Digital nomads
Bases with fibre, a scene and a visa. Every destination guide carries a remote work note with an internet score and the cost of a comfortable month; these are the ones that rank highest.
Ranked
North Goa has had a winter community of remote workers for a decade around Anjuna, Assagao and Vagator, with coworkings, yoga schools and cafés that understand oat milk.
Weligama, Ahangama and Hiriketiya have turned into a surf-and-laptop coast with coworkings, cafés with real coffee and villas by the month.
Koh Lanta’s KoHub is one of the oldest island coworkings in Asia and the reason the island has a winter community of remote workers.
Alicante is one of the cheapest well-connected cities on the Spanish coast, with a tram along the seafront, a university and coworkings around the Mercado Central.
Marrakech has cheap riads by the month, decent 4G and fibre in Guéliz, and a scattering of coworkings.
Canggu is the loudest remote-work town on earth, with coworkings, gyms, cafés and traffic to match.
Colombia offers a two year digital nomad visa, and Cartagena has coworkings in Getsemaní and Manga, though Medellín has the bigger scene and the cooler climate.
Ponta do Sol on the south coast launched Europe’s first digital nomad village in 2021, with free coworking, events and a community that now reaches Funchal.
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