France eSIM
Unlimited Packages
Up to 7 days
Up to 15 days
Up to 30 days
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- 4G & 5G
- Hotspot included
- Taxes included
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eSIM France Plans and Prices
A France eSIM puts your phone online as you walk off the plane at Charles de Gaulle or Nice, without a French SIM from an airport shop and without daily roaming charges from your carrier at home. Set it up at home before the flight, and it connects to a French network the moment you switch the line on at the gate. Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux and Nice sit under one national plan, and anyone who searched for eSIM Paris is already in the right place. Travelers whose phone plan comes from another EU or EEA country normally roam here at home rates and may need nothing from this page. For visitors from North America or Asia, an eSIM in France is the simplest way to stay connected. Below, you will find which plan suits which trip, what to check at checkout, and how internet in France works on a travel plan.
Best eSIM for France
The best eSIM for France depends on whether you are doing a long weekend in Paris or a month of slow travel from Normandy to Provence. Maps, messaging, museum tickets and photos take roughly 3 to 5 GB a week for most people, and offline maps downloaded at home cut that noticeably. Video and a tethered laptop push you toward a France eSIM unlimited data plan, which Roamify, Airalo and Telcovision all list. Unlimited cards usually slow down after a daily threshold, so check the fair use line before you plan to stream on the TGV. Airalo runs from three days to a month with unlimited options, and its capped cards go up to 50 GB. Roamify begins at a single day, handy when Paris is a stopover on the way somewhere else. Esimaccess has no unlimited option, yet it keeps going for up to six months, which fits a semester in Lyon or Bordeaux. Only Telcovision reaches a full year and holds the largest capped size, a match for someone splitting time between Nice and home. A France travel eSIM rarely needs to be large for a city trip, because hotels and many cafes in Paris offer wifi. If a road trip runs longer than planned, an e-SIM for France can simply be followed by another plan from this page.
Buy an eSIM for France
To buy an eSIM for France, confirm first that your phone supports eSIM and is unlocked, and check twice if it is an older model. France is switching off its 2G and 3G networks, so a handset that can only reach 3G is running out of road there whatever plan it carries. Dialing star hash 06 hash shows an EID beside the IMEI on phones that can take a French profile. Install the QR code at home over wifi, since installing needs a connection and switching the line on in France does not. Most plans begin counting when they first reach a French network, so days spent installing at home before a Paris trip are not lost. Once you land in Paris or Nice, turn the new line on and allow data roaming on that line alone. An eSIM card for France is tied to the handset it was installed on, so it cannot move to a borrowed phone the way a plastic SIM can. A France prepaid SIM card from one of the local networks is the route if you truly need a French number. That France SIM card is a separate product we do not sell, and it means finding a store after you land.
Internet in France With an eSIM
Four operators run networks in France, Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom and Free Mobile, and no plan on this page tells you which of them it roams onto. That means a particular rural valley in the Alps or the Dordogne cannot be guaranteed from the listing, even though the main routes are well served. ARCEP, the French regulator, has said the shutdown of the older networks is not expected to change coverage levels nationwide. We do not promise 5G on any plan, because a 5G label on a product does not tell you what you will see on a given street in Marseille. Corsica runs on the same national plan, so the ferry from Nice or Marseille changes neither your bill nor your connection. Data roaming in France on your home line should be switched off before the approach into Paris, so your own carrier has nothing to bill. Cell phone service in France on your usual number carries on for calls and texts under your carrier's roaming terms. Crossing into Belgium, Switzerland, Italy or Spain takes you off a France plan, so a trip that continues past the border needs a Europe plan naming each country. Strasbourg sits right on the German border, which makes that check worth doing before a day out to the Black Forest.
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