"Is 3 GB enough for a week?" is the most common question before a trip, and the answer depends entirely on what you do with your phone once you are there.
Where the data actually goes
Across a normal day of sightseeing in Egypt, usage breaks down roughly like this:
- Google Maps — modest per minute, but running constantly. It is the app that stays open longest on a day of visits.
- WhatsApp — text costs nothing, photos and voice notes cost considerably more, and video calls are by far the heaviest item.
- Photos and social media — uploading the day's photos at full resolution uses more than everything else combined.
- Uber and Careem — negligible in data terms, but essential at the exact moment you need them.
- Tickets and boarding passes — negligible, but you cannot afford to lose them.
For a traveller using Maps, chatting on WhatsApp and posting a few photos, a typical day lands somewhere between several hundred megabytes and a little over a gigabyte. Across seven days, that regularly exceeds the 3 or 5 GB of a small bundle.
The problem with gigabyte bundles
A GB bundle turns into a running calculation: switch off photo sync, avoid video, keep hotspot for emergencies. It is workable, but it is one more thing to manage on a trip.
And when the allowance does run out, it tends to happen at the worst moment — at the airport, in a taxi, or when you are trying to find your hotel.
The duration approach
Our plans are not counted in gigabytes but in days — 7 days at €33, for example. Each day you get about 1 GB at full 4G LTE speed; beyond that the speed drops to 512 Kbps until the allowance resets 24 hours later. There is no total cap and the connection is never cut off.
In practice: you stop counting. Light days are not "wasted", and heavy days do not leave you offline — they simply finish more slowly. At 512 Kbps, Maps, WhatsApp and email keep working.
Choosing your duration
- Stopover or a day in Cairo — 1 day, €6.50.
- Long weekend — 3 or 5 days.
- Classic Cairo, Luxor, Aswan trip — 7 or 10 days.
- Long stay or remote work — 15 or 30 days.
See all durations. The clock only starts on your first connection in Egypt, so install the eSIM before you fly.