No physical SIM. No roaming bills. Buy from a trusted provider in 5 minutes — works the moment your plane touches down at any Moroccan airport.
Choose your data amount and trip length. Pay with card or Apple/Google Pay. We email a QR code instantly.
Open your phone's Settings → Mobile Data → Add eSIM, then scan the QR. Takes about 60 seconds. Your Morocco line is now installed alongside your home line.
Land in Morocco, toggle the Morocco eSIM to "active", turn data roaming on for that line, and you're online. Your home line stays available for calls.
Indicative pricing and data tiers to help you size your plan. Exact allowances and prices vary by provider — compare the four options above to pick the best fit.
All plans are data-only — no voice calls or SMS. Top-ups available in-app if you run out.
All four cover Morocco on the local 4G/5G networks and install the same way. They differ on plan style, app, and extras — pick the one that fits how you travel.
The largest eSIM marketplace, with the widest range of Morocco plans from 1 GB to 20 GB and easy in-app top-ups. The safe default for most travelers.
Pay-as-you-go and unlimited options with coverage across 150+ countries — handy if Morocco is one leg of a multi-country trip.
From the makers of NordVPN — a clean app with built-in security extras (ad blocking, virtual location) on top of straightforward Morocco data plans.
One global eSIM that follows you across borders with automatic local-network switching — good for travelers combining Morocco with onward countries.
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Your phone needs to support eSIM and be unlocked (most postpaid phones bought after 2020 are). Quick check:
Not sure? Try this on your phone right now: dial *#06#. If you see an "EID" number listed, you have eSIM support. Each provider's refund policy applies if a plan turns out to be incompatible — check their support page before installing.
$11 for 5 GB beats almost every international roaming pack from a US, UK or EU carrier — and the speed is the same.
Keep your home number active for OTP codes, banking and family calls. The Morocco eSIM runs alongside it on the same phone.
These eSIMs run on the local 4G/5G carriers, so you get the same coverage a local SIM gets — including Sahara and Atlas regions.
Buy the eSIM next to your stays, flights, cars and insurance search — no need to track down a separate eSIM vendor.
A Morocco eSIM is one of the few travel decisions that is both cheaper and easier than the alternative. For a typical 10-day trip, an eSIM costs $5 to $15 total versus $80 to $250 in international roaming from a US, UK, or EU home carrier, and it activates in 5 minutes from your couch rather than 90 minutes at a Marrakech mobile shop. This guide covers how to size your plan, what coverage you actually get, and the setup steps that most travelers miss.
Three options exist for staying connected in Morocco. They are not equivalent.
Major US carriers (Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile) and most European carriers charge between $10 and $15 per day for international roaming in Morocco, often with restricted speeds after 2 to 5 GB. A 10-day trip is $100 to $150, and you typically lose 5G speeds because the roaming partner downgrades you. Worth it only if you are staying 1 to 3 days and value zero setup friction.
Maroc Telecom, Orange Morocco, and Inwi sell prepaid SIMs at airport kiosks and city shops for 50 to 100 dirhams ($5 to $10) with 5 to 10 GB included. The downside: you queue at the airport, you need a passport copy, the shop staff might not speak your language well, and you lose your home phone number on that SIM slot during the trip. You also burn 30 to 90 minutes of your first day.
You buy online before the trip ($4.50 to $30 depending on data), install the QR code on your phone in 5 minutes while you still have Wi-Fi at home, and toggle it on when you land. Your home SIM stays installed and active for incoming SMS verification codes. Speed and coverage are the same as the local SIM because these providers use the local carrier networks (typically Maroc Telecom for Morocco plans). The only downside is the slightly smaller data-per-dollar than the prepaid local SIM, which most travelers consider a fair price for skipping the airport shop.
Most travelers either dramatically over-buy data or run out at day six. Sizing is easy if you know the usage profile.
You mostly use Wi-Fi at the riad. Cellular data is for Google Maps, WhatsApp messages, a few photos to Instagram stories, and occasional email checks. No video streaming on the go. The $4.50 / 1 GB / 7 days plan works for trips up to 7 days.
You use Maps heavily for navigation, post photos and videos to social media a few times a day, do daily video calls back home, and occasionally stream a podcast or short video. This is the sweet spot for 2-week trips and the most popular tier across providers. Around $11 for 14 days.
You stream music continuously in the car or while walking, use video calls for 1+ hours daily, work remotely from cafes, or share your hotspot with a partner whose phone has no eSIM. The 20 GB / 30 day plan at $28 is the right call. Anything longer or heavier moves into unlimited territory, where the prepaid local SIM starts to beat the eSIM on raw GB-per-dollar.
The eSIM uses local Moroccan carrier infrastructure, so what you get is what locals get. That coverage is generally excellent and steadily improving.
Full 4G and increasingly 5G in Marrakech, Casablanca, Rabat, Fez, Tangier, Agadir, Meknes, Tetouan, Oujda, Kenitra, and along the Casablanca-Marrakech and Casablanca-Tangier motorways. Speeds in the 30 to 100 Mbps range. You will not notice a difference from your home network.
Full 4G in Essaouira, Chefchaouen, El Jadida, Safi, Taghazout, Tamraght, Saidia, Ifrane, Beni Mellal, Errachidia, and Ouarzazate. Speeds in the 15 to 60 Mbps range.
4G on main valley roads and in tourist villages (Imlil, Ourika, Asni, Setti Fatma, Imouzzer). Patchy or no signal when hiking off the main valleys or above 2,500 meters. Trekkers should plan to be offline on the higher sections of Toubkal or M'Goun routes.
Surprisingly good. Merzouga town and most Erg Chebbi camps have 4G. The road in from Errachidia is covered the whole way. Erg Chigaga (the more remote sister dune system, reached from M'hamid) is patchier, with signal in M'hamid town but unreliable at the camps themselves. Far southern Sahara routes (the road from Tan-Tan to Dakhla) have intermittent coverage with longer gaps; plan to be offline for 1 to 3 hours at a time.
The eSIM install process is the same across providers: scan a QR code in your phone settings, name the line (e.g. "Morocco"), and pick which line to use for data when you arrive. The pitfalls live in the details.
Install the eSIM on your phone while you still have Wi-Fi at home, not at the Casablanca airport. The QR scan takes 60 seconds; if anything fails (rare but possible on older Android phones), you have time to contact the provider's support and resolve it. Once installed, you do NOT activate it yet; just let it sit dormant.
Your plan's countdown (the 7-day, 14-day, or 30-day window) starts the first time the eSIM connects to a Moroccan network. If you accidentally enable data roaming on the new line before leaving home, you burn a day of validity for nothing. The clean sequence is: install at home, toggle data to your home SIM while traveling, then switch the data line to the Morocco eSIM after the wheels touch down.
Banks, two-factor authentication, and government services often SMS verification codes to your home number. Do not remove the home SIM. The whole point of eSIM is that the Morocco data line and the home voice/SMS line coexist on the same phone. Your bank can still text you while you are spending dirhams.
Settings, then Cellular (or Mobile Data), then Add eSIM, then scan QR or enter the details. Once installed, label it (e.g. "Morocco trip"). When you land, go back into Cellular and set Cellular Data to the Morocco line, leave Default Voice Line on your home number, and toggle Data Roaming on for the Morocco line only.
Varies by manufacturer. On Samsung: Settings, then Connections, then SIM Manager, then Add eSIM. On Pixel: Settings, then Network and Internet, then SIMs, then plus icon. On Xiaomi and Oppo, look for SIM card or eSIM in the network menus. The settings paths change with major OS versions; if you are stuck, search YouTube for your exact phone model plus "add eSIM" before the trip.
An eSIM lives on one phone. If you are traveling as a family or with a partner who needs data on their own phone, the choices are:
For trips longer than 30 days (digital nomads, extended diaspora visits, slow travelers), the calculation tips. At that length, a local prepaid Maroc Telecom or Inwi SIM with unlimited monthly data is around 200 dirhams ($20) per month, beating any eSIM plan on price. The trade-off is the in-person sign-up, the lost SIM slot, and the residence-card requirement for some long-term contracts. For most trips under 4 weeks, eSIM is the easier, more economical answer.
Once your eSIM is sorted, the rest of the trip plugs in. The same site has stays in 46 cities, tours and day trips, flights to every Moroccan international airport, car rentals, and travel insurance for the medical and adventure cover that home health insurance does not give you in Morocco.
Install the eSIM (scan the QR) before you leave home — while you have Wi-Fi. Don't "activate" it (toggle data on) until you land in Morocco. The countdown on your plan starts the first time the eSIM connects to a Moroccan network, so this way you get the full 7 / 14 / 30 days of usage.
The eSIM is data-only, so no voice calls or SMS over the cellular network. But you can call anyone over data using WhatsApp, FaceTime, Signal, Telegram or Google Voice — which is what most travelers do anyway. Your home SIM stays active for SMS verification codes.
You can top up directly from your provider's app on your phone. Top-ups start at $3 for 1 GB and apply instantly to the same eSIM — no re-installation needed.
Mostly yes — Maroc Telecom covers Merzouga town, Erg Chebbi camps and the M'hamid area with 4G. Deep desert (Erg Chigaga interior, far southern Sahara routes) has patchy coverage; expect to be offline for 1–2 days there. Atlas mountain villages on main routes (Imlil, Ouirgane, Ourika) all have coverage.
Yes — turn on Personal Hotspot / Mobile Hotspot on the phone with the eSIM and share to other devices. Tethering is allowed on all our plans. For two simultaneous heavy users we recommend the 20 GB plan rather than 5 GB.
