SIM card at Marrakech airport

Last updated 26 Oct 2026.

Written by Omar Oujoud in Casablanca. Research drafting is AI-assisted; observations are recorded in person. How we check

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At a glance

These are the cards on Orange's prepaid page. English and French show the price on the card as DH. Arabic writes it as dirhams. The figures below are those same amounts. The card text says unlimited internet. No data cap and no speed limit is written there.

Maroc Telecom and inwi each have their own shops and their own eSIM pages. A price from either one is Not yet confirmed on this page. So is a counter for any of the three inside the terminal.

Step by step

Our advice: do this before you leave the arrivals hall, while you can still turn back to a counter if the line does not connect.

1. On the plane, or on Wi-Fi when you have it, open the English prepaid page or the French prepaid page. The address should be boutique.orange.ma.
2. The line priced at 20 MAD Source-checked 26 Oct 2026 Sources is the one whose text says it is a SIM, with 20 MAD of credit Source-checked 26 Oct 2026 Sources for 30 days Source-checked 26 Oct 2026 Sources. The Marhaba cards are the other three prices on that page.
3. Choose a physical SIM or an eSIM Source-checked 26 Oct 2026 Sources. A physical SIM has free delivery inside Morocco Source-checked 26 Oct 2026 Sources. It will not be in your hand when you step off the plane unless you already ordered it, or a counter sells you one. An eSIM starts when you scan a QR code from the email Source-checked 26 Oct 2026 Sources. That needs a phone that can use an eSIM, and a connection long enough to open the message. An identity document is requested when a physical card is delivered Source-checked 26 Oct 2026 Sources.
4. The checkout wording lists a passport, an identity card or a residence permit Source-checked 26 Oct 2026 Sources. A scanner note lists a national identity card or a residence permit Source-checked 26 Oct 2026 Sources and does not mention a passport. The number box allows at most 10 characters Source-checked 26 Oct 2026 Sources. The name and address boxes ask for French keyboard letters Source-checked 26 Oct 2026 Sources. The phone box asks for a Moroccan number starting 06, 07 or 05 Source-checked 26 Oct 2026 Sources, and it gives 10 digits Source-checked 26 Oct 2026 Sources. Bring the passport you travelled on, and read those lines before you pay.
5. If a branded counter is open after baggage reclaim, ask them to show you the same four prices before you pay. This page cannot tell you the counter is there.
6. Before you leave the counter, or before you close the email, switch the new line on and open one page. If it does not load, say so while you are still there.
7. A later top-up, on Orange's own description, can be a bank card, Orange Money, or a top-up card Source-checked 26 Oct 2026 Sources in the Max it space, or Orange Money from the phone Source-checked 26 Oct 2026 Sources, or the number on a top-up card Source-checked 26 Oct 2026 Sources. Whether a counter takes a foreign card is not on the page.
8. Then leave the terminal. The ride into the medina is in Marrakech airport to the medina. Landing at the other city is a different airport: Casablanca airport. A SIM guide for that terminal is not written yet.

Phrases, if you need them:

• La carte à 20 dirhams, et les cartes Marhaba, s'il vous plaît. The 20 dirham card, and the Marhaba cards, please.
• من فضلك، أريد أن أرى ثمن البطاقة قبل أن أدفع. I want to see the price of the card before I pay.

The edge case

You land late, the hall is quiet, and no counter is staffed. The online shop is still the page above. An eSIM still needs Wi-Fi, or some other connection, to receive the QR code. A phone that cannot use an eSIM is waiting on a physical card, which is delivered inside Morocco, not handed to you at the door of the aircraft.

Up to 3 months Source-checked 26 Oct 2026 Sources sits under the heading about maximum validity. It is not the line on the card. The prepaid line says 30 days Source-checked 26 Oct 2026 Sources. The Marhaba cards say 7 days Source-checked 26 Oct 2026 Sources, 14 days Source-checked 26 Oct 2026 Sources and 30 days Source-checked 26 Oct 2026 Sources. Ask which clock you are buying. Do not treat the heading as extra days the card itself does not give you.

The pages do not say whether a Marhaba card is a new line or a top-up you add to the 20 MAD Source-checked 26 Oct 2026 Sources SIM. If you only need data, point at the card and ask that question before you pay.

Ramadan is not mentioned on these pages. A night landing does not change these prices. It does change whether anyone is there to sell them, and that part is still open.

What to watch for

Our advice: keep the decision on the price you can read, and on the document line you can read.

• The address. These figures are on boutique.orange.ma. A page that sells a travel eSIM under another name is a different seller. This guide does not use those.
• A shop with Menara in the name. Menara is also a district. An Orange shop in that district is not the terminal you just landed at. Read the address.
• The Arabic title. The 20 card and the 320 card share one Arabic name. The short line under the 320 card still says Marhaba. The short line under the 20 card does not. The price and that short line are what separate them. English and French put Marhaba on the 120, 220 and 320 cards only.
• A headline about the network. English and French say 5G/4G+. Arabic says 4G+ and does not say 5G Sources disagree Sources. Do not choose the card because of that line.
• Two document lists. The menu names a passport, an identity card or a residence permit Source-checked 26 Oct 2026 Sources. The scanner names a national identity card or a residence permit Source-checked 26 Oct 2026 Sources. Read both before you pay.
• The phone box. It asks for a Moroccan number starting 06, 07 or 05 Source-checked 26 Oct 2026 Sources. A foreign number may not fit that box.
• Paying before the line works. Open a page while you can still speak to the person who sold it, or while the email is still on the screen.
• The other two networks. Maroc Telecom, also called Itissalat Al-Maghrib, and inwi sell lines of their own. Their prices are not copied here. Do not take a guessed price in their place.