Coworking in Sicily in 2026: which are really open and what they cost

Most lists of Sicilian coworking spaces you'll find online were written before 2024, and it shows: they still send people to desks that disappeared years ago. For this update every space in our directory was checked again in November 2026 against the operator's own website, Google Maps, local press and the booking directories. Today the directory lists 38 workspaces marked active and 9 marked uncertain across the island, counting the houses that combine coliving and coworking.

Below: the picture city by city, a price table with the month each price was seen, the closures older guides never updated, and what to do in towns with no coworking at all.

Active, uncertain, closed: what the labels mean

I use three labels and I try to be strict about them.

• Active: at least one sign of life from 2025–26. That means a website with current prices, online booking or dated events, a recent press article, or a Google Maps listing with plenty of reviews and regular hours.
• Uncertain: the only evidence is a Maps or directory listing with few or no reviews, or a website with no dates on it. Not necessarily closed, just unconfirmed: write or call before you go.
• Closed: a press report of closure, "temporarily" or "permanently closed" on Maps, or a recent review saying it shut, combined with a dead domain.

Prices need the same care. An operator's own price list is reliable for the month it was seen. Directory prices (CoworkingCafe, Italian Coworking, workin.space, TravelMag's 2023 list) are often undated or old, and I mark them as such. Several official lists also exclude VAT (IVA, 22% in Italy), so check before comparing.

Palermo: the only real market in the west

Palermo has more than twenty listed workspaces, and they fall into four groups.

Community spaces in the old town. neu [nòi] is on the ground floor of Palazzo Castrofilippo in Via Alloro, in the Kalsa, a few minutes from Via Roma. It has 4.9 from 122 Google reviews (November 2026) and opens Monday to Friday, 9:00–18:30. Its own site, neunoi.it, publishes some of the lowest prices in the city: €15 a day, €100 for the first month and €80 after that, or €140 a month for a fixed desk. Moltivolti, the social enterprise in Ballarò, combines a restaurant with shared workstations but publishes no coworking prices. Cre.Zi. Plus at the Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa is alive as a cultural hub, but the only desk prices I found date from 2023.

Coliving houses that sell desks. The two BeetCommunity houses, Via Agrigento in Libertà and Botanical Garden on Via Lincoln, publish the same rates: €30 a day, €22 a day on a weekly booking, €350 a month. Access is 24/7 with self check-in, and the FAQ gives an average measured speed of 411.79 Mbps on TIM fibre.

Business-style spaces between Politeama and Teatro Massimo. PMO Coworking on Via Principe di Belmonte charges €25 a day or €200 a month plus VAT, with two hours of meeting room included. Magnisi Studio on Via Emerico Amari opens Monday to Friday, 9:00–20:00, and at weekends by reservation. Changes on Via Donizetti starts at €200 a month for a dedicated desk. Regus Giardino Inglese on Via Borrelli is the dearest day option at €39 plus VAT, but you can book it online at short notice; monthly plans ask for a two-month deposit.

Business centres outside the centre. Professional Space near the Fiera publishes two fibre lines, 2.5 Gbps and 1 Gbps, the most generous connection of any Palermo workspace on paper. Coworking Palermo Empower on Corso Calatafimi has a clear list (€40 a day, €140 a week, €350 a month, VAT excluded) but sits about 4 km from the old town. Centro Direzionale is on the ring road and only practical by car.

Three Palermo listings stay uncertain: Keplero Center, Quarto Tempo and Studios.

One thing to watch: workin.space lists a Regus "Open Office Palermo Teatro Massimo" at the same address as Changes, Via Donizetti 14, opening on 1 March 2027. The operator there may change.

Catania: the cheapest day passes in Sicily

Isola Catania, inside Palazzo Biscari by the port, charges €12 for a day pass and from €160 a month for a hot desk. On Wednesdays it runs "Isola Connect", a community coworking day, and the first visit is free. @localhost in Cibali, about 400 m from the Cibali metro station, is cheaper still: €9 a day and €139 per 30 days, coffee and tea included.

B² Coworking in the Borgo publishes a speed test of 2.1 Gbps down, the fastest connection documented in eastern Sicily, but no prices on its homepage. CoWonderful, two minutes from Giuffrida metro, lists €30 a day, €120 a week and €260 a month, all excluding VAT, as the page now states. Poste Italiane opened a Spazi per l'Italia coworking in the Palazzo delle Poste on Via Etnea, with more than 80 workstations; prices and hours weren't published. Feiana suits people who need a private office, and Kamla Yoga has six desks next to its yoga rooms.

DBhub, in the same Palazzo delle Poste at Via Etnea 215, is operating: La Sicilia (October 2026) describes more than 1,000 m² with seventy coworking desks, seven private offices and an auditorium; no prices or website. Uncertain: OPEN Creative Work Space and HUB39 Olive. Regus announced its first Catania centre in the industrial zone near the airport for 15 November 2026; it wasn't open when I checked, so it's not in the directory yet.

Siracusa: thin, and I live here

Ortigia itself has no confirmed coworking with published prices. Older guides send you to Impact Hub Siracusa. The organisation now operates as Impact Hub Sicily and says it has managed a coworking in Ortigia for 12 years, but its site gives no address, prices or hours. Ask before you walk over.

What does work:

• The Urban Center study and smart-working room on Via Nino Bixio: free, run by the Comune, open Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8:00 to 20:00, with wifi and air conditioning.
• Daimess on Via Sebastiano Olivieri: a small shared studio, staffed 9:30–13:00, afternoons by appointment, prices on request.
• Kasabbòla, a villa near the sea south of town: indicative €10 a day or €200 a month, by appointment. You'll need a car or a bike.
• Ortigia Official is uncertain. Despite the name it's on the mainland at Foro Siracusano, and its listing has no reviews and still carries a COVID-19 badge.

More on daily life here in my Siracusa and Ortigia guide.

Ragusa, Modica and Vittoria

The Office Ragusa, two minutes from the station in upper Ragusa, charges €25 a day, €60 a week and €150 a month. Monthly members get their own keys and access seven days a week, 8:00–22:00, which makes it one of the better monthly deals I found. SpaceHub on Via Euripide offers 24/7 access for members but no public prices.

In Modica the only option is Hub4Minds in Modica Sorda, outside the baroque centre. It lists €149 a day and €499 a month, which look like rates for a whole room rather than a desk: ask for desk prices. Nothing is confirmed in Modica's centre or in Ragusa Ibla. In Vittoria, Integra4Business shows indicative prices from €5 a day and €100 a month.

Trapani

Beehive Valore Sud, on Corso Vittorio Emanuele in the old town, shows two prices for each pass: €10 or €5 a day, €120 or €60 a month. Either way these are the lowest published coworking prices in western Sicily, but confirm which one applies. TPWorking on Via Culcasi has free private parking and a lunch break from 13:00 to 14:30 with no external access; no prices online.

Messina and the Tyrrhenian coast

Spazio COME opened in October 2026 on the fourth floor of the Liberty university residence: seats were free at launch, it opens 8:00–24:00 and runs on Starlink. Camiciotti Coworking is built for lawyers and consultants, and priced accordingly at €49 a day plus VAT (€59.78 with it). Lux Space quotes from one month. Innesta and Centro Coppedè are uncertain.

In Milazzo, Cantieri Zeta is a non-profit association with about eight desks and an annual membership card at a symbolic price, handy before a ferry to the Aeolian Islands. Lux Space also has a branch in Sant'Agata di Militello.

The rest of the island

Poste's Caltanissetta coworking, open since December 2025, is the only coworking found in the interior: booking happens in the "Spazi per l'Italia" app, which issues a PIN valid 24/7 for the booked period. Lycoworking, opened in 2025 in the hill village of Licodia Eubea, has eight desks. Castelbuono runs a public coworking with a story of its own, told in Dario's Madonie article.

Prices at a glance

The closures nobody updated

These are the spaces that still appear in older guides, maps or directories:

• Magneti Cowork, Palermo. Often called the city's first coworking, it announced its closure on 15 March 2022, citing the pandemic, long roadworks on Via Amari and energy bills. The same premises reopened as Magnisi Studio, but OpenStreetMap still tags the address as Magneti.
• Co-Working Cefalù, Via Costa. A Google review from about a month before my check says it's permanently closed, and its domain no longer resolves (checked 4 November 2026). Cefalù has no confirmed coworking.
• Immagina Coworking, Agrigento. Google Maps shows "Chiuso temporaneamente" and the newest visible reviews are about two years old. Agrigento has no operating coworking confirmed.
• Spazio 87, Ragusa. Its directory page is stuck on "reopening at the end of November 2019".
• Cowo Giardini Naxos and Cowo Milazzo Centro. The Cowo network now says it has no space in the province of Messina.
• Public coworkings announced in Palermo that never appeared: PA/Working (2015), a desk call at the Mercato Ittico (2017), the SISPI "South Working" space with about 100 desks (2020), and the 2025 plan to turn the Hotel Patria building into a coworking for digital nomads, which had no funding or date when reported.

An old Nomads.com forum thread (around 2015–16) still names Vulcanic in Catania and Impact Hub in Siracusa. Treat anything older than 2024 as a lead, not a recommendation.

Towns with no coworking, and what to do there

Confirmed none operating: Cefalù and Agrigento. None found after searching: Marsala, Sciacca, Enna, Alcamo, Taormina, Giardini Naxos, Caltagirone. Only directory checks, so weaker evidence: Noto, Avola, Marzamemi, Scicli, the Aeolian Islands, the Etna towns and Acireale. Places like Monreale, Bagheria, Erice, San Vito Lo Capo and Favignana weren't checked one by one, so "nothing found" there means "not searched".

If you're based in one of them:

1. Treat your accommodation as your office. Ask the host for a speed test before booking and plan a mobile backup. The internet guide and my article on real speeds in Sicily explain what to ask.
2. Watch the Poste network. Poste Italiane's Polis project plans 250 "Spazi per l'Italia" coworkings in converted post-office buildings, including 70 in small towns, with the rollout running through 2026. Two are confirmed in Sicily so far (Catania and Caltanissetta). Check the app for new openings near you.
3. Look for public rooms. Siracusa and Messina now have free municipal or university-backed rooms. For libraries, I found no reliable information on hours, wifi or laptop policies in Palermo or Catania, so ask at the desk.
4. Cafés. None in our data is verified as a workspace. Order regularly, avoid the lunch rush and keep calls short.

Before you book: a short checklist

• Look at the "last checked" date on the venue page and message the space the day before.
• Ask whether the price includes VAT.
• For hourly or room-based listings, ask for the price of a single desk.
• Check weekend access: several spaces close on Saturday and Sunday.
• For monthly plans, ask about deposits and notice periods (Regus asks for two months' deposit).

The full list, with addresses and hours, is in the coworking directory. If you need somewhere to sleep as well as work, the coliving guide covers the houses that offer both.