Tropical News
Finding it
Tropical News is in Concourse D, 1st Level Arrivals in North Terminal at Miami International Airport. It sits landside, so you can reach it without a boarding pass — and you still have to clear security afterwards.
North Terminal has 51 places to eat and 60 shops in this directory; the earliest opens at 4am.
Hours against the security queue
Tropical News opens at 6am and closes at 10pm. FlyIndex's wait-time data puts the typical MIA checkpoint queue at 16 minutes around 6am.
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
Tropical News sits on the 1st Level arrivals floor of the North Terminal's Concourse D, pre-security, and Miami International has one other location of the brand elsewhere in the airport. It doesn't open until 1:00 PM, so it's no use to anyone arriving or departing in the morning; its hours run through the afternoon and evening only, closing at 9:00 PM. That's a narrower window than the newsstand-style shops elsewhere at this airport, several of which open before 7:00 AM. Sitting on the arrivals level rather than departures also puts it in the path of people leaving the airport, not just those heading to a gate.
One of 2 Tropical News locations at Miami International Airport.
Other options in North Terminal
All landside, so you can reach any of these before security.
Sources
- MIA Shop Dine — MIAMI International Airport Shops and Food — Miami International Airport, checked 2026-09-08
Official Travel Resources
1 verified external links from airport operators and U.S. agencies.