Morocco SIM card, roaming or eSIM: what a UK phone costs in Marrakech
In short
You have four ways to stay connected in Morocco: your UK network, a travel eSIM, a local Moroccan SIM card or a pocket Wi-Fi. EE charges £39.50 for a 7-day pass there (checked on 24 October 2026, EE price guide, 31 March 2026). Our Morocco eSIM is £3.99 for 1 GB over 7 days, data only.
Information verified on 24 October 2026 at the official sources listed below. This is not immigration or legal advice; check GOV.UK and the official website of your destination before you travel. How we check information.
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eSIM for Morocco from £3.99 — see plans At a glance
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Morocco is outside every UK Europe zone, so no Europe pass or “included in Europe” rule reaches it. You may not need an eSIM for a short trip: Sky charges £2 a day there (checked on 24 October 2026), and a pass keeps calls and texts on your UK number. The costly part is the default. A phone left on its normal settings in Marrakech bills by the day, the minute or the MB.
What do UK networks charge in Morocco?
Roaming in Morocco on UK networks costs £8 for 24 hours or £39.50 for 7 days on EE, £8 a day on Vodafone and Three, and £2 a day on Sky (checked on 24 October 2026). Every UK network puts Morocco in a zone outside Europe, and four of them charge it per MB.
| Option | Price | What you need | Weak point |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roaming on your UK network | £2.00 to £84.00 a day or pass from about £1.75 per GB | Data roaming on; on some networks a pass bought before you fly | Fair use limits and daily charges differ by network; check that yours covers Morocco |
| Pocket Wi-Fi router | Not verified | Collect it, keep it charged and return it | One connection for the group, only while you stay together |
| Local SIM bought on arrival | Not verified | A free SIM slot and a shop after landing | On a one-slot phone it replaces your UK SIM |
| Travel eSIM from this site | from £3.99 by card; from £3.20 per GB | An eSIM phone that is not locked to one operator | Data only: no calls or texts on your UK number |
Roaming prices as published by the 15 UK networks, checked on 24 October 2026; price per GB is our derivation (price ÷ GB). eSIM prices are in pounds at the day’s rate: your card is charged exactly that amount. This site is not affiliated with these networks; we sell eSIMs.
Each row is that network’s own figure and the plan it applies to. EE, Vodafone and Three unlock your UK allowance on your UK number; the add-ons and Bolt Ons give a fixed amount of data. Our plans are data only.
| UK network | What it charges for Morocco | Condition |
|---|---|---|
| EE | £8 for 24 hours, £39.50 for 7 days | Rest of World Zone 2; pay monthly and SIM only; the pass runs 24 hours from purchase; without one, no data, calls £2.46 a minute, texts 98p |
| Vodafone | £8 a day | Zone D, pay monthly plans from 11 August 2021 (£6 on earlier plans), 25GB fair use (Vodafone roaming guide); pay as you go: Around the World Extra, 2GB for 8 days £13.68 (Vodafone extras) |
| Three | £8 a day, or £42 for a 7-day pass | Go Roam Around the World Extra; Lite and Lite+ joined or upgraded from 18 December 2025; up to 12GB of your allowance (Three Go Roam) |
| Sky Mobile | £2 a day | Roaming Passport Plus, 24 hours from first use; the £2 counts towards the £45 data roaming spend cap (Sky spend cap help) |
| O2 | 100MB £26, 500MB £45, 1GB £65 | Zone 3 Data Roaming Bolt On, pay monthly only; O2 Travel does not cover Zone 3; calls £3 a minute made or received, texts £1 (O2 Bolt Ons) |
| Talkmobile | 500MB for 1 day £5, 5GB for 8 days £20, 8GB for 15 days £30 | Zone B, World Holiday Booster, data only; calls £1 a minute made, 41p received, texts 25p (Talkmobile Booster details) |
| VOXI | £16 for 8 days, £26.60 for 15 days | Global Roaming Extra with 2GB, 100 minutes and 100 texts, or 4GB, 200 minutes and 200 texts (VOXI Global Roaming Extras) |
| iD Mobile | 2GB for 1 day £5, 10GB for 5 days £20, 20GB for 10 days £35 | Roam Beyond add-on on your iD plan (iD roaming) |
| Lebara | 1GB for 8 days £4, 3GB for 15 days £12 | Zone 5 add-on; Morocco is not in Roam Like Home (Lebara) |
| Lyca Mobile | 0.5GB for 7 days £8, 1.25GB for 14 days £14 | Morocco pass, PAYG, bought with top-up credit (Lyca) |
| SMARTY | 25p/MB | Roaming 2, from an out-of-plan add-on; with none loaded, data does not work outside the EU (SMARTY price guide) |
| giffgaff | £5/MB | Rest of world band (giffgaff roaming) |
| Tesco Mobile | £5 a MB | Region 4, pay monthly and pay as you go (Tesco Mobile roaming) |
| Asda Mobile | £1/MB | World Group 1 (Asda Mobile roaming) |
Each figure was checked on that network’s page on 24 October 2026. For BT we hold no current Morocco figure, so check BT’s own roaming page before you fly.
Our arithmetic for seven days of use, phone used on every day: EE comes to £39.50 with the 7-day pass, or £56 as seven 24-hour passes. Vodafone comes to £56 at £8 a day. Three comes to £56 paid day by day, or £42 with its 7-day pass. Sky comes to £14. These run on your UK number; our plan is data only, so they are different products.
eSIM for Morocco: selected plans
The entry plan, our pick. “Our pick” is a mid-size plan chosen by us, not a sales ranking.
Prices are in pounds; you are charged in GBP, exactly the amount shown. The seller is registered in the United States, so your bank may apply its own rules to a payment to a seller abroad — how card payment works. It appears on your statement as JET SHARING. You pay on the secure Stripe checkout page, by card, or Apple Pay or Google Pay if Stripe shows them on your device.
What it costs per day
Plan price in pounds ÷ days, at the rate of 1 Nov. A longer plan usually costs less per day: pick by your trip length, not by the lowest daily price.
How a roaming bill builds up in Marrakech
A bill builds up from the lines you did not know were charged: received calls, texts and background data. One person posted this on the EE Community forum on 10 June 2025:
“They charge me £324.70 for receiving calls whilst on holidays in Marakkesh.”
That is one person’s account of their own bill, not a price list. The network figures are the ones in the table.
Without a pass, EE charges £2.46 a minute for calls and 98p a text in every Rest of World zone (checked on 24 October 2026). Our arithmetic: ten minutes of calls at that rate is £24.60. On O2, a call in Zone 3 costs £3 a minute whether you make it or receive it (checked on 24 October 2026).
An EE pass runs for 24 hours from the moment you buy it, not for a calendar day. One bought at 4pm on arrival ends at 4pm the next day.
Three habits cut the risk:
- Buy a pass or plan before you land, not after the text arrives.
- Turn off data roaming on the UK line, and use the travel eSIM for data.
- Ask people to message you on WhatsApp rather than call your UK number.
Switching data roaming off does not stop a charge for a call or a text. Data roaming settings has the menu paths.
A week in Morocco: your UK network vs eSIM
A roaming pass is cheaper5.6GB for 7 days (0.8GB a day, social media and photos): what it costs on the four big UK networks. We compare each network’s public roaming passes and daily rates. Some plans have roaming built in (for example Vodafone Global Roam, O2 Ultimate, Three Complete and Sky Diamond VIP), so check your own plan.
On roaming your UK number also takes calls and texts; the eSIM is data only. Network prices as published, checked on 24 October 2026; the eSIM at its price in pounds on 1 Nov, charged in pounds by card. This site is not affiliated with these networks; we sell eSIMs. Work out your own trip.
Local Moroccan SIM card or travel eSIM?
Local networks: Maroc Telecom, 
Orange Morocco and inwi are the three names you will hear for a Morocco SIM card. We have not checked their prices, registration rules or coverage, so we quote none. Bring your passport, and expect prices to vary by shop.
The Morocco SIM card vs eSIM choice comes down to your UK number. A local SIM replaces your UK SIM in a single-SIM phone, so bank passcodes sent to your UK number do not arrive. A travel eSIM leaves your UK SIM in place.
Our Morocco plan runs on the Orange network in Morocco, LTE only, data only, with no ID check. On 4G/5G coverage, that means 4G: the plan lists no 5G. You need an eSIM-compatible phone that is unlocked.
Buy your Morocco eSIM from the UK and install before you travel, over Wi-Fi. The plan starts on first connection in Morocco, so installing early uses up none of its days.
Read the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) travel advice for Morocco on GOV.UK before you book (checked on 24 October 2026).
How much data for a week in Morocco?
A riad stay runs on Wi-Fi at the riad, and mobile data goes on maps in the medina, ride apps and WhatsApp. We have no measured Moroccan figure, so the per-day numbers below are our arithmetic on the plan sizes, not a usage forecast.
| Plan | Data per day (our arithmetic) | Fits |
|---|---|---|
| £3.99, 1 GB, 7 days, data only | about 140MB a day over 7 days | maps, messages and a few ride-app bookings |
| £15.99, 5 GB, 30 days, data only | about 170MB a day over 30 days, or about 700MB a day if you use it all in one week | longer stays and video calls |
Between the two sit £7.99 for 2 GB over 15 days and £11.99 for 3 GB over 30 days, both data only.
Check your phone’s mobile data counter for a week at home first: that number beats any estimate. Download offline maps over riad Wi-Fi before you walk into the medina. A city break of three to seven days with Wi-Fi where you stay fits the 1 GB plan. Agadir beach days, desert tours or remote work point to 5 GB. How much data do I need? works it out by app.
Keep your UK number and WhatsApp
A travel eSIM is a separate, data-only line: it carries no calls or texts. Calls and texts to your UK number still go to your UK SIM, so leave it in the phone for bank texts (keeping your UK number). WhatsApp runs on data and works over the travel line.
How to transfer or install an eSIM has the menu paths for iPhone, Samsung and Pixel. Choose the travel line for mobile data and leave the UK line on for calls and texts. That UK line is still charged at its Morocco rates, as in the table above. Roaming or eSIM walks through the same choice for any network.
Check before you fly
What if the eSIM doesn’t work when you land in Morocco?
Check four settings, in this order, before you write to us.
The first is the line for mobile data. In the phone’s SIM settings, pick the travel line for mobile data; your UK line stays on for calls and texts, with its mobile data off.
The second is data roaming, for the eSIM line only. The eSIM is a foreign profile, so the phone treats Morocco as roaming for it.
The third is the APN. The plan does not set it by itself here: add globaldata on Android under the eSIM line’s mobile network settings.
The fourth is a restart. Restart the phone or switch aeroplane mode on and off, and let it find Orange; this can take a few minutes after you leave the plane.
Still no data? Write to us on WhatsApp or at support@esimworld.co.uk with your order number, or go through the no-signal checklist. Do not delete the eSIM to “try again”: a deleted profile usually cannot be installed twice from the same code. If the eSIM doesn't work and it isn't your phone's fault, we refund the payment whether or not it was installed.
What I’d choose (and when NOT to buy the eSIM)
For a week of maps, rides and messaging I’d take 1 GB for 7 days, £3.99. For two weeks or more, with photos and social media, I’d go for 5 GB for 30 days, £15.99. If you video-call and stream every day, take the unlimited plan for 7 days, £35.99, with 3 GB a day at full speed, then 1 Mbps.
I would not recommend the eSIM in three cases. If your UK plan already includes Morocco and its fair use limit is enough for you, roaming costs you nothing extra and keeps your number (compare the networks). If your phone has no eSIM or is locked to one operator, it cannot take the plan: check your model first. And if your group travels together all day and shares one connection, a pocket Wi-Fi can cover everyone.
Frequently asked questions
Which SIM card is best for tourists in Morocco?
For a week or more of data, a data-only eSIM or a local Moroccan SIM card; for a short trip on your UK number, your own network’s Morocco charge. Compare the figures in the table first, and keep your UK SIM in the phone for bank texts.
Will an eSIM work in Morocco?
Yes, if your phone is eSIM-compatible and unlocked. Dial *#06#: an EID on screen means it takes an eSIM. Install the eSIM over Wi-Fi before you travel. Our Morocco plan runs on the Orange network, LTE, and starts on first connection in Morocco.
Is it better to buy a SIM card at the airport?
Not if you need your UK number. A Morocco SIM card needs your passport and replaces your UK SIM in a single-SIM phone, so bank texts stop arriving. A travel eSIM installed at home keeps your UK SIM in place.
Sources checked: EE price guide, 31 March 2026 (PDF) · Vodafone roaming guide and Vodafone extras · Three Go Roam · Sky data roaming spend cap · O2 data roaming Bolt Ons · Talkmobile Booster details · VOXI Global Roaming Extras · iD Mobile roaming · Lebara roaming rate finder · Lyca Mobile roaming · SMARTY price guide (PDF) · giffgaff roaming · Tesco Mobile roaming · Asda Mobile roaming · FCDO: Morocco travel advice.
Sources are linked in the text; reviewed by Nadezhda Semenova. For the terms of your own contract, check with your network.
Unfamiliar term? See the eSIM glossary.
Get an eSIM for Morocco, from £3.99 Pay by card in pounds. The seller is registered in the United States, so your bank may apply its own rules to a payment to a seller abroad. Install the profile at home on Wi-Fi before you fly. The QR code arrives by email after payment. See plans