The Key Lime Festival is an annual early-July celebration in Key West devoted to the region's signature dessert, built around a Key Lime Pie eating contest, vendor tastings, and the festival's well-known 'Pie in the Sky' finale, in which a pie is dropped from a hotel observation deck. In 2014 the festival set a world record for the largest key lime pie ever made.
Its specific food hook is clear, quirky, and guidebook-friendly.
Few American food festivals are built around a single, geographically specific dessert with the cultural weight that key lime pie carries in the Florida Keys, and the festival leans fully into that specificity rather than a broader food-and-music format
Its signature closing stunt, the 'Pie in the Sky' drop from the observation deck of Key West's historic La Concha hotel, gives the festival a genuinely unique, only-in-Key-West spectacle that draws crowds even beyond dedicated pie enthusiasts
The 2014 edition's world-record 9-foot-2-inch-diameter key lime pie, verified by World Record Academy, remains a point of local pride and a benchmark the festival's organizers, including Key West historian and author David Sloan, reference in subsequent programming around the tart, condiment-adjacent culture of the Keys
Anchored by its Key Lime Pie eating contest and the Pie in the Sky drop from a Key West hotel observation deck
the festival continues a tradition of celebrating the Florida Keys' signature dessert
a tradition that reached a notable milestone in 2014 when organizers set a world record for the largest key lime pie ever assembled
Dates TBA · Usually July
Old Town lodging is best.
Casual summer clothing suited to Key West's early-July heat and humidity; clothing you don't mind getting a little messy is worth considering if standing near the Pie in the Sky drop zone or...
Key Lime Festival is easier with a small bag, charged phone and group plan that survives poor signal.
Key West
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Key Lime Festival is listed for Past edition: 5 July 2026. Always re-check the official or local source close to travel.
The festival is listed in Key West, United States. The map coordinate is a planning reference, not a guarantee of a ticket gate or exact venue.
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Key West, FL
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