Day Office Oakland: The Complete Guide to All 4 Buildings (2026)

Every day office Oakland lists on Wezoo sits in one of four buildings. A day office is a private, lockable room you book for a single day — no membership, no lease, no deposit — and below is what each of the four costs, what the rate covers, how many rooms of each size they hold, and which one suits which kind of day. If you want the product explained rather than the city compared, start with our complete guide to day offices.

Rates run from $129 to $239 a day before fees, and every building charges one flat rate whatever size room you take. In Oakland the thing that runs out as your team grows is not your budget, it is the rooms. A day office is one of several flexible workspace options in Oakland, and the comparison with a coworking day pass is at the end.

Day office Oakland prices: what a day actually costs

Four buildings, four rates, and each building charges exactly one rate. Across all 127 rooms there is not a single case of two different prices at the same address — a two-person room and a sixteen-person room at 1212 Broadway are both $129. Wezoo adds a 10% booking fee on every one of the 127 listings, and there is no separate sales-tax line on top, so the all-in figure is the rate plus a tenth.

Paying more does not buy a bigger room. The two cheapest buildings have the larger typical room — four people at $129, three at $149 — while 1901 Harrison Street at $229 is mostly single-person rooms. It is not a clean ladder: 66 Franklin Street is the dearest and its typical room is bigger than 1901 Harrison Street’s. With only four buildings in the city that is a fact about today’s listings rather than a rule about Oakland, but it does mean size and price are decoupled here.

What runs out in Oakland is rooms, not budget

Each building charges one flat rate for any room it has, so the moment a building can seat your team at all, its rate is the rate. The cheapest building is automatically your cheapest option for any team its rooms can hold, and cost never becomes the constraint. The only question that matters is whether a room that size exists — and in Oakland, past about half a dozen people, it usually does not.

Five people have seven rooms to choose from at 1212 Broadway, seven at 66 Franklin Street, five at the Tribune Building — and exactly one at 1901 Harrison Street, the second most expensive address in the city. Six people have two rooms at 1212 Broadway. Eight people have four rooms in all of Oakland, and 66 Franklin Street, the address with the most rooms of any, has none of them.

Supply collapses while price stands still. A solo worker picks from 127 rooms. A team of six picks from twelve. A team of eight has four in the entire city, and a team of twelve has one. The cheapest room that fits is $129 the whole way down that ladder — what disappears is choice, and with it your odds of getting the date you want.

An advertised ceiling is one room, not a building. Each building has a headline capacity, and in every case that size exists in precisely one of its listings: one of 26 at 1212 Broadway, one of 24 at the Tribune Building, one of 28 at 1901 Harrison Street, one of 49 at 66 Franklin Street. Four rooms out of 127 — 3% of the city’s day offices — sit at their own building’s maximum. “Up to 16 people” is a single room that somebody else can book first.

Widening the search barely helps. Across all of Alameda County — 11 buildings, 224 day offices, six towns from Berkeley to Newark — 1212 Broadway is still the cheapest room that fits at every team size up to 16, and 16 is where Oakland stops entirely. Only two buildings in the county go higher: 1900 Powell St in Emeryville (listed to 57 people, $179 a day, about 3 miles from downtown Oakland) and Corporate Commons in Pleasanton (listed to 36 people, $229 a day, about 20 miles from downtown Oakland). A team of twenty leaves the city and pays $179. All 11 county buildings are Regus or Spaces, so widening the search does not widen the choice of operator.

Oakland buildings with day offices you can book

All four are in Oakland proper — two downtown, one in Uptown, one in Jack London Square — and the two furthest apart are barely a mile from each other. Nothing below is in Berkeley, Emeryville or San Francisco. They are listed cheapest first.

1. 1212 Broadway — Oakland

What to expect: The cheapest day rate in Oakland, and the only address in the city that lists a room for 16. Twenty-six rooms are on the books here and thirteen of them seat four, so the typical booking is a small team room rather than a solo box. Twenty-five of the twenty-six listings are tagged for natural light — the highest share of the four buildings that list day offices in Oakland. It sits on the same block of Broadway as the 12th St. Oakland City Center BART station, whose own address is 1245 Broadway.

Day rate: $129 ($141.90 all in) · Rooms listed: 26, most often for 4 people, largest listed for 16 · Daylight: tagged on 25 of 26 listings

Operator: Regus · Address: 1212 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612

👉 Book 1212 Broadway on Wezoo

2. Tribune Building — Oakland

What to expect: The landmark clock tower on 13th Street, about 230 feet from 1212 Broadway and $20 a day more. Twenty-four rooms, ten of them three-person, and the widest range of sizes in the city — every capacity from two to seven, plus a nine and a ten. If you want choice rather than the lowest number, this is the address with the most of it.

Day rate: $149 ($163.90 all in) · Rooms listed: 24, most often for 3 people, largest listed for 10 · Daylight: tagged on 19 of 24 listings

Operator: Spaces · Address: 409 13th Street, Oakland, CA 94612

👉 Book Tribune Building on Wezoo

3. 1901 Harrison Street — Oakland

What to expect: The building with the longest services list of the four: bike storage, parking, a restaurant, a coffee and tea bar, a lounge, breakout space, catering and step-free access. It is also the one to read carefully before booking — twenty-two of its twenty-eight day offices are single-person rooms, so the $229 rate usually buys a room for one. It sits in Uptown, the district served by BART’s 19th St. Oakland station at 1900 Broadway.

Day rate: $229 ($251.90 all in) · Rooms listed: 28, most often for 1 person, largest listed for 8 · Daylight: tagged on 8 of 28 listings

Operator: Regus · Address: 1901 Harrison Street, Oakland, CA 94612

👉 Book 1901 Harrison Street on Wezoo

4. 66 Franklin Street — Oakland

What to expect: The largest day-office inventory in Oakland by a distance — forty-nine rooms, nearly double any other address — and the only one of the four down by the waterfront rather than in the downtown core, about two thirds of a mile south of 1212 Broadway. Twenty-five of those forty-nine rooms are two-person, and none of them fits a team of eight. A transit-adjacent location and step-free access are the two published services it has that the two cheaper downtown addresses do not; the price is the other difference.

Day rate: $239 ($262.90 all in) · Rooms listed: 49, most often for 2 people, largest listed for 7 · Daylight: tagged on 13 of 49 listings

Operator: Spaces · Address: 66 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA 94607

👉 Book 66 Franklin Street on Wezoo

What you get for a day rate

Every day office Oakland publishes on Wezoo carries Wi-Fi, and every one of the 127 also carries coffee, tea and water. That is worth stating plainly because it is not true of the other products at the same four addresses: of the 49 hot-desk listings and the 8 meeting-room listings in these same buildings, none lists it. Whatever else a day office is buying you here, it is buying the refreshments. All of this is what the listings say they include, not an inspection of the buildings — so if something is critical to your day, confirm it when you book.

The reverse holds for meeting kit. All eight meeting-room listings at these buildings carry a whiteboard, a flip chart, a large display and video-conference equipment. None of the 127 day offices does. If your day involves presenting to a room, you are booking the wrong product — check meeting rooms in Oakland by the hour instead.

Natural light is the one thing that varies, and it varies by building rather than by room size. 1212 Broadway tags 25 of its 26; Tribune Building tags 19 of its 24; 1901 Harrison Street tags 8 of its 28; 66 Franklin Street tags 13 of its 49. Each operator runs one of the bright buildings and one of the dark ones, so the brand on the door tells you nothing about the windows. If a window matters, check the specific address.

Two more things are identical across all the rooms. Every listing publishes the same 8:30am to 5pm window, so check the building directly if you need to start earlier than 8:30 or run past 5. And although the booking system will let you select a slot as short as 60 minutes, the rate is a day rate: booking three hours costs exactly the same as booking the whole day. Cancellation terms are attached to each listing and set by the operator, so read them on the booking page before you pay rather than assuming a standard notice period.

Day office vs coworking day pass vs meeting room in Oakland

The same four buildings sell all three, so the comparison is like for like. A hot desk costs $49 a day at 1212 Broadway and Tribune Building, $79 at 1901 Harrison Street and 66 Franklin Street. A day office costs 2.6 to 3.1 times that at the same address. A meeting room is hourly — $99.08 to $184.00 across the seven Oakland meeting rooms that publish a rate (an eightth, at 1212 Broadway, does not).

The meeting-room comparison catches people out. The cheapest Oakland meeting room is $99.08 an hour and the cheapest day office is $129 for the whole day — both with the same 10% fee on top. Past about 80 minutes, the day office is the cheaper room. Book an hourly meeting room because you need the screen and the whiteboard, then, not because you only need the space for part of the day. Three hours in a meeting room runs close to $297; three hours in a day office is $129.

For a team deciding between passes and a room: at two people, buying two hot-desk passes is cheaper at all four buildings. At four people, the day office is cheaper than four passes at all four. Three is the wash — the two options land within $18 of each other everywhere, so pick on whether you need a door that closes rather than on the money.

• Pick a day office when the day involves confidential calls, interviews, or a team that needs to talk to each other without annoying a shared floor — and for anything longer than about an hour and a half, even if you are not staying all day.
• Pick a day pass when you are working alone and the room is not the point — see hot desks in Oakland.
• Pick a meeting room when you need the display, the whiteboard or the video kit. That is the only thing it has that a day office does not — it is not the cheaper option for a long booking.

• Pick a monthly office once you are booking three or more days a week — the arithmetic is in private offices in Oakland.

How to book a day office in Oakland

1. Fix the room size first, not the building. Because each building charges one flat rate, size costs you nothing extra — but it costs you availability. Decide you need six seats and you are choosing from twelve rooms citywide.
2. Start at $129. 1212 Broadway is the cheapest fit at every size up to 16, so it is the default first check rather than a budget compromise — but use the table above to check it has a room your size before you go, because at six people it only has two.
3. Book early for anything over six people. Six rooms in Oakland take seven; four take eight. At those sizes the date drives the choice, not the address.
4. Read the cancellation terms on the listing. They are published per room, so check the one you are actually booking.

5. Check the neighboring towns if the team is larger than 16. Oakland lists nothing bigger; Emeryville and Pleasanton do.

Worth keeping in mind as you compare: the day office Oakland market is four addresses run by one company under two brands, so the choice that matters is between buildings rather than between operators.

If you are weighing this against renting for a week or a month, our guide on how to rent an office for a day walks through the same decision without the Oakland specifics. And if your team sits just outside the city, office space in Alameda covers the buildings across the estuary.

Day office Oakland: frequently asked questions

What does a day office cost per day in Oakland?

Between $129 and $239 a day before fees, depending on the building. Wezoo adds a 10% booking fee and there is no separate sales-tax line, so the all-in range is $141.90 to $262.90. Each of the four Oakland buildings charges a single flat rate regardless of how big a room you book.

Which Oakland buildings actually have day offices?

Four: 1212 Broadway and the Tribune Building at 409 13th Street, both in downtown Oakland; 1901 Harrison Street in Uptown; and 66 Franklin Street in Jack London Square. Between them they list 127 bookable day offices. Regus runs two and Spaces runs two, and both brands belong to the same parent company, IWG.

What is included, and how late can you book?

Wi-Fi and coffee, tea and water are included on all 127 Oakland day-office listings. Meeting kit is not — no day office here lists a whiteboard, display or video-conference equipment. Every listing publishes an 8:30am to 5pm window, and the rate is a day rate however long you book — three hours costs the same as the full day. Availability at short notice depends entirely on room size: 127 rooms fit one person, but only four fit eight.

Is a day office cheaper than a coworking day pass in Oakland?

For one or two people, no — hot desks at these buildings are $49 or $79 a day, and two passes beat a day office at all four addresses. For four people, yes: the day office is cheaper than four passes everywhere in the city. Three people is the break-even, with the two options within $18 of each other at every building.

What is the biggest day office in Oakland?

One room at 1212 Broadway listed for up to 16 people, at the same $129 rate as its smaller rooms. It is the only Oakland listing above 10, and it is a single room — across all four buildings just 4 of the 127 listings sit at their own building’s advertised maximum. For a team larger than 16, the nearest options in Alameda County are in Emeryville and Pleasanton.