Christmas lights · Miami, FL
Christmas lights in shorts: Miami's best are in its gardens and its zoo, plus a fairground packed with two million lights and one free North Miami neighborhood you drive through.
5 displays · 1 free · 0 with 2026 dates announced
No ticket, but the best-known ones get very crowded. Go on a weeknight if you can, and read the card for how to get in.
Houses in a North Miami neighborhood decorated for a drive-through.
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Checked 2026-09-23 · Miami on the Cheap (2025)
Mostly ticketed per person, and on foot. Check the hours before you set out.
The tropical garden lit after dark.
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Checked 2026-09-23 · Miami on the Cheap (2025)
Animal-shaped light displays through the zoo.
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Checked 2026-09-23 · Miami on the Cheap (2025)
A garden light walk in Pinecrest.
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Checked 2026-09-23 · Miami on the Cheap (2025)
More than two million lights and an elf village on the fairgrounds.
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Checked 2026-09-23 · Miami on the Cheap (2025)
Before you go
Most displays announce the season in October or November. Until they do, we show last year's dates and say so, rather than guess this year's. Every card shows the day we last checked it and where the facts came from.
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