Mexico City eSIM
In Mexico City you connect to Telcel or AT&T, whichever is performing better where you are standing. The median across the country is 44 Mbps. Your data starts working the moment you land, before you reach the immigration hall.
- Networks
- Telcel and AT&T
- Real speed in Mexico
- 44 Mbps median, 10 Mbps for the slowest tenth1,388 travellers across Mexico, rolling 90 days
- 5G
- yes, non standalone
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans that cover Mexico City
| Data | Validity | Price per GB | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | Never expires | $8.89 | $8.89 | |
| 3 GB | Never expires | $5.63 | $16.89 | |
| 5 GBMost travellers | Never expires | $4.98 | $24.89 | |
| 10 GB | Never expires | $3.99 | $39.89 | |
| 20 GB | Never expires | $3.34 | $66.89 |
How Mexico compares across North America
- Speed rank
- 3 of 10 destinations we have measured in North America
- Regional median
- 33 Mbps
- Consistency
- The slowest tenth still reaches 23 percent of the median
- Upstream networks
- 2, Telcel, AT&T
- 5G
- Yes, non standalone
- Next fastest nearby
- Canada, 58 Mbps
- Next slowest nearby
- Panama, 36 Mbps
- Cities with their own page
- 4: Mexico City, Cancun, Tulum, Oaxaca
- tenth percentile
- 10 Mbps
- Behind these figures
- 1388 travellers, rolling 90 days
Landing at Mexico City International Airport (Benito Juarez) (MEX)
- Airport
- MEX / MMMX
- Distance
- 5 km from the centre of Mexico City
- Also serves
- Felipe Angeles International Airport (NLU)
Getting into Mexico City
- Mexico City Metro Line 5 from Terminal Aerea station (MEX). Runs through tunnels, where a signal drops
- Tren Felipe Angeles to Buenavista station in central Mexico City (NLU)
- Mexibus Line I from Felipe Angeles airport to Ciudad Azteca metro interchange (NLU)
- Metrobus airport service from Terminal 1 gate 7 and Terminal 2 gate 2 to central Mexico City (MEX)
Underground and on the metro
Mexico City Metro runs 12 lines. It opened in 1969. The operator does not publish whether the tunnels carry a mobile signal, so we do not claim either way.
Worth knowing about Mexico City
- Mexico City now has two airports: Benito Juarez (MEX) 5 km east of downtown, and Felipe Angeles (NLU) 35 km north, opened in March 2022.
- Metro Line 5's Terminal Aerea station is about 200 metres from Terminal 1's Gate A and gives no direct covered access into the terminal.
- Terminal Aerea is an underground station, so a phone loses line-of-sight signal as soon as you go down to the platforms.
- Felipe Angeles has no metro connection; the options are the Tren Felipe Angeles to Buenavista or the Mexibus to Ciudad Azteca.
- The city government's free Wi-Fi network is called CDMX-Internet para Todos. It asks for no username, password or personal data, and its points sit at Metrobus and Cablebus stations, public schools, housing estates, public spaces and C5 street poles.
- Each CDMX-Internet para Todos access point reaches about 20 metres in the open and handles roughly 40 users at once. A user gets 5 Mbps down and 3 Mbps up, or 3 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up, depending on the point.
- Mexico City's official visitor guide counts more than 35,550 free hotspots, often marked with a sign, built on spare bandwidth of the C5 security camera network. The same system serves almost all public libraries and PILARES community centres, though crowded central spots can fill up.
- Metro ticket booths stopped selling and accepting paper tickets on 1 March 2024, ending 55 years of magnetic tickets. The Integrated Mobility Card, known as the MI card, is now the only way through the Metro gates.
- The MI card costs 15 pesos plus your first trip, holds up to 500 pesos, and is sold for cash at every Metro ticket booth and at Metrobus, Cablebus and light rail machines. Phones with NFC can top it up through the App CDMX or Mercado Pago.
- One MI card works on the Metro, Metrobus, the three Cablebus lines, the light rail to Xochimilco, trolleybuses including the elevated line in Iztapalapa, RTP buses, Ecobici bikes and the El Insurgente train towards Toluca.
- Benito Juarez airport's Metrobus boards at gate 7 of Terminal 1 and gate 2 of Terminal 2. It runs every day from 04:30 to midnight, starting at 05:00 on Sundays and holidays, and takes the Metrobus smart card sold at machines in both terminals.
- The Tren Felipe Angeles to AIFA opened on 26 April 2026. At launch the Buenavista to airport trip took about 60 minutes against a design time of 43, with trains every 30 minutes and a planned interval of 12 once more trains enter service.
- Trains between Buenavista and AIFA run from 05:00 to midnight on weekdays, from 06:00 on Saturdays and from 07:00 on Sundays and holidays, calling at Cueyamil, La Loma, Teyahualco, Prados Sur, Cajiga and Xaltocan on the new section.