Are there a lot of mosquitoes in Batumi and do I need repellent?

In July 2026 travelers comparing Batumi with their home region of Siberia wrote that Batumi mosquitoes are nothing like the especially fierce Siberian ones that year: there are noticeably fewer of them. This is one family's impression from their first days there, not a measurement.

A lot depends on the floor. In the same travelers' experience in July 2026, there were no mosquitoes at all on the 28th floor, while a couple flew into a 9th-floor apartment and were easy to catch.

Outdoors, mosquitoes show up in the evening in shady parks: if you sit on a bench, a few fly around. That was the picture described in July 2026; in the apartment they hardly bothered these travelers.

In the same travelers' view, a plug-in repellent device can be packed just in case, but in July 2026 they were fine without one.