Munich eSIM
In Munich you connect to Telekom or Vodafone, whichever is performing better where you are standing. The typical speed across the country is 63 Mbps. Your data starts working the moment you land, before you reach the immigration hall.
- Networks
- Telekom and Vodafone
- Typical speed in Germany
- 63 Mbps typical, 15 Mbps at busy times
- 5G
- yes, non standalone
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans that cover Munich
| Data | Validity | Price per GB | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | Never expires | $5.89 | $5.89 | |
| 3 GB | Never expires | $2.63 | $7.89 | |
| 5 GBMost travellers | Never expires | $1.98 | $9.89 | |
| 10 GB | Never expires | $1.49 | $14.89 | |
| 20 GB | Never expires | $1.19 | $23.89 | |
| 50 GB | Never expires | $0.94 | $46.89 |
How Germany compares across Europe
- Regional typical speed
- 71 Mbps
- Upstream networks
- 2, Telekom, Vodafone
- 5G
- Yes, non standalone
- Next fastest nearby
- Czechia, 64 Mbps
- Next slowest nearby
- Andorra, 61 Mbps
- Cities with their own page
- 4: Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Cologne
Landing at Munich Airport Franz Josef Strauss (MUC)
- Airport
- MUC / EDDM
- Distance
- 28.5 km from the centre of Munich
- Wifi on arrival
- Free wifi in the terminalThe airport's own wifi page names the network 'Free Wifi - Munich Airport' and gives the steps as opening a browser, selecting the network, entering an email address and accepting the terms and conditions.
Getting into Munich
- S-Bahn S1 and S8 to Munich Hauptbahnhof, S1 via the west of the city and S8 via the east (MUC), about 40 minutes
- Lufthansa Express Bus to Munich Hauptbahnhof (MUC), about 45 minutes
Underground and on the metro
Munich U-Bahn runs 8 lines. It opened in 1971. The operator states mobile coverage throughout the tunnels.
Worth knowing about Munich
- LTE went live across all eight U-Bahn lines on 31 March 2017, with equipment in the tunnels themselves and a 10 Gbit per second fibre line feeding it.
- The S1 and S8 alternate to give a train every 10 minutes, and the S8 runs 24 hours a day, dropping to every 40 minutes between 1am and 4am.
- Munich Airport opened on 17 May 1992, the day after Munich-Riem closed, and Terminal 2 followed on 29 June 2003.
- Airbrau, opened on 9 September 1999, is described by the airport as the world's first airport brewery, brewing strictly to the 1516 purity law.
- The S-Bahn station sits inside the Munich Airport Center, the covered complex that links the two terminals under a large transparent roof.
- Munich's free city Wi-Fi comes as two networks. On M-WLAN Free Wi-Fi you accept the terms on a start page, and after 120 minutes you are cut off and have to accept them again.
- The encrypted M-WLAN Secure Wi-Fi needs a one-time sign-up with an email address through the Free Wi-Fi start page. The login arrives by email, works on up to three devices and then connects automatically.
- Stadtwerke Muenchen lists almost 400 M-WLAN hotspots, including 70 public squares and 73 tram stops, with Marienplatz, Stachus, Odeonsplatz and Theresienwiese among the central locations.
- O2 Telefonica switched on 5G across all U-Bahn lines, U1 to U8, in July 2022, after replacing the hardware in the tunnels' technical rooms. It says more than 200 radio cells now serve the underground.
- The MVGO app sells single tickets, day and week tickets without creating an account: you give a name and email address and pay with Apple Pay or Google Pay.
- MVVswipe in the MVGO app works out the cheapest fare for the day's trips and never charges more than a day ticket. Card and wallet payments first reserve up to 40.40 euros, which is released once the bill is issued.
- The S1 is the less frequent airport line: it runs every 20 minutes from about 3am to midnight, and through the night only at weekends and on public holidays.
- The Lufthansa Express Bus leaves every 20 minutes and also stops at Munich North in Schwabing, 25 minutes from the airport, which suits hotels in the north of the city better than the Hauptbahnhof.
- The ÜFEX airport express train runs from the Flughafen Muenchen station between the terminals straight to Freising, Moosburg, Landshut, Regensburg and Nuremberg, so day trips to those cities need no change in Munich.
- Flixbus coaches to cities across Germany and Europe stop a few steps from Terminal 2. Terminal 1 is a five to ten minute walk away.
- A rental car needs a green emissions sticker to drive inside the Mittlerer Ring, and the ring road itself is part of the low emission zone. Older diesels below Euro 5 are barred unless an exemption applies.