Buying a SIM Card or eSIM for Travel in Lithuania

Like the rest of the Baltic States, Lithuania is incredibly cheap. That’s especially true if you’re looking to stay connected while you’re in the country.

As with our reports from Latvia and Estonia, a SIM card with calls, texts, and data will cost you no more than a few euros and have excellent speeds almost everywhere.

If you only need data, travel eSIM prices start at a couple of dollars. They’re also useful if you’re visiting multiple countries during your trip, as Lithuanian SIMs don’t include free roaming elsewhere in the EU.

If you want to pick up a local SIM card or travel eSIM while you’re in Lithuania, here’s what you need to know.

There are three different cell companies in Lithuania: Bite, Tele2, and Telia. LTE service blankets the country with all providers, covering around 99% of the population. They are all starting to roll out 5G, although it’s not always available on prepaid plans yet.

I picked Tele2 because it had good coverage and low prices.

For a long time there was no registration required for buying SIM cards in Lithuania, but that changed at the start of 2025, As in many countries, you now need to register SIMs with your identification (a passport or European identity card) before they’ll start working.

If you don’t feel like dealing with phone stores and registration processes when you first arrive in Lithuania, just buy a travel eSIM instead.

That’s especially true if you’re planning to visit other European countries as well: in that case, a regional eSIM pack will save both money and time versus buying individual SIMs in each country.

Instabridge and Nomad are typically the cheapest option, but prices do vary. Check the table below before you buy: I’ve included all of the eSIM companies I regularly use. Details are updated every week, most recently on 1 Dec 2025.

As I mentioned earlier, due to their low cost, roaming isn’t included with Lithuanian SIM cards. You need to pay extra for it, which makes the European eSIM bundles much more appealing.

There are too many regional offers to list each one separately (and they change all the time), but as a starting point, these are the Europe eSIM options from companies I’d actually consider using:

• aloSIM (34 countries)
• Airalo (39 countries)
• Nomad (30-35 countries)
• SIMOptions (29-39 countries)
• yeSIM (31 countries)

Like most travel eSIMs, they’re data-only: you don’t get a local number. I use apps for everything from communication to transport these days, so the lack of a local number very rarely matters to me, but you might have different needs.

New to eSIMs? They offer big benefits to travelers in terms of how quickly, easily, and (often) cheaply you can get connected when you arrive in a new country. Most recent phones support them, and you can read all about them here.

If you’re visiting other countries as well, make sure you check out our worldwide eSIM finder before you go. It has real-world recommendations for every trip, only takes a few seconds, and could save you a lot of money!

Finding a SIM card was easy: I just wandered into the closest Narvesen convenience store and asked for one, along with how much data I wanted. The sales assistant sold me a Tele2 packet (with the prepaid brand name “Pildyk”) for €2, along with a €3 top-up card, and then I was on my own.

Getting it set up and working was very straightforward: I basically just put it into my phone, turned it on, and entered the APN details from the packet.

After that I followed the instructions on the top-up card to add the extra credit, texted the code to buy the data package I wanted (below), and that was it.

Pildyk

There were several different packages available, both data-only and with calls and texts as well. The SIM card came with €2 of credit, plus the €3 top-up card that I’d added.

Since I was only in the country for a few days, in the end I went with 3GB of data (valid for 30 days), which used up €3.89 of my credit. You can also get 6GB of data for €5.99, or unlimited data for a day (€0.99), week (€3.89), or month (€11.99).

Other bundles are available with calls and texts as well, with few of them costing more than €10. As I mentioned, Lithuania is not expensive! You can find all the plans here.

The company has recently introduced prepaid eSIMs that tourists can buy, although right now it looks like only the unlimited data plans (with and without calls and texts) are available for it.

Topping Up

Pildyk

You can buy top-ups from any of the convenience stores in Lithuania (Narvesen, Maxima, Iki, and Rimi), as well as at Tele2 stores. It’s probably easier to do it online, though.

Nomad

Topping up with Nomad (or any of the other travel eSIM companies) is done by logging into the website or app. You just select your Nigeria eSIM, hit the top-up button, and buy the same package again.

The top-up packs have exactly the same pricing and duration as the original eSIMs: there’s little difference between topping up your current eSIM and buying a new one, other than not having to activate it.

I was only in Vilnius on this trip, so expected good coverage, and I wasn’t disappointed. I had strong signal everywhere I went, with fast speeds and no black spots or slowdowns. The same was true on the trip to the airport as well.

Lithuania is part of the European Union, so EU roaming regulations apply. These “roam like at home” rules ended roaming charges across much of Europe in 2017, generally letting you use a SIM card from any EU/EEA country across all the others at no extra charge.

When it comes to roaming elsewhere in the EU with a Lithuanian SIM, though, beware. The low price of cell service in Lithuania has allowed all of the mobile companies to opt out of the roaming regulations.

You either can’t roam outside Lithuania with their SIM cards, pay fairly high pay-as-you-go rates to do so, or have buy a specific extra roaming bundle.

If you’re only visiting Lithuania for a few days as part of a wider trip, you may be better off with one of the regional eSIMs I mentioned earlier.

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