The best eSIM for Sudan in 2026. Six eSIM brands priced for Sudan on the same day: Ubigi and Holafly are cheapest for two weeks or a month, Ubigi and Nomad for 10 GB. Which to buy.
Prices read on 28 September 2026. Six travel eSIMs get most of the traffic for this search, and all six sell something that works in Sudan, though only Holafly, Ubigi and Ringo Light sell unlimited data or close to it. We priced all six on the same day, for a week along the Nile, two weeks and a month, and read the fine print. In Sudan we are far from the cheapest, and this page says plainly who is.
Ringo Light: The only 30-day plan of the six with no speed cap, one payment. Unlimited data at full speed for 2 weeks at $175.99 or 30 days at $351.99, one payment each, nothing renews. It is expensive: Holafly sells 14 days of unlimited for $87.90, $88.09 less, and Ubigi's world plan gives 60 GB at full speed for 30 days at $108, $243.99 less.
Ubigi: Cheapest two weeks, month and 10 GB. Its world plan: 30 GB at full speed for 15 days at $77 and 60 GB for 30 days at $108, then 2 Mbps. Its Sudan plan: 10 GB for 30 days at $34.
Holafly: Simplest unlimited, up to 20 days. Days, not gigabytes, on MTN. $27.90 for 3 days, $53.90 for a week, $87.90 for 14 days; sharing limited to 1 GB a day. Its longest Sudan plan is 20 days at $139.90.
Nomad: Cheapest small bucket, on Zain. 1 GB for 7 days at $7, 5 GB for 30 days at $25 and 10 GB for 30 days at $35, read on its own site.
Model: Airalo Buckets only, on its Hello Africa regional plan; Holafly Unlimited days only, 1 to 20 days; Saily Buckets only; Nomad Buckets only; Ubigi Sudan buckets, or world plans with a fixed amount, then 2 Mbps; Ringo Light Unlimited trips: 2 weeks or 30 days.
Unlimited, 3 days: Airalo No unlimited plan; Holafly $27.90; Saily No unlimited plan; Nomad No unlimited plan; Ubigi No 3-day plan; Ringo Light No 3-day plan.
Unlimited, 7 days: Airalo No unlimited plan; Holafly $53.90; Saily No unlimited plan; Nomad No unlimited plan; Ubigi 8 days, 25 GB, then 2 Mbps, $49 (world plan); Ringo Light No 7-day plan; 2 weeks $175.99.
Unlimited, 2 weeks: Airalo No unlimited plan; Holafly 14 days $87.90; 15 days $96.90; Saily No unlimited plan; Nomad No unlimited plan; Ubigi 15 days, 30 GB, then 2 Mbps, $77 (world plan); Ringo Light $175.99.
Unlimited, 30 days: Airalo No unlimited plan; Holafly No 30-day plan; 20 days $139.90; Saily No unlimited plan; Nomad No unlimited plan; Ubigi 60 GB, then 2 Mbps, $108 (world plan); Ringo Light $351.99.
Short trips: Airalo 1 GB, 3 days, $11; 3 GB, 7 days, $25.50; Holafly 1 day $13.90; Saily 1 GB, 7 days, $7.99; Nomad 1 GB, 7 days, $7; Ubigi 3 GB, 15 days, $17; Ringo Light None.
10 GB, 30 days: Airalo Not sold; its largest is 5 GB, $41; Holafly No buckets; Saily Not sold; its largest is 5 GB, $31.99; Nomad $35; Ubigi $34; Ringo Light No buckets; 2 weeks starts with 10 GB, $175.99.
20 GB, 30 days: Airalo Not sold; Holafly No buckets; Saily Not sold; Nomad $103, on its Global plan; Ubigi $44 a month on its World plan, renews monthly; Ringo Light No buckets; 30 days starts with 20 GB, $351.99.
Full speed on unlimited: Airalo No unlimited plan; Holafly No daily cap stated; sharing 1 GB a day; Saily No unlimited plan; Nomad No unlimited plan; 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 Zain; Holafly MTN; Saily Not named by Saily; Nomad Zain; Ubigi Zain; 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 Optional; Ringo Light No, the eSIM arrives by email.
Three of the six sell unlimited data for Sudan, or close to it. For about two weeks, Ubigi's world plan asks $77 for 15 days with 30 GB at full speed, then 2 Mbps, and Holafly $87.90 for 14 days. Ringo Light charges $175.99 for 2 weeks, $88.09 more than Holafly and $98.99 more than Ubigi. For a month, Ubigi asks $108 for 60 GB at full speed, then 2 Mbps; Ringo Light charges $351.99. We would rather you read that here than at checkout.
Read what unlimited means before you pick. Ubigi gives a fixed amount at full speed, then 2 Mbps, which is enough for maps and messages but slow for video. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone and limits sharing to 1 GB a day, but its longest Sudan plan is 20 days at $139.90; for a full month you would buy a second plan, 10 days at $70.90, $210.80 in all. 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 $175.99 top-up. A heavy two weeks with us costs $351.98, four times Holafly's 14 days; a heavy month costs $527.98.
For a short trip, Ringo Light sells no 3-day or 7-day plan. Holafly sells 3 days of unlimited at $27.90 and a week at $53.90, and Ubigi 8 days with 25 GB at full speed at $49.
Sudan has three mobile networks: Zain, MTN and Sudani. Airalo, Nomad and Ubigi use Zain; Holafly uses MTN; Saily does not name its network. Signal is best in the towns and along the Nile. Holafly itself warns that coverage may be weak or missing in the Nubian and Bayuda deserts and on remote roads near the Red Sea, and that holds for every brand here.
Most of the sights in this guide are hours of desert driving apart. Download offline maps before you leave a town, and keep a power bank charged. Foreign bank cards are rarely accepted, so carry cash.
Ubigi, $34 for 10 GB. For 30 days on its Sudan plan, the cheapest 10 GB of the six. 3 GB for 15 days at $17. Its listing is from 17 September.
Nomad, $35 for 10 GB. For 30 days on Zain, read on its own site. 1 GB for 7 days at $7, 3 GB at $17 and 5 GB at $25, both for 30 days. 20 GB only on its Global plan, $103.
Saily, $31.99 for 5 GB. For 30 days, its largest Sudan size; 1 GB for 7 days at $7.99. Its listing is from May; saily.com would not load for us.
Airalo, $41 for 5 GB. For 30 days on its Hello Africa regional plan, the only way it covers Sudan; $37 for 15 days. No 10 GB for Sudan.
Ringo Light, no buckets. Our 2 weeks starts with 10 GB for $175.99 and our 30 days with 20 GB for $351.99. For a fixed amount of data, Ubigi, Nomad, Saily and Airalo are all far cheaper in Sudan. Buy Ringo Light only if you want unlimited with no speed cap for a full month and are happy to pay for it.
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 Sudan it sells two trips, both unlimited data at full speed with no speed cap: 2 weeks at $175.99, starting with 10 GB, and 30 days at $351.99, starting with 20 GB. Each adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $175.99. One payment, nothing renews. The eSIM arrives by email in seconds and installs in one scan, no app.
In Sudan our prices are high. Holafly's 14 days at $87.90 and Ubigi's 30 days at $108 are the better buys for most visitors. None of our regional trips covers Sudan, so there is no cheaper Ringo Light route in.
The card to buy it is just below this article.
A few days in Khartoum. Holafly unlimited, 3 days, $27.90, or Nomad 1 GB for 7 days at $7 for maps and messages. Ringo Light sells no 3 days.
A week on the pyramid circuit. Ubigi, 8 days with 25 GB at full speed, $49, or Holafly unlimited for 7 days at $53.90.
Two weeks around the country. Ubigi's world plan, 15 days with 30 GB at full speed, $77, or Holafly 14 days at $87.90. Ringo Light's 2 weeks at $175.99 only if you want no speed cap at all.
Two weeks, light use, budget first. Ubigi 10 GB for 30 days at $34, or Nomad at $35.
A month in Sudan. Ubigi's world plan, 60 GB at full speed for 30 days, $108. Ringo Light's 30 days at $351.99 is the only month of the six with no speed cap.
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 Sudan, and what your phone needs for it. Eight places most first trips include, from the pyramids along the Nile north of Khartoum to the Red Sea coast and Kassala in the east, with the one thing your data does for you at each. Distances are long and signal is thin in the desert, so plan offline. Before you go, check your government's travel advice.
The pyramids of Meroë, Bajrawiya, River Nile State. Dozens of steep Nubian pyramids, the royal tombs of the Kingdom of Kush, stand in the dunes east of the Nile and are listed by UNESCO. Go between November and February, early or late in the day when the sand is cooler. Signal is weak out in the dunes. Download the offline map of the road from Khartoum before you set off.
Jebel Barkal, Karima, Northern State. A flat-topped sandstone hill by the Nile, sacred to the Egyptians and the Kushites, with the ruins of the Temple of Amun at its foot and a field of pyramids behind it, all listed by UNESCO. Climb it for sunset over the river and the town of Karima. Karima is a long drive across the Bayuda desert. Share your live location with someone before you leave the main road.
The Lion Temple at Naqa, Butana desert, south of Shendi. A temple to the lion god Apedemak, its walls carved with reliefs, stands next to a small kiosk that mixes Egyptian, Greek and Roman styles. It is reached by desert track, so most visitors come with a driver, often on the same day as Musawwarat. Save the site on an offline map: the track leaves the paved road and the signal fades.
Musawwarat es-Sufra, Butana desert, near Naqa. The Great Enclosure is a maze of walled courtyards, ramps and columns from the Meroitic period, with a restored Lion Temple nearby. Musawwarat, Naqa and Meroë together form the UNESCO site of the Island of Meroë. Download an offline Arabic pack in your translation app for talking to drivers and site guards.
Where the Blue and White Nile meet, Khartoum. The two rivers join at al-Mogran, at the tip of the city, and run on north as one Nile; from above you can see the two colours side by side. Tuti Island sits right at the meeting point. Foreign bank cards are rarely accepted. Carry cash, and use a currency app to check a price.
Port Sudan and the Red Sea reefs, Red Sea State. The country's main port is the base for diving trips to the reefs offshore, including Sanganeb, a marine national park listed by UNESCO, and the wreck of the Umbria. The diving season runs from autumn to spring. Dive boats go out of range for days. Message home before you lose signal.
Suakin old town, Red Sea coast, south of Port Sudan. An old Red Sea port built of coral stone, now mostly ruins on an island joined to the mainland by a causeway. Ferries to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia have sailed from the port beside it. It is about an hour by road from Port Sudan. A maps app shows the way and the drive time.
Kassala and the Taka Mountains, Kassala, east Sudan. Granite domes rise straight out of the plain behind the town, with the Khatmiyah Mosque at their foot. The market sells fruit from the gardens along the Gash river. Arabic is the language of the market. A camera translation app reads signs and prices.
We priced Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad, Ubigi and Ringo Light for Sudan 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 compared the brands that get most of the traffic for this search and did not price Maya Mobile on the day.
Source for Airalo: https://www.airalo.com/africa-esim?currency=USD (no Sudan page (airalo.com/sudan-esim returns not found); Sudan is in its Hello Africa plan, read on the site in dollars, 28 September 2026, matching esimdb.com/sudan/airalo, updated 28 September 2026; network from esimdb).
Source for Holafly: https://esim.holafly.com/esim-sudan/ (read on the site in dollars, 28 September 2026; network from the same page).
Source for Saily: https://esimdb.com/sudan/saily (listing dated 15 May 2026; saily.com refused the fetch).
Source for Nomad: https://www.nomadesim.com/sudan-eSIM (dollar prices and network from the page data, 28 September 2026; its 20 GB Global plan from esimdb.com/sudan/nomad, listing dated 17 September 2026).
Source for Ubigi: https://esimdb.com/sudan/ubigi (listing dated 17 September 2026; Sudan is among its destinations on cellulardata.ubigi.com).
On 28 September 2026: for two weeks, Ubigi's world plan at $77 for 15 days with 30 GB at full speed, or Holafly at $87.90 for 14 days of unlimited. For a month, Ubigi at $108 for 60 GB. For 10 GB, Ubigi at $34 and Nomad at $35. Ringo Light costs $175.99 for 2 weeks and $351.99 for 30 days, far more.
Sudan has three networks, Zain, MTN and Sudani. Airalo, Nomad and Ubigi use Zain and Holafly uses MTN. Saily does not name its network. All are best in the towns and along the Nile and thin out in the desert.
Every brand has a limit somewhere. Ubigi's world plans slow to 2 Mbps after 25, 30 or 60 GB. Holafly states no daily cap for your own phone, limits sharing to 1 GB a day and stops at 20 days. Ringo Light has no speed cap: it starts with 10 or 20 GB and adds 10 GB once at 80%, charged at $175.99. Airalo, Saily and Nomad sell fixed amounts only.
Zain, MTN and Sudani all sell prepaid lines in their shops, and you register one with your passport. A local SIM needs a physical slot and replaces your home SIM while it is in. We did not price them on the day. An eSIM installs before you fly and works the moment you land.
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