Cambodia is one of Southeast Asia's most underrated bases for remote work: cheap, refreshingly uncrowded, and easy on the visa front compared with the nomad traffic jams of Bali or Chiang Mai. The catch is that its coworking scene is small and it churns. Spaces open, quietly move, and close, so a guide even a year stale will send you to locked doors. AngkorHUB, for years the anchor of Siem Reap's nomad community, shut permanently in 2023 and you will still find it recommended on lazy listicles. Do not go there.
This is a checked list for 2026, focused on the two cities where remote workers actually cluster: Phnom Penh and Siem Reap. Prices below are the current published rates at the time of writing. Treat them as a strong guide rather than a contract, because small operators adjust often. Always confirm the day rate and current hours on the space's own Facebook page before you show up.
How we chose
We prioritised places that a remote worker can actually use day to day: a real desk, usable wifi, a monthly option that beats a hotel lobby, and enough of a community that you are not sitting alone. We have flagged where a space is really a startup incubator or a café with desks rather than a dedicated office, because that changes who it suits. Where hours matter, we have stated them plainly instead of rounding up to a convenient "always open."
Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh is the practical choice for anyone staying more than a few weeks. It has the deepest bench of coworking options, the fastest fixed internet, and a real spread of neighbourhoods to live in. Most nomad-friendly spaces cluster in and around BKK1 and Tuol Tom Poung (the area everyone calls Russian Market), which is also where you will find the flat whites, gyms, and co-living that make a longer stay comfortable.
Impact Hub Phnom Penh
The closest thing Cambodia has to a proper international coworking brand, sitting in the Tuol Tom Poung / BKK1 area of Chamkar Mon. It runs a tiered membership rather than a simple day-pass model, which tells you it is built for people staying a while:
- Sprout, $40/month — part-time hot desk, roughly 2.5 days a week. Good for freelancers who only need to escape the apartment a few days a week.
- Growth, $70/month — full-time hot desk, five days a week.
- Rooted, $130/month — five days a week with your own fixed desk and a locker when available.
At the time of writing Impact Hub was also running a founding-member promotion of 10% off for the first year for early joiners, which drops those tiers to roughly $36 / $63 / $117. Ask whether it is still live. What you are really paying for here is the network: events, a genuine startup and social-enterprise community, and staff who can point you to the rest of the city's scene. If community matters more to you than the cheapest possible desk, start here.
The Desk
A long-running, professional space in Tonle Bassac (BKK1), a short walk from the riverside embassies and some of the city's best coffee. Monthly membership starts around $60/month for a hot seat, with private rooms available at higher rates. It leans quieter and more business-like than Impact Hub, with fully furnished suites and a mentorship and events programme. A solid, central pick if you want a calm, reliable office and a good location more than a party of a community.
SmallWorld
One of Phnom Penh's oldest coworking names and still one of the best value. Pricing is genuinely nomad-friendly:
- Day pass: around $7
- Monthly: around $100 for open coworking
- Private offices run roughly $225–$350/month for those who need a door that closes.
SmallWorld has an unfussy, techie, get-work-done feel and a loyal regular crowd, which makes it easy to drop in for a day without commitment. If you want to test-drive Phnom Penh coworking before committing to a monthly membership anywhere, this is the natural first stop.
Emerald HUB
A startup-focused hub on the 11th floor of the PPIU building in the 7 Makara district, with some of the cheapest rates in town: $7 for a day pass and around $60/month. The mentorship and community programming is aimed squarely at founders and early-stage teams.
One honest caveat that trips up nomads: Emerald HUB is not a 24/7 space. Published hours are weekdays roughly 8am to 8:30pm and Saturday mornings, and it is closed Sundays. That is fine for a standard working day, but if your team is in a wildly different time zone and you need to grind at 2am, plan to do that from your accommodation or a late-night café instead. Confirm current hours before you build a routine around it.
Factory Phnom Penh
Not a conventional coworking room so much as a sprawling creative-industrial campus in the south of the city, home to studios, offices, food, and events. Its flexible Workspace desks start from around $35/month, with day passes near $10 and private offices climbing well into the hundreds. The vibe is the draw: art, skate ramps, markets, and a young creative crowd. Great if you want energy and events around your work and do not mind a location that is a bit out from the central nomad neighbourhoods. Check which specific workspace tier the low headline price refers to when you enquire, as the campus has several products.
Siem Reap
Siem Reap is smaller, cheaper, and slower, and its coworking scene took a real hit through the pandemic years. It suits a shorter, temple-and-work stint more than a months-long base. With AngkorHUB gone, dedicated coworking is thin on the ground, so the realistic play is a café-style creative space plus a good SIM.
The 1961 Coworking & Art Space
Siem Reap's best-known creative space: part café, part gallery, part work spot, near the river. It is closer to a laptop-friendly café with a community than a corporate office, and it is priced that way. A guest day pass runs only a couple of dollars, and a coworking membership around $5 typically bundles in a food and a drink. You get high-speed wifi, a shared printer, couches, a mini-kitchen with free coffee and tea, and a genuinely arty, sociable atmosphere with regular events. Perfect for a few focused days between Angkor sunrises. Just set expectations: this is a relaxed café-hub, not a silent office, so it is better for solo focus work and calls with headphones than for all-day back-to-back video meetings.
A word on AngkorHUB
You will still see AngkorHUB recommended widely. It closed permanently in 2023. Skip any guide that still lists it as an option, because it is a fair sign the rest of that guide has not been checked either.
Price snapshot
| Space | City | Day pass | Monthly (hot desk) | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Impact Hub | Phnom Penh | — (membership) | $40–$130 tiered | Community and events |
| The Desk | Phnom Penh | Ask | ~$60 | Quiet, central, professional |
| SmallWorld | Phnom Penh | ~$7 | ~$100 | Value and drop-ins |
| Emerald HUB | Phnom Penh | $7 | ~$60 | Founders, tight budgets |
| Factory | Phnom Penh | ~$10 | from ~$35 | Creative energy and events |
| The 1961 | Siem Reap | ~$2–$5 | Ask | Café-style focus work |
The honest internet picture
Cambodia's connectivity is better than its reputation and worse than a pure speed test suggests. As of the 2026 figures, median mobile download speeds sit around 53 Mbps and fixed broadband around 49 Mbps, and mobile jumped nearly 90% year on year. In practice, most coworking spaces and decent cafés in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap deliver a very workable 20–40 Mbps, which comfortably handles video calls, large uploads, and everything a normal remote job throws at it. 5G is live in pockets of both cities.
The real issue is not headline speed, it is reliability. Power cuts still happen, especially in the hot and wet seasons, and when the grid drops so does a lot of building wifi. Rain can degrade connections, and a space that is flawless on Monday can be unusable during a Thursday storm. This is exactly why the fabricated "open 24/7" promise that sinks a lot of Cambodia guides matters so little: what saves your workday is not a building that never closes, it is your own backup connection.
So treat mobile data as a co-equal part of your setup, not a fallback. The three carriers are Smart (widely rated best for urban 4G/5G reliability in both cities), Cellcard, and Metfone (strongest in rural areas). Local tourist SIMs with generous data are cheap, and eSIMs from providers like Airalo run on the local networks if you would rather arrive already connected. A loaded SIM turns your phone into an instant hotspot the moment the coworking wifi stutters.
Backup connectivity checklist
- Buy a local SIM or eSIM on arrival (Smart is the safe default for Phnom Penh and Siem Reap)
- Load enough data to hotspot a full workday, not just maps and messaging
- Confirm your laptop can tether to your phone before you need it
- Test the actual wifi at a space before committing to a monthly membership
- Keep a café or second space in mind as a fallback during storms and outages
- Have a small power bank so a blackout does not also kill your phone hotspot
The verdict
For most remote workers, Phnom Penh is the base and Siem Reap is the side trip. If you want community and a soft landing into Cambodia's scene, join Impact Hub and use its events to meet people fast. If you are counting every dollar, SmallWorld and Emerald HUB give you a real desk from around $7 a day or $60–$100 a month, with SmallWorld the easier casual drop-in and Emerald the founder-flavoured one (just respect its weekday hours). Want calm and a central address? The Desk. Want creative energy and do not mind being out from the centre? Factory. In Siem Reap, The 1961 is the sociable café-hub to work from between temples.
Whatever you choose, the decision that actually protects your income is not which space has the nicest chairs, it is arriving with a loaded local SIM so a power cut or a storm never turns into a missed deadline.