Roaming charges by country: all five networks, one table.

How to read the table

Each network sorts the world into bands and prices the band, not the country. The bands have different names, different sizes and almost nothing in common, so a destination that costs nothing on one network can be the most expensive band on another.

Sky is the outlier worth understanding. It has no zones at all: one price across the 121 destinations it names, the same £2 in Turkey or Australia as in Spain. That makes it much the cheapest long-haul and merely competitive in Europe — and it means the 109 destinations on this page that Sky does not cover have no pass to buy at any price.

Where the networks contradict themselves

Three destinations are listed in two different bands on the same network's own pages. We have not picked a winner, because there is nothing published that would justify one. Rows affected are marked with an asterisk in the destination column.

• Kosovo is in Vodafone's Zone B and in its Rest of the World Zone 1. Those carry very different prices.
• Laos is in EE's Zone 4 and in EE's no-data group. One sells you a £16 pass; the other says no data is available at all.
• Aruba and Haiti carry an asterisk on EE's Zone 3 list, and EE publishes no footnote saying what it means.

Separately, Sky publishes live service notices for destinations where roaming is restricted rather than merely expensive. Central African Republic has been blocked since 10 June 2026 and Zimbabwe since 1 May 2026 — no calls, texts or data on a Sky line at any price. In Russia, Sky says data and texts only become available 24 hours after your phone first connects, voice aside. None of the three was ever inside Sky's £2 pass, so what changed is that two moved from expensive to unavailable. Notices like these change without warning; the Sky Mobile page carries the detail.

There is one more gap worth stating plainly: Vodafone lists 73 Rest of the World destinations but publishes no daily rate for them anywhere we can find. Those rows say Not published rather than carrying a number we would have had to invent.

Questions people ask about roaming charges by country

Which UK network is cheapest for roaming?

It depends entirely on where you're going, which is why this page is a table rather than an answer. Sky Mobile charges a flat £2 a day across all 121 of its destinations, so it is usually cheapest outside Europe — the same £2 in Turkey, Australia or the US as in Spain. Inside Europe, Three's £2 a day matches it and O2 charges nothing at all. The gap opens up long-haul, where EE and Vodafone charge £8 a day and Three £7.

Why do the networks disagree about which countries are in Europe?

Because none of them is using a geographic definition. Each network negotiates wholesale deals network by network, so its European zone is a commercial list rather than a continent. That's why Turkey is outside Europe on all five, Andorra is outside it on four, and Monaco is missing entirely from two. There is no rule you can apply — you have to check the destination.

What does “not listed” mean on this page?

It means that destination does not appear on that network's published zone lists at all, so the network's standard out-of-bundle rates apply. Those are much higher than any daily charge and are not shown here, because they vary by plan and by what you use. If your destination shows Not listed for your network, treat a travel eSIM or a local SIM as the default rather than the alternative.

Are these prices what I will actually be charged?

Treat them as a guide, not a quote. Plenty of plans include roaming outright, older contracts are often on better terms than current ones, and some networks price by the date you joined rather than by what your plan is called. The figures here are each network's current published rate for a plan that does not already include roaming. Your own network is the only one that can tell you what you will pay.

How often do these charges change?

Annually, and usually in spring. Vodafone changes plan charges on 1 April, out-of-bundle roaming on 14 April and roaming Extras on 12 May. EE and Three raise prices in March or April too. Every figure on this page was checked in August 2026, and the whole site is re-checked each April when the new rates land.

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