AA Meetings in Miami

Find an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in Miami today through the Miami-Dade Intergroup, which keeps an up-to-date meeting directory for the county, answers a 24-hour helpline in English and Spanish, and lists online local groups. Our meeting finder at /meetings/ searches public AA feeds by day and format. Confirm the listing with the group before you go.

Call 911 if someone is overdosing, seizing, not breathing, or cannot be woken. For a mental health or suicide crisis, call or text 988.

How to Find AA Meetings Across Miami

The Miami-Dade Intergroup office is the local service hub for AA groups across the county. Its site publishes meeting listings organized by time, meeting name, location, and region, so a search for an early-morning meeting or a Sunday-evening meeting takes seconds. Listings show whether a meeting is in person, online, or both, which matters in a county this spread out.

The helpline numbers are the fastest route when you want a person. (305) 461-2425 is answered 24 hours a day in English; (305) 642-2805 is the Spanish line. The office itself is at 1850 SW 8th Street, Suite 303, in Miami. Whoever answers can point you to the nearest meeting, explain what happens in the room, and tell you which groups meet in Spanish.

Miami's Spanish-speaking fellowship is a core part of AA here. The intergroup keeps a dedicated section of Spanish online meetings — reuniones virtuales en español — and its directory includes Spanish-language in-person groups across the county, from Little Havana to South Dade. If English is not your first language, say so when you call; the volunteers will know where those meetings are.

There is also a group for younger members. The Miami Young People Group lists both online and in-person meetings through the intergroup's online-meetings page, with weekend evening meetings listed alongside weekday ones. Nationally, AA's own site points people to local offices like this one and to the free Meeting Guide app and the Online Intergroup; our meeting finder searches public A.A. and N.A. feeds as a further option.

Miami Meeting Hubs & Communities

The intergroup directory divides its listings by region, and those regions track the county's geography:

• Downtown, Brickell, and Central Miami. The directory's Central Miami region covers the city core, where meetings run in office buildings, community centers, and club rooms from early morning into the evening. Metrorail's government-center-area stations put many of these within walking distance of each other.
• Miami Beach. The "SOBE" listings cover South Beach and the rest of the beach municipality, with in-person and online options. Beach meetings are a fixture for visitors in town who want to keep their routine while traveling.
• Little Havana and West Miami. The neighborhoods along and around SW 8th Street hold Spanish-language groups close to the intergroup office itself, which makes a first Spanish-language meeting easy to reach.
• South Dade. The South Dade listings cover Kendall, Cutler Bay, and the communities down to Homestead and Florida City, where suburban club rooms and church halls host daily meetings.
• Online groups with local roots. Several Miami groups — the Miami Young People Group, the Friendship Club groups, West Miami women's meetings, and others — keep hybrid formats, running the same meeting online and in person through the intergroup's site.

Common Meeting Formats & What to Expect

AA sorts meetings into open and closed. An open meeting is available to anyone interested in AA's program of recovery, and nonalcoholics may attend as observers. A closed meeting is for people who have a drinking problem and want to stop drinking. Unsure which to attend? Open is the safe first stop.

Formats you will see in the Miami listings:

• Newcomer: built for people new to recovery.
• Discussion: members share on a topic; the most common style.
• 12 Steps & 12 Traditions, and Step Study: working through AA's steps and traditions.
• Big Book: reading and discussing AA's basic text.
• Speaker: one or two members tell their story, then the meeting opens up.
• Men's, women's, Spanish, young people's, and wheelchair-accessible meetings are filtered the same way.

Two things are true of every AA meeting. It is free: AA says there are no dues or fees for membership, and a voluntary basket is just that — voluntary. And you do not have to talk: AA's newcomer page says you can sit and listen. Anonymity is a founding principle of the fellowship, so what you hear stays in the room. The first-meeting guide walks through a typical hour step by step.

Transportation & Virtual Meetings

If you are not driving, Miami-Dade Transit runs the county's system: Metrobus serves Miami Beach, Key Biscayne, West Miami-Dade, Homestead, and connections to Broward and Palm Beach counties, while the 25-mile Metrorail runs from Kendall through South Miami, Coral Gables, and downtown to Hialeah and the airport, operating 5 a.m. to midnight daily. Free Metromover trains loop around downtown Miami. Transit information is available through 311.

Not every meeting needs a bus ride. AA says meetings can be in person, online, or by phone, and Miami's local groups keep a substantial set of Zoom and phone listings on the intergroup site. Our finder shows online options from public feeds, and the online A.A. meetings guide explains how video and phone meetings work, including staying silent with your camera off.

Peer Support vs. Medical Care

An AA meeting is peer support, not clinical treatment. NIDA explains that mutual-help groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous are peer-led and are not led by healthcare professionals, so they are not the same as treatment, though they are free, not time-limited, and useful on their own or alongside professional care.

Some situations call for a doctor, not a meeting. NIAAA says alcohol withdrawal can be life threatening when people who drink heavily over time stop suddenly rather than cutting back gradually or stopping with medical support. Up to half of people with alcohol use disorder have some withdrawal symptoms, and a small proportion need a few days of medical detox. If you have been drinking heavily and want to stop, talk with a clinician first.

For help beyond a meeting:

• Emergency: call 911 for an overdose, a seizure, trouble breathing, or someone who cannot be woken.
• Crisis: call or text 988 for a mental health or suicide crisis.
• Treatment: search FindTreatment.gov, SAMHSA's treatment locator, or call SAMHSA's National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357) — free, confidential, 24/7, in English and Spanish.
• Referral help: call or text (800) 653-9376 and we can help you sort out a level of care. SmarterRecovery is a referral helpline, not Miami-Dade Intergroup; calling is free to you because treatment providers pay for the referral service.

Call or text (800) 653-9376 if you want help finding treatment. If what you need tonight is a meeting, start with the meeting finder or the intergroup directory and confirm the listing. If this is an emergency or a suicide crisis, call 911 or 988 first.

Additional Resources

Sources cited on this page:

• Miami-Dade Intergroup of Alcoholics Anonymous (home, mission, 24-hour helpline, meeting listings)
• Miami-Dade Intergroup: Contact Us (address, English and Spanish lines)
• Miami-Dade Intergroup: Online local group meetings (Miami Young People Group, Spanish online meetings)
• A.A.: Need help with a drinking problem? (what to expect at a first meeting)
• A.A.: What to Expect at an A.A. Meeting (open and closed meetings)
• A.A.: A.A. and Anonymity
• A.A.: Meeting Guide app
• NIDA: Treatment (mutual-help groups are peer-led, not clinical treatment)
• NIAAA Core Resource on Alcohol: Alcohol Use Disorder, From Risk to Diagnosis to Recovery
• SAMHSA National Helpline
• SAMHSA FindTreatment.gov
• 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
• Miami-Dade Transit: Metrorail schedules, fares, and stations
• Miami-Dade Transit: Metrobus routes, schedules, and fares
• SmarterRecovery meeting finder (public meeting search; listings are not verified by this site)

Common Questions