Yes, you can smoke at Stavanger Airport (SVG) — outside the terminal building, landside, where Norwegian law permits smoking in the open air. Stavanger Airport Sola keeps no indoor smoking rooms and no airside smoking area, so the terminal is smoke-free from check-in through to the gates.
Stavanger Airport Sola, Norway’s third-busiest, is run by Avinor from a single passenger terminal.
Where to Smoke
Smoking is permitted outside the terminal building, landside — Norwegian law allows smoking in the open air, and Stavanger’s single terminal provides no indoor room, so this is the only sanctioned spot. Step outside before check-in or after collecting your bags to reach it.
Because the only option is landside, the practical move is to have your last cigarette before you go through the security checkpoint. Once you’re airside, there is nowhere to smoke until you land.
After Security and Transit Passengers
Stavanger’s single passenger terminal has no smoking area past security and no indoor smoking room. Passengers connecting through SVG who want to smoke have to exit the secure zone to the outdoor area, landside, and then pass back through screening to return to their gate. On a tight connection this eats into your buffer, so treat a short layover through Stavanger as a smoke-free stop.
Vaping
Norway’s Tobacco Damage Act (tobakksskadeloven) states that its indoor smoking-ban chapter applies equally to electronic cigarettes, so vaping at SVG follows the same rule as smoking: outdoors, landside, outside the terminal building — not inside at any point.
Summary
| Area | Smoking | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Indoor (terminal) | No | Entirely smoke-free; no indoor rooms |
| After security / airside | No | No smoking area on the gate side |
| Outdoor (landside) | Yes | Outside the terminal building |
| Vaping | Outdoor only | Same landside area as smoking; not permitted indoors |
For Norway’s airport smoking rules and vaping law, including Oslo and Bergen, see our Norway airport smoking guide.