The best eSIM for Senegal in 2026. Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Senegal, priced the same day: two weeks unlimited for $31.99, a month for $59.99, which to buy.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs sell a Senegal plan and get most of the traffic for this search. We priced all six on the same day, for a long weekend in Dakar, two weeks down the Petite Côte to the Sine-Saloum, and a month, and read the fine print on unlimited. Only two of the six sell unlimited data for Senegal itself. 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 $31.99 or 30 days at $59.99, one payment each, nothing renews. Holafly, the only rival selling unlimited days for Senegal alone, asks $63.50 for 15 days and $111.90 for the month.
Nomad: Cheapest 10 GB bucket. 10 GB for 30 days at $25 on Yas and Orange, $6.99 less than our 2 weeks, which starts with 10 GB.
Ubigi: Cheapest big bucket. 25 GB for 30 days at $55, more data than our 30 days starts with and $4.99 less. On Orange and Yas, 4G only.
Holafly: Cheapest short unlimited, on Orange. Days, not gigabytes, on Orange, Senegal's largest network: 3 days at $19.90. Sharing limited to 1 GB a day.
Model: Airalo Buckets only for Senegal on its site; Holafly Unlimited days only; Saily Small buckets only; Nomad Buckets only; Ubigi Buckets, or a fixed amount then 2 Mbps; Ringo Light Unlimited trips: 2 weeks or 30 days.
Unlimited, 3 days: Airalo No unlimited; 3 GB for 3 days $14.50; Holafly $19.90; Saily No unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi No 3-day plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo No unlimited; 10 GB for 7 days $41.50; Holafly $39.50; Saily No unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi 20 GB, then 2 Mbps, $44; Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $31.99.
Unlimited, 2 weeks: Airalo No unlimited; 10 GB for 15 days $43; Holafly 15 days $63.50; Saily No unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi No 15-day plan; Ringo Light $31.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo No unlimited; Holafly $111.90; Saily No unlimited; Nomad No unlimited; Ubigi No 30-day unlimited; Ringo Light $59.99.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo $45; Holafly No buckets; Saily Not listed on the day; 3 GB $16.99; Nomad $25; Ubigi $29; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $31.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo Not listed on the day; Holafly No buckets; Saily Not listed on the day; Nomad Only on its Global plan, $103; Ubigi 25 GB $55; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $59.99.
Full speed on unlimited: Airalo No unlimited sold for Senegal; Holafly No daily cap stated; speed may be reduced for a day under fair use; sharing 1 GB a day; Saily No unlimited sold; 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 Yas; Holafly Orange; Saily Not named by Saily; Nomad Yas, Orange; Ubigi Orange, Yas; no 5G; 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 Senegal trips run one to two weeks: a few days in Dakar and Gorée, Lac Rose, then south to Saly and the Sine-Saloum, or north to Saint-Louis. Only Holafly sells unlimited data for Senegal alone on the day we looked: $63.50 for 15 days and $111.90 for 30 days. Airalo's Senegal page sells buckets only; its Discover global plan covers Senegal with unlimited days at $96 for 15 days and $159 for the month. Ringo Light charges $31.99 for 2 weeks and $59.99 for 30 days, one payment each, nothing renews.
Read what unlimited means before you pick. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone, says the network may reduce your speed for up to a day under fair use, and limits sharing to 1 GB a day. Airalo's Discover gives 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps. Ubigi sells 20 GB for 7 days, then 2 Mbps, at $44. 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.
Do the heavy-use arithmetic. A heavy two weeks with us costs $63.98, 48 cents more than Holafly's 15 days at $63.50, so if you will stream every evening for two weeks, Holafly is the better buy by a hair. A heavy month with us costs $91.98, still $19.92 under Holafly's month.
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 full week, our 2 weeks at $31.99 costs less than Holafly's 7 days at $39.50.
Senegal has three mobile networks: Orange, run by Sonatel, Yas, the former Free, and Expresso. Orange is the largest and reaches furthest, along the main roads, up to Saint-Louis and down into the Casamance. Yas covers Dakar, Thiès, Mbour and the Petite Côte well and thins out sooner. Holafly rides Orange, Airalo Yas, and Nomad and Ubigi can use both. Saily does not name its network. In Dakar, Saly and Saint-Louis any of them works; in the mangroves of the Sine-Saloum and on the long road south, signal comes and goes on every network, so download maps before you leave town.
A Senegalese SIM has to be registered with an identity document before it works. A visitor shows a passport at an Orange or Yas shop and waits for the line to be set up. A travel eSIM installs at home before you fly, needs no shop, and connects when you land at Blaise Diagne International, about an hour's drive from central Dakar.
Much of Senegal pays by phone, with Wave and Orange Money, from taxis to market stalls. Those wallets need a local number, which a travel data eSIM does not give you. Cards work in hotels, larger restaurants and supermarkets; carry CFA francs for the rest.
Nomad, $25 for 10 GB. The cheapest 10 GB, for 30 days, on Yas and Orange. Its 20 GB only comes on its Global plan, at $103.
Ubigi, $29 for 10 GB. For 30 days on Orange and Yas, 4G only. It also sells 25 GB for 30 days at $55, the cheapest big bucket here.
Airalo, $45 for 10 GB. Its Retba Mobile line on Yas, as airalo.com showed it on the day, with small buckets from $6 for 1 GB. esimdb also lists Airalo's Discover global plan for Senegal, with unlimited days at 3 GB a day, then 1 Mbps; it is in the charts, labelled, not in the table.
Saily, 3 GB for $16.99. Its largest Senegal plan, for 30 days. Its listing is from May; 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 $31.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $59.99. For a fixed amount of data, Nomad and Ubigi are cheaper in Senegal: Nomad by $6.99 on 10 GB, and Ubigi gives 25 GB for $55, $4.99 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 Senegal 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.
The card to buy it is just below this article.
A long weekend in Dakar. Holafly unlimited, 3 days, $19.90, on Orange. Ringo Light sells no 3 days.
A week or two, Dakar to the Sine-Saloum. Ringo Light unlimited, 2 weeks, $31.99, less than any rival charges for a week of unlimited, let alone two. Holafly 15 days at $63.50 if you will stream every evening.
Two weeks, light use, budget first. Nomad 10 GB for 30 days at $25.
A month in Dakar, working remotely. Ringo Light unlimited, 30 days, $59.99, starting with 20 GB and adding 10 GB once for $31.99. Ubigi 25 GB for $55 if a fixed amount 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 Senegal, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips include, from Dakar and its islands north to Saint-Louis and south through the Petite Côte and the Sine-Saloum to the Casamance, with the one thing your data does for you at each. Dakar and the coast towns have good 4G; the delta and the long road south often do not.
African Renaissance Monument, Dakar. A 49 metre bronze statue on one of the Mamelles hills above Ouakam, looking out over the Atlantic. Climb the steps late in the afternoon for the view over the city and the sea. Ride-hailing apps such as Yango and Heetch work in Dakar and show the fare before you get in.
Gorée Island, Off Dakar. A car-free island of ochre houses and the House of Slaves, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that remembers the Atlantic slave trade. The ferry leaves from the port of Dakar and the crossing takes about twenty minutes. Save the ferry timetable on your phone before you cross; missing the last boat back means a night on the island.
Lac Rose, Northeast of Dakar. Lake Retba, a salt lake where the water turns pink under a strong sun and salt collectors work the shallows. The colour is strongest in the dry season, around midday. Check the forecast before you drive out: under cloud the lake looks plain grey.
Saint-Louis and the Faidherbe Bridge, Saint-Louis. The old colonial capital on an island in the Senegal River, a UNESCO town of balconied houses joined to the mainland by the iron Faidherbe Bridge. Stay a night or two and add the bird sanctuary at Djoudj in the dry season. Saint-Louis is several hours by road from Dakar. Share your live location and download the route offline before you leave.
Saly, Petite Côte. Senegal's main beach resort, on the calm Petite Côte south of Dakar, with hotels, beach bars and fishing boats landing at nearby Mbour. Close to Blaise Diagne airport, so easy for a first or last night. Many small sellers take Wave or Orange Money, which need a Senegalese number; carry CFA francs as well.
The Sine-Saloum Delta, Fatick region. A maze of mangrove channels, shell islands and fishing villages, listed by UNESCO, explored by pirogue from Toubacouta, Ndangane or Palmarin. Early morning and late afternoon are best for birds. Signal drops out deep in the mangroves. Download the delta offline before the boat leaves.
Cap Skirring, Casamance. Long, quiet beaches lined with palms in the far south, in the green Casamance region. Go in the dry season, from about November to May. The south is a long trip from Dakar by the overnight ferry to Ziguinchor or by plane. Check departures and bookings on your phone before you set off.
Bandia Reserve, Between Dakar and Mbour. A fenced reserve among baobabs where giraffes, rhinos, zebras and antelopes roam, seen on a guided drive. An easy half-day from Dakar or Saly. Bandia sits on the main road to Mbour. A map app gets any driver to the gate, and signal is good enough to share photos from the drive.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Senegal 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/senegal-esim?currency=USD (Retba Mobile packages in dollars on the site, 28 September 2026; Discover global unlimited from esimdb.com/senegal/airalo, updated 28 September 2026).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-senegal/ (read on the site in dollars, 28 September 2026).
Source for Saily: https://esimdb.com/senegal/saily (listing dated 14 May 2026; saily.com refused the fetch).
Source for Nomad: https://esimdb.com/senegal/nomad (listing dated 17 September 2026; network from nomadesim.com/senegal-esim).
Source for Ubigi: https://esimdb.com/senegal/ubigi (listing dated 17 September 2026; networks from cellulardata.ubigi.com/senegal).
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 $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 $25.
Holafly rides Orange, Senegal's largest network, Airalo rides Yas, and Nomad and Ubigi can use Orange and Yas. Saily does not name its network. All cover Dakar and the coast towns; Orange reaches furthest into the north and the Casamance.
Every brand has a limit somewhere. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone, but its fair use lets the network slow you for up to a day, and sharing stops at 1 GB a day. Airalo's Discover global plan slows you after 3 GB a day. Ubigi slows you to 2 Mbps after its fixed amount. Saily and Nomad sell no unlimited for Senegal. Ringo Light has no speed cap: it starts with 10 or 20 GB and adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged.
A local Senegalese SIM, yes: you show your passport at an Orange or Yas shop and wait for the line to be set up. A travel eSIM is installed before you fly and works when you land at Blaise Diagne, with no shop. It carries data only, so it does not give you Wave or Orange Money.
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