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Biltmore Hotel Fourth of July
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The best things to do in Miami this week

Get up and out the door with our hand-picked guide to the best events in Miami this week.

Ashley Brozic
Written by Ashley Brozic
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The Fourth of July has always been a big deal in Miami, but this year it's something else entirely. America turns 250, and the city is marking the semiquincentennial with celebrations spread across every neighborhood from Key Biscayne to Homestead — all while the World Cup Semi-Finals are playing out on the big screen at the FIFA Fan Festival's final day at Bayfront Park. The yearly standards are back and bigger: the Biltmore Hotel hosts its annual fireworks extravaganza on the golf course grounds in Coral Gables, this year adding a drone show with choreographed imagery featuring the Biltmore, Venetian Pool, and City Hall, with the Greater Miami Symphonic Band performing at 7pm before the sky lights up at 9. Downtown, Bayfront Park throws its biggest Fourth yet with 250 United, a free all-day concert featuring Ashanti, Ja Rule, 112, The Fray, Shaggy, Willy Chirino, and Orlando Mendez, all wrapped up with a drone show and fireworks over Biscayne Bay.

Tropical Park hosts Miami-Dade County's official America 250 finale with live music and fireworks from 3 to 9pm, and Race to the Fourth fills Homestead-Miami Speedway with food trucks, a kids zone, a World Cup fan zone, and fireworks at 9. Miami Beach lights up on both ends, with a symphony and oceanfront fireworks at South Beach and a roller disco and drone show at North Beach. It's also the last weekend to catch the Freedom Plane National Tour at Museum of Miami, where original founding-era documents from the National Archives are on view through July 5. Pick a neighborhood and you're guaranteed to find a celebration worth attending.

Curated below is our guide to all the special events and happenings worth checking out over the next seven days, but should you prefer to plan your weeks in advance, here's our curated guide to everything happening in June in Miami. If you're looking specifically for what to do this weekend, we've got a guide for that, too.

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What to do in Miami this week

1. ODDMART

  • Things to do
  • Wynwood
ODDMART
ODDMART
Photograph: Courtesy Odd Sox
A new storefront in Wynwood looks like a retro convenience store, fully stocked with Cheez-Its, Cheetos, Pringles, Pop-Tarts, and Liquid Death, except every single item on the shelves is actually a sock. ODDMART, created by the licensed accessories brand Odd Sox, turns more than 100 recognizable consumer brands into wearable collectibles housed inside their own authentic packaging. The space goes well beyond shopping with larger-than-life installations, live DJ sets, and rotating surprise activations throughout the run. The exterior carries a custom mural by Miami artist Golden 305, tying the pop-up directly into Wynwood's street art identity. Miami is the second stop after a debut in Tampa, with Las Vegas, New York, and Tokyo still to come.  
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2. Lost Boy Clubhouse

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  • Downtown
Lost Boy Clubhouse
Lost Boy Clubhouse
Photograph: Courtesy Lost Boy
Downtown's favorite neighborhood bar is rolling out the turf for the World Cup, turning Flagler Street into a blockwide viewing party with giant LED screens, stadium-quality sound, and a pitch out front for pickup games between matches. Located just blocks away from the FIFA Fan Fest, The Lost Boy Clubhouse opens with Portugal vs. Colombia, which is sure to be one of Miami's rowdiest games, and will showcase every match throughout the duration of the tournament. Seating and tables are first come, first served, and there will be plenty of food and specialty drink offerings available, plus other fun fan surprises.   
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3. Pasta Making Class at Pasta

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  • Wynwood
Pasta Making Class at Pasta
Pasta Making Class at Pasta
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Every Wednesday night, Wynwood's PASTA opens its kitchen for a hands-on pasta-making class led by head chef Luis Jose. The restaurant — brought to life by acclaimed Peruvian chefs Juan Manuel Umbert and Janice Buraschi — blends traditional Italian technique with Peruvian influence, and the class reflects exactly that: you'll mix, knead and shape your own pasta before sitting down to eat what you made. A welcome cocktail, appetizer and dessert round out the evening.
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4. FIFA Fan Festival

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  • Sport events
  • Downtown
FIFA Fan Festival
FIFA Fan Festival
Photograph: Courtesy Bayfront Jazz Festival
You don't need a ticket to Hard Rock Stadium to feel like you're at the World Cup this summer. The FIFA Fan Festival takes over Bayfront Park for 23 days, turning 436,000 square feet of downtown waterfront into the city's main public gathering point for the tournament. All seven Miami matches screen live on giant LED displays, with a 10,000-capacity amphitheater hosting concerts and cultural programming in between fixtures. Expect food and drink activations, interactive installations, and a daily attendance of up to 30,000 people from every corner of the world. The festival runs June 13 through July 5 and is free to attend.
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5. 2026 FIFA World Cup

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  • Sport events
  • Miami Gardens
2026 FIFA World Cup
2026 FIFA World Cup
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The FIFA World Cup is coming to Miami this summer, and Hard Rock Stadium will host seven matches between June 15 and July 18, including four group stage games featuring Brazil, Portugal, Colombia, and Uruguay, a Round of 32, a quarterfinal, and the third-place playoff. It is the biggest sporting event the city has ever hosted, and the energy will extend well beyond the stadium. Matches at Hard Rock Stadium:   June 15: Saudi Arabia vs. Uruguay, 6pm ET June 21: Uruguay vs. Cape Verde, 6pm ET June 24: Brazil vs. Scotland, 6pm ET June 27: Colombia vs. Portugal, 7:30pm ET July 3: Round of 32 July 11: Quarterfinal July 18: Third-place playoff   Fan events: FIFA Fan Festival at Bayfront Park (June 13–July 5, free): The 436,000-square-foot waterfront takeover is the city's main public gathering point for the tournament, with live match screenings on giant LED screens, a 10,000-capacity amphitheater hosting concerts and cultural programming, interactive installations, food and drink activations, and — only in Miami — water-powered jet pack demonstrations over Biscayne Bay. Free community watch parties across Miami-Dade at Little Haiti Park, Amelia Earhart Park, Tropical Park, North Beach Sand Bowl, and Palmetto Golf Course, with specific matches assigned to each location. Branded fan events will be popping up all around the city, which we'll be including in our guide to the best events in Miami, updated weekly.     

6. Ocean Drive Independence Day Celebration Concert

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  • Concerts
  • South Beach
Ocean Drive Independence Day Celebration Concert
Ocean Drive Independence Day Celebration Concert
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South Beach's Fourth looks a little different than the rest of Miami's. The Miami Beach Classical Music Festival Symphony Orchestra sets up in Lummus Park at 8:30pm for a free outdoor concert of patriotic favorites — Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, the Armed Forces Salute, The Stars and Stripes Forever — performed directly beneath the fireworks as they launch over the Atlantic at 9pm. Feel free to linger after the show, as the orchestra keeps playing through 10:30pm. Conducted by founder and artistic director Michael Rossi, the 50-piece ensemble brings genuine classical chops to one of the most cinematic backdrops in the city. The day also includes an American Made Car Show along Ocean Drive from 9am to 2pm. Bring a blanket or beach chairs and stake your spot early.
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7. Freedom Plane National Tour

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  • Exhibitions
  • Downtown
Freedom Plane National Tour
Freedom Plane National Tour
Photo Credit: Unsplash/Anthony Garand
Miami is one of eight cities nationwide selected to host the Freedom Plane National Tour, a traveling exhibition of original Founding-era documents from the National Archives, on view at Museum of Miami (formerly Miami History Museum) from June 20 through July 5. The collection includes the William Stone engraving of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Association, oaths of allegiance signed by George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, the Treaty of Paris, and early draft printings of the Constitution—documents that rarely leave Washington, D.C. The exhibition is part of the national commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the United States, modeled after the Bicentennial-era Freedom Train. Alongside the documents, the museum will feature a digital mural where visitors can share their desires for the future of America both onsite and from home and a public celebration on the plaza July 4th. Access to the exhibit is included with museum admission. 
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8. POP AIR – Art is Inflatable

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  • Exhibitions
  • Wynwood
POP AIR – Art is Inflatable
POP AIR – Art is Inflatable
Photograph: Courtesy of Balloon Museum
The Balloon Museum's globe-trotting "Pop Air" exhibition has landed at Mana Wynwood, turning one of the neighborhood's most cavernous spaces into an entire immersive environment dedicated to inflatable art. The show has already toured Rome, Paris, New York, and LA, and the Wynwood footprint gives these installations more room than they've had anywhere. You're meant to wander, touch, and interact—through a geometric inflatable labyrinth, a suspended sphere installation that responds to movement, a room where balloons swirl in controlled tornadoes, and a massive LED-lit butterfly you can power yourself by pedaling. The standout is Hyperstudio's luminous projection-filled ecosystem of swings and shooting stars. Budget more time than you think you'll need; you'll want to stop and appreciate the scale of everything after filling your camera roll with selfies. 
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9. Wynwood International Food Festival

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  • Festivals
  • Wynwood
Wynwood International Food Festival
Wynwood International Food Festival
Photograph: Jordan Braun
The World Cup is happening in Miami, and Wynwood is fielding its own culinary teams. The Wynwood International Food Festival runs June and July alongside the tournament, turning the neighborhood into a two-month global food trail with 20-plus restaurants each representing a different nation. The entry point is a physical passport — $25, available online or at partner locations — that gets stamped at each stop, with exclusive tasting items priced at $10 or $15 per restaurant. If you upgrade to a shot glass package, you get a welcome shot everywhere you go. The lineup spans Cuba, Japan, Korea, Lebanon, France, India, Italy, Mexico, and the United States, with familiar Wynwood spots like Cerveceria la Tropical, Ghee, Lira Beirut, and Fra Diavolo among the participants. Collect every stamp and you unlock exclusive prizes, not to mention bragging rights for saying you've basically eaten your way through Wynwood. 

10. Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols

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  • Exhibitions
  • Downtown
Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols
Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols
Credit: Lizzie Himmel, Courtesy PAMM
The largest presentation of Jean-Michel Basquiat's work ever mounted in Florida opens at PAMM on June 25. Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols brings together ten works from the collection of Kenneth C. Griffin, including Untitled (1982), the painting that sold for $110.5 million at Sotheby's and reportedly changed hands again for $200 million in 2024. But the exhibition is less interested in the market mythology around Basquiat than in the work itself, concentrating on his portraiture, his use of text and coded language, and the layered visual vocabulary he built from world history, Renaissance anatomy, hip-hop, and the street culture of 1980s New York. As the son of a Puerto Rican mother and Haitian father, Basquiat's relationship to migration and cultural hybridity lands with particular resonance in Miami. Curated by PAMM director Franklin Sirmans, who has been central to the posthumous study of Basquiat's work for over two decades. On view through June 2027.
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