1 · The short answer
Las Fallas fills Valencia every March: a mascletà every day from 1 to 19 March at 2pm in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, the main days from 15 to 19 March, and the Cremà on the night of 19 March, when the monuments burn. For the trip, buy one data eSIM before you fly and install it on Wi-Fi at home. Ringo Light's Spain plan covers Valencia, the day trips and the rest of the country as a trip plan: unlimited data at full speed, 2 weeks for $14.99 or 30 days for $26.99, with nothing that renews. The plan is at ringoesim.com/spain.
Spain is also on the Europe plan (33 countries, 2 weeks for $22.99 or 30 days for $35.99), the one to buy if the trip goes on to France, Portugal or further. For Spain alone, the Spain plan is the cheaper one.
Coming back every spring, or living on the road? The Global plan is $49.99 a month for 133 countries and renews until you cancel. The card to buy any plan is below this article.
2 · Who needs an eSIM for Valencia
It depends on the SIM you arrive with.
- From the EU. You roam in Spain at home prices, within your carrier's roaming allowance. If that allowance is small, or your plan is a cheap one with little data abroad, an eSIM for the week is still worth having.
- From the UK. EU roaming law stopped applying to British SIMs in 2021. Many UK carriers now charge a daily fee for Spain, or include it only on their dearer plans. Check yours; for a week of Fallas an eSIM is usually cheaper.
- From the US and everywhere else. Your carrier will charge by the day or by the megabyte. Turn data roaming off on your own SIM and let the eSIM carry the data.
3 · The mascletà at 2pm
The mascletà is not a firework display to watch; it is a few minutes of noise you feel in your chest, set off at 2pm sharp from the racks in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento. The square and the streets that feed it fill long before, the police close the way in when it is full, and the smoke hangs over the town hall for a long time after.
This is where your phone will be at its worst. A square packed solid, every phone on the same few masts, means messages queue, maps spin and calls fail for the half hour around 2pm, whichever network you are on. The operators add capacity in the centre during the festival, and 5G helps, but the square still slows to a crawl. What works:
- A meeting point outside the square. Pick a street corner or a café a few blocks away, not "by the town hall". Agree it before you go in.
- Live location, shared early. Share it with your group while the signal is good; it keeps updating in short bursts even when messages stall.
- Screenshots. Hotel address, train tickets, the restaurant booking: on the screen, not behind a page that needs to load.
- Ears. The locals open their mouths when it starts. Earplugs are kinder to children.
4 · The monuments, the Ofrenda and the nights
From the plantà on 15 March the fallas stand in the streets and squares of every neighbourhood: huge satirical monuments of wood, cardboard and paint, with a smaller children's falla next to most of them. Walking from one to the next is the festival for most visitors, and it is a maps job: the prize-winning ones draw queues, and the official Fallas apps and maps list where each one stands.
On the last days of the festival the falleras carry flowers in the Ofrenda to the Plaza de la Virgen, where they are woven into a mantle for the figure of the Virgin beside the cathedral. Evenings run late, with bands, street parties and the big night fireworks; the old centre is closed to traffic for much of the week, so you walk, take the metro, or wait a long time for a taxi.
5 · The Cremà
On the night of 19 March, Saint Joseph's day, the monuments burn. The children's fallas go first, then the big ones through the night, with the falla in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento usually the last. Firefighters stand by and hose down the buildings next door; you will feel the heat from a long way back.
That night every network in the centre is busy again, and the night buses and metro are full. If you are flying out on 20 March, book the taxi or the train to the airport ahead and keep the confirmation as a screenshot.
6 · Valencia and the day trips
Outside the festival centre, Valencia is a connected, flat, easy city to get around: the metro and trams, the buses, the bike lanes along the old riverbed of the Turia. The City of Arts and Sciences sits at the end of it, and the beaches at Malvarrosa are a tram ride from the centre.
The classic day out is the Albufera, the lagoon south of the city where paella was born, with boat trips at sunset from El Palmar; the coverage is good across the flat rice fields. Sagunto's castle and Xàtiva are short train rides away, and the fast train to Madrid takes about two hours. Ferries to Ibiza and Mallorca sail from the port; our covers the crossing and the islands. Staying for a semester? The covers Valencia as a student.
7 · What two weeks of unlimited data costs
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8 · Which Ringo plan, and how to set it up
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. Installed once, next to your own SIM. Your number stays on your own line for calls and messages; the eSIM carries the data.
- The Spain plan, for the festival and the days around it: unlimited data at full speed, 2 weeks for $14.99 or 30 days for $26.99, nothing that renews.
- The Europe plan, which includes Spain, for a trip that goes on across the border: 33 countries, 2 weeks for $22.99 or 30 days for $35.99.
- The Global plan, for months on the road: $49.99 a month for 133 countries, renewing until you cancel.
Install the eSIM on Wi-Fi before you fly, turn Data Roaming on for the eSIM line, and set it as your data line. The step-by-step is in our and .
The card below sells the Spain plan; the same plan is at ringoesim.com/spain.
