The short answer
You live in Poland, your phone is on Orange Polska, and you fly to Cairo or Hurghada. I compared Orange's roaming packs on its page of 1 November 2026, the five travel eSIM brands and Ringo Light, all for a few days in Cairo, a fortnight on the Nile or a month on the Red Sea. For two weeks I would buy Ringo Light, and for a month I would take Orange if 10 GB is enough.
Unlimited data at full speed, 2 weeks at $18.99 or 30 days at $40.99, paid once. Airalo asks $49 for 15 days and $90 for the month, and an Orange pack caps you at 10 GB.
Three days of unlimited at $14, with 2 GB a day at full speed, on Orange and Vodafone. A weekend on Orange's day pack is cheaper still.
For light use: 3 GB for 30 days at $9, 10 GB for 30 days at $19, and 10 GB for a week at $17.
You buy days, not gigabytes, on the Orange network in Egypt, with no daily cap stated for your own phone. A week is $36.50, and sharing is limited to 1 GB a day.
Prices read on 25 October 2026: Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi, NTRA, Orange Polska, Ringo Light, European Central Bank on their own sites or listings, Ringo Light from its catalogue. All in US dollars unless stated. Treat every number as a snapshot.
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The prices, charted
US dollars, 25 October 2026. Ringo Light sells 2 weeks, the others 15 days. Ubigi's 15 days is 5 GB a day at full speed, then 2 Mbps. Nomad stops at 10 days ($35).
The 30-day plan at each brand. Ringo Light is unlimited data at full speed. Ubigi's month is 5 GB a day at full speed, then 2 Mbps. Nomad sells no 30-day Egypt unlimited.
Holafly sells no buckets. Ringo Light sells no bucket either: its 2 weeks is unlimited and lasts 2 weeks, not 30 days. Ubigi's 10 GB lasts a month for one cent more.
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What to do in Egypt, and what your phone needs for it
Eight places most first trips include, from Cairo down the Nile to Abu Simbel and out to the Red Sea. For each, a note on what your data does for you, whether it comes from an Orange pack or an eSIM.
Roam with Orange Polska, or buy an eSIM
Egypt is outside the EU, and Orange Polska names it for both of its roaming packs. I read the page on 1 November 2026. Pakiet Roamingowy GO 10 GB is 79 zł (about $20) for 10 GB over 15 days. Bezpieczny Roaming is 15 zł (about $4) for 1 GB, charged only for a 24 hour day in which data starts abroad, so fourteen days of daily use is 210 zł (about $53). The page shows no monthly plan, so I price 30 days as two GO packs, 158 zł (about $40).
Orange Polska's GO 10 GB pack is 79 zł (about $20) for 15 days and two packs are 158 zł (about $40) for a month, against Ringo Light's $18.99 for 2 weeks and $40.99 for 30 days: Ringo Light is about a dollar cheaper for a fortnight, and Orange is about a dollar cheaper for a month.
Both beat the travel brands by a wide margin. For about two weeks of unlimited I read Ubigi at $44, Saily at $48.99, Airalo at $49 and Holafly at $50.50, all for 15 days. For a month the same brands run from $69 to $95.90. The real difference between Orange and Ringo Light is not the dollar. It is 10 GB against no limit.
Orange wins three things. Your Polish number stays on, so a bank code or a call from home still reaches you. Nothing needs installing, and a handset without an eSIM slot works. For a day or two, Bezpieczny Roaming at 15 zł (about $4) a day is cheaper than any eSIM here, and Ringo Light sells no 3-day Egypt plan. If you use the phone lightly, I would take Orange. If you tether a laptop or film the Nile, I would buy Ringo Light.
Networks in Egypt, and what changes for a visitor from Poland
Egypt has four networks: Vodafone, Orange, e& and WE. The travel eSIMs mostly ride Vodafone or Orange, and coverage follows the Nile valley, Cairo, Alexandria and the Red Sea resorts. On the desert road south to Abu Simbel the signal thins out on every network, so I would save offline maps before that drive.
An Orange pack works the way your contract does at home. You start it in the Mój Orange app, by texting GO10GB or BR to 80060, or by calling *100. Contracts signed after 20 January 2024 already have Bezpieczny Roaming switched on, while older ones and cards must switch it on. When the day's 1 GB is gone, the page says data stops until you text DOKUP for another 1 GB at 15 zł. It names no speed for either pack.
Egypt has a phone rule worth knowing. Since 21 January 2026 a phone bought abroad that runs on an Egyptian SIM owes customs fees, with a 90 day exemption for tourists, and a local SIM needs your passport at the counter. A travel eSIM installed at home avoids both, and I read nothing on the Orange page that changes this for a Polish SIM in roaming.
If you want a data bucket: Ubigi, or Orange
- ✓Orange GO 10 GB, about $20. Ten gigabytes over 15 days on your own number, 79 zł on the roaming page. For a light fortnight it is the closest thing to a bucket at a fair price.
- Ubigi, $19 for 10 GB. Ten gigabytes that last 30 days, one cent more than the 2 weeks on Ringo Light. It also sells 3 GB for 30 days at $9 and 10 GB for a week at $17, the cheapest small amounts I found for Egypt.
- Nomad, $28 for 10 GB. Its 20 GB is $37 and its 3 GB $12, on Orange and Vodafone.
- Airalo, $33 for 10 GB. The 20 GB is $42, both for 30 days, from the esimdb listing dated 5 October 2026. Buckets start at $5.50 for 1 GB.
- Saily, $33.99 for 10 GB. Its 20 GB is $42.99 for 30 days, read on saily.com.
- ✓Ringo Light, no buckets. Its 2 weeks is unlimited for $18.99 and its 30 days unlimited for $40.99. That is $3.99 above Nomad's 20 GB at $37 and $1.99 above Ubigi's 25 GB at $39. If you want 10 GB to last a whole month, I would buy Ubigi, and I would rather you read that here than at checkout.
What Ringo Light is
Ringo Light is the data eSIM from Ringo, the company I write for, so weigh my picks with that in mind. It is sold to fund the full Ringo, one plan that works everywhere with your own number ported onto it. For Egypt it sells three trips, all unlimited data at full speed: 7 days at $12.99, 2 weeks at $18.99 and 30 days at $40.99. Nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email in seconds and installs in one scan, no app.
It carries data and nothing else. Your Orange SIM stays in the phone next to it, so the Polish number keeps ringing, and calls and texts on it are billed at Orange's rates of 0.99 zł a minute and 0.50 zł a text. The card to buy Ringo Light is further up this page, just after the side-by-side table. I would read the table first.
Pick by trip
I would stay on Orange and switch on Bezpieczny Roaming, 15 zł (about $4) for each day you use data. Ringo Light sells no 3-day plan, and Nomad's 3 days is $14.
I would take one Orange GO 10 GB pack, 79 zł (about $20), if maps and messages are all you need.
I would buy Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $18.99. Ubigi asks $44 for 15 days and the others $48.99 to $50.50.
It is close. Two Orange packs at about $40 undercut Ringo Light's $40.99 by a dollar, and I would pay that dollar for unlimited data.
I would buy Ubigi, 10 GB for 30 days at $19, or 3 GB at $9 for a very light trip.
I would keep the Orange SIM in and add Ringo Light for data. The calls cost 0.99 zł a minute, so I would use messaging apps.
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How we compared, and our sources
Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi, NTRA, Orange Polska, Ringo Light, European Central Bank, Ringo Light
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Egypt on 25 October 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.
- Airalo: www.airalo.com/egypt-esim?currency=USD, unlimited read on the site in dollars, 25 October 2026; 10 GB and 20 GB buckets from the esimdb listing dated 5 October 2026
- Holafly: esim.holafly.com/esim-egypt/, read on the site in dollars, 25 October 2026
- Saily: saily.com/esim-egypt/, prices in dollars on saily.com, read 25 October 2026
- Nomad: www.nomadesim.com/egypt-esim, read on the site in dollars, 25 October 2026
- Ubigi: cellulardata.ubigi.com/rates-and-coverage/egypt-data-plans/egypt-unlimited-15-days/, plan pages on cellulardata.ubigi.com/rates-and-coverage/egypt-data-plans/ in dollars, 25 October 2026
- NTRA: www.tra.gov.eg/en/end-of-exceptional-exemption-on-imported-mobile-phones-carried-by-passenger-following-success-of-local-manufacturing-at-competitive-prices-effective-1200-noon-wednesday-january-21-2026/, phone customs rules and the 90-day exemption for tourists, 21 January 2026
- Orange Polska: www.orange.pl/roaming, roaming page, read 1 November 2026: Pakiet Roamingowy GO 10 GB, 10 GB for 79 zł over 15 days; Bezpieczny Roaming, 1 GB for 15 zł per 24 hours; the packs started in Mój Orange, by text or by *100; Egypt named in both pack descriptions and on the list of countries outside the EU. The address orange.pl/roaming/cennik returned not found and was not used
- Ringo Light: ringoesim.com/egypt, the catalogue the checkout charges, read the same day
- European Central Bank: www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml, euro reference rates of 30 October 2026, the latest published on 1 November 2026, used for the dollar figures (1 zł = $0.2537)
- Ringo Light: our own catalogue, the prices the checkout charges on 25 October 2026.
Written and priced by the Ringo team. Prices change often; if you spot one that has moved, tell us through the contact page and we will update the table.
