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An eSIM for Germany is a digital data plan for the phone you already own. There is no physical SIM card, no airport lines, and no passport needed. Your plan is ready on your SIMAREA account before you even leave home.
It works safely alongside your normal SIM. You keep your own number for calls and important text messages. Your data goes through the SIMAREA plan. Just turn off data roaming on your home SIM to avoid high bills.
Every plan here uses more than one partner network. Your phone joins one when you arrive and can switch to another if the signal weakens.
If you stay longer, top up your current plan with more data. You do not need to buy a new one.
What it is not: a local phone number. If you need one for verification codes, see virtual numbers for Germany.
Germany eSIM for travel on O2 and Vodafone
5GMobile data across Germany on O2 or Vodafone, for a trade fair, a city break or a semester. Install it at home: no plan here starts its days before it connects in Germany.
The unlimited plan is the day pass we feature for Germany: after its daily full-speed allowance it keeps you connected at a lower speed, and it is billed per day for the days you choose. Fixed plans are one price for the term shown. Nothing on this page is an estimate.
How to get mobile data in Germany
Set it up at home the night before. Your eSIM waits quietly until you arrive.
Pick eSIM plan
Choose how long you are there. The day pass is billed per day, so the term is yours to set.
Pay, then scan
Charged from your balance, which you top up with crypto. Your QR code is in your dashboard once the order is paid.
Turn it on when you arrive
Turn on data roaming for your SIMAREA plan when you arrive, and it joins a partner network.
What to know about an eSIM for Germany
The specifics that decide whether a travel eSIM is useful once you're actually there.
More than one network
Every plan here lists more than one partner network. If one gets weak, your phone can switch to another.
Set up before you go
No SIM card store, no passport check. Install it at home, then turn on data roaming for it when you arrive.
Hotspot sharing
Share your internet with a laptop or a friend, if your plan and phone allow it.
Keep your own number
The eSIM is just for internet. Your normal SIM still receives calls and important bank codes. You can use both at once.
Keep using the same eSIM
Staying longer? Top up the same plan with more data from your dashboard. No need for a new QR code.
If it does not work
Not installed or connected yet? Ask for a refund within 30 days of buying it. Installed but not working on any of its networks? Support helps, and refunds you if it cannot be fixed.
eSIM Germany: O2 and Vodafone, not Telekom
Germany has three long-established mobile networks: Telekom, Vodafone and O2. The Germany plans on this page, the day pass and each fixed plan alike, connect to O2 and Vodafone. Telekom isn't on any of them. So when a colleague in Stuttgart says the signal is strong in the building where your meeting is, ask which network they use; for this eSIM, only O2 and Vodafone count.
The catalog types both networks as 5G and the plans allow it, which means 5G where O2 or Vodafone has built it and 4G/LTE elsewhere. Your phone can use either one. In a spot where one is weak, say a hotel basement or a valley in the Black Forest, open the network settings, turn off automatic selection and pick the other.
What German websites see: an IP in France, the Netherlands or the UK
Traffic on a Germany plan leaves for the internet outside Germany. The catalog names three exit countries for each plan sold here, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, so the address a site sees belongs to one of them and never to Germany.
Navigation and messaging carry on as normal. What might notice is a service built around people living in Germany: a bank that questions logins from abroad, a broadcaster's online library that keeps some shows for viewers in Germany, or a store that picks its language and prices by country. If one of these matters, look at the IP address row under Technical specs for the plan you select, and if you're still unsure, ask support before paying. Support is there 24/7.
Germany travel eSIM: day pass or fixed data
Day pass. Every day opens with 1 GB at full speed. Use it up and the eSIM carries on at 512 Kbps until the next day starts. The number of days is yours to set in the picker.
Fixed data. One allowance for one term: 1 GB for a week, 2 GB or 3 GB for 15 days, a choice of 3, 5, 10, 20 or 50 GB for 30 days, and 50 GB spread across 180 days.
A trade fair week in Frankfurt, Hanover or Cologne
Fair days mix email, calendar invites, maps between halls and the evening's hotel booking. That's day pass territory: a fresh gigabyte at full speed each day, with no running total to watch. If your laptop needs the connection as well, a hotspot works if your plan and phone allow it, and a 30-day plan of 10 GB or more leaves room for it.
Christmas markets or a rail trip along the Rhine
Hopping between Nuremberg, Munich and Berlin in December, or following the Rhine by train from Cologne to Mainz, mostly means maps, tickets and photos. The 15-day plans with 2 or 3 GB are sized for that pace, and the 1 GB week suits a weekend away.
A semester or a work posting
Exchange students and people sent to a German office for months need data that outlasts a single month. The 50 GB plan for 180 days is sized for a semester in one purchase. If your end date isn't fixed yet, a 30-day plan of 20 or 50 GB, topped up each time it runs low, keeps things open.
Before you leave: installing early and topping up
Each Germany plan counts its days from its first connection to O2 or Vodafone in Germany, not from the moment you pay or scan the QR code. That holds for the day pass and for every fixed plan here, so installing a week before you fly into Frankfurt or Munich costs you no days.
If the trip is further off, the Unused plans row under Technical specs shows 180 days of validity for an unused Germany plan. Keep in mind that only an eSIM that hasn't been installed or connected can be refunded on request, within 30 days of purchase, so install it once the trip is certain.
Need more data mid-trip? Each plan sold here can be topped up, the day pass included. The new data joins the eSIM already on your phone and is paid from your SIMAREA balance, with nothing to reinstall.
Germany and its neighbors on one eSIM
A Germany plan only works inside Germany, and trips from Germany cross borders often: Munich to Salzburg, Freiburg to Basel, Aachen to Maastricht, Dresden to Prague. Pick coverage by the shape of the trip:
- One neighbor for a day or two: add a country plan for it, such as Austria, Switzerland or the Netherlands.
- A tour of several European countries: the Europe eSIM plans cover many countries on one eSIM. Each plan lists its countries in the Coverage row under Plan details; make sure Germany and your other stops are on the one you select.
- Germany plus another continent: the Global 130 eSIM lists Germany and every country that borders it, among them Switzerland, Austria, Poland and the Czech Republic. In Germany it uses the same pair of networks, O2 and Vodafone. Its traffic exits in the UK or Norway, and its fixed plans last from 7 to 365 days.
Germany eSIM questions
Does the Germany eSIM use the Telekom network?
No. Every Germany plan on this page connects to O2 and Vodafone only, and the Global 130 eSIM uses the same two in Germany. If coverage in one particular village matters, ask someone local how O2 or Vodafone does there, not Telekom.
Do I need to show ID, as with a German prepaid SIM?
German prepaid SIM cards from a shop or kiosk have to be registered with an ID check before they work. This eSIM is bought differently: you sign in to your SIMAREA account with an email code or Google, pay from your balance and install it by QR code.
Can I get a German +49 number?
Not with the eSIM. It handles data only, so it has no German number, no calls and no SMS, and your usual SIM keeps your own number. If you need a +49 number for weeks or months, rent a Germany number; it accepts SMS from any sender, though it can't place calls or send messages.
Is the Germany day pass unlimited?
Only in the sense that it doesn't stop. Each day you get 1 GB at full speed; after that the speed drops to 512 Kbps until the day resets. That still handles messages and email, while video can wait for Wi-Fi or the next day's gigabyte.
Will it work if I cross into Austria or Switzerland for the day?
No. Outside Germany a Germany plan has no network. For a day in Salzburg or Basel, add an Austria or Switzerland plan, or cover the whole trip with Global 130, which lists Germany, Austria and Switzerland together.
How much data do I need for a week at a trade fair?
If you only check email and maps between halls, the 1 GB week can be enough. Sharing the connection with a laptop, if your plan and phone allow it, uses far more: then look at the day pass or a 30-day plan of 5 GB or more. The trip data calculator gives an estimate from your own habits.
What should I do if O2 has no signal at my hotel?
Switch to Vodafone. In the phone's mobile network settings, turn off automatic selection and choose Vodafone, then check that data roaming is on for the eSIM. If neither network connects, contact support while the plan is valid; they fix it, and if the eSIM works on none of its networks in Germany, they refund it.
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Set up your Germany eSIM before the trip
Choose the day pass or a fixed plan on O2 and Vodafone. Crossing into Austria, Switzerland or Poland too? Global 130 lists Germany and all its neighbors.