The best eSIM for Macau in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Macau, priced on the same day: two weeks unlimited for $19.99, a month for $36.99, which to buy.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs sell data for Macau and get most of the traffic for this search. We priced all six on the same day, for a day trip or a weekend, a week between the old town and Cotai, two weeks and a month, and read the fine print on unlimited. Many people see Macau as part of a Hong Kong trip, so we also say what happens at the border. 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 $19.99 or 30 days at $36.99, one payment each, nothing renews. Airalo asks $49 for 15 days and $72.50 for the month.
Nomad: Cheapest data buckets. 10 GB for 30 days at $14 and 20 GB for 45 days at $20, on CTM with 5G. No Macau unlimited.
Airalo: Cheapest 3 days. 3 days of unlimited at $11.50 on 3 Macau, with 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps.
Holafly: Simplest unlimited. Days, not gigabytes, on CTM. $11.90 for 3 days and $27.50 for a week; sharing limited to 1 GB a day.
Model: Airalo Buckets or unlimited days; Holafly Unlimited days only; Saily Macau buckets; unlimited only on its Asia and Oceania plan; Nomad Macau buckets; unlimited only on its APAC plan; Ubigi Buckets, then 2 Mbps; Ringo Light Unlimited trips: 2 weeks or 30 days.
Unlimited, 3 days: Airalo $11.50; Holafly $11.90; Saily No 3-day plan; Asia and Oceania 5 days $21.99; Nomad No 3-day plan; APAC 5 days $18; Ubigi No 3-day plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo $27; Holafly $27.50; Saily No 7-day plan; Asia and Oceania 10 days $38.99; Nomad No 7-day plan; APAC 10 days $29; Ubigi 20 GB, then 2 Mbps, $26; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $19.99.
Unlimited, 2 weeks: Airalo 15 days $49; Holafly 15 days $50.50; Saily Asia and Oceania 15 days $54.99; Nomad No 14 or 15-day plan; Ubigi 15 days, 30 GB, then 2 Mbps, $49; Ringo Light $19.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo $72.50; Holafly $73.90; Saily Asia and Oceania 30 days $81.99; Nomad No 30-day unlimited; Ubigi No Macau month; Best Asia 60 GB, then 2 Mbps, $66; Ringo Light $36.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo $16; Holafly No buckets; Saily $15.99; Nomad $14; Ubigi $16; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $19.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo $23; Holafly No buckets; Saily $22.99; Nomad No 30-day 20 GB; 45 days $20; Ubigi No 20 GB; 25 GB $29; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $36.99.
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 slowed; 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 Hutchison (3 Macau), 4G; Holafly CTM; Saily Not named by Saily; Nomad CTM, 5G; Ubigi Not confirmed on the day; Ringo Light Local partner network.
Renews?: Airalo No; Holafly No; Saily No; Nomad No; Ubigi Its Macau plans do not; monthly Asia 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 Optional; Ringo Light No, the eSIM arrives by email.
Most people give Macau a day or a weekend, often from Hong Kong, but some stay a week or two, and some come for a month of work. For 15 days of unlimited, Airalo asks $49, Holafly $50.50, and Ubigi $49 for 30 GB at full speed. Saily sells no Macau unlimited; its Asia and Oceania plan is $54.99 for 15 days. For a month, Airalo asks $72.50 and Holafly $73.90. Ringo Light charges $19.99 for 2 weeks and $36.99 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 on its regional plan, Nomad 2 GB on its APAC plan. Ubigi gives 30 GB for 15 days, 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 $19.99 top-up. A heavy two weeks with us costs $39.98, still under Airalo and Ubigi at $49. A heavy month costs $56.98, still under every rival's month.
For a day trip or a weekend, 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 $19.99 already costs less than any rival's 7 days; the cheapest is Ubigi at $26 for 20 GB at full speed.
Macau has four mobile networks: CTM, the oldest and largest, 3 Macau, run by Hutchison, SmarTone and China Telecom Macau. The territory is small and dense, and all four cover the old town, Taipa, Cotai and Coloane well. Signal can drop inside the big resort basements and on the hill trails of Coloane. Holafly and Nomad ride CTM and Airalo rides 3 Macau. Saily does not name its network, and we could not confirm Ubigi's on the day. For a trip here any of them works.
A Macau plan works in Macau only, ours included. It stops at the Border Gate to Zhuhai, on the ferry to Hong Kong and on the bus over the Hong Kong to Zhuhai to Macau bridge. Near the border your phone can pick up a mainland or Hong Kong signal that a Macau plan does not cover. If your trip continues to Hong Kong, you need a plan for Hong Kong as well, or one plan that covers both; our Hong Kong comparison is at /blog/best-esim-for-hong-kong.
Nomad, $14 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB for 30 days, on CTM with 5G. It sells no 20 GB for 30 days; 20 GB for 45 days is $20, the cheapest 20 GB of the six.
Saily, $15.99 for 10 GB. 20 GB for 30 days at $22.99. Its listing is from July; saily.com would not load for us.
Airalo, $16 for 10 GB. Its Macao Mobile plan on 3 Macau, 20 GB for $23, buckets from $4 for 1 GB.
Ubigi, $16 for 10 GB. It sells no 20 GB for Macau; 25 GB for 30 days is $29.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $19.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $36.99. For 10 GB that lasts a month, Nomad, Saily, Airalo and Ubigi are all cheaper, and for 20 GB Nomad, Saily and Airalo all cost less than our 30 days. 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 Macau it sells two trips, both unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $19.99, starting with 10 GB, and 30 days at $36.99, starting with 20 GB. Each adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $19.99. One payment, nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email in seconds and installs in one scan, no app.
Our Macau trip stops at the border like every Macau plan. If you are going to Hong Kong too, our Asia trip covers Macau, Hong Kong, mainland China and 16 more countries on the same terms: $26.99 for 2 weeks and $47.99 for 30 days, one payment. For Macau alone, the Macau trip is cheaper on both lengths. The comparison for the region is at /blog/best-esim-for-asia.
The card to buy it is just below this article.
A day trip or a weekend. Airalo unlimited, 3 days, $11.50, or Holafly at $11.90. Ringo Light sells no 3 days; its 2 weeks is $19.99 if you might stay longer.
A week or two in Macau. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $19.99, less than any rival charges for one week.
Light use, budget first. Nomad 10 GB for 30 days at $14.
A month of work in Macau. Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $36.99, starting with 20 GB and adding 10 GB once for $19.99.
Macau and Hong Kong on one trip. A Macau plan stops at the border. Buy a plan for each, or one that covers both: our Asia trip at $26.99 for 2 weeks, Holafly's Hong Kong, Macau and China plan, or Nomad's Greater China. Our Hong Kong comparison is at /blog/best-esim-for-hong-kong.
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 Macau, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips include, from the old town on the peninsula to Taipa, Cotai and Coloane, with the one thing your data does for you at each. Macau is small: a bus, a taxi or the light rail joins all eight, and 4G and 5G cover almost every one.
The Ruins of St. Paul's, Macau Peninsula. The stone front of a seventeenth century church, all that stood after a fire in 1835, at the top of a wide flight of steps. Go early in the morning, before the tour groups arrive. The lanes around it are a maze. Keep maps open to find Mount Fortress next door and the way down to Senado Square.
Senado Square, Macau Peninsula. The heart of the old town, paved in wavy Portuguese cobbles and ringed by pastel colonial buildings, with St. Dominic's Church at the top. It is a short walk down from St. Paul's. Shops take Hong Kong dollars almost everywhere but give change in patacas. A currency app tells you what you are paying.
A-Ma Temple, Barra, Macau Peninsula. A temple to the goddess of seafarers, older than the city, with halls and pavilions climbing the hill. The name Macau is said to come from it. It sits at the southern tip of the peninsula. A live bus app shows which bus stops at Barra and when.
Guia Fortress and Lighthouse, Guia Hill, Macau Peninsula. A seventeenth century fort on the highest point of the peninsula, with a small chapel and the first modern lighthouse on the China coast. Walk up through the park or ride the short cable car from Flora Garden. The view is best on a clear day. Check the weather on your phone before you climb.
Macau Tower, Nam Van, Macau Peninsula. A tower of 338 metres with an observation deck over the peninsula, Taipa and the Pearl River, and a bungee jump from the outer ring. Stay for the lights after dark. Book tickets for the deck or the jump on your phone and show the code at the gate.
Taipa Village and Rua do Cunha, Taipa. A narrow lane of bakeries and snack shops selling pork chop buns, almond cookies and egg tarts, next to the old Portuguese houses of Taipa. Busiest in the evening and at weekends. Camera translation reads the Chinese signs and menus in the small shops off the main lane.
Cotai, Between Taipa and Coloane. The strip of giant resorts on reclaimed land: the Venetian with its canals and gondolas, the Parisian with its half-size Eiffel Tower, and the shows and shopping between them. Worth a look even if you never gamble. The resorts are huge and signal can drop in the basements. Save the way back to your shuttle bus or the light rail before you go in.
Coloane Village, Coloane. A quiet fishing village at the south end of Macau, with the yellow Chapel of St. Francis Xavier on its small square and the Portuguese egg tarts of Lord Stow's Bakery nearby. Hac Sa beach is a short bus ride away. Buses out here run less often. A live bus app tells you when the next one back leaves.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Macau 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/macau-esim?currency=USD (airalo.com showed euros on the day; dollar prices from esimdb.com/macau/airalo, listing dated 28 September 2026; network from airalo.com).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-macau/ (dollar price table and network on its own page, 28 September 2026).
Source for Saily: https://esimdb.com/macau/saily (listing dated 2 July 2026; saily.com refused the fetch).
Source for Nomad: https://esimdb.com/macau/nomad (listing dated 21 September 2026, networks from the same listing).
Source for Ubigi: https://esimdb.com/macau/ubigi (listing dated 17 September 2026; cellulardata.ubigi.com would not show its Macau page).
For two weeks or a month of unlimited data, Ringo Light: $19.99 for 2 weeks and $36.99 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, Nomad at $14.
Holafly and Nomad ride CTM, Macau's largest network, and Airalo rides 3 Macau. Saily does not name its network, and we could not confirm Ubigi's on the day. All four Macau networks cover the old town, Taipa, Cotai and Coloane.
Every brand has a limit somewhere. Airalo slows you after 3 GB a day, Saily after 5 GB and Nomad after 2 GB on their regional plans, 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.
No. A Macau plan, ours included, works in Macau only and stops at the border, on the ferry and on the bridge to Hong Kong. For both, buy a Hong Kong plan as well, or one plan that covers both, such as our Asia trip, Holafly's Hong Kong, Macau and China plan or Nomad's Greater China. The Hong Kong prices are at /blog/best-esim-for-hong-kong.
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