Miami is a city that loves festivals with the nine-day "Carnaval Miami" at the beginning of March being the largest. There are smaller festival celebrations and contests going on throughout the Carnaval period, including concerts at the Orange Bowl, the "Miss Carnaval" contest and the "Calle Ocho" cooking competition in Little Havana.

From the end of May through to the middle of June, The International Hispanic Theater Festival presents productions by theater companies from all over Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe.