Upcoming nomad retreats and pop-ups in 2026-2027

Discovering community, personal development, and connecting with people worldwide are some of the most rewarding aspects of our nomadic lifestyle. And sometimes a festival week is not enough: you want to live somewhere with your people, not just visit.

That is what this page is for. Below are upcoming retreats, workation programs, and pop-up coliving experiences designed for digital nomads and remote workers. The difference from our events: these are experiences you live inside for a week to several months, whether you keep working your normal job or deliberately take a break from it.

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🇨🇷 Noma Collective: Playa Grande in Costa Rica

Noma Collective runs month-long remote work "editions" in destinations worth staying in, and Playa Grande is their Pura Vida chapter. For three weeks, a curated group of remote workers, founders, and freelancers lives and works together on Costa Rica's Pacific coast, with accommodation, coworking, community events, and local support all handled for you.

You bring your job, Noma brings the community: surf mornings, focused work days, and group adventures on the weekends. With 4,000+ alumni and an 83% return rate, editions fill up fast, and only a handful of spots were left at the time of writing.

*The price includes accommodation.

Costa Rica for nomads

Pura vida, world-class surf, a rainforest full of wildlife, and one of Latin America's most established digital nomad visas. Costa Rica is the safe, easy, beautiful choice, if you can handle the prices. Here is the 2026 guide.

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🇮🇹 Casa Basilico pop-up coliving in Puglia, Italy

Casa Basilico is a pop-up coliving for remote workers who take food and community seriously. Every few months the group picks a new base and moves in together to cook, cowork, and explore as one house. For autumn 2026 the chapter lands in the Puglia countryside in southern Italy, where you can join for a month at a time.

Weekdays are yours to work; weekends turn into shared adventures, and most evenings end around a long table over pasta and wine. Every guest is vetted with a quick call before booking, so you arrive to a house of like-minded people rather than a random rental. The minimum stay is one month. Casa Basilico also runs a Madeira chapter (Banana House) from June 1 to July 31, 2026 if you are planning earlier in the year.

*The price includes accommodation.

🇹🇭 CosmoLocal CNX in Chiang Mai, Thailand

CosmoLocal CNX turns Chiang Mai's Wat Ket neighborhood into a month-long pop-up village. Four parallel four-week coliving tracks run side by side, each with its own theme: AI for Chiang Mai, Food, Solopreneur, and the Nomad Futures Lab. All tracks converge in a Main Week from September 23-28 that is open to everyone, including those who cannot stay the full month.

Chiang Mai is one of the world's original nomad hubs, and September falls in the quieter green season with lower prices across the city. If a full month does not fit your calendar, the Main Week alone makes a good taster.

*Pricing varies by track. Check the official site for current rates.

Thailand for nomads

The original digital nomad country, and still one of the best. Bangkok's energy, Chiang Mai's community, and islands for every mood, plus a five-year visa that changed the game. Here is how to live and work in Thailand in 2026.

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🇯🇵 Colive Fukuoka pop-up coliving in Fukuoka, Japan

Japan's flagship workation program returns in 2026 with two parts: a 10-day main program from October 1-10 (see our events page) and this pop-up coliving stretch wrapped around it. From September 24 to October 17, participants live and work together in Fukuoka, combining the summit program with a deeper dive into local life, food, and culture.

The 2025 edition drew 496+ participants from 57 nationalities to the main program, and the coliving track is the way to experience it beyond the event itself. Japan's digital nomad visa makes a longer stay straightforward for many nationalities.

*Pricing marked as preliminary by the organizers. Final rates to be confirmed.

Japan for nomads

A six-month nomad visa, the fastest trains and internet on earth, and a yen so weak that Tokyo is suddenly affordable. Japan finally opened its doors to remote workers, and this is how to make the most of it in 2026.

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🇧🇷 Noma Collective: Pipa in Brazil

Noma Collective's Brazilian edition brings the same month-long coliving format to Pipa, a laid-back beach town in the country's northeast known for dolphins, dune buggies, and dependable waves. Three weeks of structured community living: coworking by day, sunset sessions and group trips when the laptop closes.

October is one of the driest, sunniest months in this corner of Brazil, and Pipa's compact size means the whole group ends up feeling like a village within a village.

*The price includes accommodation.

Brazil for nomads

A nomad visa since 2022, one of the lowest income bars anywhere, and Florianópolis quietly running one of South America's best remote work scenes. Here is how to live and work in Brazil in 2026.

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🇯🇵 Escape to Goto Islands, Japan

The Goto archipelago sits off Nagasaki at the western edge of Japan, and it is the kind of place people mean when they talk about Ghibli landscapes: empty beaches, hillside temples, and a night sky with no light pollution. Nomad Resort's autumn tour returns for 2026, and this edition is built entirely around the islands' food.

That means island seafood, seasonal vegetables and Goto wagyu, with hands-on experiences alongside the meals rather than just a list of restaurants: you meet the people growing and catching the ingredients. Two nights are spent at an ocean-view hotel. Goto is a 40-minute flight or a 1.5-hour ferry from Fukuoka, and the timing is deliberate: this starts two days after the Colive Fukuoka main program ends, so the two slot together into one Kyushu autumn.

At $350 for a shared room this is one of the cheapest organized nomad retreats running anywhere, and the early-bird rate has a real deadline.

*Early-bird pricing until August 31, 2026. The rate covers the program and two nights at the ocean-view hotel; check with the organizers about accommodation for the remaining nights.

🇯🇵 Tsubaki Retreat on the Goto Islands, Japan

Six days, eight women, one island. Tsubaki is a women-only retreat on the Goto archipelago off Nagasaki, curated by coach and TEDx speaker Jazmine Sachiko Ross and held by Nomad Resort's on-island team with support from Goto City. This is not a workation: you are not expected to open your laptop.

The week follows four Japanese concepts rather than a curriculum, lived through calligraphy with a local sensei, forest bathing in wild camellia forests, a farm harvest and community BBQ, and coral jewelry making. You sleep in a private ocean-view room with onsen and sauna. Goto is a 40-minute flight from Fukuoka, so it works well as an add-on if you are already in Kyushu for Colive Fukuoka earlier in October.

*The price includes accommodation, all meals, transfers, and all workshops. Genki readers pay $2,000: apply through the site and mention "I found Tsubaki Retreat through Genki" in the application or on the intro call. Genki is a partner of the retreat.

Digital nomad events Japan edition

Japan has quietly become one of the best countries for nomad events, from Colive Fukuoka to island workations and mountain summits. Here are the gatherings worth planning your Japan stay around, with dates, prices, and formats.

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🇪🇨 Cuenca Pioneers in Cuenca, Ecuador

The most ambitious experiment on this list: a 90-day social experiment bringing 100 founders, creators, and remote professionals to live and work together in Cuenca, Ecuador. The question behind it: could this UNESCO-listed Andean city become a long-term nomad base? Participants keep their normal work while co-creating the community over three full months.

At 2,500 meters in the Andes, Cuenca offers spring-like weather year-round, a walkable historic center, and a cost of living far below the classic nomad hubs. Participation is application-based, and spending December to March in the southern hemisphere means skipping the northern winter entirely.

Ecuador for nomads

The US dollar as currency, one of the world's most accessible nomad visas, and a country that packs the Andes, the Amazon, the Pacific and the Galápagos into a space smaller than the UK. Here is Ecuador for remote workers in 2026.

Genki Guide for Digital NomadsSarah Kuhlemann

🌍 Boundless Life for nomad families

The only program on this list built for nomads with kids. Boundless Life runs semester-length cohorts that combine long-stay family homes, an education program for the children, and a built-in community of like-minded families in locations such as Tuscany, Portugal, Greece, and Bali.

Further 2027 cohorts run Mar 25-Jun 10 and Sep 14-Dec 9, plus summer camps and a December getaway. Spots per location are limited and early enquiries are recommended.

🔁 Rolling programs worth knowing

Not every retreat fits a fixed calendar entry. These organizers run new editions continuously, so check their calendars for dates that fit your route:

WiFi Tribe runs 4-, 6-, or 8-week "chapters" around the world with groups of 12-25. Joining requires an application and a $500 annual membership fee; most chapters start at or below $1,400 for a shared room and $2,300 for a private room.

Unsettled curates retreats from one week to a full month, from Tahiti sailing trips to a 6-week Side Project Bootcamp, with a co-created, lightly facilitated style.

The Nomad Escape organizes all-inclusive business and community retreats of one to four weeks in destinations such as Madeira and Bali, typically priced at $1,500-$2,500, including accommodation, coworking, workshops, and activities. Their Founder Island Fest in Madeira (Dec 4-10, 2026) is on our events page.

Noma Collective publishes new editions continuously and is already booking 2027; the two editions above are simply the next ones with open spots.

Upcoming nomad events in 2026-2027

Compare upcoming digital nomad events and festivals for 2026/27, with dates, prices, locations, and what to expect at each.

Genki Guide for Digital NomadsSarah Kuhlemann