Basseterre eSIM
In Basseterre you connect to Flow or Digicel, whichever is performing better where you are standing. The typical speed across the country is 32 Mbps. Your data starts working the moment you land, before you reach the immigration hall.
- Networks
- Flow and Digicel
- Typical speed in Saint Kitts and Nevis
- 32 Mbps typical, 7 Mbps at busy times
- 5G
- 4G only
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans that cover Basseterre
| Data | Validity | Price per GB | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | Never expires | $22.89 | $22.89 | |
| 3 GB | Never expires | $17.30 | $51.89 | |
| 5 GBMost travellers | Never expires | $15.98 | $79.89 |
How Saint Kitts and Nevis compares across Caribbean
- Regional typical speed
- 37.6 Mbps
- Upstream networks
- 2, Flow, Digicel
- 5G
- 4G only
- Next fastest nearby
- Antigua and Barbuda, 33 Mbps
- Next slowest nearby
- Saint Lucia, 31 Mbps
- Cities with their own page
- 1: Basseterre
Landing at Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport (SKB)
- Airport
- SKB / TKPK
Worth knowing about Basseterre
- The airport lies just northeast of Basseterre and takes direct long-haul flights from American, British Airways, JetBlue, Delta, United and Air Canada Rouge.
- Nevis, the country's second island, has its own airport and is separated from Saint Kitts by The Narrows, a shallow 3 km channel.
- Cape Air operates the short inter-island hop from Saint Kitts to Nevis.
- Saint Kitts raised minibus fares on 18 November 2024 by one dollar across all distances, the first adjustment in 16 years, with an extra EC$2.50 charged between 23:00 and 05:00.
- The St Kitts Scenic Railway, marketed as the last railway in the West Indies, uses sugar cane track laid between 1912 and 1926 to the Basseterre factory and has carried tourists since 2003.
- The Saint Kitts to Nevis passenger ferry runs 12 sailings a day in each direction Monday to Thursday, worked by eight vessels including MV Waterman, Sea Hustler, MV Passions and Sea Bridge.
- Saint Kitts and Nevis, at 261 square kilometres and about 48,000 people, is the smallest sovereign state in the Western Hemisphere by both area and population.
- Port Zante, the cruise terminal and marina in Basseterre, sits on 15 acres reclaimed from the sea in 1995 and can take the largest cruise ships in the world.
- Telecoms are regulated by the National Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, set up under the Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority treaty and the Telecommunications Act of 2000.
- Saint Kitts and Nevis is inside the North American Numbering Plan on area code 869, split from 809 in 1996, so numbers are dialled from the United States or Canada as 1 869 and seven digits.
- Robert L. Bradshaw International, formerly Golden Rock Airport, sits 170 feet above sea level with one asphalt runway, 07/25, of 2,439 metres. It is named after the first Premier of the islands.
- Basseterre takes its name from the French basse terre, low land, describing its sheltered site on Basseterre Bay. The French founded the town in 1627 in the Basseterre Valley.
- Sample Saint Kitts minibus fares on the western route run EC$3.50 adult from Basseterre to Stone Fort and EC$4.50 to Sandy Point, with children at half fare.