The 2026 Miami International Boat Show is to be held between Wednesday eleven and Sunday fifteen February. Considered as one of the largest boat and yacht show in the world, the Miami boat show offers everything water related, from kayaks to superyachts to the latest aquatic innovations. The on-land portion of the event will take place at the newly reimagined Miami Beach Convention Centre and Pride Park. The in-water components of the show will take place at Venetian Marina, Herald Plaza, Museum Park Marina, and Yacht Haven Grande Miami. Historically, the Miami International Boat Show and Miami Yacht Show have attracted hundreds of thousands of attendees to South Florida and generated an estimated combined annual economic impact of $1.34 billion. The Miami boat show is located in the following locations; Miami Beach Convention Center for boats up to 49 feet, the Progressive Boat Show Experience at Pride Park for experiential boating lifestyle activations, Miami Beach Yacht Collection on Collins Avenue along Indian Creek for powerboats and motor yachts from 30 to 125 feet, and Superyacht Miami and Sailor’s Cove at IGY Yacht Haven Grande Miami. As World firsts go the 2026 Miami boat show will see the following debuts; Aquila 45 Sport, Formula 360 Crossover Bowrider OB, Intrepid 35 Panacea, Pardo P43R, Regal 34 SAV, Sabre 51 Saloon Express, Sea Ray SLX 360, Tiara 39 LE, and WallyPower 50X.
The Miami boat show is the longest ongoing boat show in the World, an exhibition which has survived a World War, several recessions, and the luxury tax on boating of the nineties. The show debuted in 1941 with the Biscayne Boat Show name as organized by the Miami Junior Chamber of Commerce and Marine Industries Association. The 1947 edition saw the show move to the Municipal Auditorium at Bayfront Park. In 1950 the show had 92 exhibitors, with these becoming 143 by 1951, while 1953 saw the show reach a record breaking 50,000 of attendants. The 26th edition of 1967 set the still unbeaten attendants record of 171,495 even though the show was asked to move its date to January so as not to collide with the New York boat show. In 1968 the show gets named the Miami International Boat Show, returns to it's February calendar dates and debuts at the Miami Beach Convention Centre venue, which it will keep up till 2015. In 2016 the Miami Boat Show returned to where it started in Biscayne Bay. During the seventies, eighties, and nineties the show expanded its size many times till we arrive to the six locations of today. 
Miami Boat Show circa 1950's
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