Yes, you can smoke at Katowice Airport (KTW) — an enclosed indoor smoking cabin sits airside on the lowest level of Terminal B, near Gate 25, plus outdoor smoking landside outside the terminal buildings.
Katowice Airport, in Pyrzowice, spreads passenger processing across three buildings: Terminal A for non-Schengen departures, Terminal B for Schengen departures, and Terminal C for all arrivals. If your route continues through Warsaw, Warsaw Chopin Airport (WAW) has enclosed smoking booths airside on both its Schengen and non-Schengen concourses.
Terminal B — Schengen Departures (Airside)
Terminal B handles departures within the Schengen area. Reports on airportsmokers.com place an enclosed smoking cabin on its lowest level, near Gate 25, in January 2022 and again in August 2024 — consistent locations across two independent, dated updates, which is why this page treats the cabin as confirmed.
Terminal C — Arrivals (Reported, Unconfirmed)
A single May 2026 report on airportsmokers.com describes a smoking cabin in Terminal C, reachable after passport control and ahead of the baggage claim area — useful if you land and want to smoke before collecting luggage, if it holds up. No second, independent report has confirmed it yet, so treat this as a single dated account rather than a settled fact.
Terminal A — Non-Schengen Departures (Reported, Unconfirmed)
Terminal A serves non-Schengen departures. A 2018 traveller report described a small smoking booth near Gate 6, on the ground floor just after security. Nothing more recent has confirmed it. The independently confirmed cabin at Katowice is the Terminal B one, so if your gate is in Terminal A, check current signage or ask airport staff.
Landside (Before Security)
Outdoor smoking is available landside, outside the terminal buildings, under Poland’s default rule for open-air spaces.
Vaping
Poland’s 22 July 2016 amendment to the tobacco-products health law extends the same enclosed-public-place rules to e-cigarettes, so vape in the Terminal B cabin or outdoors landside, the same as cigarettes. The airport publishes no separate rule for heated-tobacco devices.
Summary
| Area | Smoking | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal B departures (airside, Schengen) | Yes | Enclosed cabin, lowest level, near Gate 25; confirmed Jan 2022 and Aug 2024 |
| Terminal C arrivals | Reported, unconfirmed | Single May 2026 report; no independent confirmation yet |
| Terminal A departures (non-Schengen) | Reported, unconfirmed | Single 2018 report near Gate 6 |
| Landside (outdoor) | Yes | Outside the terminal buildings, open-air |
| Vaping | Terminal B cabin or outdoors | Same rule as cigarettes, per the 2016 law amendment |
For Poland’s airport smoking rules and vaping law, see our Poland airport guide.