GTA 6 Trailer Locations and Their Possible Florida Inspirations
Rockstar’s trailers show fictional places that resemble parts of Miami, Miami Beach and the Florida Keys. Ocean Drive and the parallel Keys bridges are among the clearest comparisons. These are selected visual matches from official footage, not locations Rockstar has identified as real-world models. Each shot below has an approximate timestamp and a confidence rating.
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Which official GTA 6 trailers are there?
Rockstar has released three trailers for GTA 6, all on its official video page and YouTube channel:
| Trailer | Released | Where it spends its time |
|---|---|---|
| Trailer 1 | December 2023 | Vice City, the Keys and a viral-video montage |
| Trailer 2 | May 2025 | The Keys, a prison release, Vice City nightlife and the wetlands |
| Launch Trailer | October 15, 2026 | The Keys, the swamp at night and set pieces in the city |
Rockstar also put out Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look, a 27-minute in-game video, on August 27, 2026. It is not a trailer and this page does not cover it.
How to read the tables: timestamps are approximate and can differ by a second between the YouTube upload and Rockstar's download. We describe the shots in words and do not embed or reproduce footage. Rockstar never captions a trailer shot with a real place, so every match is fan or press analysis. High means the street or landmark is unmistakable, Medium means a good case made by local press or fans, Low means a loose resemblance.
[1][2][3][4]Which Florida places resemble scenes in Trailer 1?Unconfirmed
| Time | What you see | Real counterpart | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0:14 | A crowded beach from the air, with a seaplane towing a purple Nine1Nine banner | South Beach and its banner planes; the club name echoes E11EVEN | Medium |
| about 0:24 | A speedboat passing container cranes, the skyline behind | Leaving PortMiami through Government Cut (Miami New Times) | Medium |
| about 0:25 | Green overhead signs: "Kelly County - VCI Airport 404 West", "Catalan Blvd 3", "Stockyard/Downtown" | Westbound MacArthur Causeway, with a tower cut out like the Marquis (Miami New Times) | Medium |
| 0:33 | Neon Art Deco hotels at dusk, Hotel Boardwalk and Hotel Dixon signs, a white sports car | Ocean Drive, Miami Beach | High for the street |
| 0:36 | A seaplane over turquoise water, a busy road bridge beside an older, empty span | Seven Mile Bridge and the Old Seven Mile Bridge, Florida Keys | Medium |
| 0:40 | Giant lit letters by an airport | The MIAMI sign from Bad Boys and Transporter 2, a film prop that never existed | Medium |
| 0:42 to 0:43 | A man hooks an alligator out of a backyard pool | The 2019 Palm Beach Gardens pool gator | Medium |
| 0:44 | A woman dances on the roof of a moving red car | A real 2017 video on the MacArthur Causeway (Miami New Times) | High |
| 1:05 | A booking photo of a man with purple hair and face tattoos | Lawrence Sullivan, the "Florida Joker" | Medium |
| about 1:09 | Jason and Lucia rob Uncle Jack's Liquors | Big Daddy's Liquors, the Flanigan's chain (Miami New Times) | Medium |
Miami New Times also spotted the Venetian Causeway, the Rickenbacker Causeway to Key Biscayne, 500 Brickell's twin towers, a Wynwood-style mural street and a club laid out like Club Space in the early city montage, roughly 0:14 to 0:31. The paper did not time those shots and we could not pin them to a single second, so we leave them out of the table.
[1][5][7][8][9][11][12]Which Florida places resemble scenes in Trailer 2?Unconfirmed
| Time | What you see | Real counterpart | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| about 0:36 | A causeway under three overhead road signs, a pickup towing a jet ski | One of Miami's bay causeways; no single one identified | Low |
| about 0:39 | Weights laid out on the sand at a beachfront gym | The outdoor gym at Lummus Park, South Beach (New Times) | Medium |
| 1:30 to 1:31 | Jason and Lucia at a long Keys bar under a weathered "Hurricane Roxy" sign | The Caribbean Club, Key Largo | Low |
| 1:39 to 1:40 | Lucia crosses a packed dance floor under a NINE1NINE VICE CITY sign | E11EVEN, downtown Miami | Medium |
| about 2:06 | Ocean Drive by day, a supercar and two other cars at the kerb | Ocean Drive, Miami Beach | High for the street |
| 2:18 to 2:19 | A helicopter low over the wetland, then a view from a speeding airboat | The Everglades and its airboat tours | Medium |
New Times also read a night pool party as the Clevelander hotel, named a fictional South Beach hotel, the Dominion, and saw a Little Haiti-style mural with what looks like Miami's elevated Metrorail behind it. Those shots are not timed in the paper's write-up. The prison where Lucia is released (about 0:50 to 1:04) has no real counterpart that anyone has made a solid case for.
[2][6][7][10][9][15]Which Florida places resemble scenes in the Launch Trailer?Unconfirmed
| Time | What you see | Real counterpart | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0:02 | A pickup towing a jet ski down a palm-lined highway | The Overseas Highway (US 1) through the Keys | Medium |
| 0:03 | A roadside billboard: "Welcome to The Keys", with a heron, a fish and coral | Florida Keys welcome signage in general; no single sign | Low |
| 0:05 | "Brian's Marina", boats stacked in racks by the water | The rack-storage marinas common in the Keys | Low |
| about 0:33 | An airboat skimming the wetlands | Everglades airboat country along the Tamiami Trail | Medium |
| 1:04 | Downtown at night, a sign for "Interstate 397, Port VC" next to "Shoreline Amphitheater, Marina" | Interstate 395, the short downtown expressway from I-95 toward the MacArthur Causeway, near the approach to the PortMiami tunnel | Low |
The Launch Trailer is mostly action, so it has fewer place shots than the first two. Its biggest change is where it starts: in the Keys, with Jason at work.
[3][13][14][15]How far can trailer matches be trusted?
Rockstar has not confirmed any of these matches, and the finished map may move or merge places that look separate in the trailers. The finished map may compress or combine landmarks, so a resemblance in a trailer cannot establish a one-to-one location.
We leave out anything that comes from leaked footage or dev-build maps. If a site lists trailer locations with exact in-game coordinates, that is usually where they came from.
For the stories behind individual shots, see the Seven Mile Bridge theory, Nine1Nine and E11EVEN, the Hurricane Roxy bar and the Trailer 1 viral clips. The full Launch Trailer breakdown is in our Launch Trailer article. For Miami place by place, read Vice City in real life, and for the whole state, the GTA 6 map guide.
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Follow the evidence. An Unconfirmed label means the detail has not been established as fact.
- Rockstar Games - Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1www.rockstargames.com / Checked 2026-10-20
- Rockstar Games - Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2www.rockstargames.com / Checked 2026-10-20
- Rockstar Games - Grand Theft Auto VI Launch Trailerwww.rockstargames.com / Checked 2026-10-20
- Rockstar Games - Grand Theft Auto VIwww.rockstargames.com / Checked 2026-10-20
- Miami New Times - All the real-life Miami references in the Grand Theft Auto 6 trailerwww.miaminewtimes.com / Checked 2026-10-20
- New Times Broward-Palm Beach - New GTA 6 trailer shows more Miami locations in vivid detailwww.browardpalmbeach.com / Checked 2026-10-20
- 6 Insider - GTA 6 trailer frames6insider.com / Checked 2026-10-20
- Wikipedia - Seven Mile Bridgeen.wikipedia.org / Checked 2026-10-19
- Wikipedia - E11evenen.wikipedia.org / Checked 2026-10-19
- Wikipedia - Caribbean Cluben.wikipedia.org / Checked 2026-10-19
- CBS News Miami - Gator found in Palm Beach Gardens poolwww.cbsnews.com / Checked 2026-10-19
- Tampa Bay Times - GTA 6 trailer and the Florida Joker mugshotwww.tampabay.com / Checked 2026-10-20
- Wikipedia - Overseas Highwayen.wikipedia.org / Checked 2026-10-19
- Wikipedia - Interstate 395 (Florida)en.wikipedia.org / Checked 2026-10-20
- National Park Service - Everglades permits and airboat tourswww.nps.gov / Checked 2026-10-20
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