Duty Free Americas
Finding it
Duty Free Americas is in Concourse F, 2nd Level Departures by Gate F-11 in Central Terminal at Miami International Airport. It is airside, past the security checkpoint, so allow for the queue before you count on it.
Central Terminal has 32 places to eat and 31 shops in this directory; the earliest opens at 12am.
Hours against the security queue
Duty Free Americas opens at 4:30am and closes at 10pm. FlyIndex's wait-time data puts the typical MIA checkpoint queue at 14 minutes around 4am.
Across the week, MIA security runs longest around 5pm at a median of 16 minutes, and lightest around 11pm at 2 minutes. The queue is typically building before this location opens.
Queue figures are medians from FlyIndex's MIA wait-time record, not a live reading.
About this location
By Gate F-11 in the Central Terminal, this Duty Free Americas opens at 4:30 AM and runs until 11 PM, the longest stretch of the terminal's four locations with known hours — one pre-security counter nearby is currently listed as temporarily closed. The other operating Central Terminal branch, past security in the departures hall, closes two hours earlier at 9 PM. Its early opening puts it ahead of the Central Terminal's first-wave departures, well before the terminal's other counters unlock. Jackson Soul Food, QUORE Gelato and Skittles Remix sit in the same terminal.
One of 11 Duty Free Americas locations at Miami International Airport (Central Terminal, North Terminal, South Terminal).
Other options in Central Terminal
All past the same checkpoint, so you can reach them without clearing security again.
Sources
- JSON behind https://www.shopmiamiairport.com/directory — Miami International Airport, checked 2026-09-08
Official Travel Resources
1 verified external links from airport operators and U.S. agencies.