Buy cigars in Belfast
Cuban and New World cigars posted to every BT address in and around Belfast — inside two working days, kept at 68% humidity until the moment they are packed.
- Two working days
- BT postcodes
- Free delivery, £230 minimum
The short version
Can you get cigars delivered in Belfast?
Southern Smoke Cigars delivers to Belfast and the surrounding BT postcode area. We are an online tobacconist with no shop counter in Belfast, so orders are placed on the website and sent by Royal Mail. Order before 2pm on a working day and your cigars are dispatched the same day; allow two working days to reach Belfast. Delivery is free on every order, and our minimum order is £230 before delivery.
The main points
- Dispatched same day if you order before 2pm, Monday to Friday
- Royal Mail Tracked 24, allow two working days
- Covers BT and all surrounding postcodes
- Someone over 18 must sign for it at the door
We ship to Belfast, we do not have a shop there
Worth being straight about, because a lot of searches for cigars in Belfast are looking for somewhere to walk into. We are not that: stock sits in our own walk-in humidors at 65-69% relative humidity until an order comes in, then goes out sealed, with a free Boveda 69% pack, in plain unbranded packaging. What Belfast gets for that is a box nobody has left drying under shop lighting, inside two working days.
Keeping cigars in Belfast
Belfast is mild and wet, sheltered by the hills that ring the lough, with few extremes at either end of the year. Ambient humidity is high and steady, which is as good as British conditions get for cigars — though as everywhere, the heating undoes it indoors from October.
None of which changes the target inside the box — 16-18°C and 65-70% humidity — only how hard your house works against it. The guide to storing cigars in the British climate covers the rest.
Delivery to Belfast in detail
Northern Ireland is served by the same Royal Mail network but across the Irish Sea, so allow two working days rather than one.
- Royal Mail Tracked 24 — free on every order. Order before 2pm on a working day and it leaves the same day. Allow two working days to reach Belfast.
- Royal Mail Special Delivery — £9.95. Guaranteed delivery is not offered to every BT postcode; Royal Mail will tell you at the point of posting.
- Postcodes covered. BT and everything around Belfast, including Lisburn, Bangor, Newtownabbey, Carrickfergus.
One thing worth knowing about Belfast
The question we actually get asked is about customs, and the answer is that there is no customs step: this is a UK domestic parcel from a UK sender, with UK duty and VAT already paid, and nothing about it is declared at a border. The Irish Sea costs you a day, not a form.
Age checks on the doorstep in Belfast
Cigars are age-restricted, so whoever answers the door in Belfast has to be 18 or over and the courier will ask them to prove it. Nobody in, and Royal Mail cards it for a redelivery or a collection with ID. Where you light it afterwards is a separate question with a different answer either side of the border: smoking in enclosed public places has been illegal in Northern Ireland since 30 April 2007, ahead of England, which makes a cigar in Belfast an outdoor or a private-room proposition.
Belfast and tobacco
Gallaher's built one of the largest tobacco factories in the world on York Street in Belfast, and tobacco was among the city's major industries alongside linen and shipbuilding.
What Belfast customers order most
Much the same as the rest of the UK: Cuban boxes with the green English Market Selection stamp for people who know what they want, H. Upmann Coronas J Tubos Box of 25 being a regular, and Nicaraguan and Honduran robustos for people working out what they like. Belfast and the County Antrim around it come to roughly 345,000 people, which is a wide enough spread of orders for the pattern to be fairly clear. If you are starting from scratch, the beginner's guide is a better place to start than a product page.
Ordering and paying
Bank transfer or cryptocurrency; no card payments. Your order is reserved the moment it is placed and nothing leaves the humidor until payment clears. Bank details go over live chat rather than email — open the chat, quote your order number. Full terms are on the delivery page, or email us at info@southernsmokecigars.com.
Delivery to Belfast
Questions we get asked
Delivery, storage, age checks and Cuban stock in Belfast.
Do you have a cigar shop in Belfast?
No. Southern Smoke Cigars is an online tobacconist with no counter in Belfast or anywhere else — stock is held in our own humidors at a steady 68% humidity and posted out rather than sat on an open shelf. For a BT address that means ordering before 2pm and allowing two working days, which is quicker than most people manage to get to a shop. Our minimum order is £230, and delivery is free.
How long does cigar delivery to Belfast take?
Order before 2pm Monday to Friday and it is dispatched the same day, but allow two working days to reach Belfast. Northern Ireland is served by the same Royal Mail network but across the Irish Sea, so allow two working days rather than one.
Which Belfast postcodes do you deliver to?
All of them. We cover the BT postcode area and everywhere else in the UK, including Lisburn, Bangor, Newtownabbey. Delivery is free to all of them; the only condition is our £230 minimum order. The question we actually get asked is about customs, and the answer is that there is no customs step: this is a UK domestic parcel from a UK sender, with UK duty and VAT already paid, and nothing about it is declared at a border. The Irish Sea costs you a day, not a form.
How should I store cigars in Belfast?
Belfast is mild and wet, sheltered by the hills that ring the lough, with few extremes at either end of the year. Ambient humidity is high and steady, which is as good as British conditions get for cigars — though as everywhere, the heating undoes it indoors from October. Whatever the weather outside, the target inside the box is the same: 16-18°C and 65-70% relative humidity. Every order leaves here with a free Boveda 69% pack, which holds that on its own for a couple of months.
Do I have to be in to sign for cigars in Belfast?
Someone over 18 does, yes. Cigars are age-restricted under the Children and Families Act 2014, so the courier asks for proof of age at the door. If nobody is in, Royal Mail cards it and holds it at the delivery office covering your BT postcode, which you can collect from with ID. A safe-place instruction will not work for this — an age-restricted parcel cannot be left in a porch.
Where can I smoke a cigar in Belfast?
Outdoors, or somewhere private. Smoking in enclosed public places and workplaces has been illegal in Northern Ireland since 30 April 2007, so Belfast has no indoor cigar lounges in the sense that Havana or Madrid does — the law is the same across Northern Ireland and there is no exemption a bar can buy its way into. Covered outdoor terraces are the legal version, provided they are not substantially enclosed.
Does Belfast have any tobacco history?
Gallaher's built one of the largest tobacco factories in the world on York Street in Belfast, and tobacco was among the city's major industries alongside linen and shipbuilding. None of which makes us a Belfast shop — we post from one humidor to your door — but it is a better answer than most cities can give.
Can I buy genuine Cuban cigars in Belfast?
Yes, and the same stock reaches Belfast as anywhere else in the UK. Every Cuban box carries the green English Market Selection stamp and comes through Hunters and Frankau, the only company permitted to import Habanos S.A. cigars into the UK. Excise duty and VAT are paid before it reaches County Antrim, and both are already in the price on the page.