THE SIGHTS
- South Beach & the Art Deco Historic District
- Little Havana & Calle Ocho
- Vizcaya Museum & Gardens
- Wynwood Walls street-art district
- Bayside Marketplace & Biscayne Bay
- The Everglades (a short drive west)
A sea-level multi-purpose bowl whose four corner spires carry a canopy over almost the entire crowd - while the pitch stays open to the South Florida sun and its near-daily June storms.
Saudi Arabia meet Uruguay in a Group H fixture on 15 June - the first of four group-stage matches scheduled for Miami Gardens.
Uruguay face World Cup debutants Cape Verde in a Group H tie on 21 June.
Scotland take on Brazil in a Group C fixture on 24 June.
Colombia meet Portugal in a Group K tie on 27 June - the last of Miami Gardens' four group-stage matches, which precede a Round of 32 tie, a quarter-final and the Bronze Final at the venue.
The largest crowd on record at the ground came not for the Dolphins but for a college football national-championship game - the expandable bowl pushing past 80,000. The 2024 Copa America final (Argentina 1-0 Colombia) was the stadium's headline football night, though its kickoff was delayed over an hour after ticketless fans breached the gates.
Miami is car-and-rideshare country; the stadium sits off the Florida Turnpike in Miami Gardens, north of downtown. Tri-Rail commuter trains, Metrorail and the free downtown Metromover serve the wider area, but match days lean heavily on shuttles, ride-hailing and the stadium's vast surface parking.
Traveller's tip: leave early and hydrate - summer thunderstorms and traffic both build in the afternoon.
Miami has a tropical monsoon climate (Koppen Am): hot and humid year-round, with a marked May-October wet season. June sits at the start of that wet season - and of the Atlantic hurricane season - with high heat, heavy humidity and near-daily afternoon thunderstorms.
A versatile South Florida bowl that has worn six names and hosted six Super Bowls, a World Series, Grand Prix racing and a fractious Copa final. For 2026 it lays natural grass and shelters its crowd under that great corner-spired canopy while the pitch bakes in the open. No altitude, dear reader - just heat, humidity and the kind of summer storm that arrives precisely on schedule.