How much does it cost to use your phone in Europe on each UK network?

On O2 and Tesco Mobile, nothing extra: your UK allowance works in their Europe zones at no added cost. On EE, Three and Vodafone, most pay monthly customers pay a daily charge on each day they use their phone in Europe: £2.72 on EE, £2 or £2.75 on Three depending on when you joined, and £2.75 on Vodafone unless your plan includes European roaming. On EE and Three, plans that started before July or October 2021 pay nothing. For a trip of a week or more, a multi-day pass usually costs less than the daily charge. These figures were checked on each network's own pages on 26 October 2026.

The charges, network by network

Network	Daily charge (pay monthly)	Who doesn't pay it	Passes	Data limit in Europe
O2	None	Everyone	Not needed	25GB
Tesco Mobile	None	Everyone	Not needed	Not stated on its roaming page
EE	£2.72	Plans that started before 7 July 2021	7 days £16.50, 12 days £27.50	Subject to fair use; no figure on its roaming page
Three	£2 or £2.75 (see below)	Plans that started before 1 October 2021, and Pay As You Go	Go Roam passes, priced in your account	12GB
Vodafone	£2.75	Plans with Euro Roam or Global Roam included	8 days £16, 15 days £21	25GB

O2

O2's EU roaming page says your data, minutes and texts work in its Europe Zone of 48 destinations at no extra cost, on Pay Monthly and Pay As You Go, up to 25GB of data. If your UK allowance is under 25GB, your UK allowance is the limit. Past the limit you need to buy a data Bolt On.

Tesco Mobile

Tesco Mobile's roaming page says you can use your UK data, minutes and texts at no extra cost in its 48 Home From Home destinations, and that if you run out of UK allowance you pay its standard rates, the same as at home.

EE

On a pay monthly plan that started on or after 7 July 2021, EE charges £2.72 a day to use your allowance in its Europe Zone, added to your next bill. Plans that started before that date roam for free. The charge covers you until 11:59pm UK time and resets at midnight UK time, so a day is counted on UK time, not local time. Turkey and Andorra are not in EE's Europe Zone. Instead of the daily charge you can buy a 7-day EU Pass for £16.50 or a 12-day EU Pass for £27.50, once you have arrived; EE refunds the day's charge if you buy a pass within 24 hours. On Pay As You Go the daily charge doesn't apply and standard roaming rates do, unless you have a 30-Day or Saver plan and add a roaming pass. All of this is on EE's roaming costs page.

Three

Three's Go Roam page sets the daily charge in Europe by when you joined or last upgraded:

Before 1 October 2021: no daily charge.
Between 1 October 2021 and 17 December 2025: £2 a day.
From 1 June 2025 on a SIM Only 24-month Lite plan with 25GB or 120GB of data: £2 a day.
On or after 18 December 2025: £2.75 a day, which Three says is subject to annual price increases.

The charge starts when you use any of your allowance in a Go Roam destination. There is no daily charge in the Republic of Ireland or the Isle of Man, and none on Pay As You Go. Pay monthly customers can use up to 12GB of data in Go Roam destinations. Three says a Go Roam in Europe pass can work out at up to two days free compared with paying the daily charge.

Vodafone

Every Vodafone pay monthly plan includes its Zone A: the Republic of Ireland, the Isle of Man, Iceland and Norway. Plans with Euro Roam include 52 destinations across Zones A and B, which covers France, Spain, Greece and Portugal. If your plan doesn't include roaming in Europe and you don't buy a pass, Vodafone's Extras page says you'll be charged £2.75 a day. The 8-day European Roaming pass costs £16 and the 15-day pass £21; each starts when you arrive. Vodafone's roaming page sets a 25GB fair use limit on pay monthly plans, with data above it charged at £3.84 a GB.

Daily charge or pass: a week in Spain

If you use your phone on all seven days of a week away, the daily charge comes to:

EE: 7 × £2.72 = £19.04, against £16.50 for the 7-day EU Pass.
Vodafone: 7 × £2.75 = £19.25, against £16 for the 8-day pass.
Three, if you joined on or after 18 December 2025: 7 × £2.75 = £19.25. Check the pass price in your Three account before you go.

For a weekend, the daily charge is usually cheaper: two or three days come to well under the price of a pass. EE and Three take the daily charge only on days you use your allowance abroad, so a day when you don't use your mobile calls, texts or data costs nothing on those networks.

Check your spend cap before you go

EE and Three both take the daily charge from your spend cap. If your cap is set to £0, or too low to cover the days you are away, you may not be able to use your phone abroad at all. Raise it in your account before you travel, then lower it again when you are back.

How to find out which charge applies to you

The date that matters is when your current plan started, including an upgrade, not when you first joined the network. Your account or app shows your plan's start date. Networks change these charges, so look at your network's own roaming page in the week before you travel.

Sources

All checked on 26 October 2026.