文化圈（德语：Kulturkreis）是一个与文化相关的地域名词，多侧重「历史发展」与「地域统合」，现时则在日本较多地被使用。

「文化圈」的概念与另一个类似的概念「文化区」（Cultural area）的意思并不尽相同。一般而言，「文化圈」概念着重「历史发展」与「地域统合」，而「文化区」较着重地理概念。

The Kulturkreis (roughly, "culture circle" or "cultural field") school was a central idea of the early 20th-century Austrian school of anthropology that sought to redirect the discipline away from the quest for an underlying, universal human nature toward a concern with the particular histories of individual societies. It was the notion of a culture complex as an entity that develops from a centre of origin and becomes diffused over large areas of the world.