The best eSIM for French Guiana in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for French Guiana, priced on the same day: two weeks unlimited for $18.99, a month for $28.99.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs sell data for French Guiana and get most of the traffic for this search. We priced all six on the same day, for a few days in Cayenne, a week with a launch at Kourou and a boat to the islands, two weeks and a month, and read the fine print on unlimited. French Guiana is part of France and the EU, so an EU phone plan may already cover you. 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 $28.99, one payment each, nothing renews. Airalo asks $49 for 15 days and $72.50 for the month.
Airalo: Cheapest 3 days. 3 days of unlimited at $11.50 on Digicel, 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps. Holafly is 40 cents more.
Nomad: Cheapest bucket that lasts a month or more. 10 GB for 30 days at $19 and 20 GB for 45 days at $29, on Digicel and SFR Caraïbe.
Ubigi: Most networks. Its Best Caribbean regional plan covers French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin on Digicel, Orange and SFR. 10 GB for 30 days at $19.
Model: Airalo Buckets or unlimited days; Holafly Unlimited days only; Saily Buckets; unlimited only on its Global plan; Nomad Buckets only; Ubigi A 3 GB local plan; larger plans are Caribbean regional plans; Ringo Light Unlimited trips: 2 weeks or 30 days.
Unlimited, 3 days: Airalo $11.50; Holafly $11.90; Saily No unlimited for French Guiana; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi No 3-day plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo $27; Holafly $27.50; Saily No unlimited for French Guiana; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi Best Caribbean regional plan, 20 GB, then 2 Mbps, $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 2-week plan; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi Caribbean regional plan, 15 days, 30 GB, then 2 Mbps, $75; Ringo Light $18.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo $72.50; Holafly $73.90; Saily Global plan, 30 GB, then 1 Mbps, $59.99; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi Best Caribbean regional plan, 60 GB, then 2 Mbps, $69; Ringo Light $28.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo $22; Holafly No buckets; Saily $21.99; Nomad $19; Ubigi Best Caribbean regional plan, $19; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $18.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo $36; Holafly No buckets; Saily $35.99; Nomad 20 GB for 45 days, $29; Ubigi Not listed on the day; World 20 GB $44 a month, renews; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $28.99.
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 Digicel; Holafly Digicel; Saily Not named on its listing; Nomad Digicel, SFR Caraïbe; Ubigi Digicel, Orange Caraïbe, SFR Caraïbe; 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 people come to French Guiana for a week or two: Cayenne, a launch or a tour at Kourou, a boat to the Îles du Salut, a night in the Kaw marshes. Others come for a month or more, on a posting or for work at the space centre. For 15 days of unlimited, Airalo asks $49 and Holafly $50.50. Ubigi's Caribbean regional plan, which covers French Guiana, asks $75 for 30 GB at full speed, then 2 Mbps. Saily and Nomad sell no two weeks of unlimited. Ringo Light charges $18.99 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 Best Caribbean month is $69 for 60 GB, Airalo $72.50 and Holafly $73.90. Ringo Light charges $28.99 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 $18.99 top-up. A heavy two weeks with us costs $37.98, still under every rival's two weeks. A heavy month costs $47.98, still under every rival's month.
For a short trip, Ringo Light sells no 3-day or 7-day plan. Airalo sells 3 days of unlimited at $11.50 and Holafly at $11.90. For a week, our 2 weeks at $18.99 costs less than any rival's 7 days: Airalo asks $27, Holafly $27.50, and Ubigi $27 for 20 GB at full speed on its Best Caribbean plan.
French Guiana is about the size of Portugal, and almost all of it is Amazon rainforest. Nearly everyone lives on the coast, along the road from Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni through Kourou and Cayenne to Saint-Georges on the Oyapock. That is where the networks are: Orange, SFR and Digicel all cover Cayenne, Kourou, Saint-Laurent and the main coast road. Airalo and Holafly ride Digicel, Nomad Digicel and SFR, and Ubigi lists all three. Saily does not name its network.
Inland, coverage thins out fast and often stops. Holafly's own page names the Nouragues reserve and the Maroni and Oyapock rivers as places where it may be limited or unstable, and river towns such as Maripasoula and Saül are reached by plane or pirogue. No travel eSIM changes that. Download offline maps and anything you need before you leave the coast.
Nomad, $19 for 10 GB. 10 GB for 30 days and 20 GB for 45 days at $29, the longest-lasting 20 GB here, on Digicel and SFR Caraïbe. Nomad sells no unlimited for French Guiana.
Ubigi, $19 for 10 GB. On its Best Caribbean regional plan, which also covers Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin, on three networks. Its only French Guiana plan is 3 GB for 15 days at $8.
Saily, $21.99 for 10 GB. 20 GB at $35.99 and 5 GB at $12.99. Its listing is from June; saily.com would not load for us.
Airalo, $22 for 10 GB. Its Kawcom plan on Digicel: 20 GB for $36, 5 GB for 30 days at $13. The app is needed.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $18.99, one cent under the cheapest 10 GB bucket, but it lasts 2 weeks, not 30 days. Our 30 days starts with 20 GB for $28.99, one cent under Nomad's 20 GB, which lasts 45 days. For a fixed amount of data that has to last a month or more, Nomad is the better buy, and for 5 GB Saily at $12.99 or Airalo at $13 cost less than anything we sell. 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 French Guiana 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 $28.99, 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.
Our Latin America trip and our Europe trip do not cover French Guiana, so this is the Ringo Light to buy for it. It covers French Guiana only, not Suriname or Brazil across the rivers.
The card to buy it is just below this article.
A few days in Cayenne. Airalo unlimited, 3 days, $11.50. Ringo Light sells no 3 days; our 2 weeks is $7.49 more.
A week: Cayenne, Kourou and the islands. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $18.99, less than any rival charges for 7 days of unlimited.
Two weeks, heavy use. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $18.99, against $49 to $75 for two weeks at the rivals. Even with one top-up it is $37.98.
A month or more, light use. Nomad 10 GB for 30 days at $19, or 20 GB for 45 days at $29.
A month on a posting or at the space centre. Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $28.99, starting with 20 GB and adding 10 GB once for $18.99. Ubigi's Best Caribbean plan at $69 for 60 GB if you also fly on to Martinique or Guadeloupe.
Your phone plan is from an EU country. Check your roaming first. French Guiana is in the EU, so you may already be covered at home prices.
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 French Guiana, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips include, from Cayenne and the space centre at Kourou to the old penal colony at Saint-Laurent and the bridge to Brazil, with the one thing your data does for you at each. All of them sit on or near the coast road, where the signal is; the forest behind them is another matter.
Place des Palmistes, Cayenne. The main square of the capital, planted with tall royal palms, with the old town and the market streets around it. Walk up to Fort Cépérou above it for the view over the city and the sea. Prices are in euros and cards work as in mainland France. French bank and payment apps work here as at home.
Guiana Space Centre, Kourou. Europe's spaceport, where Ariane and Vega rockets launch over the Atlantic, with the Musée de l'Espace at the entrance. Guided tours of the site are booked in advance. Launch dates slip often. Follow the launch schedule on your phone and register for a public viewing site as soon as it opens.
Îles du Salut, Off Kourou. Three small islands, Royale, Saint-Joseph and Devil's Island, where the penal colony held prisoners, Dreyfus among them. Boats from Kourou land on Royale and Saint-Joseph; Devil's Island is seen from the shore. Signal can drop at sea and on the islands. Save your boat ticket and return time on the phone before you leave the harbour.
The beaches of Rémire-Montjoly, Near Cayenne. Sand beaches a short drive from Cayenne, with small islands offshore. Sea turtles, leatherbacks among them, nest on this coast at night, mostly from about April to August. Keep the torch and flash off near nesting turtles, and check the tide times: the beaches shrink at high tide.
The Kaw marshes, Kaw-Roura nature reserve. One of the largest wetlands in France, a sea of grass and channels under the Kaw mountain. Most visitors go by pirogue, often at night, to see black caimans. There is little or no signal on the marsh. Download the offline map and your booking details before you pass Roura.
Cacao, Roura, about an hour from Cayenne. A Hmong village in the forest, founded in the 1970s by refugees from Laos. Its Sunday market sells Laotian soups, fruit and embroidery. Many market stalls prefer cash. Find a cash machine in Cayenne before you drive out.
Camp de la Transportation, Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni. The camp where every convict sent to the penal colony first arrived, now visited on guided tours. The town sits on the Maroni river, across from Suriname. A French Guiana plan ends at the river: Albina, on the far bank, is Suriname and needs its own data.
The Oyapock River Bridge, Saint-Georges-de-l'Oyapock. A cable-stayed bridge over the Oyapock to Oiapoque in Brazil, at the end of the long road east from Cayenne. Pirogues still cross the river below it. Near the river phones can latch onto a Brazilian network. Pick a French Guiana network by hand so your plan keeps working.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for French Guiana 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/french-guiana-esim?currency=USD (unlimited and network in dollars on the site; buckets from esimdb.com/french-guiana/airalo, 28 September 2026).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-french-guiana/ (dollar prices and network on its own page, 28 September 2026).
Source for Saily: https://esimdb.com/french-guiana/saily (listing dated 27 June 2026, including its Global plans; saily.com refused the fetch).
Source for Nomad: https://esimdb.com/french-guiana/nomad (listing dated 17 September 2026; nomadesim.com served euro prices; network from nomadesim.com/french-guiana-esim).
Source for Ubigi: https://esimdb.com/french-guiana/ubigi (listing dated 17 September 2026, including the Caribbean regional plans it lists for French Guiana; cellulardata.ubigi.com lists one French Guiana plan, 3 GB for 15 days).
For two weeks or a month of unlimited data, Ringo Light: $18.99 for 2 weeks and $28.99 for 30 days on 28 September 2026, against $49 for 15 days and $72.50 for 30 days at Airalo. For 3 days, Airalo at $11.50. For a 10 GB bucket that lasts 30 days, Nomad or Ubigi at $19.
Airalo and Holafly ride Digicel. Nomad names Digicel and SFR Caraïbe, and Ubigi lists Digicel, Orange Caraïbe and SFR Caraïbe. Saily does not name its network on its listing. All of them cover Cayenne, Kourou, Saint-Laurent and the coast road; none reaches far into the rainforest.
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 French Guiana. Ringo Light has no speed cap: it starts with 10 or 20 GB and adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
Yes. French Guiana is part of France and of the European Union, so a phone plan from any EU country roams there at home prices under the EU rules, within the usual fair use limit. Some operators still list the French overseas departments on a separate page of their price list, so check yours before you fly. Plans from the US, the UK, Canada or Brazil usually charge roaming there, and that is where a travel eSIM saves money. A Europe travel eSIM does not always include French Guiana; our Europe trip does not, so check that your plan names it.
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