Yes, you can smoke at Tunisia’s main international airport. Tunis-Carthage has airside smoking areas the operator lists in the controlled zone, the operator names a public-hall area and a departure-zone area at Djerba, and the open air outside the terminal covers landside smokers at Tunis-Carthage and is the option at Enfidha–Hammamet.
Tunisia Airports Compared: Before and After Security
Before security, you can always smoke outside: at a designated smoking area where there is one, or outside the airport property, beyond the terminal kerb and car parks. After security, Yes means there is a smoking area past security and a dash means none is listed. Each airport’s page has the details.
| Airport | Before security | After security |
|---|---|---|
| Djerba (DJE) | Yes | Yes |
| Enfidha (NBE) | Yes | – |
| Tunis (TUN) | Yes | Yes |
Tunis-Carthage International Airport (TUN) is the country’s primary gateway, run by OACA. The resort airports of Djerba–Zarzis (DJE) and Enfidha–Hammamet (NBE) follow their own patterns, covered below.
How Tunisia Airport Smoking Works
Tunisia has tobacco-control decrees that restrict smoking in enclosed public places rather than the open air, and the airports provide designated areas accordingly.
At Tunis-Carthage, OACA’s own passenger-services page states that smoking inside the terminal building is prohibited and that smoking areas are provided in the controlled zone at both departures and arrivals — travellers described the departures rooms in the Terminal 1 concourse near Gate 53 and Gate 58 in 2022. Landside, smokers use the open air outside the main terminal near the entrances. Vaping sits in a legal grey area: e-cigarettes are sold in Tunisia with no clear regulation, so their legal status is unclear. The airports publish no separate vaping rule for the smoking rooms, so ask staff before using one.
The Hub
Tunis-Carthage International Airport (TUN) is Tunisia’s main international airport and the one most travellers pass through. Operated by OACA, its main passenger building is Terminal 1. OACA lists smoking areas in the controlled zone at both departures and arrivals, giving you somewhere to light up after security in either direction. Before security, the open air outside the terminal entrances covers landside smokers.
Djerba–Zarzis (DJE) and Enfidha–Hammamet (NBE)
Djerba–Zarzis International Airport (DJE), the gateway to the resort island of Djerba, follows the same OACA pattern as Tunis-Carthage: its own services page names a smoking area in the public hall before security and a second one in the departure controlled zone after security, with smoking prohibited elsewhere inside the terminal. OACA’s text does not state whether either named area is an enclosed room.
Enfidha–Hammamet International Airport (NBE) is different — it is operated by TAV Airports rather than OACA, and its passenger-guide pages publish no dedicated smoking-area listing. The option that follows from Tunisian law is the open air outside the terminal building, landside, where the country’s tobacco-control decrees restrict enclosed public places rather than the open air; the airport lists no marked smoking spot of its own.
Tips for Smokers at Tunisia Airports
- Follow the “Espace pour Fumeurs / Smoking Area” signage along the TUN concourse after security; travellers described the rooms near Gate 53 and Gate 58 in 2022.
- Use the open air near the main terminal entrances landside for a smoke before you check in or after you land.
- Gate numbering shifts over the years, so treat those numbers as orientation and give yourself extra time to locate the areas.
- The airside areas are free and open to any passenger who has cleared security — no lounge membership needed — and each holds only a handful of people.
- Smoke in the designated areas; the legal status of e-cigarettes in Tunisia is unclear, so ask staff before vaping.