Batumi

Expect to party on the beaches with Russians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Iranians, Turks, Dutch, Germans, and, of course, Georgians.

Also, Batumi has an interesting architecture, mixing modern attempts with old architecture.

Climate:

Batumi and its vicinity is one of the important tourism and resort zones on the Georgian Black Sea littoral. The climate is humid subtropical. The low annual range of temperature, with a mild winter and warm summer is a characteristic of the city and of the Georgian coast as well. The average annual temperature is 14.5°C. The average temperature in January, the coldest month, is 7.1°C and in August, the warmest month, 23.2°C. The annual precipitation is 2,560 mm. Showers are frequent. It rarely snows but when it does, the snow melts easily. The average annual temperature of the sea is 16.7°C at the shore.

By plane:

1 Batumi International Airport. (BUS IATA) is 2 km (1.2 mi) south of the city (updated Aug 2026)

The following airlines operate service to Batumi International Airport:

Air Astana (Almaty (seasonal))

AirBaltic (Riga (seasonal))

Arkia (Tel Aviv (seasonal))

Azerbaijan Airlines (Baku)

Azimuth (Mineralnye Vody, Moscow–Vnukovo)

Belavia (Minsk)

Centrum Air (Tashkent)

El Al (Tel Aviv)

flydubai (Dubai) (seasonal)

Flynas (Jeddah (seasonal), Riyadh (seasonal))

Georgian Airways (Moscow-Vnukovo, Tbilisi)

Israir (Tel Aviv (seasonal))

Jazeera Airways (Kuwait City (seasonal))

Pegasus Airlines (Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen)

Red Wings (Chelyabinsk (seasonal), Kazan (seasonal), Krasnodar (seasonal), Moscow–Zhukovsky (seasonal), Nizhny Novgorod (seasonal), Novosibirsk (seasonal), Orenburg (seasonal), Perm (seasonal), Saint Petersburg (seasonal), Samara (seasonal), Saratov (seasonal), Sochi (seasonal), Tyumen (seasonal), Ufa (seasonal), Volgograd (seasonal), Yekaterinburg (seasonal))

Sepehran Airlines (Tehran)

Turkish Airlines (Istanbul)

Vanilla Sky (Natakhtari)

By bus:

There are three bus/marshrutka stations in Batumi:

2 Batumi Bus Station (Old Bus Station) (close to the northern end of the promenade; just go east across the railway tracks). This one has long distance marshrutkas to Kutaisi, Tbilisi, Poti, etc. (updated Sep 2019)

3 Batumi Bus Terminal. Large buses to foreign destinations. (updated Sep 2019)

4 Marshrutkas to Sarpi, Tbilisi Square. Sarpi: 2 lari, 20 min. (updated Sep 2022)

From specific destinations:

Tbilisi – Buses and marshrutkas operate regularly between Batumi and Tbilisi: 6-7 hr. 40 lari (Sep 2022). The scenery along the way is breathtaking.

Akhaltsikhe (via Khashuri) – 08:30, and 11:30. 6 hr. 20 lari.

Akhaltsikhe (via Khulo, Jun-Aug) – 10:00. 6 hr. 18 lari.

Borjomi – 1-2 early ones. 4½ hr. 17 lari.