Yes — at 300+ airports worldwide you can smoke after security, without leaving the secure zone. That is the single most important thing for a smoker on a layover: an airside smoking area (an indoor room or an outdoor terrace past the checkpoint) means you don’t have to exit and re-clear security for a cigarette.
This page lists every airport in our database with after-security (airside) smoking, by country. Two columns show whether that airside option is an indoor room or an outdoor area (some airports have both).
How to read this list
- After security = airside. Every airport here lets you smoke past the checkpoint, in the departures or transit zone.
- Indoor room — an enclosed, ventilated smoking room or lounge (common in Russia, Japan, India, the Gulf); the full directory of airports with indoor smoking lounges profiles each one in detail.
- Outdoor airside — an open-air terrace, balcony, or garden past security (common in Schengen Europe, Singapore, Bangkok, Brisbane).
- Airports not on this list are landside-outdoor-only (exit security, smoke outside, re-screen) or allow nothing on airport property (leave the airport grounds altogether). For those, and for the rules in your country, see the USA guide, US airport smoking laws by state, or your country hub.
The 30 airports travellers ask about most
These are the 30 airports whose pages on this site were shown most often in search results in the three months to 2 October 2026, in that order, with what you will find past security at each; every name links to the full gate-by-gate page.
- Dubai (DXB) — ventilated indoor smoking rooms after security in all three terminals: eight lounges in Terminal 3 on Dubai Airports’ own map (travellers describe rooms near Gates A2, B3/B7, B25/B27, C9 and C23), Terminal 1’s Concourse D and two lounges in Terminal 2’s main building.
- Singapore Changi (SIN) — smoking areas in every departure transit hall, open at all hours: open-air gardens such as T1’s Cactus Garden and T2’s Sunflower Garden, plus enclosed rooms including the Sanctuary and Pavilion lounges in T2. Vapes are illegal in Singapore.
- Manchester (MAN) — one outdoor smoking area after security, on the upper level of the Terminal 2 departure lounge; Terminal 3, now Ryanair-only, is landside-only.
- Frankfurt (FRA) — ten indoor smoking lounges after security, open around the clock: Terminal 1 Areas A, B and Z and Terminal 3 Areas H and J.
- Delhi (DEL) — smoking zones after security in all three terminals, every one with a built-in electric lighter; Terminal 3’s covered area opposite Gate 15 has a cigarette kiosk beside it.
- Málaga (AGP) — the one designated smoking area Aena lists, a roofed terrace after security by Gate D72 at the far end of the D gates; on a non-Schengen flight from the B or C gates, use it before passport control.
- Bangalore (BLR) — indoor smoking rooms after security in both terminals, in Terminal 2’s Connecting Corridor 1 near Gate C3 and in Terminal 1 beside the 080 Lounge and opposite Gates 35 and 40, plus a large open-air garden zone in Terminal 2.
- Alicante (ALC) — two terraces after security: the Budweiser Bar’s in the corner of the B and C gates, entered with the code on a bar receipt, and the smoking area attached to the Wetherspoon past passport control in the non-Schengen B gates, entered through the pub.
- Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) — enclosed indoor smoking rooms after security in every terminal, marked with orange signs; Terminal 2E has the most, by the K, L and M gates.
- Las Vegas (LAS) — indoor smoking in the enclosed gaming lounges on the B, C, D and E concourses, Barney’s Lounge near Gate C25 among them; Nevada’s gaming exemption makes it one of the few US airports with airside smoking.
- Brisbane (BNE) — the open-air Smoking Balcony on Level 3 of the International Terminal, behind The Coffee Club near Gate 80, the only after-security smoking facility at an Australian airport.
- Manila (MNL) — airside smoking only inside paid lounges: the PUFF Lounge between Gates 9 and 10 in Terminal 1 and the PAGSS Premium Lounge’s room near Gate 114 in Terminal 3.
- Munich (MUC) — indoor smoking rooms after security in Terminal 1 Modules A, B, C, D and F, in Terminal 2’s G and H concourses and in its satellite by the K and L gates.
- Los Angeles (LAX) — outdoor smoking patios after security at the Tom Bradley International Terminal (Gate 130), Terminal 2 and Terminal 7, and every terminal connects to them airside.
- Jakarta (CGK) — indoor smoking rooms after security in all three terminals: Terminal 3 near Gates 2 and 8 (international) and Gates 12 and 18 (domestic), Terminal 2 by the E gates and Terminal 1 in the gates area.
- Hong Kong (HKG) — open-air areas after security in Terminal 1, the Sky Garden near Gate 10 and the decks near Gates 202 and 218; the former indoor rooms are closed.
- Stockholm Arlanda (ARN) — indoor smoking rooms after security in Terminals 2, 4 and 5; Terminal 5 alone has nine, by Gates 3 and 13, on Levels 3 and 4 and in glass cabins through the building.
- Antalya (AYT) — an open-air smoking terrace by the gates after security in each of its three terminals: International 1, International 2 and Domestic.
- Brussels (BRU) — three indoor smoking areas after security, open 24 hours: Pier A between Gates A28 and A29, Pier B near Gate B17 and the T-pier between Gates A65/T65 and A67/T67.
- Tenerife South (TFS) — after security, the one smoking spot travellers describe is the open-air terrace of the paid Montaña Roja VIP Lounge; otherwise smoke landside, outside the terminal.
- Mumbai (BOM) — indoor smoking rooms after security in both terminals, each with electric lighters: Terminal 1 near Gates 26–27 and Gate 1, Terminal 2 on Level 4 near Gate 68 and on Level 3 near Gates 42 and 47.
- London Gatwick (LGW) — one airside option, the outdoor terrace of the paid My Lounge in the South Terminal; the North Terminal is landside-only.
- Faro (FAO) — a small indoor smoking room in the Gates B (non-Schengen) zone, up the stairs by Mulligans Bar, described by travellers in 2025 and not listed by ANA; the Schengen Gates A zone has none.
- Copenhagen (CPH) — three open-air terraces after security, by Gates A, on the Gates C balcony and at Gate E135, plus an enclosed room inside the paid Aspire Lounge.
- Palma de Mallorca (PMI) — a small terrace after security opposite Gates C42–C43 in Module C; UK and other non-Schengen flights leave from Module A, behind passport control, so smoke before you go through.
- Kraków (KRK) — an outdoor smoking area after passport control on the non-Schengen side, through the Sky Lounge restaurant to the corridor for Gates 19–24; on the Schengen side, ask staff whether the glass cabin opposite Gate 1 is still open.
- Athens (ATH) — free, air-conditioned indoor smoking rooms after security in each boarding area: opposite Gate A8, between Gates B12 and B13 and in the C-satellite near Gate C34.
- Bali Denpasar (DPS) — indoor smoking rooms after security in both terminals, by Gates 4–7 on the international 2nd floor and the domestic 3rd floor.
- Istanbul (IST) — open-air smoking terraces after security by Gates A11, B1, B18, C1, D16, F8 and F13 and at the transfer desks, plus terraces on the domestic airside; the airport counts 13 airside terraces and 6 balconies, none of them indoors.
- Seoul Incheon (ICN) — 21 enclosed smoking rooms after security, open 24 hours: 5 in Terminal 1, 3 in the Concourse and 13 in Terminal 2, all on the 3rd floor beside the gates.
Airports with smoking after security, by country
343 airports worldwide where you can smoke after security, across 95 countries.
The regional picture
The map is lopsided. Russia, India, Japan, China, South Korea, and the Gulf states (UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait) almost universally keep airside indoor smoking rooms — a layover there is easy. Turkey keeps airside smoking areas too: open-air terraces at Istanbul, Antalya and regional airports such as Kayseri, Dalaman and Gaziantep, plus a smoking area inside the paid Primeclass Lounge in Bodrum’s International Terminal. Schengen Europe (France, Germany, parts of Spain/Italy) leans on airside outdoor terraces and a few indoor cabins. At the other end, the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are overwhelmingly landside-outdoor-only — a smoke break means exiting and re-screening. The UK is the partial exception in the English-speaking world: most of its airports are landside-only, Heathrow among them, and a nine-strong group — Manchester, Bristol, Newcastle, Liverpool, Aberdeen, East Midlands, Cardiff, Bournemouth and Gatwick’s lounge terrace — keeps outdoor smoking areas past security. For the worldwide breakdown of which model applies where, see our ultimate airport smoking guide and can you smoke or vape at airports?.