Miami Beach, FL Short-Term Rentals: Noise Rules (2026)

City Code Sec. 102-386(h) folds the city's general noise standard into the short-term rental rules: transient occupants must abide by Sec. 46-152, which prohibits unreasonably loud, excessive, unnecessary, or unusual noise. On top of that general standard, Sec. 102-386(h) adds a rule specific to short-term rentals that has no counterpart for ordinary residences: outdoor amplified sound at the short-term residential rental property is prohibited at all times, meaning speakers, PA systems or amplified music played outdoors are banned around the clock, not just during nighttime hours.

The noise duty is one of the standards the property owner must give transient occupants written notice of before occupancy begins under Sec. 102-386(k)(1), which also requires the notice to be prominently displayed within the unit itself. The owner is separately obligated under Sec. 102-386(k)(3) to promptly address and report any noise violations of which the owner knows or should know to the code compliance department or police department, and to the hosting or advertising platform. Because Sec. 102-386(h) cross-references the general noise ordinance rather than setting its own decibel standard, enforcement against loud parties draws on both the citywide nuisance-noise standard and the amplified-sound ban unique to short-term rentals.