Santorini eSIM
In Santorini 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 Santorini
| 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 Santorini (Thira) International Airport (JTR)
- Airport
- JTR / LGSR
- Distance
- 6 km from the centre of Santorini
- Wifi on arrival
- Free wifi in the terminalThe airport says to select the network named Fraport-Free and then open a browser, which brings up a welcome page.
Getting into Santorini
- KTEL Santorini public bus between the airport and Fira, from the stop by the departures building, tickets bought from the conductor (JTR)
Worth knowing about Santorini
- Santorini's caldera is a water filled volcanic collapse whose inner cliffs drop more than 300 m at their highest.
- The Minoan eruption about 3,600 years ago threw an estimated 61 cubic kilometres of magma and rock into the atmosphere.
- In February 2025 an earthquake swarm of hundreds of tremors, the strongest magnitude 5.3, prompted about 6,000 people to leave by ferry and about 2,700 by air. The state of emergency was lifted on 3 March.
- The airport has one asphalt runway, 15/33, of 2,197 m, and an apron rebuilt in 2021 to hold up to nine airliners at once.
- The municipality of Santorini had 15,480 inhabitants at the 2021 census.