Sky & Swim · FL
Ocean on one side, Biscayne Bay on the other, sun 363 days a year — Miami's rooftop pool scene is less about the infrastructure and more about choosing which version of the light you want.
3 picks · South Beach & Brickell
Miami has more poolside options than anywhere else on this list — we picked the three rooftop and elevated pools where the setting, not the scene, is the reason to be there.
The hotel that made sustainable design feel genuinely aspirational. Four pools on property, including a sprawling oceanside one that runs parallel to the Atlantic — the water-meets-water effect on a clear day is difficult to improve on. The adults-only swim is the rooftop, eighteen storeys up.
The right rooftop pool for the Brickell crowd — two infinity pools looking straight into downtown Miami, a proper bar setup, and none of the tourist energy of South Beach. Rebranded from SLS Brickell to Dua Miami (Autograph Collection) in 2024.
The pool deck spreads across the fifth floor of Brickell City Centre — four pools over 20,000 square feet, with downtown Miami stacked up around you rather than below you. Sugar, the bar forty floors above, is the altitude play; this is the swim.