Events
The festivals, contests, and catastrophes — from Art Basel to the hurricanes — that punctuate the Miami year and its history.
Art Basel Miami Beach
The marquee contemporary-art fair, launched in 2002, that turns Miami Beach into a global art capital every December.
Miami Open
The major professional tennis tournament that defined a Key Biscayne spring for decades before decamping to Hard Rock Stadium.
Miami Grand Prix
The Formula 1 race built around Hard Rock Stadium, a spring spectacle that announced Miami as a global-sports destination.
FIFA World Cup 2026
The 2026 World Cup co-hosted across North America, bringing matches to Hard Rock Stadium and capping Miami's rise as a soccer city.
Miami Book Fair
One of the nation's largest literary festivals, filling downtown Miami each November and rooted in a downtown college campus.
Calle Ocho Festival
The roaring street party that climaxes Carnaval Miami along Little Havana's Calle Ocho, billed as one of the largest Latin festivals anywhere.
Ultra Music Festival
The global electronic-dance-music festival that takes over downtown Miami each spring and exports the city's name to a worldwide club crowd.
III Points
Wynwood's homegrown festival of music, art, and technology, built by locals rather than imported by a global promoter.
Miami International Boat Show
One of the world's largest boat shows, a long-running winter institution that puts Miami's boating economy on full display.
Coconut Grove Arts Festival
A long-running fine-arts festival that turns the streets of Coconut Grove into an open-air gallery every Presidents' Day weekend.
Goombay Festival
A Bahamian-heritage street festival in the West Grove that honors the Black community whose labor helped build early Miami.
Miami Film Festival
The city's leading film festival, run by Miami Dade College, with a programming spine built around Ibero-American cinema.
Orange Bowl
The historic college-football bowl game whose old stadium gave way to a ballpark, leaving the name as one of Miami's oldest sporting traditions.
The 1926 Great Miami Hurricane
The catastrophic September 1926 storm that struck the young city head-on and helped bring the 1920s land boom to a close.
Hurricane Andrew
The Category 5 hurricane of August 1992 that flattened much of south Miami-Dade and reshaped how the region builds.
Hurricane Irma
The September 2017 hurricane that prompted one of the largest evacuations in Florida history before raking the Keys and South Florida.
Winter Music Conference
The pioneering electronic-music industry gathering that helped make Miami a global capital of dance music.
Art Deco Weekend
The annual South Beach street festival that celebrates the Art Deco district saved by the preservation movement that founded it.