Miami Beach, FL Landscaping Rules: Water Restrictions (2026)
Water restrictions in Miami Beach, FL, also called the watering schedule, outdoor irrigation rules, or drought ordinance, set which days and hours you can run sprinklers or irrigation.
Key Facts
- No watering
- 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily
- Even addresses water
- Thursday and/or Sunday
- Odd addresses water
- Wednesday and/or Saturday
- First violation fine
- $75.00
- Enforcement agency
- Code compliance department
Summary
Miami Beach bans landscape irrigation citywide between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. daily and limits sprinkling to two assigned days a week under Sec. 110-77: even-numbered addresses water Thursday and/or Sunday, odd-numbered addresses water Wednesday and/or Saturday. Violations are fined $75.00 for a first offense, with each day counted separately.
(1)Irrigation of existing landscaping shall comply with the following:i.It shall be unlawful for any user to irrigate or to cause, let, permit, allow or suffer the irrigation of any residential, commercial, institutional, governmental, or industrial landscaping areas between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. daily except as otherwise provided herein. ... iii.Even-numbered addresses shall only conduct necessary landscape irrigation on Thursday and/or Sunday.iv.Odd-numbered addresses shall only conduct necessary landscape irrigation on Wednesday and/or Saturday.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 98 | Resiliency Code (Current Land Development Regulations): Publication | Ordinance 89-2665 (Previous Land Development Regulations): Publication).
Full Breakdown
Sec. 110-77, enacted by Ordinance No. 2024-4622 on June 26, 2024, sets the city's permanent landscape irrigation restrictions in Chapter 110, Article II, Division 2 (Conservation). daily, and unlawful to operate an irrigation system wastefully, including watering paved areas, sidewalks, driveways and parking lots. Even-numbered addresses may irrigate only on Thursday and/or Sunday; odd-numbered addresses only on Wednesday and/or Saturday. New landscaping gets its own schedule under (b)(2): it may be watered once on installation day and once more 24 hours before installation, and property with landscaping in place 30 days or less may water on any of six specified days, while landscaping in place 31 to 90 days is limited to Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and/or Saturday.
C. Ch. 40E-2 override the city schedule when the District's rule is more restrictive. Testing, maintenance and repair runs are allowed on restricted days under (b)(4), capped at once a week and ten minutes per zone with an attendant present. Watering-in of fertilizer, pesticide or herbicide applications is allowed under (b)(5) within the normal schedule, except phosphorus and nitrogen fertilizer applications for turf are barred outright from May 15 through November 1 under Sec. 46-219(a). 62, under (b)(7).
Violations & Fines
Sec. 110-78 assigns enforcement of the irrigation restrictions to the city's code compliance department. Sec. 110-79(a) fines a first violation $75.00, and treats each day of continued noncompliance as a separate offense, so a sprinkler left running on the wrong day or during the mid-day ban can generate a new fine daily until it is corrected.
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