20 Miami Sites That Shaped GTA 6’s Vice City

An interactive map pairs 20 named Vice City locations in Grand Theft Auto VI with specific Miami buildings, showing direct architectural similarities between the game and the city.

The map uses an August 28, 2026 GTADB community map dataset reproduced under a CC BY 4.0 license and matches side-by-side photographs of in-game sites and real-world counterparts. Matches focus on elements such as rooflines, facades, signage and building massing.

Several Downtown Vice City landmarks align with Miami icons. The Galina Ballet Opera House mirrors the Adrienne Arsht Center with faceted roofs and a broad performing-arts footprint. Sahara Arena follows the curved shell and sloped front facade of the Kaseya Center. Megamundo repeats the flared white supports at the base of One Biscayne Tower, and Heath Tower reflects Miami Tower’s stacked rounded profile with horizontal illumination bands. Sahara HQ resembles Brickell Arch through a wide blue-glass face and pale framing. Arcadia Towers corresponds to the paired Vizcayne condominium towers.

Nightlife and performance venues also show direct parallels. NINE1NINE matches E11EVEN with a rooftop wordmark, block-like exterior and similar entrance layout. Vice City Concert Hall follows the angular roof and glass-fronted entrance of Knight Concert Hall. In districts that resemble Wynwood, Archez and Bohemia reproduce low corner storefronts and mural-covered facades that align with buildings at 2451 NW 5th Avenue and 2562 NW 2nd Avenue.

Neighborhood businesses and civic buildings are represented as well. Fleeca Field mirrors LoanDepot Park’s white retractable roof and stadium shell. The Rockridge Community Research Center shares a rounded civic form and horizontal window band with a Miami police building. Lou’s, Simon’s Tires and Vice City Pawn recreate the roadside restaurant, corner tire shop and yellow-and-blue pawnshop designs of Palace Cafe & Dairy, George’s Tires and Americash Pawn Shop, respectively.

Transport and airport elements draw from Miami infrastructure. The Vice City Arts Center Metromover stop copies the Adrienne Arsht Metromover station’s elevated guideway and compact entrance. VCIA Metro Station resembles Miami International Airport’s automated people mover platform and blue-and-white trains. The game’s airport control tower and private-aviation terminal follow the tall concrete shaft of Miami’s air traffic control tower and the low, glass-fronted terminal profile used by Signature Flight Support.

The interactive map behind the feature contains more than 1,700 landmark records across the game world of Leonida, with hundreds of Vice City locations linked to possible real-world counterparts. The dataset allows users to inspect paired photographs, filter locations and monitor further reconstructions as new material becomes available.