The best eSIM for Egypt in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Egypt, priced on the same day: two weeks unlimited for $18.99, a month for $32.99, which to buy.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs sell an Egypt plan and get most of the traffic for this search. We priced all six on the same day, for a few days in Cairo, a week or two down the Nile from Luxor to Aswan, and a month on the Red Sea, 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 $18.99 or 30 days at $32.99, one payment each, nothing renews. Airalo asks $49 for 15 days and $90 for the month.
Nomad: Cheapest 3 days. 3 days of unlimited at $14, with 2 GB a day at full speed, on Orange and Vodafone.
Ubigi: Cheapest small buckets. 3 GB for 30 days at $9 and 10 GB for 30 days at $19, and 10 GB for a week at $17.
Holafly: Simplest unlimited. Days, not gigabytes, on Orange, no daily cap stated for your own phone. $36.50 for a week; sharing limited to 1 GB a day.
Model: Airalo Buckets or unlimited days; Holafly Unlimited days only; Saily Buckets only for Egypt; Nomad Buckets or unlimited days; Ubigi Buckets, or a daily amount then 2 Mbps; Ringo Light Unlimited trips: 2 weeks or 30 days.
Unlimited, 3 days: Airalo $19.50; Holafly $19.90; Saily No Egypt unlimited; Nomad $14; Ubigi No 3-day plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo $32; Holafly $36.50; Saily No Egypt unlimited; Nomad $27; Ubigi 8 days, 5 GB a day, $27; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $18.99.
Unlimited, 2 weeks: Airalo 15 days $49; Holafly 15 days $50.50; Saily No Egypt unlimited; Nomad No 15-day plan; 10 days $35; Ubigi 15 days, 5 GB a day, then 2 Mbps, $44; Ringo Light $18.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo $90; Holafly $95.90; Saily No Egypt unlimited; Nomad No 30-day unlimited; Ubigi 5 GB a day, then 2 Mbps, $69; Ringo Light $32.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo $30; Holafly No buckets; Saily $38.99; Nomad $28; Ubigi $19; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $18.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo $42; Holafly No buckets; Saily Not listed on the day; Nomad $37; Ubigi 25 GB $39; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $32.99.
Full speed on unlimited: Airalo 3 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; Holafly No daily cap stated; sharing 1 GB a day; Saily No Egypt unlimited; Nomad 2 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; Ubigi 5 GB a day, then 2 Mbps; Ringo Light No speed cap; starts with 10 or 20 GB, adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
Networks: Airalo Vodafone; Holafly Orange; Saily Not named by Saily; Nomad Orange, Vodafone; Ubigi Not named by Ubigi; 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 Optional, QR code; Saily Yes; Nomad Yes; Ubigi Optional; Ringo Light No, the eSIM arrives by email.
Egypt is rarely a short trip: Cairo and Giza, a flight or a sleeper train to Luxor, a few nights on the Nile to Aswan, often a week on the Red Sea at the end. For 15 days of unlimited, Airalo asks $49, Holafly $50.50 and Ubigi $44. For a month, $90, $95.90 and $69. Nomad stops at 10 days, and Saily sells no Egypt unlimited at all. Ringo Light charges $18.99 for 2 weeks and $32.99 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. Nomad gives 2 GB a day, then 1 Mbps. Ubigi gives 5 GB a day, 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 $18.99 top-up. A heavy two weeks with us costs $37.98, still under Ubigi's 15 days at $44; a heavy month costs $51.98, still under every rival for the month.
For a short trip, Ringo Light sells no 3-day or 7-day plan. Nomad sells 3 days of unlimited at $14. For a week, our 2 weeks at $18.99 already costs less than any rival's week of unlimited, but Ubigi sells 10 GB for 7 days at $17 if a fixed amount is enough.
Egypt has four networks: Vodafone, Orange, e& (once Etisalat) and WE. Vodafone and Orange carry most travel eSIMs: Airalo names Vodafone, Holafly Orange, and Nomad both. Saily and Ubigi do not name theirs. Coverage follows the Nile valley, Cairo, Alexandria and the Red Sea resorts, where nearly everyone lives. Out in the desert, on the road south to Abu Simbel or towards the Western Desert oases, signal thins out on every network. Download offline maps before those drives.
Since 21 January 2026, a phone bought abroad that goes onto an Egyptian SIM owes customs fees. The telecoms regulator, the NTRA, keeps an exemption for tourists for 90 days from the day the phone is activated on the network. A local SIM also has to be bought in person with your passport. A travel eSIM installs before you fly, needs no counter and no passport copy, and works from the moment you land.
Ubigi, $19 for 10 GB. 10 GB that lasts 30 days, one cent more than our 2 weeks that starts with 10 GB. It also sells 3 GB for 30 days at $9 and 10 GB for a week at $17, the cheapest small amounts here.
Nomad, $28 for 10 GB. 20 GB for $37 and 3 GB for $12, on Orange and Vodafone.
Airalo, $30 for 10 GB. 20 GB at $42. Buckets from $5.50 for 1 GB.
Saily, $38.99 for 10 GB. Its largest Egypt plan. Its listing is from July; saily.com would not load for us.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $18.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $32.99, less than any 20 GB bucket here. But if you want 10 GB to last a whole month, or only 3 GB for a light week, Ubigi is the better buy. 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 Egypt it sells two trips, both unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $18.99, starting with 10 GB, and 30 days at $32.99, starting with 20 GB. Each adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $18.99. 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 Cairo and Giza. Nomad unlimited, 3 days, $14. Ringo Light sells no 3 days.
Cairo, Luxor, a Nile cruise and Aswan in two weeks. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $18.99, less than any rival charges for two weeks. Ubigi 15 days at $44 if you will stream every evening and want 5 GB a day guaranteed.
Two weeks, light use, budget first. Ubigi 10 GB for 30 days at $19, or 3 GB at $9 if you mostly use hotel Wi-Fi.
A month on the Red Sea, working remotely. Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $32.99, starting with 20 GB and adding 10 GB once for $18.99. Ubigi at $69 for 5 GB a day if you need more than that.
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 Egypt, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips include, from Cairo down the Nile to Abu Simbel and out to the Red Sea, with the one thing your data does for you at each. The cities and the river have good 4G; the desert roads between them do not always.
The pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx, Giza, Cairo. The Great Pyramid of Khufu, the pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure, and the Sphinx below them, on the edge of the city. Go at opening time, before the heat and the tour buses. Uber runs in Cairo and Giza, and a fare fixed in the app saves the haggle at the gate.
The Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Cairo. The new museum beside the Giza plateau holds the whole Tutankhamun collection together for the first time. Plan half a day; pair it with the pyramids. Buy the ticket online and keep the QR code on your phone for the gate.
Islamic Cairo, Cairo. The Sultan Hassan and Al-Rifa'i mosques stand side by side below the Citadel, a short ride from Al-Muizz Street and the Khan el-Khalili bazaar. Go late afternoon and stay for the evening. The bazaar runs on cash in Egyptian pounds. A currency converter on your phone keeps the haggling honest.
Karnak Temple, Luxor. Two thousand years of temples on the east bank, with the Great Hypostyle Hall and its forest of giant columns at the centre. Go early in the morning; by noon the stone is hot. Save Luxor as an offline map: the temples, the ferry landing and the west bank are further apart than they look.
The Valley of the Kings, West bank, Luxor. The rock-cut tombs of the New Kingdom pharaohs, painted inside, in a dry valley across the river from Luxor. The standard ticket covers three tombs; Tutankhamun's needs its own. Signal fades inside the tombs. Download what you want to read about each one before you walk down.
A Nile cruise to Aswan, Luxor to Aswan. Three or four nights on the river, stopping at the temples of Edfu and Kom Ombo, ending among the granite islands and feluccas of Aswan. Take a felucca at sunset and the boat to Philae temple. Data comes and goes between towns and the ship's Wi-Fi is shared by every cabin, so download films and maps before you board.
Abu Simbel, Near the Sudan border, south of Aswan. Four seated colossi of Ramesses II guard his temple, cut into the rock and moved block by block in the 1960s to escape Lake Nasser. Most people go on a day trip from Aswan, by road or by plane. The desert road has long stretches with weak signal. Load your offline map and tickets in Aswan.
The Red Sea, Sharm el Sheikh or Hurghada. Coral reefs a few steps off the beach, and some of the best diving and snorkelling in the world at Ras Mohammed and the islands off Hurghada. Most people end the trip here. Dive centres and boat trips confirm pick-up times by WhatsApp, so keep data on at the hotel.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Egypt 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/egypt-esim?currency=USD (unlimited in dollars on the site, 28 September 2026; buckets from esimdb.com/egypt/airalo, updated 28 September 2026).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-egypt/ (read on the site in dollars, 28 September 2026).
Source for Saily: https://esimdb.com/egypt/saily (listing dated 14 July 2026; saily.com refused the fetch).
Source for Nomad: https://esimdb.com/egypt/nomad (listing dated 21 September 2026; networks from nomadesim.com/egypt-esim).
Source for Ubigi: https://esimdb.com/egypt/ubigi (listing dated 17 September 2026).
Source for NTRA: https://www.tra.gov.eg/en/end-of-exceptional-exemption-on-imported-mobile-phones-carried-by-passenger-following-success-of-local-manufacturing-at-competitive-prices-effective-1200-noon-wednesday-january-21-2026/ (phone customs rules and the 90-day exemption for tourists, 21 January 2026).
For two weeks or a month of unlimited data, Ringo Light: $18.99 for 2 weeks and $32.99 for 30 days on 28 September 2026, against $49 for 15 days and $90 for 30 days at Airalo. For 3 days, Nomad at $14. For a small bucket, Ubigi: 3 GB at $9, 10 GB for 30 days at $19.
Airalo names Vodafone, Holafly Orange, and Nomad Orange and Vodafone. Saily and Ubigi do not name their network for Egypt. All cover Cairo, the Nile valley and the Red Sea resorts; signal thins out in the open desert.
Every brand has a limit somewhere. Airalo slows you after 3 GB a day, Nomad after 2 GB, Ubigi after 5 GB. 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.
Only if you put an Egyptian SIM in it. Since 21 January 2026 a phone bought abroad owes customs fees once it runs on a local SIM, and the regulator exempts tourists for 90 days from activation. A local SIM also needs your passport at the counter. A travel eSIM avoids both: you install it at home and it connects when you land.
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