Which unlimited SIM card for a trip to Morocco?

So here it is, you are going to Morocco and you are wondering how to stay connected there. Very good question, because frankly, we didn’t anticipate as we should have when we went there with Caroline, and we struggled a bit. Between the Inwi store that wanted our ID scans, the two-month commitment we discovered at the last moment, and our modem that politely refused all non-EE cards (because yes, it’s as twisted as it sounds), we would have loved to come across an article that untangles all this before leaving.

So, that’s exactly what we are going to do here. We will review the three main options for getting internet in Morocco, give you the real prices for 2026, honestly tell you what works in the desert and what struggles in the medinas, and share what we experienced on-site (because we don’t have the elegance of having succeeded well the first time).

In short, the goal is to help you avoid repeating our administrative blunders, and incidentally save you a few dozen pounds along the way.

Why you need a real internet solution in Morocco

Let’s be very clear for a second: you can travel to Morocco without a connection, you know. People have done it for centuries. But in 2026, as soon as you need a GPS to get out of Marrakech, a translation app for the souk, a last-minute Booking reservation because it’s raining on the coast, or just to post an Instagram photo of mint tea in Jemaa el-Fna square, it’s better to have data.

Three options are available to you: use your UK plan while roaming, buy a local SIM card on-site from Maroc Telecom, Inwi, or Orange Maroc, or get a Holafly eSIM for Morocco from home before you leave. We will review each one, in order from least recommended to most practical (spoiler: the first option is tricky, hang on tight).

Solution 1: your UK plan in Morocco, really?

This is the option that comes to mind first, because on paper it is the simplest: keep your EE, O2, Three or Vodafone plan, switch data on when you land in Marrakech, carry on as if you were at home. It is also the option that produces the bills people post screenshots of.

Morocco sits fourteen kilometres south of Spain. In telecoms terms it is on another planet. No major UK network puts Morocco in an inclusive roaming zone, and that one sentence is most of this section.

Three (Go Roam). Go Roam covers a long list of destinations at no extra cost. Morocco is not on it. A Three handset used in Morocco is roaming out of plan, which is the most expensive way there is to hold a phone in North Africa.

EE. Morocco falls outside the inclusive European zone, so you are into a paid travel add-on or, if you forget to buy one, the standard out-of-bundle rate. The add-on is workable for a long weekend and absurd for a fortnight.

Vodafone UK. The same shape: an international add-on billed by the day, with an allowance sized for messaging rather than for maps.

O2. A Travel Bolt-On reaches Morocco with a capped allowance and can be switched on from the app. Past the cap it stops being a bargain very quickly.

The pattern is identical across all four: a daily fee that looks harmless, an allowance that is not, and a per-megabyte rate underneath it that does the real damage the moment you forget it is there. Three photos uploaded to Instagram out of bundle and you have spent more than a month of Moroccan data. The current rates by network are below, so you can do the arithmetic on your own plan rather than take our word for it.

Conclusion on the roaming option: avoid it for any stay longer than 48 hours. For a quick weekend in Marrakech an EE or Three travel add-on might just about hold. For everything else, the two serious solutions are below.

Maroc Telecom, Inwi, Orange Maroc: the landscape of local operators

Three main operators share the country, and each has its personality (because yes, a telecom operator has a personality, we discovered that on-site).

Maroc Telecom (IAM), it’s the historical one. The operator that really covers the whole country, including remote areas. If your itinerary goes through the High Atlas, the dunes of Erg Chebbi, or the road between Tiznit and Sidi Ifni along the Atlantic coast, it’s the safest choice. You pay a little more than the competition, but you get signal where Orange Maroc drops you.

Inwi, it’s the aggressive challenger. The cheapest prepaid plans on the market, generous data, decent 4G in the city. In Marrakech, Casablanca, Rabat, Tangier, Fes, it’s all good. In the medina of Fes, however, you will lose signal between two covered alleys (but that’s also true with Maroc Telecom, the structure of the medina is just a medieval Faraday cage). It’s with Inwi that we ended up getting our plan on-site, except that… we will come back to it in the “Our experience” section.

Orange Maroc holds the third place. Solid city coverage, mid-table pricing, and its Pass Touriste is probably the simplest thing to buy at the airport if you would rather not think about it. Good in the city, average on secondary roads.

That’s the overview. Now, the details of the prices.

Advantages and disadvantages of SIM cards for Morocco

How much does a SIM card cost in Morocco in 2026

Rough figures here, because prices move and shops rarely display their rates in the window.

The card itself is symbolic: a few dozen dirham, and Maroc Telecom often hands it to tourists free at the airport. What counts is the data pass you load on top, and the numbers look like this:

• Orange Maroc Pass Touriste: 30 GB for around £16, valid 30 days, with unlimited national calls and 20 minutes of international. It is the tourist best seller and the easiest thing to buy the moment you land.
• Inwi Pass Internet: 20 GB for around £8 over 30 days. The best data-per-pound ratio in the country, and the Double Solde promotion frequently doubles the volume.
• Maroc Telecom Pass Jawal: 10 GB for around £8, or 20 GB for around £16, again over 30 days. Dearer per gigabyte, but coverage is what you are paying for.

Now read the Solution 1 arithmetic again. Thirty Moroccan gigabytes for £16, against a UK travel add-on that bills you by the day for a fraction of that. On a three-week trip or a month, which is the typical length for anyone coming down in a campervan, the local SIM is not merely cheaper: it is the only option that makes economic sense.

The real cost is not on the price tag. It is the administrative time, and that is where we got burned (we paid in patience what we had saved in data).

Here is an updated numerical overview of the local SIM cards you can buy on-site from Maroc Telecom, Inwi and Orange Maroc, with their current plans and prices:

Buy your SIM card on-site in Morocco or in advance from home?

Three main options are available to you for getting mobile internet in Morocco. We have tested them all (or at least looked closely at them), so here is our honest feedback on the three.

Holafly Morocco: our heart’s choice after our trip

Let’s be honest for a second. On our first trip to Morocco, we went for a local Maroc Telecom SIM (because at the time, the Holafly eSIM had just been released and we didn’t trust it yet, Caroline was skeptical and personally I was just tired of paying £5 per MB in roaming). Today, we would do the opposite without hesitation.

Why? Because for a stay of one to three weeks, the financial gain from the local SIM (£10 to £20) does not compensate for the half-day you will lose finding the store, providing your documents, understanding the plan, and especially having to think about canceling at the end (otherwise the contract continues quietly and you sometimes pay dearly when you return home).

With Holafly:

• you buy from your couch at home before leaving
• you activate just before boarding, in two clicks
• you arrive in Morocco already connected, without going through a store
• you keep your UK number active in parallel (two profiles on the same eSIM chip)
• you return home, the eSIM expires by itself, end of story

In short, it’s the solution we recommend to 90% of travelers going to Morocco for 1 to 3 weeks. For expatriates or long stays, the local SIM still makes sense.

You just click below to activate your discount and go directly to the available Holafly Morocco eSIM plans, with updated durations and prices.

Network coverage in Morocco: where it connects, where it struggles

A field overview, because a boulevard in Casablanca and a piste in the Anti-Atlas have nothing in common in network terms.

Our experience: arrival, the Inwi store, and airsoft at the border

Now we’re getting to the real part, the one we would have killed for a heads-up about beforehand.

Arrival and the Inwi store. Just upon our arrival in Morocco, we had to stop by a store to open a line. We entered the Inwi store with Caroline, feeling quite confident: we thought that the local SIM would be unbeatable in terms of price (from home, on paper, it made sense, we even congratulated ourselves for planning ahead). Except that it got a bit complicated.

We had to provide quite a bit of information: all personal and administrative data, including scans of our ID. The salesperson was entering everything on their screen while we waited and signed. So far, so good; it was tedious but manageable.

However, at the moment of signing, we discovered that the local subscription is binding. Minimum duration: two months. And we were there for what… three weeks? A month? In short, shorter than two months.

As a result, we had to create the plan on the spot, then immediately think about canceling the subscription as soon as we signed up, to ensure it wouldn’t continue once we returned home (yes, it’s as absurd as it sounds: you sign up for a minimum of two months, and the first thing they advise you is to cancel right away). We spent the rest of the trip with a little anxiety: was the cancellation properly recorded? Spoiler alert, yes, but it added an extra layer of stress you didn’t ask for.

SIM compatibility and our modem. To be transparent, we also wanted to test another UK plan during the trip. However, we had a nasty surprise: our van modem doesn’t accept every UK provider’s SIM. Network compatibility/bands/operator, we abandoned the idea. It’s worth checking before you leave if you’re using a dedicated 4G router or modem because not all of them work with all operators (and an incompatible modem is the “expensive paperweight in the glove compartment” effect).

Airsoft at the border. And then there was that incident at the Moroccan border. We were carrying an airsoft gun (a replica, completely legal at home for recreational use). Upon entering Morocco, bam, confiscated. Non-negotiable; they don’t listen to the argument “it’s just a toy.” So if you’re reading this before heading to Morocco in a van, two pieces of advice: one, leave that kind of item at home; two, also check for drones, kitchen knives longer than 10 cm, and anything that resembles a weapon (because yes, the Opinel No. 10 knife that cuts your sausage in the van is technically considered a weapon by customs).

In hindsight, we would have loved to arrive with an active Holafly eSIM already on the phone and skip the Inwi store.

Morocco next to its neighbours: our other North Africa guides

Morocco is rarely a one-off on a bigger itinerary. In Tunisia, the roaming picture is worse than here on O2 and Vodafone, where you are billed around £60 a GB with no pass at all, while EE and Three at least sell a daily one. Algeria adds a step Morocco does not have: the local SIM is registered against your passport at the counter, queue included. And if you came down through Spain, remember the crossing changes everything, fourteen kilometres of water and your allowance stops behaving the same way.

Conclusion: what we honestly recommend

So, we’ve covered the three solutions. If you want us to summarize it all in one sentence, it’s simple: for a classic trip of 1 to 3 weeks in Morocco, get the Holafly eSIM with the code LAPLANETEDECARO, you save -5%, activate it from home, and arrive in Morocco already connected.

For a longer stay or if you’re living there for a few months, the local SIM from Maroc Telecom or Inwi remains unbeatable in terms of price. But be prepared for a half-day in the store, paperwork, and cancellation to anticipate.

And if you’re going in a van or camper, download your offline maps before you leave, because in the desert and the Atlas, your GPS will thank you (and your wallet will thank you on the way back).

If you have a question we haven’t covered, let us know in the comments, and we’ll take the time to respond. And if you know other good tips for staying connected in Morocco, share them; it benefits the whole community.

Safe travels in Morocco, and enjoy (the connection can wait five minutes when you’re in front of a mint tea at sunset on the ramparts of Essaouira).

PS: and if you ever find yourself in an Inwi store with your ID scan to provide like we did, be patient, ask for the cancellation procedure in writing before even signing, and always keep in mind that next time you’ll get an eSIM. Like us. Like everyone. Caroline and I made it through, and you will too; just know you’re going to level up on the international administrative patience scale (which is very useful in life, especially for the next time you switch any subscription that auto-renews).