Best eSIM for Vanuatu

Most visitors to Vanuatu arrive from Australia, and the question people ask is whether to sort connectivity before leaving or on arrival. Sort it before. Your Australian plan will either not work in Vanuatu at all or will charge international roaming rates that make a few days of maps and messaging cost more than the flight's checked bag.

Install the eSIM at home while you still have wifi, leave it switched off, then turn the line on when you land at Bauerfield. Your Australian number stays active for calls and texts on your normal SIM, and the eSIM carries the data.

Prices checked 30 September 2026 in US dollars on each provider's own Vanuatu page.

Our unlimited plans run at full speed up to the daily allowance and then at up to 1 Mbps. Every unlimited travel eSIM applies a daily limit. Ours is on the plan.

Our Vanuatu eSIM runs on Digicel, which is one of the two networks covering the islands.

You do not need to arrange anything with Digicel yourself. There is no Digicel shop to visit, no local account to open and no prepaid top up to buy. You buy the plan from us, scan the QR code, and your phone connects to their network when you land.

Plenty of Pacific itineraries take in both, and a Vanuatu only plan stops the moment you land in Noumea. New Caledonia runs on a separate network with its own plans.

If your trip covers both, buy the country plan for wherever you are spending the most time and check a regional Pacific option for the rest, rather than assuming one island plan will follow you across the Coral Sea.

Port Vila and the areas around it are well covered, as is Luganville on Espiritu Santo and the main resort strips.

Beyond that it drops away quickly. Tanna has service around the main village and very little on the walk up to Mount Yasur. The outer islands, the Banks group and much of the interior of Santo have no usable mobile signal on any network. Many resorts run their own wifi precisely because of this.

Download offline maps before island hopping. No travel eSIM from any provider creates coverage where there is no mast.