The Best Rainy Day Date Ideas in Miami

Spend a few hours at Pérez Art Museum Miami on Biscayne Bay, where traveling exhibitions sit alongside the museum’s postwar and contemporary collection. Afterward, stop for cocktails at Verde, where the covered patio lets you keep the bay view without stepping into the rain.

The museum is open Monday and Thursday through Sunday, and closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Thursday hours run until 9pm, with free admission after 5pm.

The Wolfsonian-FIU is a South Beach museum that explores the modern world through objects and design. A museum visit makes an easy date when outdoor plans are off the table.

Admission is free on Friday evenings from 6 to 9pm. The museum is open Wednesday and Thursday from 10am to 6pm and Friday from 10am to 9pm, and closed Mondays and Tuesdays.

Superblue Miami is an immersive art venue in Allapattah, with more than 50,000 square feet of installations by teamLab and James Turrell, including lights that glow to your heartbeat. Friends, family, or a date all suit this walk-through format.

Plan about 90 minutes and wear comfortable shoes. Buy tickets ahead on busy weekends. Superblue is open from 11am to 7pm Monday through Thursday, 10am to 8pm Friday and Saturday, and 10am to 7pm Sunday.

Spend a few hours at the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science downtown, where an aquarium, live animals, interactive exhibits, and a 67-foot planetarium dome give you plenty to explore indoors.

Laser Evenings happen monthly under the planetarium dome, pairing a light show with rock and pop music. The Explorer ticket covers the exhibitions, the aquarium, and one planetarium show. The museum is open daily from 10am to 5pm.

Explore optical illusions together at Paradox Museum Miami in Wynwood, where exhibits make you appear to shrink, grow, or float in zero gravity. The mirror room and other interactive spaces also give you plenty of chances to take photos together.

Allow about 75 minutes inside. Book ahead online or in the Fever app, since tickets can sell out.

Slip into Kaona Room, a tiki speakeasy hidden inside The Leinster Irish Pub in Edgewater. The intimate 45-seat space pairs tropical small plates with an extensive rum collection, making it an easy place to settle in over a drink.

Reserve ahead for Friday and Saturday, which sell out. The bar is open from 6pm Wednesday through Saturday, until 1am on Wednesday and Thursday and until 2am on Friday and Saturday. Dress is smart casual.

Citadel is a Little River food hall with a bar and lots of space to spread out. Vendors include USBS, Stanzione, and Manjay, while the Bar Kaiju speakeasy sits on the mezzanine.

Sir Thrifty, a vintage shop on site, is worth a browse before or after you eat. Citadel is open Tuesday through Sunday from 8:30am.

Sweat Records is a record store and cafe in Little Haiti, stocked with new and used vinyl, tapes, and books. Have a cold brew while you browse. The store hosts listening parties and live sets regularly.

Sweat Records keeps noon to 5pm hours Sunday through Tuesday and noon to 7pm Wednesday through Saturday.

Catch a concert, a play, or a dance performance at the Adrienne Arsht Center, a performing arts center downtown on Biscayne Boulevard. The calendar includes series such as Broadway in Miami, Jazz Roots, and Classical Music and Dance at Arsht.

Teatro, the center's restaurant, serves a prix fixe of a starter and a main course, a fallback if a show time does not line up.

Museum of Graffiti is a small museum in Wynwood that follows tagging back to 1970s New York. Next door to the Wynwood Walls, the museum is a separate, fully indoor experience.

Join the Saturday 5pm beginner graffiti class for up to 8 adults, with paint and museum entry included afterward. The museum is closed Tuesdays. Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday run 11am to 6pm, and Friday through Sunday run 11am to 7pm.