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Cafés with Wi-Fi in Lyon

Wi-Fi from the Pentes to Cours Gambetta, with tables for an afternoon of work.

Photo: ROMAN ODINTSOV, Pexels License

Free Wi-Fi in a French café carries a legal duty for the owner. According to the CNIL, France's data-protection authority, a café that offers internet access must keep technical connection data, such as IP addresses and device identifiers, for one year.1 It is not required in principle to record who its customers are, so an open network with no sign-up is lawful; a café that chooses to collect names must keep them for five years.1

Terreaux & Les Pentes hold about two in five of the city's Wi-Fi cafés, far ahead of La Guillotière, Jean Macé and Part-Dieu. Across the left bank they come in ones and twos, spread from Rue Béchevelin to Avenue des Frères Lumière.

Local tip: For a full working day, Patchwork Café on Cours Gambetta advertises free fiber Wi-Fi and a coworking corner, and stays open until midnight from Wednesday to Friday.2

Where these cafés are: Terreaux & Les Pentes (15), La Guillotière (4), Jean Macé & Gerland (4), Part-Dieu & Préfecture (4), Vieux Lyon (3), Presqu'île (2), Monplaisir & États-Unis (2), Vaise (1), La Croix-Rousse (1), Confluence (1).

At a glance

37Cafés listed
30With opening hours
06:00Earliest opening
00:00Latest closing
  • Opens earliest: L'Industrie, from 06:00 (Mon 07:00–22:30 · Tue 06:00–22:30 · Wed 07:00–22:30 · Thu 06:00–22:30 · Fri 07:00–22:30 · Sat 06:00–22:30 · Sun 08:00–22:00).
  • Closes latest: Le Candide, until 00:00 (Mon–Fri 09:00–00:00 · Sat 16:00–00:00).
  • Most listed streets: Avenue des Frères Lumière (2).
  • Most common features: outdoor seating (54%), smoke-free indoors (24%), vegetarian options (22%).

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Patchwork, Okara and Le R: cafés built for work

Patchwork Café, at 146 Cours Gambetta, calls itself freelance-friendly, advertises free fiber Wi-Fi and has a coworking corner as well as board games.2 It stays open until 23:00 on Mondays and Tuesdays and until midnight from Wednesday to Friday.2

Okara, a vegetarian cantine caféinée (caffeinated canteen) in the 7th, welcomes people for breakfast, lunch or a work session on weekdays.3 In Gerland, Le R at 5 Place Václav Havel pairs a café with a coworking space in a Résidétape proliving building and opens 09:00–18:00 on weekdays.4

Small rooms on the Pentes

Nuage Café on Rue des Capucins is built around travel, with a different coffee or tea origin each day, brunch all day and crêpes and pastries in the afternoon.5 It keeps 07:00–21:00 every day.

Kafé Stockholm on Rue Saint-Polycarpe opens at 08:00 from Tuesday to Friday, Nomade Tea on Rue Royale keeps 10:00–18:00 Tuesday to Saturday, and Un Brin de Folie and Zeitgeist Café pair their Wi-Fi with specialty coffee. Tomé, on Rue Romarin, runs a lunch menu of two dishes, one of which can be made vegetarian, and turns into a coffee shop in the afternoon.6

Vieux Lyon, the Presqu'île and the left bank

Across the Saône, Ô Passage on Rue du Bœuf, Le Luminarium on Rue des Trois-Maries and Puzzle Café on Rue des Estrées all have Wi-Fi, though all three close on Mondays. On the Presqu'île, Choc'Hotelo on Rue de la Charité opens every afternoon, 14:00–20:00.

On the left bank, Coin café on Rue Chevreul opens 08:30–18:30 on weekdays and from 09:30 on Saturdays, Fami.le on Rue Claude Boyer daily from 08:00, and Café Rosa on Rue Béchevelin on weekdays from 11:00. Les Dimanches chez Lou, on Avenue des Frères Lumière, is a café botanique (plant café) that sells plants and freshly roasted coffee alongside its vegetarian cooking.7

Wi-Fi into the evening

Le Candide, a neighborhood bistro at 55 Avenue Félix Faure, lists Wi-Fi, a terrace and air-conditioning among its services and is open 09:00–00:00 on weekdays and from 16:00 on Saturdays.8 L'Industrie on Avenue des Frères Lumière covers the long day, from 06:00 or 07:00 to 22:30.

On the Pentes, Komé Café opens in the afternoon and serves until 21:30 on most days, and Kotopo opens at 18:00 and closes at 23:00, or midnight on Fridays and Saturdays.

Sources

  1. Fournir un accès internet public : quelles sont vos obligations ? (17 July 2024), CNIL, accessed October 2026
  2. Patchwork Café, Lyon 7, Patchwork Café, accessed October 2026
  3. Okara, cantine caféinée, Okara, accessed October 2026
  4. Le R, café et coworking à Gerland, Le R (Résidétape), accessed October 2026
  5. Nuage Café Lyon, Nuage Café, accessed October 2026
  6. Tomé, restaurant et coffee shop à Lyon 1er, Tomé, accessed October 2026
  7. Les Dimanches chez Lou, café botanique, Les Dimanches chez Lou, accessed October 2026
  8. Le Candide, bistrot à Lyon 3, Le Candide, accessed October 2026
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FAQ

Wi-Fi in Lyon: questions

Which cafés in Lyon are good for working on a laptop?

Patchwork Café on Cours Gambetta calls itself freelance-friendly, with free fiber Wi-Fi and a coworking corner. Okara, a vegetarian canteen in the 7th, welcomes work sessions on weekdays, and Le R at 5 Place Václav Havel in Gerland pairs a café with a coworking space, open 09:00–18:00 on weekdays.

Do cafés in Lyon have to log Wi-Fi users?

A café offering internet access in France must keep technical connection data, such as IP addresses and device identifiers, for one year, according to the CNIL. It is not obliged to record customers' identities, so open Wi-Fi with no sign-up is lawful; if a café chooses to collect names, it must keep them for five years.

Which Lyon cafés with Wi-Fi stay open in the evening?

Le Candide on Avenue Félix Faure is open until midnight on weekdays and Saturdays, Patchwork Café on Cours Gambetta until midnight from Wednesday to Friday, and L'Industrie in Monplaisir until 22:30. Nuage Café on Rue des Capucins keeps 07:00–21:00 every day, and Komé Café serves until 21:30 on most days.

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