for the Turkey plan that covers Antalya. Ringo Light sells 2 weeks and Nomad 5 days, so those are the nearest lengths.
The 30-day unlimited plan at each brand. Nomad sells no 30-day unlimited for Turkey. Ringo Light is unlimited data at full speed.
The bucket many people buy for a fortnight by the sea. Holafly sells no buckets. Ringo Light sells none either: its 2 weeks is unlimited and lasts 2 weeks, not 30 days.
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- 3 days $8.99
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- 30 days $26.99
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What to do in Antalya, and what your phone does for you there
Six places for a first visit, from the old walled town to a day down the Lycian coast. Most are a bus or tram ride from the centre, and one eSIM covers them all.
Landing at Antalya Airport and getting online
Antalya Airport, AYT, sits east of the city and takes most of the package holiday and charter traffic to this coast. Install your eSIM before you fly and switch it on when the plane lands, so the phone finds a network while you queue at passport control. If you forgot, airport Wi-Fi is enough to install one, with one exception: Ubigi's app and site do not open from inside Turkey.
Check the airport's own transfer page for the current options. Havaş airport buses and city buses are the usual cheap way in, taxis and pre-booked transfers wait outside arrivals, and many resorts send a shuttle. If your hotel is out toward Lara, Belek or Kemer rather than in the centre, have its address saved offline before you leave the terminal.
The AntRay tram, buses and the AntalyaKart
Antalya is easy to cover without a car. The AntRay tram runs through the middle of the city, city buses reach the beaches on either side, and a small heritage tram runs near the old town. Routes and stops change, so check a transit app on the day rather than trusting a printed map.
The AntalyaKart is the city's transit card for buses and trams. Check where to buy and top it up, and whether your route accepts a contactless card instead. A route app is the main thing your data does here, and it works best when you load your destination before you board.
Why an eSIM avoids the phone registration rule
Turkey registers the IMEI, the serial number of the handset, when a foreign phone is used with a Turkish SIM. The phone is then allowed for a limited window, after which it can be cut off from Turkish networks unless it is registered and a fee is paid. A prepaid SIM sold at the airport is exactly the trigger for that.
A travel eSIM is not a Turkish SIM in your phone, so a short holiday does not run into it. If you plan to stay for months, or to buy a local SIM, check the current period and fees with the regulator, BTK, before you do anything.
Signal on the beaches and at the ruins
Coverage in the city and along the shore is strong. The country page on this site lists Antalya among the cities with a strong 5G rollout, and the Mediterranean coast as good LTE. The Turkey plans above run on Turkcell, Vodafone or Türk Telekom, depending on the brand, so the beach at Konyaalti or Lara should be fine.
The ruins and the coast further out are where to be careful. Aspendos is a short drive from the city, and Olympos and Cirali are a long ride down the coast through hills. Signal there can be thin in a valley or behind a ridge, so download an offline map and your tickets before you set off, and treat a bar of signal at the site as a bonus.
Resort Wi-Fi is not enough
Most Antalya hotels advertise free Wi-Fi, and it is usually fine at the pool or in the lobby. It rarely follows you to the beach, the bus, the harbour boat or the ruins, where you want a map, a translation app and a ticket on screen. It is also shared with every other guest, and an open network is a poor place to log in to your bank.
An eSIM costs a few dollars for a short break and keeps your own connection with you everywhere. Use the hotel Wi-Fi for video calls and big downloads, and your own data for everything that happens away from the room.
Which plan fits an Antalya holiday
A short break of three days: Ringo Light unlimited data at $8.99, against $11.50 at Airalo and $11.90 at Holafly. Ringo Light is the lowest of the three.
A week: Ubigi charges $22 for 7 days, Airalo $24.50, Saily $26.99 and Holafly $27.50, and Nomad $17 for 5 days. Ringo Light sells no 7-day plan, but its 2 weeks at $16.99 costs less than all of those, so you only pay for days you may not use.
A fortnight or a month by the sea: Ringo Light at $16.99 for 2 weeks or $26.99 for 30 days, unlimited data at full speed. If your use is light and you want data that lasts a month, Nomad and Ubigi at $13 for 10 GB cost less, and are the better buy for that job.
What Ringo Light is
Ringo Light is our own travel data eSIM. For Turkey, Antalya included, it sells three trips, all unlimited data at full speed: 3 days at $8.99, 2 weeks at $16.99 and 30 days at $26.99. Nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email in seconds and installs with one scan, with no app to download.
It sells no data buckets, so if a fixed 10 GB is all you need, Nomad or Ubigi is the cheaper route and we say so. The card to buy Ringo Light is further up this page, just after the side-by-side table.
Pick by trip
Ringo Light unlimited, 3 days, $8.99, less than Airalo at $11.50 or Holafly at $11.90.
Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $16.99. A 7-day plan costs $22 at Ubigi and up to $27.50 at Holafly, and Nomad asks $17 for 5 days.
Nomad or Ubigi, 10 GB for 30 days at $13, or Ringo Light unlimited for 2 weeks at $16.99 if you would rather not count.
Ringo Light 2 weeks at $16.99 or 30 days at $26.99. One plan covers all of Turkey, so nothing changes when you leave the city.
Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $26.99, or Ubigi at $64 if you want its stated 5 GB a day at full speed.
Frequently asked questions
How we compared, and our sources
Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi, Ringo Light
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Antalya on 25 October 2026, all on the same day, in US dollars. Each rival's price comes from its own website where it showed dollars, otherwise from an esimdb.com listing, and every source and its date is listed below. Ringo Light's prices come from the catalogue our checkout charges.
We compare the trips people actually book: a week, two weeks and a month of unlimited data, and a 10 GB bucket. We read each brand's fair use and speed rules and quote them as the brands state them. We did not run speed tests, so this page makes no speed claims for any brand.
Ringo Light is our own product. We put it in the table on the same terms as everyone else, and where a rival is the better buy the page says so.
Left out: Maya Mobile. We could not read its own prices for this country on the day, so it stays out rather than being guessed.
- Airalo: www.airalo.com/turkey-esim?currency=USD, unlimited in dollars on airalo.com, network Türk Telekom (Avea), read 25 October 2026; fixed-data buckets from the esimdb listing dated 5 October 2026
- Holafly: esim.holafly.com/esim-turkey/, prices in dollars from its own page, read 25 October 2026
- Saily: saily.com/esim-turkey/, dollars, read 25 October 2026
- Nomad: www.nomadesim.com/turkey-esim, dollars, read 25 October 2026; 10 GB at the sale price, $15 regular
- Ubigi: cellulardata.ubigi.com/data-plans-and-coverage/ubigi-esim-data-plans/?destination=TUR&one-off=on, one-off plan list in dollars, read 22 October 2026; the site returned no plan list on 25 October 2026, figures confirmed against the esimdb listing dated 5 October 2026
- Ringo Light: our own catalogue, the prices the checkout charges on 25 October 2026.
Written and priced by the Ringo team. Prices change often; if you spot one that has moved, tell us through the contact page and we will update the table.
