The best eSIM for the Faroe Islands in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for the Faroe Islands, priced on the same day: two weeks unlimited for $22.99, a month for $43.99.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs sell data for the Faroe Islands and get most of the traffic for this search. We priced all six on the same day, for a long weekend in Tórshavn, a week of driving the islands, two weeks and a month, and read the fine print on unlimited. The Faroes sit outside EU roaming and outside a Denmark plan, which is why most visitors need one. 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 $22.99 or 30 days at $43.99, one payment each, nothing renews. Airalo asks $62 for 15 days and Holafly $111.90 for the month.
Ubigi: Cheapest data bucket. 10 GB for 30 days at $14 and 25 GB at $22, on Nema with 5G. 8 days with 5 GB a day at full speed, then 2 Mbps, at $29.
Airalo: Cheapest 3 days. 3 days of unlimited at $19.50, 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps. Holafly is 40 cents more.
Holafly: Simplest unlimited. Days, not gigabytes, on Faroese Telecom, no daily cap stated for your own phone. 3 days at $19.90, a week at $39.50; sharing limited to 1 GB a day.
Model: Airalo Buckets or unlimited days; Holafly Unlimited days only; Saily Buckets; unlimited only on its Global plan; Nomad Buckets only; Ubigi Buckets; Europe Extended plans slow to 2 Mbps after a fixed amount; Ringo Light Unlimited trips: 2 weeks or 30 days.
Unlimited, 3 days: Airalo $19.50; Holafly $19.90; Saily No unlimited for the Faroes; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi No 3-day plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo $39; Holafly $39.50; Saily No unlimited for the Faroes; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi 8 days, 5 GB a day, then 2 Mbps, $29; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $22.99.
Unlimited, 2 weeks: Airalo 15 days $62; Holafly 15 days $63.50; Saily No 2-week plan; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi Europe Extended, 15 days, 30 GB, then 2 Mbps, $59; Ringo Light $22.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo No 30-day plan for the Faroes; Discover global plan $159; Holafly $111.90; Saily Global plan, 30 GB, then 1 Mbps, $59.99; Nomad No unlimited; 50 GB for 30 days $49; Ubigi Europe Extended, 60 GB, then 2 Mbps, $77; Ringo Light $43.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo $21; Holafly No buckets; Saily $20.99; Nomad $21; Ubigi $14; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $22.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo $34; Holafly No buckets; Saily $33.99; Nomad $32; Ubigi Not listed on the day; 25 GB $22; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $43.99.
Full speed on unlimited: Airalo 3 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; Holafly No daily cap stated; sharing 1 GB a day; Saily Global plan: 30 GB, then 1 Mbps; Nomad No unlimited; 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 Føroya Tele (FT Samskifti); Holafly Faroese Telecom; Saily Not named on its listing; Nomad Nema (Vodafone FO); Ubigi Nema; 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.
Most trips to the Faroes are a week or two of driving between the islands, with some hiking on the side. Data is dear here. For 15 days of unlimited, Airalo asks $62 and Holafly $63.50, and Ubigi's Europe Extended plan, which covers the Faroes, asks $59 for 30 GB at full speed, then 2 Mbps. Saily and Nomad sell no two weeks of unlimited. Ringo Light charges $22.99 for 2 weeks, one payment, nothing renews.
For a month the gap is wider. Saily's Global plan costs $59.99 for 30 GB at full speed, then 1 Mbps. Ubigi's Europe Extended month is $77 for 60 GB, Holafly $111.90, and Airalo sells no 30-day unlimited for the Faroes, only its Discover global plan at $159. Ringo Light charges $43.99 for 30 days.
Read what unlimited means before you pick. Airalo gives 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps. Ubigi and Saily give a fixed amount, then slow you down. 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 $22.99 top-up. A heavy two weeks with us costs $45.98, still under every rival's two weeks. A heavy month costs $66.98: under Ubigi and Holafly, but $6.99 more than Saily's Global plan, and $17.98 more than Nomad's 50 GB bucket at $49. If you know you will use a lot for a month, those two are the cheaper buy.
For a short trip, Ringo Light sells no 3-day or 7-day plan. Airalo sells 3 days of unlimited at $19.50 and Holafly at $19.90. For a week, our 2 weeks at $22.99 costs less than any rival's 7 days of unlimited: Airalo asks $39, Holafly $39.50, and Ubigi $29 for 8 days with 5 GB a day at full speed.
The Faroes have two mobile networks: Føroya Tele, also sold as Faroese Telecom, and Nema, which used to be Vodafone. Airalo and Holafly ride Føroya Tele; Nomad and Ubigi name Nema. Both cover Tórshavn, Klaksvík, the villages and the main roads. Signal thins out on cliffs, high trails and the small outer islands; Holafly's own page names Mykines, Kalsoy and the trails near Saksun. Download offline maps before you walk.
The Faroe Islands are a self-governing part of the Kingdom of Denmark, but they are not in the European Union or the European Economic Area. The EU rule that lets you roam at home prices does not apply there, and Danish plans often bill the Faroes as a separate zone. A Denmark eSIM does not cover them either, ours included. Many Europe travel eSIMs leave the Faroes out too, our own Europe trip included; Ubigi's Europe Extended is one that lists them. Check that your plan names the Faroe Islands before you fly to Vágar.
Ubigi, $14 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB for 30 days by $6.99, and 25 GB for $22, cheaper than anyone's 20 GB. On Nema with 5G, installed by QR code, no app needed.
Saily, $20.99 for 10 GB. 20 GB at $33.99. Its listing is from June; saily.com would not load for us.
Airalo, $21 for 10 GB. 20 GB for $34, buckets from $4 for 1 GB over 3 days. The app is needed.
Nomad, $21 for 10 GB. 20 GB for $32 and 50 GB for $49 over 30 days, the largest bucket here, on Nema. Nomad sells no unlimited for the Faroes.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $22.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $43.99. For a fixed amount of data, Ubigi, Saily, Airalo and Nomad are all cheaper in the Faroes. Buy Ringo Light for unlimited, not for a bucket. 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 the Faroe Islands it sells two trips, both unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $22.99, starting with 10 GB, and 30 days at $43.99, starting with 20 GB. Each adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $22.99. One payment, nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email in seconds and installs in one scan, no app.
Our Europe trip and our Denmark trip do not cover the Faroes, so this is the Ringo Light to buy for them.
The card to buy it is just below this article.
A long weekend in Tórshavn. Airalo unlimited, 3 days, $19.50. Ringo Light sells no 3 days; our 2 weeks is $3.49 more.
A week of driving the islands. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $22.99, less than any rival charges for 7 days of unlimited. Ubigi 8 days at $29 if you want a plan that ends with the week.
Two weeks, hiking and ferries. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $22.99, against $59 to $63.50 for two weeks at the rivals.
Two weeks or a month, light use. Ubigi 10 GB for 30 days at $14.
A month, working from Tórshavn. Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $43.99, starting with 20 GB and adding 10 GB once for $22.99. Nomad 50 GB for $49 if you know you will use a lot.
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 the Faroe Islands, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips include, from Tórshavn to the cliffs of Vágar and the far northern ridge of Kalsoy, with the one thing your data does for you at each. Most of the islands are joined by roads, bridges and sub-sea tunnels, the rest by ferry, and the weather turns fast. Have your eSIM working before you land at Vágar, the only airport.
Tinganes, Tórshavn. The old town on a rocky point in Tórshavn harbour, red wooden houses with turf roofs where the Faroese government still sits. It is one of the oldest parliamentary meeting places in the world. Cards are taken almost everywhere, and the Faroese króna and the Danish krone are both used. Keep your card in your phone wallet.
Kirkjubøur, Streymoy, south of Tórshavn. The old church village of the islands: the roofless walls of the Magnus Cathedral from about 1300, Saint Olav's church and a farmhouse held by the same family for generations. Go on a calm day, when the view over the sound to Hestur is clear. It is a short drive over the hill from Tórshavn. A maps app gives the road and the local bus times.
Saksun, Streymoy. A few turf-roofed houses and a small church above a tidal lagoon at the end of a narrow valley. At low tide you can walk around the lagoon to the sea. Look up the tide times before you walk to the beach: the lagoon floods at high tide.
Gjógv, Eysturoy. A village on the north coast named after the sea-filled gorge that serves as its harbour. The mountain road there passes the start of the trail up Slættaratindur, the highest peak in the islands. Buses are few this far north. Check the national bus timetable on your phone, or drive.
Kallur lighthouse, Kalsoy. A small white lighthouse on a green ridge at the north tip of Kalsoy, above sheer cliffs. Take the car ferry from Klaksvík, drive to Trøllanes at the end of the road and walk up from there. The ridge has steep drops and fast weather, and the signal is weak on Kalsoy. Save the route and the forecast offline before you start.
Sørvágsvatn from Trælanípa, Vágar. The largest lake in the Faroes seems to hang over the ocean from the cliffs of Trælanípa. The walk from Miðvágur is mostly flat and follows the lake shore. Landowners charge a hiking fee on this trail. Pay it at the start or online before you go.
Múlafossur waterfall, Gásadalur, Vágar. A waterfall drops from the edge of the village straight into the Atlantic, with Mykines out to sea. It is a short drive from Vágar Airport, so it makes a good first or last stop. Fog can hide the fall completely. Check the forecast and a webcam in your phone before you drive out.
Mykines, the westernmost island. A small village and a long walk to the lighthouse, reached by a small ferry from Sørvágur or by helicopter. Puffins nest on the slopes in summer. Book the ferry ahead online and check it the morning you sail: crossings are cancelled in rough seas.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Faroe Islands 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/faroe-islands-esim?currency=USD (unlimited in dollars on the site; buckets, the Discover global plan and network from esimdb.com/faroe-islands/airalo, 28 September 2026).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-faroe-islands/ (dollar prices and network on its own page, 28 September 2026).
Source for Saily: https://esimdb.com/faroe-islands/saily (listing dated 27 June 2026, including its Global plans; saily.com refused the fetch).
Source for Nomad: https://esimdb.com/faroe-islands/nomad (listing dated 17 September 2026; nomadesim.com served euro prices; network from nomadesim.com/faroe-islands-esim).
Source for Ubigi: https://esimdb.com/faroe-islands/ubigi (listing dated 17 September 2026, including the Europe Extended plans it lists for the Faroes).
For two weeks or a month of unlimited data, Ringo Light: $22.99 for 2 weeks and $43.99 for 30 days on 28 September 2026, against $62 for 15 days at Airalo and $111.90 for 30 days at Holafly. For 3 days, Airalo at $19.50. For a 10 GB bucket, Ubigi at $14.
Airalo and Holafly ride Føroya Tele, also called Faroese Telecom. Nomad and Ubigi name Nema, the former Vodafone network. Saily does not name its network on its listing. Both networks cover the towns, villages and main roads; signal is weaker on cliffs, high trails and small islands such as Mykines.
Every brand has a limit somewhere. Airalo slows you after 3 GB a day, Ubigi and Saily after a fixed full-speed amount. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone. Nomad sells no unlimited for the Faroes. Ringo Light has no speed cap: it starts with 10 or 20 GB and adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
Not at home prices by default. The Faroes belong to the Kingdom of Denmark but are outside the EU and the European Economic Area, so EU roaming rules do not apply, and many Danish and EU plans charge them as a separate zone. A Denmark eSIM does not cover the Faroes, and many Europe eSIMs, our own Europe trip included, leave them out. Buy a plan that names the Faroe Islands.
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