The best eSIM for Croatia in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Croatia, priced on the same day: two weeks unlimited for $12.99, a month for $21.99, which to buy.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs sell a Croatia plan and get most of the traffic for this search. We priced all six on the same day, for a week in Dubrovnik, two weeks down the coast from Split with ferries to the islands, and a month, and read the fine print on unlimited. Here is where each one wins.
Ringo Light: Cheapest unlimited for two weeks or a month. Unlimited data at full speed for 2 weeks at $12.99 or 30 days at $21.99, one payment each, nothing renews. Airalo asks $38.50 for 15 days and $58.50 for the month.
Airalo: Cheapest 3 days. 3 days of unlimited at $9.50 on Telemach, 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps.
Ubigi: Cheapest 10 GB. 10 GB for 30 days at $12 on A1, installed by QR code, no app needed.
Nomad: Cheapest 20 GB. 20 GB for 30 days at $21 on Telemach and A1, and 10 GB at $15.
Model: Airalo Buckets or unlimited days; Holafly Unlimited days only; Saily Buckets or unlimited days; Nomad Buckets or unlimited days; Ubigi Buckets, then 2 Mbps; Ringo Light Unlimited trips: 2 weeks or 30 days.
Unlimited, 3 days: Airalo $9.50; Holafly $11.90; Saily No 3-day plan; Nomad $11; Ubigi No 3-day plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo $24.50; Holafly $27.50; Saily No 7-day plan; Nomad $25; Ubigi 20 GB, then 2 Mbps, $20; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $12.99.
Unlimited, 2 weeks: Airalo 15 days $38.50; Holafly 15 days $50.50; Saily 15 days $48.99; Nomad No 15-day plan; 10 days $33; Ubigi No Croatia plan; Europe 15 days, 30 GB, then 2 Mbps, $35; Ringo Light $12.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo $58.50; Holafly $73.90; Saily $71.99; Nomad No 30-day unlimited; Ubigi 60 GB, then 2 Mbps, $49; Ringo Light $21.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo $17; Holafly No buckets; Saily $17.99; Nomad $15; Ubigi $12; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $12.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo $25.50; Holafly No buckets; Saily $27.99; Nomad $21; Ubigi 25 GB $24; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $21.99.
Full speed on unlimited: Airalo 3 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; Holafly No daily cap stated; sharing 1 GB a day; Saily 5 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; Nomad 2 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; Ubigi A fixed amount, then 2 Mbps; Ringo Light No speed cap; starts with 10 or 20 GB, adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
Networks: Airalo Telemach and one other; Holafly Telemach, A1; Saily Not named by Saily; Nomad Telemach, A1; Ubigi A1; Ringo Light Local partner network.
Renews?: Airalo No; Holafly No; Saily No; Nomad No; Ubigi Monthly plans do; Ringo Light No, one payment; the trip ends when it ends.
App needed: Airalo Yes; Holafly No, QR code; Saily Yes; Nomad Optional; Ubigi No, QR install; Ringo Light No, the eSIM arrives by email.
Croatia is a one or two week trip for most people: Split, a ferry to Hvar, the drive to Dubrovnik, a day at Plitvice. For 15 days of unlimited, Airalo asks $38.50, Saily $48.99 and Holafly $50.50. Ubigi sells no 15-day Croatia plan; its Europe plan gives 30 GB at full speed for $35. For a month, $49 to $73.90. Ringo Light charges $12.99 for 2 weeks and $21.99 for 30 days, one payment each, nothing renews.
Read what unlimited means before you pick. Airalo gives 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps. Saily gives 5 GB a day, Nomad 2 GB. Ubigi gives a fixed amount, 60 GB for the month, then 2 Mbps. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone and limits sharing to 1 GB a day. Ringo Light has no speed cap: the 2 weeks starts with 10 GB and the 30 days with 20 GB, and when you have used 80% we add 10 GB once and charge the $12.99 top-up. A heavy two weeks with us costs $25.98 and a heavy month $34.98, both still under every rival for the same length.
For a short trip, Ringo Light sells no 3-day or 7-day plan. Airalo sells 3 days of unlimited at $9.50, and Ubigi a week with 20 GB at full speed for $20. Our 2 weeks at $12.99 still costs less than any rival's week.
Croatia has three networks: Hrvatski Telekom, A1 and Telemach. All three cover the cities, the coast road and the big islands like Hvar, Brač and Korčula. Signal thins on the small islands, in the mountains and deep inside the national parks; Holafly says as much on its own page. Most travel eSIMs here ride Telemach or A1. None of the six names Hrvatski Telekom.
One quirk: the coast between Split and Dubrovnik is cut by a few kilometres of Bosnia and Herzegovina at Neum. The Pelješac Bridge lets cars go round it since 2022, but some buses still cross. Bosnia is outside the EU, so a Croatia plan will not work there for those twenty minutes. Download your map before you leave Split.
Ubigi, $12 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB for 30 days, on A1 with 5G, installed by QR code, no app needed. 25 GB is $24.
Nomad, $15 for 10 GB. And the cheapest 20 GB at $21, on Telemach and A1.
Airalo, $17 for 10 GB. Its Cronet plan, 20 GB for $25.50, buckets from $4 for 1 GB. The app is needed.
Saily, $17.99 for 10 GB. 20 GB at $27.99. Its listing is from June; we could not read saily.com on the day.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $12.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $21.99. For 10 GB that lasts a month, Ubigi at $12 is the better buy, and Nomad sells 20 GB for $21, a little under our 30 days. We would rather you read that here than at checkout.
Ringo Light is our own data eSIM, sold to fund the full Ringo, one plan that works everywhere with your own number ported onto it. For Croatia it sells two trips, both unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $12.99, starting with 10 GB, and 30 days at $21.99, starting with 20 GB. Each adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $12.99. One payment, nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email in seconds and installs in one scan, no app.
The card to buy it is just below this article.
A long weekend in Dubrovnik. Airalo unlimited, 3 days, $9.50. Ringo Light sells no 3 days; its 2 weeks is $12.99 if the trip might run longer.
A week or two from Split to Dubrovnik, with the islands. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $12.99, less than any rival charges for one week.
Two weeks, light use, budget first. Ubigi 10 GB for 30 days at $12.
A month on the coast, working from cafés. Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $21.99, starting with 20 GB and adding 10 GB once for $12.99. Ubigi at $49 for 60 GB at full speed if you move big files every day.
You need your own number to keep ringing. None of these travel plans does that. The full Ringo, which Ringo Light funds, ports the number you have.
What to do in Croatia, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips include, from Dubrovnik up the coast to Istria and inland to Zagreb, with the one thing your data does for you at each. The coast and the towns have good 4G and 5G; the lakes and small islands are where signal thins.
The city walls of Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik. A walk of about two kilometres on top of the walls, all the way round the old town, with the orange roofs on one side and the sea on the other. Go at opening time, before the heat and the cruise crowds. The port publishes its cruise ship calendar online: pick a day with fewer ships.
Diocletian's Palace, Split. A Roman emperor's retirement palace, built around the year 300, that became the old town. People still live, eat and shop inside its walls. Ferries and catamarans to the islands leave from the harbour in front of it. Buy seats online in summer; they sell out.
Hvar Town and its fortress, Hvar island. A harbour of stone houses under a hilltop fortress, with the Pakleni islands just offshore. The climb to the fortress takes about twenty minutes and gives the best view of the town. The catamaran from Split docks in Hvar Town, the car ferry in Stari Grad, 20 km away. Check which one your ticket is for.
Plitvice Lakes, Plitvice Lakes National Park. Sixteen terraced lakes joined by waterfalls, crossed on wooden boardwalks. Come early in summer or in autumn, when the crowds thin. Buy the ticket online for a set entry time, and save an offline map: signal fades in the canyon.
Skradinski buk, Krka National Park, Near Šibenik. The largest of Krka's waterfalls, a wide staircase of cascades reached on a boardwalk loop. Swimming below the falls has been banned since 2021. Tickets sell online too, which saves the queue at the Skradin and Lozovac entrances.
The Roman forum and St. Donatus, Zadar. A round ninth century church beside the stones of the Roman forum, a few minutes' walk from the Sea Organ, which plays with the waves on the waterfront. Stay for the sunset there. Uber and Bolt both run in Zadar, Split, Dubrovnik and Zagreb, handy for the airport runs.
St. Mark's Church and the Upper Town, Zagreb. A Gothic church with a tiled roof showing the coats of arms of Croatia and Zagreb, at the top of the old Upper Town. Ride the short funicular up from Ilica street. Tram tickets by SMS need a Croatian number, which a data eSIM does not give you; buy them at a Tisak kiosk.
Rovinj old town, Istria. A Venetian fishing town on a small peninsula, crowned by the bell tower of St. Euphemia. Walk up the cobbled lanes to the church for the view over the harbour. A Croatia plan stops at the border: if you drive on to Slovenia or Trieste, buy a Europe plan instead.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Croatia on 28 September 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.
Source for Airalo: https://www.airalo.com/croatia-esim?currency=USD (unlimited in dollars on the site; buckets from esimdb.com/croatia/airalo, 23 September 2026).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-croatia/.
Source for Saily: https://esimdb.com/croatia/saily (listing dated 14 June 2026; not read on saily.com).
Source for Nomad: https://esimdb.com/croatia/nomad (listing dated 20 September 2026; nomadesim.com served euro prices; networks from nomadesim.com/croatia-esim).
Source for Ubigi: https://cellulardata.ubigi.com/destinations/croatia/ (and esimdb.com/croatia/ubigi, 16 September 2026).
For two weeks or a month of unlimited data, Ringo Light: $12.99 for 2 weeks and $21.99 for 30 days on 28 September 2026, against $38.50 for 15 days and $58.50 for 30 days at Airalo. For 3 days, Airalo at $9.50. For 10 GB over 30 days, Ubigi at $12; for 20 GB, Nomad at $21.
Airalo rides Telemach, Holafly and Nomad Telemach and A1, and Ubigi A1. Saily does not name its network on its listing. Both networks cover the cities, the coast and the big islands; signal thins on small islands and in the national parks.
Every brand has a limit somewhere. Airalo slows you after 3 GB a day, Saily after 5 GB, Nomad after 2 GB, Ubigi after its fixed full-speed amount. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone. Ringo Light has no speed cap: it starts with 10 or 20 GB and adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
Croatia has been in the EU since 2013, so a home plan from an EU country usually roams there at home prices, within a fair use limit. Travellers from the US, the UK, Canada or Australia usually pay a daily roaming fee, and that is where a travel eSIM saves money. Neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro are outside the EU.
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