Easter in Miami 2027: egg hunts, brunch and the long weekend plan
Last reviewed: November 9, 2026. Sources for this page are listed in its fact sheet.
Short answer first. Easter Sunday falls on March 28, 2027, with Good Friday on March 26, and the weekend lands inside the most expensive stretch of Miami Beach's spring break season. The plan that works: book the hotel early, treat brunch as a reservation you make weeks out, and build the egg hunt part of the weekend on what's actually announced. As of this page's check on November 9, 2026, neither Zoo Miami nor Deering Estate had published a 2027 Easter program. Both have run Easter events in past years. This page tells you what the pattern is, labels it as a pattern, and gives you the rest of the weekend to build around it.
Hand painted Easter eggs. Stock photo. Photo: Polina Kovaleva, Pexels.
The dates and the shape of the weekend
Good Friday is Friday, March 26, 2027. Easter Sunday is March 28. Many visitors stretch the trip to Monday, March 29, which makes this a three or four day weekend at peak rates. Late March is when Miami Beach runs its spring break rules and its highest spring occupancy, and the site's spring break guide covers the city's restrictions and the road patterns that weekend. Hotels price Easter like a holiday weekend, because it is one. The earlier you book, the more the weekend costs what a normal March weekend costs.
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Egg hunts: the honest announcement status
Zoo Miami has run Easter programming in past years under names like Egg Safari, a hunt format for children 12 and under, and Egg-Venture, a scavenger hunt run through a phone app across the zoo grounds. Its events calendar names Egg Safari as a recurring program. No 2027 Easter dates were published on zoomiami.org when this page was checked on November 9, 2026, so no hunt time is printed here. When the zoo announces, expect the announcement in the weeks before Easter, expect timed or age grouped formats based on past editions, and expect the zoo day itself to sell on the holiday regardless; the Zoo Miami guide plans the full day either way. Deering Estate is the same story with a different past: the estate has hosted an Easter sunrise Mass on the lawn above Biscayne Bay in earlier years, run by a local parish, and its published spring signature event for 2027 is the Seafood Festival on April 11, 2027, two weeks after Easter. No 2027 Easter program appeared on deeringestate.org at this check. Sunrise services on the beach are a real Miami Easter tradition, and no 2027 edition at any specific beach or venue was confirmed on a city or venue page at this check, so this page names none. Check the estate and zoo calendars again in February and March; this page gets a refresh when they publish.
The Redland warning: Knaus is closed on Easter
If your long weekend plan includes the farm run south, reorder it. Knaus Berry Farm lists Easter among its closed days, alongside Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day, on the farm's own site. The cinnamon rolls and the U-Pick fields are a Friday or Saturday stop that weekend, not a Sunday one. The Redland day trip route sequences Knaus with Coral Castle, Robert Is Here, and Fruit and Spice Park, and it runs on the Saturday of Easter weekend without changing a stop.
Brunch and the rest of the plan
Easter brunch in Miami is a reservation sport. Hotel restaurants and the brunch rooms on Miami Beach and in Brickell and Coconut Grove fill their late morning seatings first, and Easter Sunday is the biggest brunch day of the spring. Pick your neighborhood, pick a first and second choice from the restaurant guides, and reserve as soon as the booking windows open rather than in Easter week. Build the other days around the heat curve: a beach morning, a family tour in the middle day, and one evening out. Family tours that fit the weekend run through the usual channel, and booking them before you fly is what keeps a holiday weekend from turning into a sold out one.
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The Miami with kids guide is the base plan for the days around the holiday, and the March month page in the blog carries the rest of the month's events.
Easter Monday is the locals' day
The visitors leave on Monday, and the city exhales. The beaches thin out, brunch lines vanish, and the Redland resets to its weekday self, with one exception worth repeating: Knaus Berry Farm is closed on Mondays as well as on Easter, so the farm never joins an Easter weekend at all this year. Robert Is Here is open, since its own site lists only Thanksgiving and Christmas Day as closed days, and a Monday fruit stand run pairs well with a slow airport evening. If your flight home is Tuesday, Monday is the day South Florida residents would choose. Spend it outside.
Sources and check dates
Easter and Good Friday dates are from timeanddate.com. Zoo Miami's past Easter formats are from the zoo's own posts and FAQ; Deering Estate's event status is from deeringestate.org's signature events listing; Knaus Berry Farm's closed days are from the farm's own site. All checked November 9, 2026. The absence of a 2027 announcement is reported as of that date, and this page is on the refresh list for the spring announcements.