Cheapest eSIM for Morocco: medinas, the Atlas and the road south
Short answer: The cheapest eSIM for Morocco is £2.49 for 1 GB over 7 days. 6 plans run up to 20 GB at £19.99, and the best value per gigabyte is £1.00. All of them roam onto Orange Morocco.
See all Morocco plans from £2.49
Morocco rewards having a working phone more than most places, and frustrates it in two specific ways: the medinas block signal at street level even in well-covered cities, and the moment you head south over the Atlas the gaps become long. Both are worth planning around rather than discovering.
Cities good, medinas awkward, desert empty
Marrakesh, Casablanca, Rabat, Fez, Tangier and the Atlantic coast are well covered, and the motorway network between them holds a signal throughout.
The medinas are the local exception. The old cities are dense, high-walled and narrow, and signal at the bottom of a Fez alley is often poor even though the city around it is covered. This matters because the medina is exactly where a visitor most needs a map — the Fez medina in particular is famously difficult to navigate, and a live map that stalls at the wrong moment is worse than a downloaded one that does not.
South and east is where it genuinely stops. The Atlas passes — Tizi n'Tichka toward Ouarzazate — have long stretches without signal. The desert routes to Merzouga and Zagora, and the Dades and Todra gorges, are thin to empty. Desert camps generally have no coverage at all, which is usually part of the arrangement rather than a fault.
Morocco eSIM prices, cheapest first
| Data | Valid | Price | Per GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | 7 days | £2.49 | £2.49 / GB |
| 1 GB | 1 day | £2.99 | £2.99 / GB |
| 3 GB | 30 days | £5.99 | £2.00 / GB |
| 5 GB | 30 days | £8.49 | £1.70 / GB |
| 10 GB | 30 days | £12.99 | £1.30 / GB |
| 20 GB | 30 days | £19.99 | £1.00 / GB |
Live prices in GBP, updated from our network partners. 6 plans currently available for Morocco. Validity counts from the moment the eSIM first connects to a network in Morocco, not from when you buy — so installing days before you fly costs you nothing.
£2.49 is the entry price rather than the best value. At £2.49 per gigabyte it is the most expensive data on the list; the 20 GB plan at £19.99 is £1.00 per gigabyte. If there is any realistic chance you will use more than 1 GB, the larger plan costs less than buying the small one twice.
Roaming, and whether you need this at all
Morocco is outside any European roaming agreement. EU, UK, US and all other foreign SIMs pay standard international roaming here, and it is typically expensive. There is only one roaming partner network available to us in Morocco rather than a choice of several, which is worth knowing: coverage is that network's coverage.
Download the medina map
The single most useful preparation for a Moroccan trip is downloading offline maps of the medinas you will be staying in — Fez, Marrakesh, Chefchaouen — before you arrive. Not the country, the medina. They are the places where the signal is worst and the navigation is hardest, and an offline map works at the bottom of an alley where a live one will not load.
Second, and practically: arranging transport in Morocco is still substantially a face-to-face negotiation rather than an app in the way it is in Indonesia or the Gulf. Data is useful here for maps, translation and messaging rather than for summoning a car, so the usage pattern is lighter than you might expect.
The networks you actually connect to
In Morocco our plans roam onto Orange Morocco (5G). That is worth stating plainly because it is the thing that determines your experience: a travel eSIM does not have its own masts, so your signal is whatever those operators have built, and 5G is available where they have deployed it and your handset supports it.
It also means no provider can sell you better coverage in Morocco than the local networks have. Where there is a gap, it is a gap for everyone — local customers included.
Before you buy
Check the handset takes an eSIM and is not carrier-locked. Dial *#06# and look for an EID alongside the IMEI — no EID means no eSIM hardware whatever the model name suggests, and a locked phone will install the profile and then refuse to register. The device compatibility guide lists what works.
Then install before you fly, while you still have reliable Wi-Fi. Setup by brand: iPhone or Android. If it will not connect after you land, this works through the causes in order.
For how Morocco compares with the rest of what we sell, see what travel eSIMs actually cost, or how much data you actually need if the size is the part you are unsure about.
Frequently asked questions
Buy on the website or in the app
You can buy a Morocco eSIM right here on the site — pick the plan, pay, and the QR code and activation details appear on screen within minutes and stay saved in your account. If you would rather have everything in one place on your phone, the eSIM Ventures app keeps your eSIMs, remaining data and activation codes under My eSIMs.
