Split for digital nomads

Best cafes

Split's cafe culture is not a scene, it is a habit. The city takes its coffee slowly, at outdoor tables that stay full from breakfast through the long Dalmatian afternoon, and the twelve rooms and terraces below are chosen for the ones locals keep returning to: the espresso counters on Narodni trg, the daytime rooms just off the Diocletian walls, the neighbourhood bars on Poljička cesta, and the beach-side terraces west of the ferry port. Some open at 06:30 and close at midnight, doubling as morning cafe, lunchtime bar, and after-dinner glass of loza. Others keep strict 08:00–20:00 hours because the room is built around a swim, not a nightcap. Skip the harbour-front chains along the Riva; the twelve here are what a local editor would recommend to a friend arriving Thursday, on a first coffee before the walk into the Palace.