Crete eSIM
In Crete you connect to Cosmote or Vodafone, whichever is performing better where you are standing. The median across the country is 69 Mbps. Your data starts working the moment you land, before you reach the immigration hall.
- Networks
- Cosmote and Vodafone
- Real speed in Greece
- 69 Mbps median, 18 Mbps for the slowest tenth1,398 travellers across Greece, rolling 90 days
- 5G
- yes, non standalone
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans that cover Crete
| 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 | $1.39 | $27.89 | |
| 50 GB | Never expires | $1.14 | $56.89 |
How Greece compares across Europe
- Speed rank
- 25 of 46 destinations we sell in Europe
- Regional median
- 71 Mbps
- Consistency
- The slowest tenth still reaches 26 percent of the median
- Upstream networks
- 2, Cosmote, Vodafone
- 5G
- Yes, non standalone
- Next fastest nearby
- Malta, 71 Mbps
- Next slowest nearby
- Poland, 68 Mbps
- Cities with their own page
- 4: Athens, Santorini, Mykonos, Crete
- tenth percentile
- 18 Mbps
- Behind these figures
- 1398 travellers, rolling 90 days
Landing at Heraklion International Airport Nikos Kazantzakis (HER)
- Airport
- HER / LGIR
- Distance
- 5 km from the centre of Crete
- Also serves
- Chania International Airport Daskalogiannis (CHQ)
Getting into Crete
- KTEL buses to Chania and Rethymno from the stop across the Departures area on the east side of the terminal, tickets bought from the driver (CHQ)
- KTEL intercity green buses on the Heraklion to Airport to Agios Nikolaos routes (HER)
- Heraklion urban blue buses, whose airport departure station is staffed from 05:30 to 21:00 (HER)
Worth knowing about Crete
- Heraklion airport handled 10,033,151 passengers in 2025, making it the second busiest in Greece after Athens.
- A replacement airport at Kasteli, 39 km southeast of Heraklion, is due to open by 2027, when the present airport is scheduled to stop operating.
- Crete is Greece's largest and most populous island, 8,450 square kilometres with 624,408 people in 2021, split into the four regional units of Chania, Rethymno, Heraklion and Lasithi.
- Chania's airport is on the Akrotiri peninsula near Souda Bay, 14 km from the city itself.
- Heraklion is Crete's largest city and Greece's fourth largest, with several ferries a day to Piraeus.