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eSIM vs airport SIM

Should you buy a travel eSIM before you fly, or grab a SIM at the arrivals kiosk? Pick your landing airport below for the honest comparison — with live, coupon-applied eSIM prices for that country and the real queue-and-passport reality at the counter.

Europe

AMS Amsterdam Amsterdam Airport Schiphol → ATH Athens Athens International Airport → BCN Barcelona Josep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat Airport → CPH Copenhagen Copenhagen Airport → DUB Dublin Dublin Airport → FRA Frankfurt Frankfurt Airport → IST Istanbul Istanbul Airport → LIS Lisbon Humberto Delgado Airport → LHR London London Heathrow Airport → LGW London London Gatwick Airport → MAD Madrid Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport → MUC Munich Munich Airport → CDG Paris Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport → KEF Reykjavík Keflavík International Airport → FCO Rome Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport → VIE Vienna Vienna International Airport → ZRH Zurich Zurich Airport →

Asia

BKK Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport → DEL Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport → DPS Denpasar Ngurah Rai International Airport → SGN Ho Chi Minh City Tan Son Nhat International Airport → HKG Hong Kong Hong Kong International Airport → CGK Jakarta Soekarno–Hatta International Airport → KUL Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur International Airport → MNL Manila Ninoy Aquino International Airport → BOM Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport → HKT Phuket Phuket International Airport → ICN Seoul Incheon International Airport → SIN Singapore Singapore Changi Airport → TPE Taipei Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport → HND Tokyo Tokyo Haneda Airport → NRT Tokyo Narita International Airport →

Middle East

AUH Abu Dhabi Zayed International Airport → DOH Doha Hamad International Airport → DXB Dubai Dubai International Airport → JED Jeddah King Abdulaziz International Airport →

North America

ATL Atlanta Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport → CUN Cancún Cancún International Airport → ORD Chicago O'Hare International Airport → LAX Los Angeles Los Angeles International Airport → MEX Mexico City Mexico City International Airport → MIA Miami Miami International Airport → JFK New York John F. Kennedy International Airport → SFO San Francisco San Francisco International Airport → YYZ Toronto Toronto Pearson International Airport →

South America

GRU São Paulo São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport →

Oceania

SYD Sydney Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport →

Africa

CAI Cairo Cairo International Airport → JNB Johannesburg O. R. Tambo International Airport → RAK Marrakesh Marrakesh Menara Airport →

How these airport guides work

Every guide follows the same honest format. The eSIM side is live data: we pull the cheapest plans for that airport's country from our database of 17,000+ plans across nearly two dozen providers, re-priced from provider feeds daily with verified coupons applied. The airport-SIM side is researched, not priced: we compile which carriers and resellers actually operate at each arrivals hall — from du's counters at Dubai to the vending machines at JFK — along with registration rules and honest warnings where airport kiosks are known to charge several times the in-town rate. We never invent kiosk prices, because they aren't standardised or verifiable.

The short version for almost every airport: install a travel eSIM on home Wi-Fi before you fly and you'll walk out of arrivals already online — no queue, no passport photocopy, no physical SIM swap. Airport counters still make sense for long stays that need a local phone number. Each guide covers the specifics: which carriers are in that terminal, what ID rules apply in that country, and what the cheapest eSIM costs right now. New airports are added regularly — if yours is missing, start from the country page instead, or ask Roami which plan fits your trip.

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