Chefchaouen eSIM
In Chefchaouen you connect to Maroc Telecom or Orange, whichever is performing better where you are standing. The median across the country is 31 Mbps. Your data starts working the moment you land, before you reach the immigration hall.
- Networks
- Maroc Telecom and Orange
- Real speed in Morocco
- 31 Mbps median, 6 Mbps for the slowest tenth418 travellers across Morocco, rolling 90 days
- 5G
- 4G only
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans that cover Chefchaouen
| Data | Validity | Price per GB | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | Never expires | $7.89 | $7.89 | |
| 3 GB | Never expires | $4.30 | $12.89 | |
| 5 GBMost travellers | Never expires | $3.58 | $17.89 | |
| 10 GB | Never expires | $2.69 | $26.89 | |
| 20 GB | Never expires | $2.14 | $42.89 | |
| 50 GB | Never expires | $1.70 | $84.89 |
How Morocco compares across Africa
- Speed rank
- 9 of 20 destinations we sell in Africa
- Regional median
- 29.5 Mbps
- Consistency
- The slowest tenth still reaches 19 percent of the median
- Upstream networks
- 2, Maroc Telecom, Orange
- 5G
- 4G only
- Next fastest nearby
- Ghana, 31 Mbps
- Next slowest nearby
- Ivory Coast, 30 Mbps
- Cities with their own page
- 4: Marrakech, Fes, Chefchaouen, Casablanca
- tenth percentile
- 6 Mbps
- Behind these figures
- 418 travellers, rolling 90 days
Getting into Chefchaouen
- Mountain road access through the Rif from Tetouan and Ouazzane
- CTM coach, Tangier city to Chefchaouen (TNG), about 150 minutes
- CTM coach, Rabat to Chefchaouen, about 360 minutes
- Strait of Gibraltar crossing to the Tanger Med passenger port, about 45 minutes
Worth knowing about Chefchaouen
- Chefchaouen has no airport of its own and sits at roughly 600 m in the Rif mountains, between Tetouan and Ouazzane, so arrival is always by mountain road.
- The airfield with scheduled service closest to the region is Tetouan's Sania Ramel (TTU), which flies to Barcelona, Brussels, Madrid, Paris and Amsterdam.
- Tangier Ibn Battouta (TNG) is the other international airport serving northern Morocco, offering only bus and taxi ground transport from the terminal.
- CTM lists Tangier to Chefchaouen as 112 km and 2 hours 30 minutes on average, with more than four departures a day, the first at 08:15 and the last at 20:15, from 55 dirhams.
- CTM lists Rabat to Chefchaouen as 254 km and about 6 hours, with more than 11 departures a day, the first at 05:30 and the last at 15:00, from 135 dirhams.
- CTM states that apart from a private car the coach is the only way to reach Chefchaouen without changing en route, because there are daily direct services from the big cities.
- CTM sells tickets on ctm.ma, at its own agencies and bus stations, and through partners M2T and Mazma. It says printing the e ticket is not necessary, so a phone screen is enough.
- Onboard wifi is not standard across CTM. Free wifi and USB sockets at the seats are listed only for the CTM Premium range, which also has its own boarding lounge.
- CTM shows the Tangier to Chefchaouen line running its CONFORT range, whose listed equipment is reclining seats and air conditioning only, with no wifi and no USB sockets.
- CTM says its agency boarding halls are fitted with electrical sockets and benches, so the station is where you charge before the Rif mountain leg.
- Moroccan operator inwi states that identifying a mobile line in the holder's name is mandatory under the regulations in force, and requires a copy of an identity document.
- Orange Maroc names three documents it accepts to identify a line: the national identity card, a residence card, or a passport. A visiting foreigner uses the passport.
- The Tanger Med passenger and vehicle port has annual capacity for 7 million passengers and connects to six European cities across Spain, France and Italy.
- Tanger Med states the Strait crossing takes under 45 minutes and that the port sits on a multimodal network of rail, motorway and expressway links into the rest of Morocco.
- UNESCO describes Chefchaouen as an aspiring Global Geopark of 42 sites of geological significance, sitting inside Talassemtane National Park and the Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve of the Mediterranean.
- Chefchaouen was founded in 1471 and had 46,168 residents at the 2024 census. It is the seat of Chefchaouen Province in the Tanger Tetouan Al Hoceima region.
Sources for this page
Other cities in Morocco we cover
- Fes
- 129 km from Chefchaouen, nearest airport FEZ
- Casablanca
- 278 km from Chefchaouen, nearest airport CMN
- Marrakech
- 468 km from Chefchaouen, nearest airport RAK