San Salvador eSIM
In San Salvador you connect to Tigo or Claro, whichever is performing better where you are standing. The typical speed across the country is 34 Mbps. Your data starts working the moment you land, before you reach the immigration hall.
- Networks
- Tigo and Claro
- Typical speed in El Salvador
- 34 Mbps typical, 8 Mbps at busy times
- 5G
- 4G only
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans that cover San Salvador
| Data | Validity | Price per GB | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | Never expires | $9.89 | $9.89 | |
| 3 GB | Never expires | $7.63 | $22.89 | |
| 5 GBMost travellers | Never expires | $7.58 | $37.89 |
How El Salvador compares across North America
- Regional typical speed
- 33 Mbps
- Upstream networks
- 2, Tigo, Claro
- 5G
- 4G only
- Next fastest nearby
- Panama, 36 Mbps
- Next slowest nearby
- Guatemala, 32 Mbps
- Cities with their own page
- 1: San Salvador
Landing at El Salvador International Airport (Monsenor Oscar Arnulfo Romero) (SAL)
- Airport
- SAL / MSLP
- Wifi on arrival
- Free wifi in the terminalTigo runs the terminal wifi and describes it as free connectivity without time restrictions, delivered from 23 access points. The reports do not state whether an SMS code or registration is needed.
Getting into San Salvador
- Road transfer from the airport to San Salvador (SAL), about 30 minutes
Worth knowing about San Salvador
- El Salvador International Airport sits at San Luis Talpa, 42 km from San Salvador, a journey averaging 30 minutes.
- Tigo installed 23 wifi access points across the terminal, covering the access doors, departure lounges, 18 waiting rooms, the lobby, the VIP room and the food court.
- The airport wifi is offered without time restrictions and was built to carry roughly 3,500 simultaneous users at up to 100 Mbit per second.
- San Salvador's SITRAMSS bus rapid transit opened its first section on 23 December 2013, was abandoned in early 2020, and the government confirmed the project had ended in mid 2024.
- The airport opened on 31 January 1980 and handled 5,298,491 passengers in 2024, third in Central America for passenger movement.