EE charges £2.72 a day in Europe, but also sells 7-day and 12-day passes — and which is cheapest flips back and forth depending on how long you're away. Work out your trip below.
EE doesn't have one roaming rate. It groups destinations into zones, then sells access either as a daily charge or as a longer pass. In Europe you get your normal UK allowances for calls, texts and data; further afield the allowances shrink sharply.
| Zone | Daily | Passes | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Europe | £2.72 | £16.50 for 7 days £27.50 for 12 days | Your UK allowances |
| Zone 1 | £6.00 | £30 for 7 days | Your UK allowances |
| Zone 2 | £8.00 | £40 for 7 days | Your UK allowances |
| Zone 3 | £8.00 | None | Unlimited calls and texts, 500MB data |
| Zone 4 | £16.00 | None | 10MB data; calls £2.46/min |
| At sea | £15.00 | None | Unlimited calls and texts, 500MB data |
Prices as published by EE in August 2026. Some EE plans include roaming without a charge, so check yours before assuming.
It depends on trip length, and not in the way you'd expect. In Europe, daily is cheaper up to six days. At exactly seven days the pass wins, saving £2.54. Then from eight to ten days daily is cheaper again, because two passes cost more than ten daily charges. At twelve days the 12-day pass wins. Beyond that, stacking 7-day passes is cheapest — a fortnight costs £33 rather than £38.08, and four weeks costs £66 rather than £76.16. The calculator works this out for you.
£2.72 a day, or £16.50 for a 7-day pass, or £27.50 for a 12-day pass. In all cases you use your normal UK allowances for calls, texts and data rather than a separate roaming allowance. EE's European zone covers 47 destinations.
Yes. Switzerland is in EE's European zone at the standard £2.72 daily rate, despite being outside both the EU and the EEA. So are Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City, Gibraltar, Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. This is worth knowing because several comparison sites state the opposite.
No. Turkey is Zone 1, at £6 a day or £30 for a week. Northern Cyprus is excluded while the Republic of Cyprus is included, and EE's plan terms explain why: in Northern Cyprus your phone connects to a Turkish network, so calls are charged at non-standard rates as though you were in Turkey. Your rate can change while crossing Nicosia. Most of the Balkans are also outside Europe for EE: Albania, Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro and Moldova are Zone 1, Kosovo is Zone 2, and North Macedonia is Zone 3.
No, and it's the exception that catches people. Monaco, San Marino and Vatican City are all in EE's European zone, but Andorra is Zone 2 at £8 a day — roughly three times the European rate. EE draws the distinction explicitly: Andorra and the Faroe Islands sit in its Europe International Zone for calls made from the UK, but not in its Europe Roaming Zone. Easy to trigger accidentally while driving between France and Spain.
Only on larger plans. EE's terms set a 50GB fair-use policy for roaming in its Europe zone, but it applies only if your domestic data allowance is greater than 50GB. If your plan gives you 50GB or less, there's no separate roaming cap — you use your normal allowance, and once it's gone you need to buy a data add-on to keep using data abroad. Past the 50GB fair-use amount, EE charges £0.0036 per MB, which works out at roughly £3.69 per gigabyte, until you return to the UK or your next bill date.
EE requires what it calls a stable link to the UK. Over any four-month period you need to either spend at least two months in the UK, or use most of your allowance in the UK rather than while roaming. If EE thinks you've breached this, it will contact you and ask for an explanation, and can apply surcharges to future usage if you don't respond within 14 days or it finds your explanation unreasonable. Long-stay travellers and people who winter abroad should read this carefully.
No. Calls, texts and data used in the Republic of Ireland, and back to the UK, come out of your normal allowance with no daily charge. Two caveats from EE's terms: if you use up a limited allowance, the daily charge then applies to further calls back to the UK; and the daily charge does apply to calls from Ireland to the rest of the EU, the EEA or Switzerland.
No. EE's terms state plainly that if your device supports WiFi Calling, you can't use it outside the UK. 4G Calling is also unavailable while roaming. So the common trick of relying on hotel wifi to make normal calls home doesn't work on EE — you'd need an internet calling app instead, which uses data rather than your minutes.
Different scheme, different prices. EE Small Business plans carry a daily European roaming charge of £2.38 excluding VAT, and the cutoff date is 27 October 2021 rather than the consumer date — plans started before it, and Business Connect plans, roam in Europe at no extra cost. Business customers also get their own add-ons: a Roam Abroad Pass covering the EU plus seven other destinations, and Daily and Monthly Passports for travel further afield. Business prices rise on 31 March each year rather than in April. If you're on a business plan, use EE's business price guide rather than the consumer figures on this page.
Not necessarily. EE runs pay as you go roaming with its own terms and a lower data allowance than pay monthly plans. The prices here are the pay monthly ones. Use the pay as you go toggle in the calculator and check EE's PAYG roaming pages rather than the main ones.
When your phone connects to a network in the destination. EE texts you on arrival with a link to its pass options, and you can buy one while abroad at add-on.ee.co.uk. Near a border your phone can latch onto a foreign mast without you crossing it, which can trigger a charge for somewhere you never visited.
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