Bukhara eSIM
In Bukhara you connect to Ucell or Beeline, whichever is performing better where you are standing. The typical speed across the country is 37 Mbps. Your data starts working the moment you land, before you reach the immigration hall.
- Networks
- Ucell and Beeline
- Typical speed in Uzbekistan
- 37 Mbps typical, 8 Mbps at busy times
- 5G
- 4G only
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans that cover Bukhara
| Data | Validity | Price per GB | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | Never expires | $5.89 | $5.89 | |
| 3 GB | Never expires | $2.96 | $8.89 | |
| 5 GBMost travellers | Never expires | $2.38 | $11.89 | |
| 10 GB | Never expires | $1.89 | $18.89 | |
| 20 GB | Never expires | $1.59 | $31.89 |
How Uzbekistan compares across Asia
- Regional typical speed
- 42.95 Mbps
- Upstream networks
- 2, Ucell, Beeline
- 5G
- 4G only
- Next fastest nearby
- Indonesia, 38 Mbps
- Next slowest nearby
- Mongolia, 35 Mbps
- Cities with their own page
- 3: Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara
Landing at Bukhara International Airport (BHK)
- Airport
- BHK / UZSB
- Distance
- 4 km from the centre of Bukhara
Getting into Bukhara
- Afrosiyob high-speed train from Tashkent (Uzbekistan Railways), about 200 minutes
- Afrosiyob high-speed train from Samarkand, about 72 minutes
- Local bus from Kogon railway station into Bukhara
- Taxi from Bukhara International Airport to the old town (BHK)
Worth knowing about Bukhara
- Bukhara's trains do not stop in Bukhara itself: the railway station is in the suburb of Kogon, about 15 km southeast of the city, so arriving Afrosiyob passengers still need a bus or taxi into the old town.
- The Afrosiyob high-speed extension to Bukhara opened on 25 August 2016, putting Bukhara about 3 hours 20 minutes from Tashkent and about 1 hour 12 minutes from Samarkand.
- Bukhara International Airport sits only about 4 km from the town centre - close enough that Wikivoyage notes you could walk it in roughly 40 minutes - so arrivals are on a local network almost immediately.
- Bukhara's ICAO identifier changed with Uzbekistan's October 2025 prefix switch and is now UZSB, not the older UTSB found in many flight databases.