Spain & Portugal Travel eSIM
One eSIM for Spain & Portugal — no swap at the Guadiana bridge.
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Buy now — the plan activates when you land, not when you pay.
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Where the Spain & Portugal plan works
Iberia is the trip that punishes single-country eSIMs. Spain and Portugal are one peninsula with a soft border, most itineraries cross it at least once, and the classic routes — Seville to Faro, Badajoz to Elvas, Vigo to Porto, or a Madrid-in Lisbon-out flight pair — put you in both countries inside a fortnight. Buying a plan for each means two QR codes, two allowances and a decision to make at a bridge.
Every plan on this page covers both. That is not a marketing line, it is the rule that decides what appears here: a plan qualifies only if ES and PT are both on its coverage list. Whatever else a given plan reaches is spelled out in its coverage panel, country by country — nothing is hidden behind an “and more” ellipsis.
Where the pair plans sit against the alternatives. Cheaper per country than two single-country eSIMs, and narrower — so usually cheaper — than the continental Europe plan, which prices in Nordic and Balkan coverage a two-country Iberian trip never touches. Spain’s own page and Portugal’s own page are still the right buy if you genuinely stay on one side: Spain, Portugal.
The border is a non-event technically, which is the point. No profile switch, no second activation, no allowance reset. The status-bar carrier name changes somewhere around the Guadiana or the Minho and nothing else does.
One thing worth checking before you buy: Gibraltar is not Spain as far as coverage codes are concerned, and Andorra is not France or Spain. Both have their own pages — Gibraltar, Andorra — and neither is included here just because it is surrounded by a country that is.
Every plan below covers both countries — the whole set, on one profile with one allowance, from $5.99. Nothing to install at the border, and nothing left stranded on a second SIM when the trip ends.
What each plan covers
Every plan below covers both countries. Some reach further — open one to see exactly where it works.
2 GB · 15 days — 2 countries
Portugal · Spain
7 GB · 30 days — 2 countries
Portugal · Spain
15 GB · 30 days — 2 countries
Portugal · Spain
30 GB · 30 days — 2 countries
Portugal · Spain
50 GB · 30 days — 2 countries
Portugal · Spain
Country pages for each member
How to install it
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Buy in a minute
Pick a Spain & Portugal plan and pay. Your QR code arrives by email within minutes — no account, no shipping.
- 2
Install on Wi-Fi
Scan the code before you fly. The profile sits alongside your normal SIM and stays switched off until you need it.
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Land connected
Turn on data roaming for the TravelNet line when you arrive. The plan starts counting down on that first connection, not at checkout.
Will my phone work?
You need an eSIM-capable, carrier-unlocked phone: an iPhone XS or newer, a Pixel 3 or
newer, or a recent Samsung Galaxy S, Z or A-series flagship. Dial *#06# — if
an EID number is listed alongside the IMEI, the phone has an eSIM.
Other regional plans
One profile, one allowance, no swapping SIMs at a border.
Planning a multi-country trip? Find the plans that cover every stop →
Spain & Portugal eSIM questions
Does one plan really cover both Spain and Portugal?
Yes — that is the entry requirement for this page. Every plan listed here has both ES and PT on its coverage list, so there is no plan on this page that works in Lisbon and stops at Badajoz. Open any plan's coverage panel and you will see both named, along with anything else it reaches.
What happens when I cross the border?
The phone re-registers on a Portuguese or Spanish partner network within a minute or two, exactly as roaming has always worked, and keeps spending the same allowance. There is nothing to switch on, no second profile to activate and no notification you need to act on. Most people notice only because the carrier name in the status bar changes.
Is this better than buying a Europe-wide plan?
For a two-country trip, usually. A continental plan prices in coverage you are not going to use — the Baltics, the Balkans, Scandinavia. These plans are built around the Iberian pair, so you are paying closer to what the trip actually needs. If your itinerary grows a third or fourth country, switch to the Europe plan instead.
Are the Canary Islands, the Balearics and Madeira included?
The Balearics and the Canaries sit under Spain's ES code and are covered wherever ES is. Madeira and the Azores sit under Portugal's PT code the same way. What is worth checking on the specific plan is Gibraltar, which is its own territory with its own code and is not part of ES — it has its own page.
Does the allowance split between the two countries?
No. It is a single pot of data spent wherever the phone happens to be. Nothing is reserved for one side of the border and nothing expires when you cross.
Which is the better base for a one-way trip — flying into one, out of the other?
It makes no difference to the eSIM. Open-jaw itineraries are the most common reason people land on this page: Madrid in, Lisbon out, or the Seville–Faro run along the Algarve. The plan starts counting from your first connection in either country.
Will it work on the Lisbon–Madrid and Porto–Vigo rail routes?
Along most of both, with the usual gaps in tunnels and in the sparser stretches of Extremadura and the Alentejo. The Vigo–Porto line crosses the border at Valença, where handover happens without any action from you.
Can I tether a laptop on these plans?
Hotspot is enabled on the plans that show a Hotspot pill on their tile — check the tile before buying if you plan to work from the road. Tethered data comes out of the same allowance at the same rate.
Is there paperwork at either border or phone shop?
None for this. Both countries do demand identity registration on locally bought prepaid SIMs, which is why walking into a Spanish phone shop means a passport and a form. Buying data as a roamer skips that entirely — no local operator ever signs you up, so there is nothing to register.
What if my plans change and I add France?
Read the coverage panel on the plan before assuming — it lists every country that plan reaches, and a country that is not on it is not covered. If France is definitely happening, buy the France & Italy plan or the Europe plan rather than hoping. A second eSIM installed alongside this one also works — phones hold several profiles and you choose which one carries data.
Which country's networks am I actually on?
Whichever partner network is strongest at your location on each side of the border. We do not publish a single operator name for this pair, because there isn't one — the profile attaches to a Spanish partner in Spain and a Portuguese partner in Portugal, and can move between more than one in each.