Yes, you can smoke at Batumi International Airport Alexander Kartveli (BUS) — the airport’s own passenger FAQ confirms smoking is allowed at designated smoking areas, without naming a location, and outdoors, outside the terminal building, is always an option since Georgian law’s indoor ban doesn’t reach open-air ground. The airport doesn’t publish details of an after-security smoking option, so treat the terminal interior as smoke-free once you’re inside.
Batumi Airport is the gateway to Georgia’s Black Sea coast, a compact single terminal that doubled in size during a 2019–2021 expansion. It’s operated by TAV Airports, the same group that runs Tbilisi, and it runs a paid Primeclass Lounge on the first floor of the departures area, past security control.
Landside — Outside the Terminal
The option at Batumi is outdoors, outside the terminal building. The airport’s own FAQ states plainly that smoking is allowed only at designated smoking areas at the airport, without listing where those areas are or an after-security location; Georgia’s tobacco-control law bans smoking only in buildings and structures, so the open ground outside the terminal falls outside that ban regardless. Use this before you check in, or after collecting your bags on arrival.
After Security and the Primeclass Lounge
Batumi Airport’s site doesn’t name or locate a smoking area on the secure side of the terminal. The Primeclass Lounge, reached on the first floor right after security control, is described on the airport’s own lounge page with its amenities — Wi-Fi, snacks, a business centre — and no smoking section is listed among them. Georgian law exempts the transit zones of airports from the indoor-smoking ban, which is how neighbouring Tbilisi keeps enclosed airside smoking booths; Batumi has not published whether it runs an equivalent facility, so plan on the landside option before you clear security.
Vaping
Georgia’s tobacco-control law treats e-cigarettes and heated tobacco the same as cigarettes, banned everywhere smoking is banned. Vaping is therefore confined to the same outdoor ground outside the terminal; the check-in hall and departure areas are vape-free.
Summary
| Area | Smoking | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal interior (general) | No | Smoke-free throughout |
| After security / airside | Not published | The airport does not document an after-security smoking option |
| Outdoor (landside) | Yes | Open air outside the terminal; the airport’s own FAQ confirms designated areas exist without giving a location |
| Vaping | Same as smoking | Outdoors, outside the terminal |
If you’re connecting through the capital, Tbilisi Airport’s enclosed airside smoking booths are a post-security option Batumi doesn’t document.
For Georgia’s national airport smoking rules and the airport transit-zone exemption, see our Georgia airport guide.