Yes, you can smoke at Bukhara International Airport (BHK) — outdoors, landside, beyond the five-metre zone Uzbek law requires clear of the terminal entrances. Bukhara’s small terminal does not publish a designated smoking room, and no dated traveller reports describe one, so treat the building’s interior as smoke-free and plan on stepping outside.
Bukhara is a small regional airport serving the historic Silk Road city, run by state operator JSC Uzbekistan Airports.
Inside the Terminal
The terminal building at BHK is smoke-free. The operator’s own site publishes contact and administrative details for Bukhara, with no facility page for a smoking room unlike its sister airports at Tashkent and Samarkand; no 2024 or later traveller reports describe one at Bukhara either.
Outside the Terminal
Uzbekistan’s Law No. ZRU-844 on tobacco restrictions permits open-air smoking outside a five-metre zone around the entrances to airports and other transport terminals. At Bukhara’s small forecourt, that means stepping back from the doors before lighting up landside.
Vaping
Uzbekistan bans e-cigarettes nationwide under Law No. ZRU-844, so do not bring a vape device into the country. The same outdoor landside rule that covers cigarettes at BHK is for combustible tobacco only — there is no vaping equivalent.
Summary
| Area | Smoking | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal interior | No | No designated smoking room confirmed |
| After security / airside | No | No facility confirmed |
| Outside the terminal, landside | Yes | Permitted beyond the five-metre zone required clear of the doors |
| Vaping / e-cigarettes | No | Banned nationwide |
Bukhara sits alongside Samarkand Airport’s sterile-area smoking rooms and Tashkent Airport’s airside smoking area in Terminal 2 as one of Uzbekistan’s three international gateways.
For Uzbekistan’s nationwide smoking law, the vape ban and every other Uzbek airport, see our Uzbekistan airport guide.