The best eSIM for Malta in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Malta, priced on the same day: two weeks unlimited for $12.99, a month for $21.99, which to buy.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs sell a Malta plan and get most of the traffic for this search. We priced all six on the same day, for a long weekend in Valletta, two weeks between the beaches of Malta and Gozo, and a month of remote work in Sliema, and read the fine print on unlimited. 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 $12.99 or 30 days at $21.99, one payment each, nothing renews. Airalo asks $49 for 15 days and $69 for the month.
Ubigi: Cheapest 10 GB bucket. 10 GB for 30 days at $12 on Epic and Melita, and 60 GB at full speed for 30 days at $49, then 2 Mbps.
Nomad: Cheapest 3 days and cheapest 20 GB. 3 days of unlimited at $11 and 20 GB for 30 days at $20, on GO and Epic.
Holafly: Simplest unlimited, three networks. Days, not gigabytes, on Epic, GO and Melita. $27.50 for a week; sharing limited to 1 GB a day.
Model: Airalo Buckets or unlimited days; Holafly Unlimited days only; Saily Buckets or unlimited days; Nomad Buckets or unlimited days; 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; Nomad $11; Ubigi No 3-day plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo $27; Holafly $27.50; Saily No 7-day plan; 5 days $18.99; Nomad $25; Ubigi 20 GB, then 2 Mbps, $24; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $12.99.
Unlimited, 15 days: Airalo $49; Holafly $50.50; Saily $48.99; Nomad No 15-day plan; 10 days $33; Ubigi 30 GB, then 2 Mbps, $29; Ringo Light 2 weeks $12.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo $69; Holafly $73.90; Saily $71.99; Nomad No 30-day unlimited; Ubigi 60 GB, then 2 Mbps, $49; Ringo Light $21.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo $20; Holafly No buckets; Saily $19.99; Nomad $16; Ubigi $12; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $12.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo $28; Holafly No buckets; Saily $27.99; Nomad $20; Ubigi No 20 GB plan; 50 GB $39; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $21.99.
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 Epic; Holafly Epic, GO, Melita; Saily Not named by Saily; Nomad GO, Epic; Ubigi Epic, Melita; 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.
Malta is a week or two for most people, split between Valletta, the beaches and a few days on Gozo, and a month for the remote workers in Sliema and St Julian's. For 15 days of unlimited, Airalo asks $49, Saily $48.99 and Holafly $50.50. For a month, $69, $71.99 and $73.90. Ubigi is cheaper at $29 and $49 for a fixed amount at full speed. Ringo Light charges $12.99 for 2 weeks and $21.99 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, Nomad 2 GB. 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 $12.99 top-up. A heavy two weeks with us costs $25.98, under Ubigi's $29 for 15 days; a heavy month costs $34.98, still under every rival for the month.
For a short trip, Ringo Light sells no 3-day or 7-day plan. Nomad sells 3 days of unlimited at $11. For a week, our 2 weeks at $12.99 costs less than any rival's 7 days: Ubigi asks $24 for 20 GB at full speed, Nomad $25.
Malta has three networks: Epic, GO and Melita. The islands are small and all three cover Valletta, Sliema, St Julian's, Mdina and the towns of Gozo well. Signal gets weaker at the foot of the cliffs, inside the sea caves and on some boat trips around Comino and Gozo, whichever brand you buy. Holafly is the only brand here that lists all three networks; Airalo names Epic, Nomad GO and Epic, and Ubigi Epic and Melita.
Ubigi, $12 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB for 30 days, on Epic and Melita, installed by QR code, no app needed. It sells no 20 GB plan for Malta; the next step is 50 GB for $39.
Nomad, $16 for 10 GB. And the cheapest 20 GB, $20 for 30 days, on GO and Epic.
Saily, $19.99 for 10 GB. 20 GB at $27.99. Its listing is from June; we did not read these prices on saily.com.
Airalo, $20 for 10 GB. Its Maltafone plan, 20 GB for $28, buckets from $4.50 for 1 GB.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $12.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $21.99. For 10 GB that lasts a month, Ubigi at $12 is 99 cents cheaper, and Nomad sells 20 GB for $20, $1.99 under 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 Malta it sells two trips, both unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $12.99, starting with 10 GB, and 30 days at $21.99, starting with 20 GB. Each adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $12.99. 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 long weekend in Valletta. Nomad unlimited, 3 days, $11. Ringo Light sells no 3 days; its 2 weeks is $12.99 if the trip might run longer.
A week or two between Malta and Gozo. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $12.99, less than any rival charges for one week.
Two weeks, light use, budget first. Ubigi 10 GB for 30 days at $12.
A month of remote work in Sliema. Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $21.99, starting with 20 GB and adding 10 GB once for $12.99. Ubigi at $49 for 60 GB at full speed if you move big files every day.
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 Malta, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips include, from Valletta and Mdina down to the south coast and across to Comino and Gozo, with the one thing your data does for you at each. Epic, GO and Melita cover all of them, with weaker signal only in the caves and out at sea.
Upper Barrakka Gardens and the Grand Harbour, Valletta. A terrace garden on the city walls with the whole Grand Harbour and the Three Cities below it. The Saluting Battery under the terrace fires its cannon at noon. Most of Malta's bus routes start at the Valletta terminus. The Malta Public Transport app shows the next bus and its live position.
Mdina, Centre of Malta, next to Rabat. The walled old capital on a hill in the middle of the island, with St Paul's Cathedral above its quiet lanes. Go late in the afternoon, when the day groups have left. Bolt, Uber and eCabs all run in Malta. Book the ride back from the Mdina gate on your phone.
Birgu and the Three Cities, Across the Grand Harbour from Valletta. The oldest of the harbour towns, with Fort St Angelo on its point and a marina full of yachts below the old palaces. A short ferry ride from Valletta. The harbour ferry runs to a timetable. Check the next crossing on your phone before you walk down to the landing.
Marsaxlokk, South east coast. A fishing village where the bay is full of luzzu boats painted blue, yellow and red. The fish market fills the waterfront on Sunday mornings. Many market stalls take only cash. Find the nearest cash machine in maps before you go.
The Blue Grotto, Near Wied iż-Żurrieq, south coast. A limestone arch and a row of sea caves where the water turns bright blue on sunny mornings. Small boats leave from the Wied iż-Żurrieq inlet. The boats stop when the sea is rough. Check the sea forecast on your phone before you ride out.
Ħaġar Qim and Mnajdra temples, South coast, near Qrendi. Two megalithic temples on the clifftop, older than Stonehenge and the pyramids, a short walk apart. At the equinoxes the sunrise lines up with Mnajdra's main doorway. Heritage Malta sells the tickets online. Keep the QR code on your phone for the gate.
The Blue Lagoon, Comino. A shallow channel of clear turquoise water between Comino and the islet of Cominotto. Boats run over from Ċirkewwa and from Gozo; go early or late in summer to avoid the crowds. Comino has almost nothing on it and signal can be weak by the cliffs. Download the offline map before the boat leaves.
The Citadel, Victoria, Gozo. A fortified hilltop town above Gozo's capital, with a cathedral inside and a walk on the walls that looks across the whole island. The Gozo Channel ferry from Ċirkewwa takes about 25 minutes. Foot passengers on the Gozo Channel ferry pay on the way back. Check the timetable on your phone so you do not miss the last one.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Malta 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/malta-esim?currency=USD (unlimited in dollars on the site; buckets from esimdb.com/malta/airalo (Maltafone plan), 28 September 2026).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-malta/.
Source for Saily: https://esimdb.com/malta/saily (listing dated 15 June 2026; not read on saily.com).
Source for Nomad: https://esimdb.com/malta/nomad (listing dated 20 September 2026; networks from nomadesim.com/malta-esim).
Source for Ubigi: https://cellulardata.ubigi.com/destinations/malta/ (and esimdb.com/malta/ubigi, 16 September 2026).
For two weeks or a month of unlimited data, Ringo Light: $12.99 for 2 weeks and $21.99 for 30 days on 28 September 2026, against $49 for 15 days and $69 for 30 days at Airalo. For 3 days, Nomad at $11. For 10 GB over 30 days, Ubigi at $12; for 20 GB, Nomad at $20.
Holafly lists Epic, GO and Melita. Airalo rides Epic, Nomad GO and Epic, and Ubigi Epic and Melita. Saily does not name its network on its listing. All three networks cover Malta and Gozo well; signal is weaker in the sea caves and on some boat trips.
Every brand has a limit somewhere. Airalo slows you after 3 GB a day, Saily after 5 GB, Nomad after 2 GB, 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.
Malta is in the EU. If your home plan is from an EU country, roaming in Malta is usually included at home prices, within a fair use limit. Travellers from the US, the UK, Canada or Australia usually pay a daily roaming fee, and that is where a travel eSIM saves money.
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