Miami metropolitan area

The Miami metropolitan area, also known as the Greater Miami Area or South Florida, is the 72nd largest metropolitan area in the world and the seventh-largest metropolitan area in the United States. Located in southeastern Florida with 6,198,782 inhabitants as of 2018, the Miami metropolitan area is the most populous in Florida and second largest in the southeastern United States.[2][3][4][5] It extends about 120 miles (190 km) from north to south.

For the larger geographic region including the Florida Keys and the Everglades, see South Florida.

Miami metropolitan area
Metropolitan area
Miami–Fort Lauderdale–West Palm Beach
Coordinates: 26°8′N 80°12′W
CountryUnited States
State(s)  Florida
Largest cityMiami
Other cities - Hialeah
 - Fort Lauderdale
 - Pembroke Pines
 - Hollywood
 - Miramar
 - Coral Springs
 - Miami Gardens
 - Pompano Beach
 - West Palm Beach
 - Davie
 - Boca Raton
 - Sunrise
 - Plantation
 - Miami Beach
 - Deerfield Beach
 - Boynton Beach
 - Lauderhill
 - Weston
 - Parkland
Area
 • Total6,137 sq mi (15,890 km2)
Highest elevation
Jupiter, Florida
53 ft (16.2 m)
Lowest elevation
Atlantic Ocean
0 ft (0 m)
Population
 • Total6,198,782 [1]
 • Rank7th in the U.S.
 • Density1,004/sq mi (373/km2)

The metropolitan area is defined by the Office of Management and Budget as the Miami–Fort Lauderdale–West Palm Beach, FL (MSA), consisting of Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties, a metropolitan statistical area used for statistical purposes by the United States Census Bureau and other agencies.[6] Its land area is 6,137 sq. mi (15,890 km2).

Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties are the first, second, and third most populous counties in Florida, and Miami-Dade, with 2,761,581 people in 2018, is the seventh most populous county in the United States. The three counties together are known as the Greater Miami Area and have principal cities including Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Hialeah, Pembroke Pines, Hollywood, and Boca Raton. Besides its association with the South Florida region, which includes the Everglades and the Florida Keys, it is also synonymous with an area known collectively as the "Gold Coast".

Because the population of South Florida is largely confined to a strip of land between the Atlantic Ocean and the Everglades, the Miami urbanized area (that is, the area of contiguous urban development) is about 100 miles (160 km) long (north to south), but never more than 20 miles (32 km) wide, and in some areas only 5 miles (8.0 km) wide (east to west). The Miami metropolitan statistical area is longer than any other urbanized area in the United States except for the New York metropolitan area.[7] It was the eighth most densely populated urbanized area in the United States in the 2000 census.[8]

As of the 2000 census, the urbanized area had a land area of 1,116 square miles (2,890 km2), with a population of 4,919,036, for a population density of 4,407.4 per square mile (1,701.7 per square kilometer). Miami and Hialeah (the second largest city in the metropolitan area) had population densities of more than 10,000 per square mile (more than 3,800 per square kilometer).[9][10] The Miami Urbanized Area was the fourth largest urbanized area in the United States in the 2010 census.

The Miami metropolitan area also includes several urban clusters (UCs) as of the 2000 Census which are not part of the Miami Urbanized Area. These are the Belle Glade UC, population 24,218, area 20,717,433 square meters and population density of 3027.6 per square mile; Key Biscayne UC, population 10,513, area 4,924,214 square meters and population density of 5529.5 per square mile; Redland UC, population 3,936, area 10,586,212 square meters and population density of 963.0 per square mile; and West Jupiter UC, population 8,998, area 24,737,176 square meters and population density of 942.1 per square mile.[11]

Satellite imagery of the Miami Metropolitan Area

Metropolitan divisions

The Miami metropolitan area consists of three distinct metropolitan divisions, subdividing the region into three divisions according to the region's three counties: Miami-Dade County, Broward County, and Palm Beach County.

Miami metropolitan area divisions[12] 2000
Population		 2010
Population		 2018
Population		 % change
(2010 to 2018)
Miami—Miami Beach—Kendall
(Miami-Dade County)		2,253,3622,496,435 2,761,581 +10.62%
Fort Lauderdale—Pompano Beach—Deerfield Beach
(Broward County)		1,623,0181,748,066 1,951,260 +11.62%
West Palm Beach—Boca Raton—Delray Beach
(Palm Beach County)		1,131,1841,320,134 1,485,941 +12.56%
5,007,5645,564,635 6,198,782 +11.40%

Cities

Largest cities
Miami
Miami at night
Fort Lauderdale
West Palm Beach

The following is a list of the twenty largest cities in the Miami metropolitan area as ranked by population.[13][14][15]

Rank City County 2000
population		 2010
population		 2018
population		 2010 to 2018
% change
1 MiamiMiami-Dade362,470399,457 470,914 +17.89%
2 HialeahMiami-Dade226,419224,669 238,942 +6.35%
3 Fort LauderdaleBroward152,397165,521 182,595 +10.32%
4 Pembroke PinesBroward137,427154,750 172,374 +11.39%
5 HollywoodBroward139,357140,768 154,823 +9.98%
6 MiramarBroward72,739122,041 140,823 +15.39%
7 Coral SpringsBroward117,549121,096 133,507 +10.25%
8 Miami GardensMiami-Dade100,758107,167 113,069 +5.51%
9 Pompano BeachBroward78,19199,845 111,954 +12.13%
10 West Palm BeachPalm Beach82,10399,919 111,398 +11.49%
11 DavieBroward75,72091,922 106,558 +15.92%
12 Boca RatonPalm Beach74,76484,392 99,244 +17.60%
13 SunriseBroward85,77984,439 95,458 +13.05%
14 PlantationBroward82,93484,955 94,288 +10.99%
15 Miami BeachMiami-Dade87,93387,779 91,718 +4.49%
16 Deerfield BeachBroward64,58375,018 80,863 +7.79%
17 Boynton BeachPalm Beach60,38968,217 78,050 +14.41%
18 LauderhillBroward57,58566,887 72,094 +7.78%
19 WestonBroward49,25165,333 71,210 +9.00%
20 HomesteadMiami-Dade31,90960,512 70,477 +16.47%

Areas with between 10,000 and 100,000 inhabitants

Areas with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants

Demographics

Population
An aerial view of Downtown Miami
Historical population
CensusPop.%±
19004,955—
191017,510253.4%
192066,542280.0%
1930214,830222.8%
1940387,52280.4%
1950693,70579.0%
19601,497,099115.8%
19702,236,64549.4%
19803,220,84444.0%
19904,056,10025.9%
20005,007,56423.5%
20105,564,63511.1%
Est. 2019[16]6,166,48810.8%

The Miami area is a diverse community with a large proportion of foreign-born residents, in large part due to its proximity to Latin America and the Caribbean.

Another factor is residents who were formerly snowbirds from the Northeast and, to a lesser extent, countries such as Canada.

Politically speaking, the region is heavily Democratic. Broward County is the second most reliably Democratic county in the state,[17][18] behind only Palm Beach County, like Broward, is largely Democratic as well, especially amongst its Jewish community,[19] while the rest of Florida tends to follow Southern politics and vote more Republican, with the exception of certain parts of Florida where Southern culture is not as influential. With a majority Hispanic population in Miami-Dade, Republican votes are mainly by older generations of Cuban Americans, most of whom defected to the United States following the Cuban Revolution, but Miami-Dade County still remains very Democratic when compared with most of Florida's other counties.[20][21][22] In the 2016 presidential election, 62.3% of voters in the Miami metropolitan area voted Democratic. This was the 6th highest of any metro area in the United States.[23]

As of the 2005 American Community Survey,[24][25] 5,334,685 people lived in the metropolis.

The Miami area has a large Jewish community; 10.2% of the population was Jewish in the 2000 Census.[26]

Population: As of the 2010 U.S. Census, there were 5,564,635 people. 2.8 million (52%) were females and 2.6 million (48%) were males. The median age was 38.6 years. 24% of the population were under 18 years and 15% were 65 years and older. There were 2,097,626 households, and 1,378,108 families residing in the Miami metropolitan area.

Ethnicity:
The racial makeup of the population of the Miami area [6,066,387] as of 2016:[27]

  • White: 70.3% [4,263,038]
    • White Hispanic: 39.2% [2,375,219]
    • White Non-Hispanic: 31.1% [1,887,819]
  • Black or African American: 21.2% [1,288,585]
  • Native American: 0.2% [12,487]
  • Asian: 2.5% [151,537]
  • Pacific Islander: 0.1% [3,527]
  • Other races: 3.5% [214,451]
  • Two or more races:2.2% [132,762]
  • Hispanic or Latino (of any race) were 44.2% [2,693,672] of the population[28][29]

Language and national origin

National origin and language: Of the people living in the Miami metro area in 2005, 63% were born in the United States (including 30% who were born in Florida) and 37% were foreign born. Among people at least five years old living in the region in 2005, 52% spoke English at home while 48% spoke some other language at home. Of those speaking a language other than English at home, 78% spoke Spanish and 22% spoke some other language (mainly Haitian Creole, but also French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Russian or Yiddish).

Geographic mobility: In 2005, 83% of the people at least one year old living in the Miami metro area were living in the same residence one year earlier; 12% had moved during the past year from another residence in the same county, 2% from another county in the same state, 2% from another state, and 1% from abroad.

Households and families: There were 2,338,450 households, The average household size was 2.6 people. Families made up 65% of the households in the Miami area. This figure includes both married-couple families (45%) and other families (20%). Nonfamily households made up 35% of all households in Miami. Most of the nonfamily households were people living alone, but some consisted of people living in households in which no one was related to the householder.

Miami dialect
Main article: Miami accent

In Miami-Dade County and Broward County and areas nearby, a unique dialect, commonly called the "Miami dialect", is widely spoken. The dialect developed among second- or third-generation Hispanics, including Cuban-Americans, whose first language was English (though some non-Hispanic white, black, and other races who were born and raised in Miami-Dade tend to adopt it as well.)[30] It is based on a fairly standard American accent but with some changes very similar to dialects in the Mid-Atlantic (especially the New York area dialect, Northern New Jersey English, and New York Latino English.) Unlike Virginia Piedmont, Coastal Southern American, and Northeast American dialects and Florida Cracker dialect (see section below), "Miami accent" is rhotic; it also incorporates a rhythm and pronunciation heavily influenced by Spanish (wherein rhythm is syllable-timed).[31] However, this is a native dialect of English, not learner English or interlanguage; it is possible to differentiate this variety from an interlanguage spoken by second-language speakers in that "Miami accent" does not generally display the following features: there is no addition of /ɛ/ before initial consonant clusters with /s/, speakers do not confuse of /dʒ/ with /j/, (e.g., Yale with jail), and /r/ and /rr/ are pronounced as alveolar approximant [ɹ] instead of alveolar tap [ɾ] or alveolar trill [r] in Spanish.[32][33][34][35]

Education

Education: In 2005, 83% of people 25 years and over had at least graduated from high school and 30% had a bachelor's degree or higher. Among people 16 to 19 years old, 7% were dropouts; they were not enrolled in school and had not yet graduated from high school. The total school enrollment in the Miami Metro Area was 1.4 million in 2005. Nursery school and kindergarten enrollment was 170,000 and elementary or high school enrollment was 879,000 children. College or graduate school enrollment was 354,000.

Occupation, Income, and Industries
See also: List of companies based in Miami
The urban neighborhood of Brickell in Downtown Miami contains the largest concentration of international banks in the U.S.

Occupations and Type of Employer: Among the most common occupations were: 32% were management, professional, and related occupations, 30% were sales and office occupations, 18% were service occupations, 11% were construction, extraction, maintenance and repair occupations, and 9% were production, transportation, and material moving occupations. 81% of the people employed were Private wage and salary workers; 12% were Federal, state, or local government workers; and 7% were Self-employed in own not incorporated business workers.

Income: The median income of households in the Miami area was $43,091. 78% of the households received earnings and 13% received retirement income other than Social Security. 30% of the households received Social Security. The average income from Social Security was $13. These income sources are not mutually exclusive; that is, some households received income from more than one source.

Industries: In 2005, for the employed population 16 years and older, the leading industries in the Miami area were Educational services, health care and social assistance, which accounted for 18%, and Professional, scientific, and management, and administrative and waste management services, which accounted for 13% of the population.

Traveling to Work: 79% of Miami area workers drove to work alone in 2005, 10% carpooled, 4% took public transportation, and 4% used other means. The remaining 3% worked at home. Among those who commuted to work, it took them on average 28.5 minutes to get to work.

Poverty and Participation in Government Programs: In 2005, 14% of people were in poverty. 19% of related children under 18 were below the poverty level, compared with 14% of people 65 years old and over. 11% of all families, and 26% of families with a female householder and no husband present had incomes below the poverty level.

Housing characteristics and costs

Changes in house prices for the area are publicly tracked on a regular basis using the Case–Shiller index; the statistic is published by Standard & Poor's and is also a component of S&P's 10-city composite index of the value of the residential real estate market.

Housing characteristics: As of 2005, the Miami area had a total of 2.3 million housing units, 13% of which were vacant. Of the total housing units, 52% were in single-unit structures, 45% were in multi-unit structures, and 3% were mobile homes. 25% of the housing units were built since 1990. As of 2019, over 70% of Miami's residents are renters with median rent of $1,355, $180 over the national average.

Occupied housing unit characteristics: In 2005, the Miami area had 2.0 million occupied housing units – 1.3 million (66%) owner occupied and 688,000 (34%) renter occupied.

Housing costs: In 2010, housing costs in the Miami area typically represented 40% of household income, compared to 34% nationwide.[36]

Property tax increase: In March 2009, Miami area lawmakers passed a 5–10% hike in property tax millage rates throughout the metropolitan area to fund the construction of new schools and to fund understaffed schools and educational institutions, resulting in an increase in residents' property tax bills beginning in the 2009 tax year.

Education
Florida International University
Florida Atlantic University
University of Miami

In Florida, each county is also a school district. Each district is headed by an elected school board. A professional superintendent manages the day-to-day operations of each district, who is appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the School Board.

The Miami-Dade County Public School District is currently the 4th-largest public school district in the nation. The School District of Palm Beach County is the 4th-largest in Florida and the 11th-largest in the United States. Broward County Public School District is the 6th-largest in the United States.

Some colleges and universities in Greater Miami include:

In 2005, 82% of people 25 years and over had at least graduated from high school and 28% had a bachelor's degree or higher. Among people 16 to 19 years old, 7% were dropouts; they were not enrolled in school and had not graduated from high school. The total school enrollment in the Miami metro area was 1.4 million in 2005. Nursery school and kindergarten enrollment was 170,000 and elementary or high school enrollment was 879,000. College or graduate school enrollment was 354,000.

Transportation
Main article: Transportation in South Florida
Rail transport in South Florida
Virgin Trains USA
to Orlando Airport (planned)
Amtrak Silver Service
to New York
 Mangonia Park
West Palm Beach
West Palm Beach
Lake Worth
Tri-Rail fare
zone boundary
 Boynton Beach
Delray Beach
Tri-Rail fare
zone boundary
 Boca Raton
Boca Raton
(planned)
Palm Beach
Broward
 Deerfield Beach
Pompano Beach
Tri-Rail fare
zone boundary
 Cypress Creek
Fort Lauderdale
New River
 Fort Lauderdale
Tri-Rail fare
zone boundary
 Fort Lauderdale Airport
Sheridan Street
Hollywood
Broward
Miami-Dade
Tri-Rail fare
zone boundary
 Aventura
(planned)
Golden Glades
Opa-locka
Miami
■ Palmetto
Miami Canal
 ■ Okeechobee
 ■ Hialeah
 ■ Tri-Rail and Metrorail Transfer
■ Northside
Tri-Rail Downtown Miami Link
(opens late 2020)
 ■ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza
 ■ Brownsville
 Hialeah Market
■■ Earlington Heights
Miami River
 ■■ Allapattah
 ■ Miami Intermodal Center
Miami International Airport
■■ Santa Clara
 ■■ Civic Center
 ■ School Board
 ■ Adrienne Arsht Center
 ■■ Culmer
 ■ Museum Park
 ■ Eleventh Street
 ■ Park West
 ■ Freedom Tower
Biscayne Bay
 PortMiami
(planned)
■■ Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre
 ■■■ Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr.
 Virgin MiamiCentral
■■■ ■■■ Government Center
 ■■■ College North
 ■■■ College/Bayside
 ■■■ First Street
 ■■■ Bayfront Park
 ■ Miami Avenue
 ■■ Third Street
 ■■■ Knight Center
 ■ Riverwalk
Miami River
 ■ Fifth Street
 ■ Brickell City Centre
 ■ Tenth Street/Promenade
 ■■■ ■ Brickell
 ■ Financial District
 ■■ Vizcaya
 ■■ Coconut Grove
 ■■ Douglas Road
 ■■ University
 ■■ South Miami
 ■■■ Dadeland North
 ■■■ Dadeland South
Amtrak, Virgin Trains USA, and Tri-Rail
 Metrorail
 Metromover
 MIA Mover
All stations are accessible

Roads
Julia Tuttle Causeway connects Miami and Miami Beach

The Miami metropolitan area is served by five interstate highways operated by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) in conjunction with local agencies. Interstate 95 (I-95) runs north to south along the coast, ending just south of Downtown Miami at South Dixie Highway (US 1). I-75 runs east to west, turning south in western Broward County and connecting suburban north Miami-Dade to Naples on the Southwest Coast via Alligator Alley, which transverses the Florida Everglades before turning north. I-595 connects the Broward coast and downtown Fort Lauderdale to I-75 and Alligator Alley. In Miami, I-195 and I-395 relay the main I-95 route east to Biscayne Boulevard (US 1) and Miami Beach across Biscayne Bay via the Julia Tuttle and MacArthur causeways.

In greater Miami, the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority and Florida's Turnpike Enterprise (FTE) maintain eight state expressways in conjunction with FDOT. The Airport Expressway (SR 112) and the Dolphin Expressway (SR 836) relay western Miami-Dade suburbs to the eastern urban coast at I-95, and to Miami Beach via I-195 and I-395 at the Airport and Midtown interchanges. The Gratigny Parkway (SR 924) connects northern Miami suburbs to the southern end of I-75. The Palmetto Expressway (SR 826) is the primary beltway road of urban Miami, relaying I-95 and Florida's Turnpike (SR 91) at the Golden Glades Interchange near northeastern North Miami Beach to the southern inland suburbs of Kendall and Pinecrest. The Don Shula Expressway (SR 874) and the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike (SR 821) form the southernmost end of the beltway, connecting the Palmetto Expressway to the bedroom communities of Homestead and Florida City. The Snapper Creek Expressway (SR 878) relays the Don Shula Expressway to South Dixie Highway (US 1).

The urban bypass expressway in greater Fort Lauderdale is the Sawgrass Expressway (SR 869), connecting the northern Broward County coast at I-95 and Deerfield Beach to I-595 and I-75 at Alligator Alley in Sunrise.

Express lanes on I-95 start in southern Broward County and continue to Miami-Dade County. With increased presents of traffic in South Florida, it is projected that express lanes will soon be implemented in southern Palm Beach County.

Major freeways and tollways
  • Interstate 95
  • Interstate 75
  • Interstate 195 / State Road 112 (Airport Expressway)
  • Interstate 395 / State Road 836 (Dolphin Expressway)
  • Interstate 595 (Port Everglades Expressway)
  • Florida's Turnpike, including Homestead Extension
  • State Road 924 (Gratigny Parkway)
  • State Road 874 (Don Shula Expressway)
  • State Road 878 (Snapper Creek Expressway)
  • State Road 869 (Sawgrass Expressway)
  • State Road 826 (Palmetto Expressway)

Major airports

The metropolitan area is served by three major commercial airports. These airports combine to make the fourth largest domestic origin and destination market in the United States, after New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago.[37]

Airport IATA code County FAA Category
Miami International Airport MIA Miami-Dade Large Hub
Fort Lauderdale – Hollywood International Airport FLL Broward Large Hub
Palm Beach International Airport PBI Palm Beach Large Hub

The following smaller general aviation airports are also in the metro area:

Airport IATA code ICAO code County
Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport TNT KTNT Miami-Dade
Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport Miami-Dade
Homestead Joint Air Reserve Base HST KHST Miami-Dade
Miami Executive Airport TMB KTMB Miami-Dade
Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport OPF KOPF Miami-Dade
Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport FXE KFXE Broward
North Perry Airport HWO KHWO Broward
Pompano Beach Airpark PPM KPMP Broward
North Palm Beach County General Aviation Airport Palm Beach
Palm Beach County Park Airport LNA KLNA Palm Beach

Seaports
The Port of Miami is the world's busiest cruise ship port.

The metropolis also has four seaports, the largest and most important being the Port of Miami. Others in the area include Port Everglades, Port of Palm Beach and the Miami River Port. On August 21, 2012, PortMiami and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers signed the Partnership Agreement (PPA) construction agreement that will allow the Deep Dredge project to go out for bid. The Deep Dredge will deepen the Port's existing channels to minus 50/52 feet to prepare for the Panama Canal expansion, now scheduled for completion in early 2015. PortMiami's deeper channel will provide ships with an economically efficient, reliable and safe navigational route into the Port. PortMiami will be the only U.S. Port south of Norfolk, Virginia to be at the minus 50 foot depth in sync with the opening of the expanded Canal. Deep Dredge is expected to create more than 30,000 direct, indirect, and induced jobs in Florida and allow the Port to meet its goal to double its cargo traffic over the next decade.

Public transportation
Tri-Rail, Miami's commuter rail system, connects to the three counties north to south.
Government Center is one of the main stations for Metrorail and Metromover.
Metrobus serves all of Miami-Dade County.

Miami-Dade Transit (MDT) is the largest public transit agency in Florida, operating rapid transit, people movers, and an intercity bus system. Metrorail is Florida's only rapid transit, currently with 23 stations on a 24.4-mile (39.3 km) track. The Downtown Miami people mover, Metromover, operates 20 stations and three lines on a 4.4-mile (7.1 km) track through the Downtown neighborhoods of the Arts & Entertainment District, the Central Business District, and Brickell. Metrobus serves the entirety of Miami-Dade County, also serving Monroe County as far south as Marathon, and Broward County as far north as downtown Fort Lauderdale. In Broward County, Broward County Transit runs public buses, as does Palm Tran in Palm Beach County. Additionally, the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority operates Tri-Rail, a commuter rail train that connects the three of the primary cities of South Florida (Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach), and most intermediate points. Virgin Trains USA provides service to Miami, Aventura, West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, and Central Florida's Orlando, with talks to expand to Tampa and Jacksonville.[38][39]

Climate
See also: Climate of Miami
A view of Biscayne National Park in Miami-Dade County

South Florida/Miami metropolitan area has a tropical climate, the only major metropolitan area in the 48 contiguous states that falls under that category. More specifically, it generally has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen climate classification, Am).[40] The South Florida metropolis sees most of its rain in the summer (wet season) and is quite dry in the winter (dry season). The wet season, which is hot and humid, lasts from May to October, when daily thunderstorms and passing weak tropical lows bring downpours during the late afternoon. The dry season often starts in late October and runs through late April. During the height of the dry season from February through April, south Florida is often very dry, and often brush fires and water restrictions are an issue. At times cold fronts can make it all the way down to south Florida and provide some modest rainfall in the dry season. The hurricane season largely coincides with the wet season.[41]

In addition to its sea-level elevation, coastal location and position near the Tropic of Cancer and The Caribbean , the area owes its warm, humid climate to the Gulf Stream, which moderates climate year-round. A typical summer day does not see temperatures below 75 °F (24 °C). Temperatures in the high 80s to low 90s (30–35 °C) accompanied by high humidity are often relieved by afternoon thunderstorms or a sea breeze that develops off the Atlantic Ocean, which then allow lower temperatures, although conditions still remain very muggy.

During winter, dry air often dominates as dew points are often very low. Average daily high temperatures across South Florida during the winter are around 75-77 °F. Although daily highs can sometimes reach 82-85 °F even in January and February. Daily low temperatures during the winter are generally around 55-63 °F (10–15 °C). Each winter, cold fronts occasionally make their way down to the northern Bahamas and South Florida. As a result, daily high temperatures in South Florida may only reach around 65°F. When this occurs low temperatures can dip into the 40s during the early morning hours before quickly warming-up toward late morning/early afternoon. It is rare for temperatures to drop below 40 °F (5 °C) though. South Florida only experiences these cold spells about twice each winter and they typically only last a day or two before temperatures return to the mid 70s. On average coastal South Florida is frost-free, although there can be a light frost in the inland communities a few times each decade.

Hurricane season officially runs from June 1 through November 30, although hurricanes can develop outside that period. The most likely time for South Florida to be hit is during the peak of the Cape Verde season, mid-August through the end of September.[42] Due to its location between two major bodies of water known for tropical activity, South Florida is also statistically the most likely major area to be struck by a hurricane in the world, trailed closely by Nassau, Bahamas, and Havana, Cuba. Many hurricanes have affected the metropolis, including Betsy in 1965, Andrew in 1992, Irene in 1999, Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma in 2005, and Irma in 2017. In addition, a tropical depression in October 2000 passed over the city, causing record rainfall and flooding. Locally, the storm is credited as the No Name Storm of 2000, though the depression went on to become Tropical Storm Leslie upon entering the Atlantic Ocean.


Climate data for West Palm Beach Airport, Florida (1981–2010 normals,[43] extremes 1888–present)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Average high °F (°C) 75.1
(23.9)		 76.2
(24.6)		 80.0
(26.7)		 84.1
(28.9)		 87.0
(30.6)		 90.7
(32.6)		 92.0
(33.3)		 92.2
(33.4)		 88.3
(31.3)		 84.3
(29.1)		 82.3
(27.9)		 76.5
(24.7)		 84.3
(29.1)
Average low °F (°C) 57.4
(14.1)		 58.5
(14.7)		 61.6
(16.4)		 65.0
(18.3)		 70.4
(21.3)		 75.0
(23.9)		 75.2
(24.0)		 75.4
(24.1)		 74.3
(23.5)		 68.8
(20.4)		 63.3
(17.4)		 60.0
(15.6)		 66.0
(18.9)
Average rainfall inches (mm) 2.18
(55)		 2.09
(53)		 2.05
(52)		 2.03
(52)		 5.76
(146)		 9.02
(229)		 9.27
(235)		 9.83
(250)		 9.93
(252)		 9.57
(243)		 5.07
(129)		 2.27
(58)		 60.35
(1,533)
Average rainy days (≥ 0.01 in) 7.8 6.7 5.0 5.8 14.1 16.0 18.1 19.0 16.7 17.1 10.2 7.1 132.6
Source: NOAA[44][45]
Climate data for Fort Lauderdale Int'l Airport, Florida (1981–2010 normals, extremes 1912–present)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Average high °F (°C) 75.5
(24.2)		 76.7
(24.8)		 78.5
(25.8)		 81.9
(27.7)		 85.6
(29.8)		 89.8
(32.1)		 91.4
(33.0)		 90.5
(32.5)		 88.8
(31.6)		 85.8
(29.9)		 81.0
(27.2)		 76.9
(24.9)		 83.3
(28.5)
Average low °F (°C) 59.0
(15.0)		 60.5
(15.8)		 63.4
(17.4)		 66.9
(19.4)		 72.0
(22.2)		 74.4
(23.6)		 75.9
(24.4)		 75.8
(24.3)		 75.2
(24.0)		 71.8
(22.1)		 65.7
(18.7)		 61.3
(16.3)		 67.7
(19.8)
Average rainfall inches (mm) 3.63
(92)		 2.96
(75)		 3.36
(85)		 2.89
(73)		 4.65
(118)		 10.16
(258)		 5.98
(152)		 7.44
(189)		 8.59
(218)		 6.82
(173)		 3.24
(82)		 2.46
(62)		 62.18
(1,579)
Average rainy days (≥ 0.01 in) 5.0 6.1 6.9 5.4 8.8 15.9 15.9 15.7 15.8 10.6 8.1 8.1 122.3
Source: [46][47][48]
Climate data for Miami Beach, 1981−2010 normals
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Average high °F (°C) 73.8
(23.2)		 74.9
(23.8)		 76.3
(24.6)		 79.4
(26.3)		 82.8
(28.2)		 86.5
(30.3)		 88.1
(31.2)		 88.5
(31.4)		 87.0
(30.6)		 83.7
(28.7)		 79.3
(26.3)		 75.7
(24.3)		 81.3
(27.4)
Average low °F (°C) 61.4
(16.3)		 63.0
(17.2)		 65.3
(18.5)		 69.2
(20.7)		 73.9
(23.3)		 77.0
(25.0)		 78.3
(25.7)		 78.6
(25.9)		 77.7
(25.4)		 74.7
(23.7)		 69.5
(20.8)		 64.3
(17.9)		 71.1
(21.7)
Average rainfall inches (mm) 2.09
(53)		 2.33
(59)		 3.00
(76)		 3.20
(81)		 4.98
(126)		 8.27
(210)		 4.35
(110)		 6.37
(162)		 7.88
(200)		 4.47
(114)		 2.74
(70)		 2.05
(52)		 51.73
(1,313)
Average rainy days (≥ 0.01 in) 6.7 6.0 6.9 6.0 8.9 14.5 12.1 14.0 14.9 11.2 8.1 6.9 116.2
Source: NOAA (extremes 1927−present)[49]

Area codes
  • 305 and 786 Miami-Dade County and Florida Keys
  • 954 and 754 Broward County
  • 561 Palm Beach County

Sports
See also: Sport in Miami

The Miami metro area is home to all five Major leagues:

The Miami area is also host to minor league sports, college sports, and other sports:

Major professional and D-I college teams (attendance > 10,000)
Club Sport League Venue (Capacity) Attendance League Championships
Miami Dolphins Football National Football League Hard Rock Stadium (64,767) 70,035 Super Bowl (2) — 1972, 1973
Miami Hurricanes Football NCAA D-I (ACC) Hard Rock Stadium (64,767) 53,837 National titles (5) — 1983, 1987, 1989, 1991, 2001
Miami Marlins Baseball Major League Baseball Marlins Park (36,742) 21,386 World Series (2) — 1997, 2003
Miami Heat Basketball National Basketball Association American Airlines Arena (19,600) 19,710 NBA Finals (3) — 2006, 2012, 2013
Inter Miami CF Soccer Major League Soccer Inter Miami CF Stadium (18,000) MLS Cup - None
FIU Panthers Football NCAA D-I (Conference USA) FIU Stadium (23,500) 15,453 None
Florida Panthers Hockey National Hockey League BB&T Center (19,250) 10,250 None
FAU Owls Football NCAA D-1 (Conference USA) FAU Stadium (29,419) 18,948 None

Government
The Stephen P. Clark Government Center in Downtown Miami is the headquarters of the Miami-Dade County government.

The metropolitan area is governed by 3 counties. In total there are 107 municipalities or incorporated places in the metropolis. Each one of the municipalities has its own city, town or village government, although there is no distinction between the 3 names. Much of the land in the metropolis is unincorporated, which means it does not belong to any municipality, and therefore is governed directly by the county it is located in.

Congressional districts

The Miami metropolitan area contains all or part of nine Congressional districts: the 18th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th districts.[56] As of 2017 (the 113th Congress), the Cook Partisan Voting Index listed four as being Republican-leaning: the 18th, 25th, 26th, and 27th, with the 25th being the most Republican-leaning at R+5, and five as being Democratic-leaning: the 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, and 24th, with the 24th being the most Democratic-leaning at D+34, making it the ninth-most Democratic-leaning district in the nation.[57]

Media
See also: List of radio stations in Florida
The former Miami Herald headquarters in Downtown Miami. The Miami Herald is the largest newspaper in South Florida.

Greater Miami is served by several English-language and two major Spanish-language daily newspapers. The Miami Herald, headquartered in Doral, is Miami's primary newspaper with over a million readers. It also has news bureaus in Broward County, Monroe County, and Nassau, Bahamas. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel circulates primarily in Broward and southern Palm Beach counties and also has a news bureau in Havana, Cuba. The Palm Beach Post serves mainly Palm Beach County, especially the central and northern regions, and the Treasure Coast. The Boca Raton News publishes five days a week and circulates in southern Palm Beach County.[58] El Nuevo Herald, a subsidiary of the Miami Herald, and Diario Las Americas,[59] are Spanish-language daily papers that circulate mainly in Miami-Dade County. La Palma and El Sentinel are weekly Spanish newspapers published by the Palm Beach Post and Sun-Sentinel, respectively, and circulate in the same areas as their English-language counterparts.

Greater Miami is split into two separate television/radio markets: The Miami-Fort Lauderdale market serves Miami-Dade, Broward and the Florida Keys. The West Palm Beach market serves Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast region.

Miami-Fort Lauderdale is the 12th largest radio market and the 16th-largest television market in the U.S. television stations serving the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area include WAMI-TV (UniMas), WBFS-TV (MyNetworkTV), WSFL-TV (The CW), WFOR-TV (CBS), WHFT-TV (TBN), WLTV (Univision), WPLG (ABC), WPXM (ION), WSCV (Telemundo), WSVN (FOX), WTVJ (NBC), WLRN-TV (PBS), and WPBT (also PBS), the latter television station being the only channel to serve the entire metropolitan area.

In addition to the Miami-Fort Lauderdale market, West Palm Beach has its own. It is the 49th largest radio market and the 38th-largest television market in the U.S. Television stations serving the West Palm Beach area include WPTV (NBC), WPEC (CBS), WPBF (ABC), WFLX (FOX), WTVX (The CW), WXEL (PBS), WTCN (MyNetworkTV), and WPXP (ION). The West Palm Beach market shares use of WSCV and WLTV for Telemundo and Univision respectively. Also, both markets cross over and tend to be available interchangeably between both areas. In 2015, WPBT and WXEL merged their operations, to form South Florida PBS, although both stations have maintained separate programming schedules and social media platforms, but share the same subchannel lineup.

See also
  • South Florida
  • United States metropolitan area
  • Table of United States Metropolitan Statistical Areas

Notes
  1. Mean monthly maxima and minima (i.e. the highest and lowest temperature readings during an entire month or year) calculated based on data at said location from 1981 to 2010.
  2. Official records for Miami were kept at the Lemon City from September 1895 to November 1900, the Miami COOP from December 1900 to May 1911, the Weather Bureau Office from June 1911 to February 1937, at various locations in and around the city from March 1937 to July 1942, and at Miami Int'l since August 1942. For more information, see ThreadEx.

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See also: List of urbanized areas in Florida (by population)
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