Data for Valletta, Sliema, Gozo and Comino, installed before you fly. Malta is on the Europe plan, not the Balkans one, and a single package covers all three islands, the ferries between them and every film set on the way.
The Malta plan covers Malta only.
The same 10 GB in a package that keeps working past Malta.
38 other countries share the package with Malta. A few of them:
What's included, when it starts, and how to get connected.
Game of Thrones shot its first season’s King’s Landing here — Mdina’s gate, Fort Ricasoli as the Red Keep, Fort Manoel for Ned Stark’s final scene — and the Dothraki wedding at Gozo’s Azure Window, which fell into the sea in March 2017. Season two moved to Dubrovnik. Malta has since played Rome in Gladiator II and, in Nolan’s The Odyssey (2026), the islands long said to be Calypso’s home.
Malta’s railway closed in 1931, so the bus does the work: a single ticket is €2.50 in summer, €2 in winter and €3 at night, valid for two hours with changes. Residents with a personalised tallinja card ride free, worth sorting early if you are here to work or study. The Gozo Channel ferry from Ċirkewwa takes about 25 minutes, and tickets are only checked in Mġarr, before the return.
Malta drives on the left — one of four countries in Europe that do, with the UK, Ireland and Cyprus — and uses the British three-pin plug, so bring an adapter from the continent. The roads are narrow and busy, and parking around Sliema is a competitive sport. August runs at 28–34°C by day with nights that barely cool, so save the walking for mornings and evenings.
On Instagram the Blue Lagoon is empty turquoise water. In August it is excursion boats from Sliema and Bugibba anchored side by side, and every flat rock taken by late morning. Take an early boat from Ċirkewwa or Mġarr, swim before the crowd, and leave when it arrives. The water is around 26°C all afternoon anyway, and the rest of the coast is not short of rock to swim from.
Maltese is a Semitic language descended from Sicilian Arabic, the only one written in the Latin alphabet and the only Semitic official language of the EU. Count to three and it is Arabic: wieħed, tnejn, tlieta. Thank you, grazzi, is Sicilian; good morning, bonġu, came from the French. Nearly everyone also speaks English, often in the same sentence.
Malta is on the Europe plan and not on the Balkans plan, which matters if the trip starts in Prishtina, Tirana or Skopje: a Balkans package bought for home will not connect here. The Europe plan covers Malta and, on the way back, Albania and North Macedonia, but not Kosovo. For Prishtina, add a Balkans package to the same eSIM; each starts only in a country on its own list.
Gozo and Comino are Malta and use the same networks, so the ferry, the Blue Lagoon and a village festa on Gozo need nothing new. Coverage is strong across all three islands; the odd gap is at the bottom of a cliff path or deep inside old stone walls, as it is for everyone. EU SIMs roam here like at home; SIMs from the Balkans, Türkiye or the UK generally pay extra.
Answers about data, coverage and setup for Malta.
The Europe plan. Malta is on it and not on the Balkans plan, so a Balkans package will not connect here. The Europe plan also covers Albania and North Macedonia for the trip home, but not Kosovo: for Prishtina, add a Balkans package to the same eSIM. Each package starts only when the phone first connects in a country on its own list, and must be started within 30 days of buying it.
Yes. Gozo and Comino are part of Malta and use the same networks, so the package carries on across the channel with nothing to change. The Gozo Channel crossing from Ċirkewwa to Mġarr takes about 25 minutes, close to land the whole way. Signal can thin at the foot of the cliffs and in the deeper coves, as it does for everyone, so load the map before a walk.
Cheaper, not free. Since October 2023, operators in the EU and the Western Balkans have cut data roaming prices under a voluntary agreement, and in June 2026 the EU agreed to open talks on bringing the region into its roaming area. Until those talks end in an agreement, a Kosovo, Albanian or North Macedonian SIM pays a roaming rate in Malta. EU SIMs, by contrast, roam here like at home.
