Regions

A region is where your cluster lives: it determines where the platform runs your control plane, and where your worker nodes are created in your Hetzner project. Both sit in the same Hetzner location, so nodes and control plane talk over a short path.

Available today

Region	Location	Status (as of 2026-07-09)
nbg1	Nuremberg, Germany	Live
fsn1	Falkenstein, Germany	Register interest
hel1	Helsinki, Finland	Register interest

Everything runs in Hetzner data centers in the European Union — the control plane on platform infrastructure, your workers in your own project.

How new regions open

We stand up a region when there’s sustained demand — as a rule of thumb, once a handful of customers have asked for it. Instead of hitting a dead end in the composer, unavailable regions show Register interest: click it and we’ll email you when the region opens. That’s not a marketing list; it’s literally the signal we use to decide what to build next.

Choosing a region

Three considerations, in the order they usually matter:

1. Where your grandfathered servers are. A pooled pool draws from adopted servers in the same location as the cluster — a fleet in Nuremberg backs clusters in nbg1. If the servers you want to adopt live in a region that’s not open yet, register interest and tell us; existing fleets are exactly the demand signal that opens regions.
2. Where your users are. Within Europe the differences are small; still, pick the location closest to your traffic.
3. Where the rest of your infrastructure is. If you already run databases or storage in a specific Hetzner location, co-locating the cluster keeps latency down and traffic local.

A cluster’s region is fixed at creation — moving a cluster means creating a new one in the target region and redeploying (your manifests make that cheap; your adopted servers’ prices are tied to their location either way).

One cluster per region, many clusters per team

Regions are per cluster, not per team: one team can run nbg1 production today and add a fsn1 cluster the day it opens. The flat per-cluster fee is the same in every region.

Want a region that isn’t listed at all? Tell us — the map above grows by request.