Athens eSIM: Mainland and island data
An Athens eSIM covers the Greek mainland and the islands, Crete and Santorini among them. It is a data-only profile running on the Nova and Vodafone networks in Greece. Install it at home over Wi-Fi, before the flight into Athens International Airport. Its days start with the first connection you make anywhere in the country.
12 plans for Greece, from 1 GB at $3.99 to 20 GB at $18.99, plus 6 unlimited-data tiers. 5 GB for 30 days costs $8.99 — 34th cheapest of 56 in Europe, against a $7.99 median. Our retail prices from the operator catalogue, checked 13 September 2026.
Greece · Nova 5G · from $3.99
Last eSIM issued 1 day ago
Landing at Athens International Airport
Turn data roaming on for the eSIM line yourself, because nothing else is going to. The download belongs at home on Wi-Fi, well before the day you fly out. On arrival, select the eSIM as the line that carries your mobile data traffic. Nova and Vodafone are the Greek networks standing behind this particular profile. On Android, globaldata/orange/orange.fr goes in the APN field, while an iPhone needs no entry. The clock is first-usage, so an early purchase keeps every one of its days intact.
Which plan for Athens
Island-hopping does not call for a second plan here, only for a longer one. The fixed ladder went from 1 GB over seven days to 20 GB over thirty, checked 5 September 2026. Unlimited passes stretch from three days out to thirty days at the far end. Airalo showed the 1 GB seven-day plan at $3.99 on 5 September 2026. The thirty-day unlimited pass was priced at $44.99 on the same date. Crete, Santorini, Mykonos, Rhodes, Corfu and Kos all sit inside that same coverage. Top-ups are added online, and the balance has no expiry date attached to it.
Registration rules in Greece
Greece adds no step at all between you and this roaming profile. The Greece country page found no confirmed trap for a data-only eSIM of this kind. The profile is bought without local registration of any kind in Greece. Everything else that matters happens inside your own phone's settings screen.
The APN string Android asks for in Greece
Android needs an access point name here, and the value is an odd one. Type globaldata/orange/orange.fr into the APN field for the eSIM line. Every character counts, including both slashes and the dot before fr. No value is listed for iPhone, so that field is left alone. A value typed loosely leaves Android without data, so copy it exactly. Nova and Vodafone answer once the string matches, checked 5 September 2026.
Before you fly to Athens
- Nova and Vodafone are the two Greek networks on this profile.
- Crete, Santorini, Mykonos, Rhodes, Corfu and Kos share the same coverage.
- Athens International (ATH) is where the Greek day count opens.
The country page has the full rule and every plan: Greece eSIM.