{"id":373190,"date":"2026-08-16T20:22:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T20:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/373190\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T20:22:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T20:22:39","slug":"key-west-and-miami-tops-floridas-staycation-search-list-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/373190\/","title":{"rendered":"Key West and Miami tops Florida&#8217;s staycation search list | Lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those thinking of the next staycation destination for a quick getaway or the upcoming Labor Day weekend, take note; Key West is the U.S. vacation destination Floridians search for most, according to newly released research.<\/p>\n<p>The study, conducted by luxury travel advisory <a href=\"https:\/\/theresortscollection.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Resorts Collection<\/a>, analyzed 12 months of Google search volumes across 100 popular U.S. destinations to determine which spots Florida residents research most when planning a getaway. Key West topped the list with an average of 1,138 searches a month, followed by Orlando (890) and California&#8217;s Yosemite (498).<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas and North Carolina&#8217;s Outer Banks rounded out the top five.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Florida_Top10_Staycations_1080x1350.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Key West is the staycation spot Floridians search for most with 1,138 searches a month, per new data from The Resorts Collection. Miami also made the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>Closer to home, Miami also made the cut, landing at No. 9 with 223 average monthly searches, one of four Florida destinations, alongside Key West, Orlando and Destin, to crack the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>The data also showed Florida leans local when it comes to travel planning, with 54.2% of the state&#8217;s vacation-related searches focused on U.S. destinations rather than international trips.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/florian-pauly-bb986aa2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florian Pauly, co-founder of The Resorts Collection<\/a>, said the findings point to what Floridians want from time off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Searches for spots such as Key West tell you what people in Florida really want from a break, which is somewhere to switch off rather than somewhere to rush around,&#8221; Pauly said, adding that an unhurried day tends to be what people remember most.<\/p>\n<p>Key West leads, but a hometown favorite made the list too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For those thinking of the next staycation destination for a quick getaway or the upcoming Labor Day weekend,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[150686,150681,150684,150685,126,2559,150680,123,125,124,81134,150683,150682,150679],"class_list":["post-373190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-best-staycation-spots-florida","tag-florida-staycation-destinations","tag-florida-travel-search-data","tag-google-searches","tag-key-biscayne","tag-key-west","tag-key-west-staycation","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-staycation","tag-most-searched-florida-staycation-spots","tag-most-searched-florida-vacation-spots","tag-staycation-destinations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}