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FRANCE · Orange · 5G

eSIM for France

Data on your phone the moment you land in France. No account, no app, no shop.

  • Hotspot included
  • Starts when you connect, not when you buy
  • Your number stays on your phone
See the packs · from 4,79 €

Paris

Photo: Jorge Royan · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Choose your pack

Data on the local networks in France. It reaches your inbox in minutes and you install it before you leave.

Choose your data

For one to two weeks of maps, messaging and the odd video.

How many travellers? 1
France eSIM · 20 GB · 30 days 17,49 €

Nothing is charged now · When we are done improving, we will email you 30% off

Will it work on my phone?

On iPhone: Settings → General → About, and scroll to EID. If there is an EID, your phone takes eSIMs. Every iPhone from the XS (2018) onwards does.

On Android: Settings → About phone → Status, and look for EID. If there is an EID, your phone takes eSIMs. Most Galaxy S20, Pixel 3 and later do.

It also has to be carrier-unlocked. If you bought it outright or your contract is over, it almost certainly is.

Not sure about your model? Ask us before you pay and we will tell you — a person answers within 24 hours.

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City guides in France

Each one has its own guide: from the airport to the centre, where the signal drops and how much data you need.

Coverage

The networks you connect to in France

  • Orange 5G

Your phone picks whichever of these has the best signal where you are, and switches on its own. Nothing to configure.

Work out my data

France is in the European Union, so if you are coming from another European country your own plan already covers data. This eSIM makes sense for visitors from outside the EU, or for long stays where you would rather not burn your home allowance.

Before you buy

A gîte week, the Loire by car or a month in the Alps

Paris for three or four days fits in the 3 GB pack, which runs for 15 days. Much of a French holiday, though, happens away from the capital, in a car and from one base: a rented gîte in Provence or the Dordogne, or a hotel in Tours for the Loire châteaux. A week like that, with the phone navigating country roads and pulling up château tickets at the gate, is a 5 GB trip, and that pack lasts 30 days.

When the rental has weak wifi or none, and the family's tablets hang off one phone, go up to 10 GB. The 20 GB pack covers a month: a ski stay in the Alps, a summer on the Atlantic coast or remote work moving from town to town.

Geneva, the Riviera and the Basque coast: borders crossed without noticing

Three kinds of French trip leave France almost by accident. Skiers and hikers bound for Chamonix and the northern Alps often fly into Geneva, in Switzerland, and drive across. Along the Riviera, the coast road and the train from Nice carry on to Menton and then Ventimiglia, in Italy. In the Basque Country, Biarritz and Hendaye are a short ride from San Sebastián.

The France pack stops at each of those borders. The Europe pack covers Switzerland, Italy and Spain as well as France on the same eSIM, so if your route includes one of them it is the simpler choice. Count the days from the first connection: landing in Geneva starts a Europe pack before you reach France. If the whole stay is on the French side, the packs above are enough.

Crossing borders?

One pack, 33 countries

The packs above only work in France. For about 2 € more these work across all of Europe — same eSIM, nothing to change at the border.

3 GB Europe · 33 countries · 15 days 6,90 € 2,30 €/GB
Recommended 10 GB Europe · 33 countries · 30 days 15,90 € 1,59 €/GB
20 GB Europe · 33 countries · 30 days 23,90 € 1,20 €/GB
Questions

Travelling to France, answered

Does it work in Monaco?

No. Monaco is a separate country and is covered by neither the France pack nor the Europe pack. If you go for the day from Nice, save the map and your tickets beforehand; data comes back once the phone is on a French network again.

I am walking the Tour du Mont Blanc. Which pack?

The Europe pack. The trail circles the massif through France, Italy and Switzerland, and the France pack stops at the first border. Its 3 GB size lasts 15 days, longer than the nine to fourteen days most walkers take; choose 10 GB if you send photos home every evening.

I am going to Paris and then London. One pack?

Not this one, which covers France only. The UK left the EU and is billed separately. For that trip the 33-country Europe pack covers both.

Does it work in Corsica and the overseas territories?

In Corsica yes, it is metropolitan French territory. Overseas departments such as Guadeloupe, Martinique or Réunion are not covered by this pack.

Carrying on?

Nearby destinations

Who is behind this

A person, not a call centre

Snoozim is run from Barcelona by Ibai Guirado Vera. It exists because paying for roaming by the day on a short trip made no sense. If something goes wrong with your eSIM you write, and the same person who built this answers you, within 24 hours.

Ibai Guirado Vera Founder · Barcelona

+34 642 18 96 34

Travelling later?

Going to France later? We remind you before you fly

Tell us the day you leave. We email you a week before and the day before with the steps to install the eSIM on Wi-Fi at home. Nothing else.

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