Daytona Beach Bike Week is an annual motorcycle rally held across Volusia County, Florida, each spring, typically the first full week of March. Tracing its roots to the 1937 Daytona 200 beach and pavement motorcycle race, it now draws more than 400,000 attendees over ten days of racing, concerts, parties, and street festivals.
Its scale, history, and travel draw make it one of Florida's signature events.
Bike Week's origin as a motorcycle race distinguishes it from purpose-built rally events: the first Daytona 200 ran on a 3
mile beach-and-pavement course in January 1937, won by Ed Kretz on an Indian motorcycle, before NASCAR co-founder Bill France Sr
began promoting the event and grew it into the broader Bike Week rally
The event paused only for World War II (1942-1947) and briefly during the 2020 pandemic, otherwise running continuously for nearly nine decades
Today it rivals South Dakota's Sturgis Motorcycle Rally as the largest motorcycle gathering in the United States, spreading events beyond Daytona Beach itself into Downtown DeLand's dedicated Bike Rally and DeLeon Springs
Bike Week continues the motorsport tradition begun with the 1937 Daytona 200 beach race
later shaped into a modern motorcycle rally under NASCAR co-founder Bill France Sr
's promotion
and remains tied to the same Daytona International Speedway family business that also runs the Daytona 500
Dates TBA · Usually February
Stay near Daytona if attending multiple days.
Motorcycle-friendly attire is common among attendees, including leather and riding gear; otherwise casual warm-weather clothing suited to early March in Central Florida, with a light layer...
For Daytona Bike Week, choose safe viewing points, watch weather and leave extra time around starts, finishes or releases.
Daytona Beach
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Daytona Bike Week is listed for Past edition: 27 February–8 March 2026. Always re-check the official or local source close to travel.
The festival is listed in Daytona Beach, United States. The map coordinate is a planning reference, not a guarantee of a ticket gate or exact venue.
10 days is the listed festival span. Add time for arrival, local transport, queues, and any route changes during the event.
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Daytona Beach, FL
Very Large: 500000
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