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Friday, November 27, 2026
South Beach, Miami Beach
South Beach, Miami Beach, FL 33139, United StatesThe circuit parties, afterhours and official events happening across URGE Miami Thanksgiving Festival in Miami — dates, venues and tickets.
URGE Miami is South Beach's Thanksgiving-weekend circuit festival — four days of pool parties, big-room nights, and open-air beach dancing that turn the sand and clubs around Ocean Drive into one of the biggest gay dance gatherings of the fall. If you're spending the long weekend in Miami Beach, this is where the boys are.
Tickets and the full lineup are posted at urgemiami.com as the weekend approaches — lineups and set times firm up closer to November.
The weekend is built around a run of parties, each with its own moment — a Friday warm-up, Saturday's daytime-into-late-night one-two, a Sunday beach day, and the closing hours on Monday.
Pro Tip: The pool and beach parties (SWET, URGE Beach) sell out fastest and are the most Miami-specific part of the weekend — buy those first. The late-night club parties have more flexibility at the door.
Everything clusters in South Beach, so you can mostly walk. Ocean Drive, Collins, and Washington Avenues are the spine — host hotels, clubs, and the beach are all within a few blocks. Rideshares are easy but surge hard at closing time; if you're staying on the beach you may not need one at all. Lummus Park (the URGE Beach site) runs along Ocean Drive around 12th Street.
South Beach is the move — staying on or near Ocean Drive puts you steps from the host hotels, the club nights, and the beach dance, so you can nap between the pool party and the main event without a cab.
If you'd rather stay somewhere unapologetically ours, Hôtel Gaythering is Miami's gay-owned hotel, spa, and bar — it's on the mainland (Miami Beach's Lincoln Road area), a short ride from the South Beach action but a great home base with its own crowd.
When is URGE Miami 2026? URGE Miami runs Friday, November 27 through Monday, November 30, 2026 — Thanksgiving weekend — in South Beach.
Where do the URGE Miami parties happen? Everything is in South Beach: the host hotels are on Ocean Drive (the Clevelander & Essex), the club nights are at nearby venues, and URGE Beach takes over the sand at Lummus Park around 12th Street.
How much are tickets? Each party sells its own ticket, and weekend passes are available. Prices and the full DJ lineup are posted at urgemiami.com closer to the event.
Which parties should I prioritize? The pool and beach events — SWET (Saturday) and URGE Beach (Sunday) — are the most uniquely-Miami part of the weekend and sell out first. Saturday's main event is the marquee big-room night, and RAW is the Monday-morning closing afterhours.
Is URGE Miami walkable? Yes — the host hotels, clubs, and beach are all within a few blocks of each other in South Beach, so most of the weekend is walkable.
Where should I stay for URGE Miami? Stay on South Beach near Ocean Drive to be walking distance from the parties and the beach. For a gay-owned base, Hôtel Gaythering is a short ride away near Lincoln Road.
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