The best eSIM for Madagascar in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Madagascar, priced on the same day: two weeks unlimited for $31.99, a month for $59.99.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs sell data for Madagascar and get most of the traffic for this search. We priced all six on the same day, for a week in the highlands, two or three weeks down the RN7 or out west to the baobabs, and a month, and read the fine print on unlimited. One thing is true for every brand: outside the towns, signal is thin.
Ringo Light: Cheapest unlimited for two weeks or a month. Unlimited data at full speed for 2 weeks at $31.99 or 30 days at $59.99, one payment each, nothing renews. Ubigi asks $58 for 15 days with 30 GB at full speed, Holafly $63.50, and Holafly $111.90 for the month.
Airalo: Cheapest 3 days. 3 days of unlimited at $19.50 on its Madacom plan, on Airtel, with 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps. Its Madagascar unlimited stops at 10 days.
Nomad: Cheapest data bucket. 10 GB for 30 days at $25, on Airtel and Yas. Nomad sells no Madagascar unlimited.
Ubigi: Cheapest big bucket, on Orange and Yas. 10 GB for 30 days at $29 and 25 GB for 30 days at $44, on Orange Madagascar and Yas.
Model: Airalo Buckets or unlimited days; Holafly Unlimited days only; Saily Buckets only; Nomad Buckets only; Ubigi Buckets, then 2 Mbps; Ringo Light Unlimited trips: 2 weeks or 30 days.
Unlimited, 3 days: Airalo $19.50; Holafly $19.90; Saily No unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi No 3-day plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo $39.50; Holafly $39.50; Saily No unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi 8 days, 25 GB, then 2 Mbps, $39; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $31.99.
Unlimited, 2 weeks: Airalo Madagascar plan stops at 10 days, $46.50; Discover global 15 days $96; Holafly 15 days $63.50; Saily No unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi 15 days, 30 GB, then 2 Mbps, $58; Ringo Light $31.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo Discover global plan $159; Holafly $111.90; Saily No unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi No 30-day Madagascar plan; Best World 60 GB, then 2 Mbps, $108; Ringo Light $59.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo $45; Holafly No buckets; Saily $44.99; Nomad $25; Ubigi $29; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $31.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo No 20 GB Madagascar plan; Holafly No buckets; Saily No 20 GB plan; Nomad No 20 GB plan; Ubigi 25 GB $44; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $59.99.
Full speed on unlimited: Airalo 3 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; Holafly No daily cap stated; sharing 1 GB a day; Saily No unlimited; 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 Airtel; Holafly Airtel; Saily Not named by Saily; Nomad Airtel, Yas; Ubigi Orange, Yas; 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 Yes; Ubigi Optional; Ringo Light No, the eSIM arrives by email.
Madagascar is big and slow to cross, so most first trips run two or three weeks. For about two weeks of unlimited, Ubigi asks $58 for 15 days with 30 GB at full speed, Holafly $63.50, and Airalo $96, because its Madagascar plan stops at 10 days and its 15 days is the Discover global plan. For a month, Ubigi's Best World plan is $108, Holafly $111.90 and Airalo's Discover $159. Ringo Light charges $31.99 for 2 weeks and $59.99 for 30 days, one payment each, nothing renews. Saily and Nomad sell no Madagascar unlimited.
Read what unlimited means before you pick. Airalo gives 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps. Ubigi gives 30 GB for 15 days or 60 GB for the month, 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 $31.99 top-up. A heavy two weeks with us costs $63.98, more than Ubigi's 15 days at $58 and about the same as Holafly's $63.50. A heavy month costs $91.98, still under every rival for the month.
For a short trip, Ringo Light sells no 3-day or 7-day plan. Airalo sells 3 days of unlimited at $19.50. For a week, Airalo and Holafly both ask $39.50 and Ubigi $39 for 8 days, all more than our 2 weeks at $31.99.
Madagascar has three main networks: Yas (the former Telma), Orange and Airtel. All three cover Antananarivo, the towns along the RN7, Morondava, Nosy Be and Sainte-Marie. Between towns, on the long roads and inside most national parks, signal is thin or gone on every network, and no eSIM brand can change that. Airalo and Holafly ride Airtel, Nomad Airtel and Yas, and Ubigi Orange and Yas.
Plan for it. Download offline maps of the whole island before you leave Antananarivo, save your bookings and park permits as screenshots, and expect to catch up on messages in the evening in town. On the Tsingy road and in the canyons of Isalo, assume you will have nothing for hours.
Nomad, $25 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB for 30 days, on Airtel and Yas. No 20 GB plan for Madagascar.
Ubigi, $29 for 10 GB. On Orange and Yas, and 25 GB for 30 days at $44, the cheapest big bucket.
Saily, $44.99 for 10 GB. No 20 GB plan. Its listing is from May; saily.com would not load for us.
Airalo, $45 for 10 GB. Its Madacom plan, buckets from $7 for 1 GB over 3 days. No 20 GB Madagascar plan.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $31.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $59.99. For 10 GB, Nomad and Ubigi are cheaper; for 20 GB or more, Ubigi's 25 GB at $44 is cheaper. 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 Madagascar it sells two trips, both unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $31.99, starting with 10 GB, and 30 days at $59.99, starting with 20 GB. Each adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $31.99. One payment, nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email in seconds and installs in one scan, no app. Install it at home, before the flight.
Madagascar is not in any of our regional trips, so the country trip is the one to buy.
The card to buy it is just below this article.
A few days in Antananarivo. Airalo unlimited, 3 days, $19.50. Ringo Light sells no 3 days.
A week or two on the RN7. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $31.99, less than any rival charges for a week. Ubigi 15 days at $58 if you will stream every evening.
Two weeks, light use, budget first. Nomad 10 GB for 30 days at $25.
A month, west to east. Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $59.99, starting with 20 GB and adding 10 GB once for $31.99. Ubigi 25 GB for 30 days at $44 if a bucket is enough.
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 Madagascar, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips include, from the baobabs and the Tsingy in the west to the rainforests of the east and the islands of Nosy Be and Sainte-Marie, with the one thing your data does for you at each. Signal is good in the towns and thin almost everywhere between them, so offline maps and saved documents matter more here than in most countries.
The Avenue of the Baobabs, Near Morondava. A dirt road lined with giant Grandidier's baobabs, a short drive north of Morondava on the west coast. Go at sunset, when the trunks turn red and the light goes quickly. Signal fades outside Morondava. Save the route and your hotel as offline pins before you drive out.
Tsingy de Bemaraha, Bekopaka, north of Morondava. A forest of razor limestone needles crossed on rope bridges and ladders, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The road in from Morondava is a long day on dirt and only passable in the dry season. Expect no signal on the road or in the park. Download maps and keep your permits and bookings as screenshots.
Andasibe, About three hours east of Antananarivo. Rainforest parks where the indri, the largest living lemur, calls through the trees in the early morning. Night walks along the road show chameleons and mouse lemurs. Guides are hired at the park office. The village has signal; use it to confirm your walk times the evening before.
Lake Anosy and the upper town, Antananarivo. The capital spreads over hills around Lake Anosy, with the Rova, the old royal palace, on the highest ridge. Most trips start and end here, at Ivato airport. Taxis have no meters. Check the distance on the map and agree the fare before you get in.
Ranomafana National Park, Southern highlands, on the RN7. Steep, wet rainforest along the Namorona River, home to the golden bamboo lemur. A usual stop between Antsirabe and Fianarantsoa on the road south. It rains here in every season. Keep your phone in a dry bag on the trails and back up photos in town.
Isalo National Park, Ranohira, on the RN7. Sandstone massifs, canyons and natural swimming pools in the dry south. Most people walk a day or two from Ranohira with a local guide. There is signal in Ranohira, not in the canyons. Send your plans home and download the map before you set off.
Nosy Be, Off the northwest coast. The main beach island, with its own airport and boat trips to Nosy Komba and Nosy Iranja. The dry months, roughly May to November, are the usual time to go. Boat trips and transfers are mostly arranged by WhatsApp, and paid in cash in ariary. Find an ATM on the map in Hell-Ville first.
Sainte-Marie and Île aux Nattes, Off the east coast. A long, green island with quiet beaches, and humpback whales offshore from about July to September. Île aux Nattes is a short pirogue crossing from its southern tip. Flights and boats to the island depend on the weather. Check your crossing the day before, and keep your ferry booking on your phone.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Madagascar 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/madagascar-esim?currency=USD (Madacom unlimited in dollars on the site, 28 September 2026; buckets and Discover global plan from esimdb.com/madagascar/airalo, 28 September 2026).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-madagascar/.
Source for Saily: https://esimdb.com/madagascar/saily (listing dated 13 May 2026; saily.com refused the fetch).
Source for Nomad: https://esimdb.com/madagascar/nomad (listing dated 17 September 2026; networks from nomadesim.com/madagascar-esim).
Source for Ubigi: https://esimdb.com/madagascar/ubigi (listing dated 17 September 2026; networks from cellulardata.ubigi.com).
For two weeks or a month of unlimited data, Ringo Light: $31.99 for 2 weeks and $59.99 for 30 days on 28 September 2026, against $58 for Ubigi's 15 days with 30 GB at full speed and $111.90 for Holafly's month. For 3 days, Airalo at $19.50. For a 10 GB bucket, Nomad at $25.
Airalo and Holafly ride Airtel, Nomad Airtel and Yas, and Ubigi Orange and Yas. Saily does not name its network on its listing. All cover Antananarivo and the main towns; between towns and in most parks, signal is thin on every network.
Every brand has a limit somewhere. Airalo slows you after 3 GB a day, Ubigi after its fixed full-speed amount. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone. Saily and Nomad sell no Madagascar unlimited. Ringo Light has no speed cap: it starts with 10 or 20 GB and adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
Yes, the networks sell SIMs at Ivato airport and in town, and you register the SIM with your passport. A travel eSIM needs none of that: you install it at home and it works when you land.
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