A Morocco eSIM for travellers from the UK
One plan covers the whole country - Marrakech, Agadir, Fez, Essaouira and the Atlas - on Morocco's own networks. Install it at home while you are on WiFi, switch off airplane mode when you land, and your transfer, maps and messages work before you reach passport control. It is data only: you keep your UK number for calls and texts, and WhatsApp works as usual.
Morocco is outside every UK network's Europe zone, and on some plans it sits in the most expensive band of all, so using your UK allowance there is costly. The table below shows what each network charges.
Getting there from the UK
Agadir is three and a half to four hours from the UK and one of the best-served winter-sun airports: Jet2 flies there from ten UK airports including Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds Bradford, Glasgow and Newcastle; easyJet from Gatwick, Luton, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh and Glasgow; Ryanair from Stansted, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Leeds Bradford; and TUI from Gatwick and Manchester.
What a British passport needs for Morocco
No visa for a holiday of up to 90 days. Your passport must be valid for at least three months after the day you arrive and be undamaged. Check that the border officer stamps it when you arrive - the Foreign Office says they should, so ask if they do not.
This is gov.uk's guidance as updated on 19 August 2026; read the current version before you travel.
Morocco is now on UK time in winter
On 20 September 2026 Morocco returned to GMT permanently and stopped changing its clocks, including the old switch during Ramadan. So from late October to late March it is on exactly the same time as the UK, and in British Summer Time it is one hour behind. Guides written before September 2026 still say GMT+1, so check your transfer and tour times against Moroccan time.
Plugs and money
Sockets are the European two-pin kind (types C and E), so you need a UK-to-Europe adaptor. The dirham is a closed currency: you generally cannot buy it at home, so plan to use a cash machine or exchange office on arrival. Cards work in hotels and bigger restaurants, but souks and taxis are cash territory, and the Foreign Office warns that card fraud is common - use machines inside banks where you can.