Best coworking spaces in Berlin for expats
Your first weeks in Berlin can feel strangely quiet. The city is huge, everyone seems to have their people already, and working from your flat makes the days blur. The best coworking spaces in Berlin fix two things: somewhere to focus, and a room where the same faces turn up.
Berlin has well over a hundred spaces, so the useful question is not which is biggest. It is which one seats you next to people you would happily have lunch with. The five below sit where expats and long term nomads tend to land.
Quick summary
The best coworking spaces in Berlin are the ones where people actually talk to each other. This guide covers five spaces across Kreuzberg, Neukölln, Friedrichshain and Prenzlauer Berg, what each is good for, and how to turn a shared kitchen chat into a lunch plan.
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Why coworking is where expats meet people in Berlin
Berlin is a city of small worlds. People stay inside their Kiez, their language group and their friends from five years ago. A coworking space is one of the few rooms where a new face is completely normal.
It also gives you repetition, and repetition is what friendships run on. You see someone at the coffee machine on Tuesday, again on Thursday, and by week two you are asking how their project went. A one off event rarely does that.
The pattern holds wherever you land, which is why advice on making friends as an expat usually starts with finding one place you go back to. In Berlin, winter makes that load bearing: the plans that survive are attached to somewhere you were already going.
Our picks for the best coworking spaces in Berlin
These five were chosen for the community around the desks. They cover four neighbourhoods, they all sell day passes or trial days, and each builds something into the week that gives people a reason to talk.
They suit very different working weeks, so here is how they line up on what people ask about before booking a first day.
| Space | Best for | Good to know |
|---|---|---|
| betahaus Kreuzberg | Meeting the startup crowd | Weekly community breakfast |
| Impact Hub Berlin | Social and climate projects | Several member events weekly |
| werkhain | Long focused days | Whole floor kept silent |
| juggleHUB | Working around family life | Café open to everyone |
| Denizen Eiswerk | Café style working | Weekdays only |
If meeting people is the main goal, start with the spaces that put something social in the calendar, then settle where the conversations feel easiest to join.
Best for the startup crowd
betahaus Kreuzberg sits on Rudi-Dutschke-Straße, a few minutes from U Kochstraße, in the old taz newspaper building. It opened in 2009 as one of Europe’s first coworking spaces and still holds several hundred founders, freelancers and remote teams.
Day passes run on weekday daytime hours, so plan a morning arrival. The weekly betabreakfast is the easiest way in: a community breakfast open to anyone curious about the Berlin startup scene, so you need no introduction to turn up.
A second betahaus sits in a courtyard on Lobeckstraße at Moritzplatz, for the same community in a quieter room. Full members move freely between the two. At Kreuzberg, the rooftop terrace is where people drift on warm afternoons.
Best for social and climate projects
Impact Hub Berlin is on Rollbergstraße in Neukölln, inside the CRCLR House on the old Kindl brewery site. Its 600 or so members all work on social or environmental projects, so conversations open with what you are building.
The team runs several community events every week, so plan around them. Book a day pass, choose a day with something on, and stay for the part after the talk. Three terraces carry the summer conversation.
If your work sits closer to film, design or making things, workish.berlin on Harzer Straße runs three floors of coworking with a shared backyard and a free trial day. Its Sunday film maker meetup welcomes visitors.
Best for long focused days
werkhain fills a converted factory building off Frankfurter Allee in Friedrichshain, a short walk from the S-Bahn. It took first place for Best Newcomer Space at the German Coworking Award 2025, across five floors of height adjustable desks.
One entire floor is a silent area where calls are banned and talking stays at a whisper, so book it when a deadline is closing in. Ask for a trial day first and take the tour, so you know which floor does what.
The social side is just as deliberate. Community lunches, after work gatherings, concerts and exhibitions sit in the calendar, and the shared kitchen has proper stovetops, so members cook and eat together at midday.
Best for working around family life
juggleHUB is on Immanuelkirchstraße in Prenzlauer Berg, close to the Hufelandstraße tram stop. It pairs a coworking floor with flexible childcare you book as you need it, a rare option when your day has a nursery pickup in it.
Worth knowing before you set off: juggleHUB moved from Christburger Straße a few streets away, and older listings still point at the old address. The space keeps weekday hours, with rooms available outside them by arrangement.
The café on site is open to everyone, so you can spend a morning there before booking anything. It has a backyard terrace, the obvious spot for a slow lunch with whoever you have been sitting near.
Best for café style working
Denizen Eiswerk takes the ground floor of the historic Eiswerk building on Köpenicker Straße, where Kreuzberg meets Mitte. It feels like a neighbourhood living room: a common room for talking, a working lounge for heads down time, a café and a yoga studio.
Day passes are easy to get and the space keeps weekday hours. There is a barista at the coffee bar, plus showers and changing rooms if you cycle in or run at lunchtime.
For weekends, UMA Hub on Großbeerenstraße near Mehringdamm keeps its café open on Saturdays and Sundays, with a quiet members’ area behind a day pass. A useful backup when most Berlin spaces are shut.
How to choose a coworking space in Berlin
Start with your commute, not the photos. The U-Bahn ride that feels fine in July feels long in February. Most people settle into a space they reach on foot or in one short ride, because that is the one they still use in month three.
Buy a day pass at two or three places before you sign anything, and pick a normal Tuesday. A month feels long if the room turns out silent when you wanted conversation. Several Berlin spaces offer a free trial day, so ask. The same test works for coworking spaces in Las Palmas.
Read the membership terms, because some renew automatically and carry a notice period. Then ask two questions on the tour: what happens in this room at lunchtime, and what is on the events calendar. The answers tell you how your next three months would feel.
Turning a desk neighbour into a lunch plan
Sitting near someone for six hours is not the same as knowing them. People spend months in the best coworking spaces in Berlin without one plan outside the building, and the missing piece is almost always the invitation.
Lunch is the easiest ask. It is short and nobody gives up their evening. Take the community lunch when a space runs one, eat in the shared kitchen, and say yes the first few times you are invited anywhere. The same habits work when you make friends as a digital nomad.
Berlin does ask for patience. Friendships build slowly here, the city goes quiet from November, and August empties as everyone travels. Keep showing up and the same faces become people you have plans with. On a longer route, the same questions work on coworking spaces in London.
A shortcut for meeting people over coffee and lunch
Some weeks nobody at your desk is free and you still want company for lunch. Friendchise is built for that. Share your own plan, pick the place and time and let people ask to join, or join a plan somebody has posted near you.
You can see people’s interests beforehand, so you already have something to talk about when you sit down, and you decide who you meet. It works for a one to one coffee or a small group over dinner. It is free to try.
Pick one space, give it a few weeks, and see how quickly Berlin starts to feel like yours.