Canberra eSIM
100 Australia plans · from $3.02
Canberra is Australia's capital by compromise — a designed city of national institutions set around an artificial lake, and the country's best museums are free and within a few kilometres of each other. A travel eSIM covers it and the three-hour drive to Sydney on the same plan, which is how most people arrive.
Landing at Canberra Airport (CBR)
The airport is ten minutes from the city centre with a direct bus, which makes it one of the easiest arrivals in Australia. Most international visitors instead land in Sydney and drive or take the coach three hours south.
eSIM plans that cover Canberra
Canberra is covered by every Australia plan below — there is no separate city-only eSIM to buy.
Choose a data plan
1 GB
7 days· 0.3 GB per $1
$3.02
5% back in credits
$3.19
5% back in credits
$3.73
5% back in credits
2 GB
15 days· 0.5 GB per $1
$4.29
5% back in credits
3 GB
30 days· 0.6 GB per $1
$5.41
5% back in credits
$6.37
5% back in credits
$7.06
5% back in credits
$7.54
5% back in credits
5 GB
30 days· 0.7 GB per $1
$7.56
5% back in credits
$9.56
5% back in credits
10 GB
30 days· 0.9 GB per $1
$11.15
5% back in credits
$11.37
5% back in credits
$12.74
5% back in credits
$14.70
5% back in credits
$15.20
5% back in credits
$16.10
5% back in credits
20 GB
30 days· 1.1 GB per $1
$17.50
5% back in credits
$17.50
5% back in credits
$20.92
5% back in credits
$22.34
5% back in credits
$23.94
5% back in credits
$25.48
5% back in credits
$29.98
5% back in credits
$30.48
5% back in credits
$31.78
5% back in credits
50 GB
30 days· 1.3 GB per $1
$37.42
5% back in credits
$41.45
5% back in credits
$49.36
5% back in credits
$59.15
5% back in credits
20 GB
Global - Light only60 days· 0.3 GB per $1
$60.50
5% back in credits
$60.55
5% back in credits
100 GB
30 days· 1.5 GB per $1
$65.28
5% back in credits
$117.88
5% back in credits
How “Unlimited” works: Never cut off — each plan gives a set amount of full-speed data, then a slower speed. The exact allowance and speed are shown on every plan.Read more
Unlimited plans never run out and your eSIM is never disconnected, but every one has a fair-use limit: a set amount of full-speed data, after which the speed is reduced. The amounts differ between plans — most give a daily full-speed allowance that refills every 24 hours from when you first activate the eSIM, while Premium plans give a larger allowance for the whole plan instead. Each plan states its own allowance and the speed after it before you buy. At the reduced speed, messaging, maps, email and light browsing still work; video streaming and video calls may not. If you want every gigabyte at full speed, choose a fixed-GB plan.
Which networks you'll be on in Canberra
Siima eSIMs for Australia ride Telstra and Optus. Telstra has the widest rural and highway coverage — the one that matters on Australian road trips; both are strong across the ACT.
Coverage around Canberra
The Parliamentary Triangle
Strong coverage across Parliament House, the War Memorial, the National Gallery and the Library. Some parliamentary areas restrict phone use rather than lacking signal.
Lake Burley Griffin and the light rail
The lake loop, the cycle paths and the light rail line north to Gungahlin are covered end to end.
Namadgi and Tidbinbilla
The nature reserves south and west have coverage at the visitor centres and on the approach roads, and lose it on the deeper trails and in the valleys.
The Hume Highway to Sydney
The three-hour drive north holds signal for essentially the whole route on Telstra. The Snowy Mountains road south-west is patchier.
How much data you need
Canberra is a one- or two-day stop for most: 1–2 GB. Australian road trips are the real data consumers — size the plan for the whole itinerary, since one plan covers every state.
Work it out with our data usage calculator →