Vaping / E-cigs — Croatia
What travelers need to know about vaping / e-cigs in Croatia. What is legal at home can be a serious crime here — each rule links to its official source.
Vaping / E-cigs in Croatia: restricted — there are real limits travelers must follow.
Croatia treats vaping exactly like smoking: using an e-cigarette, with or WITHOUT nicotine, is banned in every enclosed public space, and a sanitary inspector can fine you EUR 130 on the spot. A cafe terrace counts as enclosed if it has a roof and more than half its walls shut - glassed-in terraces included.
EUR 130, a fixed on-the-spot fine on a natural person, imposed by the inspector at the place of commission (art. 43 item 1, as replaced by NN 98/2025 art. 13, in force 5 July 2025). Any figure quoted in kuna is stale: the pre-2025 text set HRK 1,000. The venue is separately liable if a person is found smoking or vaping outside a compliant space - EUR 260 to 2,560 for a legal person and EUR 260 to 660 for a sole trader (art. 41(1) and (2), amounts converted to euro by NN 98/2025 art. 11).
§ Narodne novine (Official Gazette of the Republic of Croatia) - Zakon o ogranicavanju uporabe duhanskih i srodnih proizvoda, NN 45/2017 (https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2017_05_45_1047.html), arts. 19(5), 23(1), 23(8), 25(1)-(6), 41, 43 - read verbatim in the official gazette this run. Amending act Zakon o izmjenama i dopunama, NN 98/2025 of 4.7.2025 (https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2025_07_98_1359.html), arts. 7, 8, 11, 13, 14 - read verbatim this run; art. 16 sets entry into force on the first day from publication. Amending act NN 114/2018 (https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2018_12_114_2200.html) also retrieved.Verified Sep 13, 2026