The best eSIM for Ghana in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Ghana, priced the same day: two weeks unlimited for $28.99, a month for $55.99, which to buy.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs sell data for Ghana and get most of the traffic for this search. We priced all six on the same day, for a few days in Accra, two weeks along the coast from Accra to Cape Coast and Elmina, and a month, and read the fine print on unlimited. Only Holafly and Ringo Light sell unlimited data for Ghana alone; the other four sell buckets, and their bigger plans are regional or global. 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 $28.99 or 30 days at $55.99, one payment each, nothing renews. Holafly asks $63.50 for 15 days and $111.90 for the month.
Nomad: Cheapest data buckets. 10 GB for 30 days at $24 and 20 GB at $34, for Ghana alone, on AT.
Ubigi: MTN, the widest network. The one brand here on MTN, Ghana's largest network. Its Africa plan sells 10 GB for 30 days at $30.
Holafly: Cheapest short unlimited. Days, not gigabytes, on Telecel and AT: 3 days at $19.90. No daily cap stated for your own phone; sharing limited to 1 GB a day.
Model: Airalo Buckets for Ghana; unlimited only on its global plan; Holafly Unlimited days only; Saily Small buckets for Ghana; bigger plans are global; Nomad Buckets only; Ubigi Small buckets for Ghana; bigger plans are Africa or World plans; Ringo Light Unlimited trips: 2 weeks or 30 days.
Unlimited, 3 days: Airalo No unlimited for Ghana; global plan $24; Holafly $19.90; Saily No 3-day plan; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi No 3-day plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo Global plan $45; Holafly $39.50; Saily No 7-day unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi Africa plan, 20 GB, then 2 Mbps, $49; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $28.99.
Unlimited, 2 weeks: Airalo Global plan, 15 days $96; Holafly 15 days $63.50; Saily No two-week unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi World plan, 15 days, 30 GB, then 2 Mbps, $77; Ringo Light $28.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo Global plan $159; Holafly $111.90; Saily Global plan, 30 GB, then 1 Mbps, $59.99; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi World plan, 60 GB, then 2 Mbps, $108; Ringo Light $55.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo $29; Holafly No buckets; Saily Not sold for Ghana alone; global plan $44.99; Nomad $24; Ubigi Africa plan $30; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $28.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo $49; Holafly No buckets; Saily Not listed on the day; Nomad $34; Ubigi Not listed on the day; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $55.99.
Full speed on unlimited: Airalo Global plan: 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 sold; 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 AT; Holafly Telecel (Vodafone Ghana), AT; Saily Not named by Saily; Nomad AT; Ubigi MTN; 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 Optional; Ubigi Optional; Ringo Light No, the eSIM arrives by email.
Most Ghana trips run ten days to two weeks: a few days in Accra, then the coast road west to Cape Coast, Elmina and Kakum, sometimes a flight north to Mole. Only Holafly and Ringo Light sell unlimited data for Ghana alone. For 15 days, Holafly asks $63.50. Ubigi's World plan gives 30 GB at full speed for $77, and Airalo's global Discover plan costs $96. Ringo Light charges $28.99 for 2 weeks, one payment, nothing renews: $34.51 less than Holafly.
For a month, Holafly asks $111.90, Ubigi $108 for 60 GB on its World plan, and Airalo $159 on its global plan. Saily's global plan gives 30 GB at full speed for 30 days at $59.99, then 1 Mbps. Our 30 days costs $55.99.
Read what unlimited means before you pick. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone and limits sharing to 1 GB a day. Airalo's global plan gives 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps. Saily's global plan gives 30 GB, then 1 Mbps. Ubigi gives 30 GB for 15 days or 60 GB for the month, then 2 Mbps. 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 $28.99 top-up.
The heavy-use arithmetic, plainly. A heavy two weeks with us costs $57.98, still under Holafly's 15 days at $63.50 and Ubigi's 30 GB at $77. A heavy month costs $84.98, under Holafly and Ubigi, but Saily's global 30 GB at $59.99 is $24.99 cheaper if 30 GB is enough for you. If you will use under 20 GB in a month, our 30 days is the cheapest unlimited month on this page.
For a short trip, Ringo Light sells no 3-day or 7-day plan. Holafly sells 3 days of unlimited at $19.90. For a week, our 2 weeks at $28.99 costs less than Holafly's 7 days at $39.50.
Ghana has three mobile networks: MTN, Telecel, which was Vodafone Ghana until 2024, and AT, which was AirtelTigo. MTN is the largest by far and reaches furthest into the small towns and the north. Telecel and AT cover Accra, Kumasi and the coast road well and thin out sooner in the country. Ubigi rides MTN, Holafly Telecel and AT, and Airalo and Nomad AT; Saily does not name its network. For Accra, Cape Coast and Elmina, any of them works. In Kakum's forest, around Mole and on the roads through the north, signal on every network comes and goes, so download maps before you leave town.
Every Ghanaian SIM has to be registered to its owner before it works. A visitor shows a passport at an MTN, Telecel or AT shop, at Kotoka airport in Accra or in town, and waits for the line to be set up. A travel eSIM installs at home before you fly, needs no counter, and connects when you land.
A local line also carries mobile money, which much of Ghana pays with, from trotro fares to market stalls. A travel data eSIM does not include mobile money. Cards work in hotels, malls and larger restaurants in Accra and Kumasi; carry cedis for the rest.
Nomad, $24 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB for 30 days, and the cheapest 20 GB at $34, for Ghana alone on AT.
Airalo, $29 for 10 GB. For 30 days on AT, as airalo.com showed it on the day, and 20 GB for $49. Buckets start at $4.50 for 1 GB.
Ubigi, $30 for 10 GB. On its Africa plan, which covers Ghana and its neighbours. For Ghana alone Ubigi sells only 1 GB and 3 GB. The one brand here on MTN.
Saily, $44.99 for 10 GB. On its global plan; for Ghana alone it sells up to 5 GB, $18.99 for 30 days. Its listing is from June and saily.com would not load for us, so check the price at checkout.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $28.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $55.99. For a fixed amount of data, Nomad is cheaper in Ghana, by $4.99 on 10 GB and $21.99 on 20 GB. 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 Ghana it sells two trips, both unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $28.99, starting with 10 GB, and 30 days at $55.99, starting with 20 GB. Each adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $28.99. 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 few days in Accra. Holafly unlimited, 3 days, $19.90. Ringo Light sells no 3 days.
Two weeks, Accra and the coast. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $28.99, less than any rival charges for two weeks of unlimited, and less than Holafly's week.
Two weeks, light use, budget first. Nomad 10 GB for 30 days at $24.
A month, working from Accra. Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $55.99, starting with 20 GB and adding 10 GB once for $28.99. Saily's global 30 GB at $59.99 if you know you will use more than 20 GB.
You travel north to Mole and small towns. Ubigi on MTN, the widest network: its Africa plan sells 10 GB for 30 days at $30.
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 Ghana, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips include, from Accra along the coast to Cape Coast and Elmina, inland to Kakum and Kumasi, north to Mole and east to the Volta Region, with the one thing your data does for you at each. Accra, Kumasi and the coast towns have good 4G; the forest, the north and the border hills often do not.
Black Star Gate and Independence Square, Accra. The great arch over Independence Square, marked AD 1957, the year Ghana won its independence. Go early in the morning, before the heat, and walk on to the sea front beside it. Uber and Bolt both run in Accra, and a ride-hailing app saves haggling over taxi fares.
Jamestown and its lighthouse, Accra. One of Accra's oldest districts, a fishing town of painted boats around a red and white lighthouse. Come in the morning, when the boats land their catch. Street food and trotros here take cash or mobile money, not cards; carry small cedi notes.
Cape Coast Castle, Cape Coast. A white fort on the sea from which enslaved Africans were shipped across the Atlantic, now a museum and part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The guided tour takes you through the dungeons to the Door of No Return. The coast road from Accra takes about three hours. A live traffic map tells you when to leave to miss the jams out of the city.
Elmina Castle, Elmina. Built by the Portuguese in 1482, the oldest European building south of the Sahara, above a harbour full of fishing boats. It is a short ride from Cape Coast, so most people see both castles on the same day. Save both castles and your guesthouse offline; taxis between the two towns rarely know addresses, only landmarks.
Kakum National Park, North of Cape Coast. A rainforest park with a canopy walkway of seven rope bridges strung between the treetops. Go at opening time in the morning, when it is cooler and the birds are out. Signal thins out in the forest. Download the park and the road back to Cape Coast offline before you drive up.
Mole National Park, Savannah Region, the north. Ghana's largest national park, where rangers lead walking safaris to elephants at the waterholes. The dry season, roughly November to April, is when the elephants gather closest. Coverage around Mole is limited. Download maps offline in Tamale and send your plans before you head into the park.
Lake Bosomtwe, Near Kumasi, Ashanti Region. A round lake in an ancient meteorite crater, ringed by forested hills and fishing villages, sacred to the Ashanti. Pair it with Kumasi's Manhyia Palace Museum and Kejetia market. Kejetia is one of the largest markets in West Africa. Drop a pin where you came in, or you may not find the way out.
Wli Waterfalls, Volta Region, near Hohoe. Ghana's tallest waterfall, reached by a forest walk from the village of Wli. It flows hardest in the rainy season, from about May to October. Wli sits on the Togo border. If your phone picks up a Togolese network, choose a Ghanaian one by hand in network settings.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Ghana 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/ghana-esim?currency=USD (eleven packages in dollars on the site, 28 September 2026; global Discover unlimited from esimdb.com/ghana/airalo, updated 28 September 2026).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-ghana/ (read on the site in dollars, 28 September 2026).
Source for Saily: https://esimdb.com/ghana/saily (listing dated 23 June 2026; saily.com refused the fetch).
Source for Nomad: https://esimdb.com/ghana/nomad (listing dated 21 September 2026; network from nomadesim.com/ghana-esim).
Source for Ubigi: https://esimdb.com/ghana/ubigi (listing dated 17 September 2026; network from cellulardata.ubigi.com/ghana).
For two weeks or a month of unlimited data, Ringo Light: $28.99 for 2 weeks and $55.99 for 30 days on 28 September 2026, against $63.50 for 15 days and $111.90 for 30 days at Holafly. For 3 days, Holafly at $19.90. For a 10 GB bucket, Nomad at $24.
Ubigi rides MTN, Ghana's largest network. Holafly rides Telecel, the former Vodafone Ghana, and AT, and Airalo and Nomad ride AT. Saily does not name its network. All cover Accra, Kumasi and the coast; MTN reaches further into the north.
Every brand has a limit somewhere. Airalo's global plan slows you after 3 GB a day, Saily's global plan after 30 GB, Ubigi after its fixed full-speed amount. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone and limits sharing to 1 GB a day. Nomad sells no unlimited for Ghana. Ringo Light has no speed cap: it starts with 10 or 20 GB and adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
A local Ghanaian SIM, yes: you show your passport at an MTN, Telecel or AT shop and wait for the line to be set up. A travel eSIM is installed before you fly and works the moment you land at Kotoka, with no counter. It carries data only, so it does not give you mobile money.
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