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An eSIM for Sri Lanka 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.
Coverage comes from Hutch, the one network these plans use. Your phone connects to it when you arrive.
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 a number for verification codes, see virtual numbers.
Sri Lanka eSIM on Hutch
From 100 MB for 7 days to 50 GB for 180 days, or a day pass with 1 GB a day at full speed, all on one Sri Lankan network.
The unlimited plan is the day pass we feature for Sri Lanka: 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 Sri Lanka
Install it at home before you go. Some plans here start counting at installation, so check the line under the price for the plan you pick.
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 Sri Lanka
The specifics that decide whether a travel eSIM is useful once you're actually there.
Runs on Hutch
Plans for Sri Lanka connect to Hutch. Your phone joins it once data roaming is on for the eSIM.
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.
Sri Lanka eSIM plans, from a week to 180 days
A Sri Lanka eSIM from SIMAREA gives you mobile data on one local network, Hutch, on all twelve plans. Terms run well past a month:
- 7 days: 100 MB, 500 MB, or 1 GB
- 15 days: 2 or 3 GB
- 30 days: 3, 5, 10, 20, or 50 GB
- 180 days: 50 GB
- Day pass: Hutch at full speed for 1 GB a day, dropping to 512 Kbps until the next reset
Each one tops up with more data on the same eSIM, but never more days, so a three-month stay points to the 180-day plan. Traffic exits in the Netherlands, so sites see an address there.
Hutch alone, or Dialog, Mobitel, and Etisalat too
Another Sri Lankan network means a multi-country plan, even on a one-country trip:
- Asia, 19-country list: Dialog, Etisalat, Hutch, and Mobitel, with 5G marked on Mobitel. Exit in the UK or Norway. Plans run to 20 GB for 30 days, and the day pass slows to 384 Kbps after its daily 1 GB.
- Global 130: the same four networks and exits, with a 90-day 20 GB plan and a 365-day 1 GB plan.
- Asia, 20-country list: a network listed as 3, with an exit in Hong Kong. This list also sells 20 GB for 90 days and 50 GB for 180 days.
- Central Asia, 5-country list: Mobitel alone, with an exit in the UK, alongside Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.
Sri Lanka with India or the Maldives
India is on both Asia lists above and on Global 130, so one eSIM can serve a trip through Chennai and Colombo.
The Maldives works differently: no regional or global list names it. A Colombo and Malé trip takes two eSIMs, one plan for each. Apart from the Sri Lanka 100 MB plan, each counts its days from its own first connection.
Questions about a Sri Lanka eSIM
Is there 5G on a Sri Lanka eSIM?
Not marked on the Sri Lanka plans: Hutch carries no 5G label on any of them. If 5G matters, the 19-country Asia list and Global 130 mark it on Mobitel in Sri Lanka.
Is the Sri Lanka day pass unlimited?
The connection keeps going, but full speed doesn't. Hutch gives you 1 GB a day at full speed, and past that the eSIM runs at 512 Kbps until the day resets.
Is the 180-day plan the same as "valid for 180 days"?
No, they're two clocks. The 50 GB plan's 180-day term runs from its first connection. Separately, any plan you haven't used stays valid for 180 days, including the 7-day ones.
When do the days start on a Sri Lanka plan?
On eleven of the twelve, at the first connection in Sri Lanka, so you can install before your trip. The 7-day 100 MB plan counts from installation, so leave that one until you're there.
Does the eSIM come with a +94 number?
+94 is Sri Lanka's dial code, but this eSIM gives you data alone: no number, calls, or SMS. Your SIM keeps your own number, and renting a number that receives SMS is separate: see virtual numbers.
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Choose your Sri Lanka eSIM plan
Pick a term and size on Hutch, or the day pass. Want another network, or India on the same eSIM? Compare the Asia and Global 130 lists first.