Yes, you can smoke at Florence Peretola Airport (FLR) — outside the terminal building, landside, where Italian law permits smoking in the open air. The terminal is smoke-free and there is no smoking area after security, so smoke before you clear the checks or after you collect your bags.
Florence Peretola Airport, Tuscany’s second airport after Pisa, is a single-terminal airport handling around 3.5 million passengers a year (2024).
Before Security (Landside)
Outside the terminal building, landside, Italian law permits smoking in the open air — before you check in or clear security, or after arriving passengers collect their bags.
After Security (Airside)
Florence publishes no airside smoking area. Once you clear security, the gates, the boarding lounge, the shops, and the restrooms are all enclosed and smoke-free. A connecting passenger who wants to smoke has to exit through arrivals to reach the space outside the terminal building, then re-clear security for the onward flight.
Vaping
The airport publishes no separate rule for e-cigarettes at Florence. Use the same space outside the terminal building, landside.
Summary
| Area | Smoking | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Indoor terminal | No | Enclosed spaces are smoke-free under Italy’s 2003 Sirchia Law |
| After security / airside | No | No published smoking area at the gates — a connecting passenger must exit and re-clear |
| Outdoor (landside) | Yes | Outside the terminal building; Italian law permits smoking in the open air |
| Vaping | Yes | Same space as smoking — the airport publishes no separate e-cigarette rule |
For Italy’s airport smoking rules and vaping law, see our Italy airport guide.